Integration Timeline Framework
When a partner asks “how long will this take?”, we answer in three buckets: under one month, one to three months, and needs additional scoping. This page explains the framework so you can apply it to your own scenario before you talk to us.
Why three buckets
Software project timelines are political objects, not engineering ones. We use three deliberately broad buckets so that conversations with partners stay grounded in what is actually shippable, rather than in arbitrary milestones.
- Under one month means: the capability is production-shipped today, the integration path is well-trodden, no new code on KryptoGO’s side is required, and the limiting factor is the partner’s own development calendar.
- One to three months means: the capability is production-shipped today, but the integration involves enough partner-side work — auth, UI, onboarding, finance reconciliation, treasury setup — that no responsible vendor would commit to less than a quarter.
- Needs additional scoping means: either the capability requires KryptoGO-side work (a new chain, a new feature, a new compliance integration) or the partner-side requirements are not yet known.
The first two buckets are deterministic. The third is a conversation.
What lives in each bucket
| Capability | Typical bucket |
|---|---|
| Accept stablecoin payments via hosted checkout | Under one month |
| Embed our payment widget in an existing checkout page | Under one month |
| ”Sign in with KryptoGO” on a web app | Under one month |
| Use our on-chain analytics endpoints in a research surface | Under one month |
| Issue and approve invoices through Studio with a finance team | One to three months |
| Pay 100+ recipients per month through the payouts module | One to three months |
| Integrate the Mobile Wallet SDK into a native iOS / Android app | One to three months |
| Run KYC and KYB through KryptoGO Compliance for a regulated business | One to three months |
| Stand up a custodial treasury through Asset Pro with multi-sig roles | One to three months |
| Off-ramp settled crypto to a fiat bank account | One to three months (depends on the partnered settlement corridor) |
| Add a new blockchain that we do not currently support | Needs additional scoping |
| White-label reseller portal (your brand, your customers, you set the prices) | Needs additional scoping |
| Bring-your-own custody hardware or HSM model | Needs additional scoping |
This is a starting point, not a quote. Your specific scenario will move within the buckets depending on the engineering capacity you can dedicate, the regulatory regime you operate under, and how complete your existing auth and onboarding stack is.
What slows projects down
The recurring blockers — across dozens of partner integrations — are almost never the crypto parts. They are:
- Auth integration with the partner’s existing identity stack. If a partner already has an OAuth provider, an enterprise SSO, or a custom JWT scheme, wiring it cleanly to KryptoGO’s auth backend takes the longest amount of time.
- Webhook reliability on the partner side. We push signed callbacks; the partner must implement a webhook handler with idempotency, retry tolerance, and signature verification. Most projects underestimate this.
- Finance and treasury setup. For Asset Pro and Payouts, deciding who has Approver and Signer roles, what daily transfer limits look like, and how funds are pre-funded and reconciled is paperwork-heavy.
- Compliance review and decisioning. If you are running KYC/KYB through us, your compliance team needs to be staffed and trained on the review queue. We can supply tooling and SLAs; we cannot supply your reviewers.
- Geographic coverage of fiat on-ramps and off-ramps. Stablecoin settlement to a bank account is partnered through fiat-settlement providers and depends on the corridor between sender and recipient countries.
The fastest projects we have shipped were ones where the partner had already standardised on JWT-based auth, had an existing webhook handler, and treated KryptoGO as a service replacement rather than a greenfield platform.
A worked example
For a concrete walkthrough — what the timeline looks like when a major consumer fintech with millions of users wants to bolt on crypto — see Solutions: Consumer Fintech Bolt-On. That page applies the framework above to an end-to-end realistic scenario, including custody, auth, and a week-by-week project plan.
What to expect from a first conversation
A first discovery call usually covers, in this order: your regulatory regime and target geographies, your existing authentication stack, which custody model fits your users, the integration surfaces involved, and a first-pass bucketing of each chunk of work into the three timeline buckets above.
We typically follow up with a written scoping document that maps each bucket to a target date and identifies dependencies. First calls are not commitments to fixed pricing — the scoping document is what informs the commercial conversation.
Where to go next
- The most common partner archetypes are documented as worked walkthroughs under Solutions.
- Each use-case page includes a “typical integration timeline” section that applies this framework specifically.
- For the architectural picture, see Architecture Overview.