We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all. We will work with you to find the best approach for you, putting your interests first. We detest the approach that many consultancies take - cultivating clients into dependent cash-cows they can milk dry. Instead we focus on providing strong technical leadership, building the capabilities you need to deliver your project, and levelling up your internal team - ideally to the point where you don't need us any more! When you want to work with us again, and recommend us when you see someone who could use our help... that's what client success means to us.
Talk to us and tell us about your need. We’ll discuss the best way forward (even if that means not working with us) and you’ll get a free 30-minute strategy call.
Here are some examples of how we work with clients:
Team Augmentation
Whether it's a single person or an entire team. We embed senior delivery-focused technical people (developers, designers, DevOps, A.I. specialists) into your team. They help you to build a self-reliant, productive, continually-improving, mindset and culture into the engineering culture, working under your direction, using your tools and processes.
Ideal for companies with strong product vision and technical leadership in place, but gaps or scaling pains.
Build & Run Your Team
We help you hire, onboard, and train your own in-house team, then run it for you or hand over. We have expertise hiring at all levels, from individual contributors (developers, designers, product owners) right the way up to CTO/CPO. We can guide you through setting up processes, tooling, best-practices, and culture for world-class delivery organisations.
Ideal if you recognise that your expertise is in your product or idea, and marketing it, but not in knowing how to deliver it (or even how to hire those people).
Leadership Consultancy
Leadership is hard. Whether it's technical strategy, or cultural/team-related improvements, we can help at any level. From advice and mentoring (perhaps a new leader, promoted internally) right the way up to management advisory and CTO services where we provide you with a full-time interim or fractional CTO.
Ideal if you don't want to hire a permanent CTO, don't know how to, or want highly experienced leadership on a fractional basis to oversee your less-experienced team.
This is mostly for SEO, but if you want examples of the kind of projects we do, read on.
Bringing outsourced projects in-house.
Transforming non-scalable customer-specific variants of your product into a highly configurable white-label solution.
Mentoring people in technical leadership positions: engineering manager; senior developer; tech-lead; head of engineering; CTO.
Building product prototypes and MVPs.
Interim or fractional CTO; providing the technical leadership your organisation needs in the short term, while helping you to hire a suitable long-term senior replacement.
Strategy review: Mobile apps; B2C or B2B web products; modernising legacy platforms; pivoting and leveraging existing internal technology.
Culture audit: Improve your team's performance with a few minor tweaks.
FinOps: If you need to cut costs on cloud services, digital distribution, team/maintenance, this needs a good strategy too.
Growth: Scale up your team, help with hiring.
Mr. Wolf: If something's wrong or broken and you're not sure how to move forward, call in Mr. Wolf; apply out of the box thinking and coaching to get you headed back in the right direction.
Consulting in multiple areas relating to software delivery:
Management/leadership consultancy
Team structure, technical, and delivery best-practices
Implementing agile practices, kaizen (continual improvement), and culture transformations
Getting the most out of your testing - focus on what's important so you don't waste time and effort for low-value returns
Strategy and tactics (technical, product)
Tech stacks, languages, frameworks, architecture.
Building teams and retaining developers (recruiting is expensive, it's cheaper to keep 'em!)