Advise
An honest read on the system you have and the decision in front of you.
Some decisions are expensive to undo
Which platform, buy or build, whether the supplier who keeps slipping is really the problem. These get decided once and then shape what you can do for years. We do not resell software or take a commission on what we recommend.
Strategy and Roadmapping
Where your technology needs to get to, and the order to do it in - worked back from what the business needs.
More on Strategy and RoadmappingAudits and Reviews
A structured look at a system, a supplier or a programme in flight. Useful before a large investment.
More on Audits and ReviewsPrototypes and Proofs
When an argument cannot be settled on paper, we build the smallest thing that answers it.
More on Prototypes and ProofsSpecialist Input
Senior engineering experience alongside your own team, on whatever terms suit you.
More on Specialist InputWhere the answer is a build, we build it. The last one was live and load-proven in under four weeks: read the integration case study.
How we work
What we hold ourselves to
Advice is easy to give and hard to be accountable for. These are the parts we are.
- Technology
- We look at what you already have before proposing anything new, and we say so when the answer is not a build.
- People
- Team structure, capability and who owns the system afterwards get the same attention as the technology. A recommendation without the right people is a bad recommendation.
- Strategy
- A target picture with short and long-term objectives, not a wish list. What we put in front of you has to be something your organisation can afford, staff and keep running as it grows.
- Delivery
- Advice only counts once something changes. Where you want help acting on it, we set up how the work will run: who decides what, how progress gets reported and who needs to be in the room. We can build it too. See Deliver.
Before you ask us in
Will you recommend something you then get paid to build?
We do not resell software or take a commission on what we recommend, so nothing in the advice depends on what you buy. If the answer turns out to be a build, we can do that part too, but the recommendation stands whether you use us for it or not.
What do we actually get at the end?
Findings and a recommendation you can act on, with the trade-offs and the reasoning written down. It is written so it still makes sense to whoever picks it up in a year, not only to the people who were in the room.
What if the answer is that we do not need you?
Then that is what you will hear. Scope and what you will get are agreed in writing before the work starts, so there is nothing to unwind if the honest answer is no.