Roadmap for Dotplot Breast Health Device

At-Home Breast Health Monitoring Tool

Road-mapping, De-risking and Advisor

Challenge

Dotplot is an at-home breast health monitoring tool that offers guided self-checks on a monthly basis. It is designed to facilitate the early detection of breast cancer by enabling and encouraging women to stick to a regular breast-self check routine. Dotplot won the UK James Dyson Award 2022.

While they had a strong product concept, they faced critical challenges:

  • Uncertainty in development priorities: With a complex blend of hardware, software, and clinical requirements, the team needed a clear, actionable product development strategy.
  • Investor readiness: Generating early proof-of-concept data was essential to secure funding and build stakeholder confidence.
  • Regulatory complexity: As a novel medical device, Dotplot has to balance speed to market with regulatory compliance and technical rigor.
  • Hardware development sequencing: The path from MVP to a fully market-ready device needed careful structuring to minimize risk and development cost.

 

Approach

Cambridge Medtech Solutions led a collaborative workshop to refine Dotplot’s value proposition, target users, and product mission, and to identify key technical uncertainties and clinical assumptions. We also mapped out key milestones across funding, prototyping, MVP, and launch phases

This session established a unified product vision and clear roadmap, aligned with commercial, technical, and regulatory goals.

We also prepared a phased product development strategy from MVP to launch, with checkpoints for risk management, design reviews, and human factors testing.

 

Outcome

Our structured and analytical approach to medical device development and industrialisation de-risked Dotplot’s development, aligning the team on a pragmatic yet ambitious path to market, and making them investor-ready with a compelling story backed by credible data.

We continue to support Dotplot with their bold and exciting vision.

Dotplot Breast Health Monitor and App

“The workshop brought real clarity to the vision we have for Dotplot. It helped us align our core priorities and gave us an actionable roadmap for Dotplot’s next steps.” 

Shefali Bohra – Dotplot co-founder and CEO

 

“The session helped us refine our value proposition and clarify what to focus on in the near and long term to achieve the vision we are working towards.

Debra Babalola – Dotplot co-founder and COO

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