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We work closely with entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life. You know your idea and your customers, but thousands of decisions stand between you and commercial product success. From idea to execution and beyond, we’ll help you navigate the complexity, avoiding the traps and pitfalls – and will do so in a manner that ensures every dollar is spent to great effect.

why?

Which cloud provider? What frontend framework? Native vs hybrid apps? Node vs Python? REST or GraphQL? How do I hire engineers? Should I work with a dev shop? How am I supposed to evaluate code? How do I know if I’m optimized for search? Is GDPR a concern? How do I secure all of this? How do I prevent downtime? What’s a CDN? How do I personalize a user experience? What happens if Apple rejects my app? Onshore, near shore, or​ offshore? Design Sprint, Discovery Session or Jobs-to-be-Done? These are tough questions, with situationally dependent answers that can make all the difference to your end experience and bottom line. We’re here to help. ​

our mission

We live at the intersection of product, technology and business strategy. We believe in building great products that solve problems in meaningful ways for real people, doing so in ways that align with business objectives, and delivered via technical excellence. It’s only in perfect balance that great products are born.​​

on-demand CTO

Designed for startups that can’t yet hire a full time Chief Technology Officer due to lean budgets or for companies looking for interim product and tech leadership. Just like working with cloud computing platforms, you only pay for what you use, getting the scalable, on-demand tech strategy and leadership you need to take things to the next level.

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Example services
  • Executive level product and technology leadership
  • Define and direct a growth-fueling, objective-enabling tech strategy
  • Software architecture definition, engineering best practice introduction, and tech stack selection
  • Develop and execute technical roadmaps through development and delivery excellence (prototypes, MVPs, V2s, etc)
  • Build from scratch, manage, mentor and/or troubleshoot your engineering teams (remote or co-located)
  • Development partner and vendor evaluation, negotiation, and contract/relationship management
  • Meet with investors and assist with pitching to help demonstrate senior-level tech backing
  • Perform acquisition diligence
  • Engineering culture and technology vision development
  • Deployment, testing, and quality assurance planning
  • Workflow process and team collaboration model analysis, producing efficient, sustainable, scalable operations
  • Tech translation, risk/reward tradeoff disclosure, and visibility for executives, stakeholders, boards, and investors
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
  • Budgets and resource planning
  • Tech debt analysis and management planning
  • Security, governance, and risk management oversight

Product Management

Designed for business savvy startups that have great ideas, but lack the internal DNA for implementation excellence. Perhaps you’ve hired a dev shop or off-shore team (or would like help finding/vetting one), but you can’t read code. Maybe you don’t speak techie or know the first thing about running agile projects and you could use help discussing technological aspects with investors. Or worse, your functional groups are in silos and not effectively working together. Let’s get those people and bits moving effectively!

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Example services
  • Pitch deck preparation, competitive landscape analysis, and market sizing

  • MVP development and release coordination

  • Manage the project interface between your business and an external dev shop or agency

  • Assistance with finding and vetting external product development resources

  • Stakeholder alignment, feedback loop improvement, and biz/tech interface debugging

  • Product roadmap development and management

  • Assistance with implementing objective and goal alignment frameworks like OKRs

  • Sprint management

  • Agile workflow implementation

  • Workflow process and team collaboration model analysis – producing efficient, sustainable, scalable operations

  • Design Sprint orchestration and visioning exercises

  • Tech translation and visibility for executives, stakeholders, boards, and investors

  • Quality assurance planning and process development

  • Culture analysis and recommendation

Development

Designed for startups seeking short-term, expert-level development assistance on tough problems and projects. Whether it’s long term resource constraints, a lack of creative solutions, missing objectivity, or simply just a need for fresh eyes and shot of new energy, you need to get your mission critical projects unstuck and back on track.

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Example services
  • Systems-based solutions architecture

  • Rapid prototyping

  • Mobile, web, and desktop coding

  • App Store deployment guidance

  • Continuous Integration pipeline development

  • Troubleshooting and performance profiling​

  • Accessibility and internationalization/localization consultation and implementation

  • Right-brained development interface with UX/design people and processes

  • Workflow analysis and teaching​

  • Code review

  • Technical debt analysis

  • Documentation

  • Virtual “in-house” development liaison with dev shops and other vendors

Contact us for a customized assessment of your unique product and technology needs​​.