These are illustrative scenarios showing how the products are used, not customer case studies.
The same sequence, twice
Today
- No documentation to work from
- Discovery by interview
- Model transcribed by hand
- Wrong shape found late
With SynaptaGrid
- Read the existing database
- Infer from a paper form
- Review the proposal
- Create the model
The situation
Discovery produces a spreadsheet of guesses. The paper forms are the actual specification, and they get transcribed by hand into a data model that is wrong in ways nobody finds until the users arrive.
How it is approached
The existing database is registered and read directly: pick a table, follow its relationships, preview what would be created, then create it. A sample document infers a model the same way. A photographed or scanned form produces a proposed schema, and a completed form has its values extracted against a published one. Every proposal is a draft to review, regenerate or discard before anything exists.
What changes
Discovery starts from a proposal taken out of the real system rather than from a blank document. What the forms actually captured becomes visible early, while changing the model is still cheap.