Founders and product owners
You have an idea or a prototype and need a clear technical roadmap to move forward on.
Discovery Phase
Before you build, make sure you are building the right thing.
The full definition exercise. We review everything technical and commercial about your project, then produce the specifications, architecture and development plan that a fixed-cost SOW is built on.
Ready to commit · Specs and architecture · fixed-cost SOW
Who it is for
When this is the right one.
Companies with a stalled project
A vendor has let you down or the project has lost direction, and you want it reset properly.
Non-technical founders and CEOs
You need senior technical judgement and a plan credible enough to put in front of a board.
Medical device developers
A structured path through development, regulatory compliance and IP.
Funders and investors
You want the technical risk understood and the scope defined before capital is committed.
What you get
The deliverables.
Techno-commercial review
We assess all the technical and commercial project information you can share, and build an accurate picture of where the project stands.
Development plan
For an engineering project, a structured development plan and roadmap. Where outstanding R&D is detected, an assessment report and an R&D roadmap instead.
Requirements and scoping
Requirement specification, functional specification, system architecture and wireframes.
Fixed-cost SOW
A fixed-price statement of work with milestones, defined deliverables and IP terms confirmed. You know what you are committing to before any development begins.
How it works
Step by step.
- Techno-commercial reviewEverything you can share on the project, assessed across both the technical and the commercial picture.
- Engineering or R&DThe review establishes whether the project is a pure engineering task or still contains outstanding research. The paths separate here.
- Development plan or R&D roadmapAn engineering project gets a development plan and roadmap. A project with research outstanding gets an assessment report and a roadmap to close it.
- Project scopingRequirements, functional behaviour, system architecture and wireframes, written down.
- Fixed-cost SOWBoth paths end in a fixed-cost SOW, so the number is settled before any work begins.
Two paths, one outcome
Whether your project turns out to be an engineering task or one with research still outstanding, it finishes the same way, with the scope written down and the cost agreed before work begins.
Where it leads
The next step.
Development proceeds as per the statement of work, with clear milestones and IP terms confirmed from day one. Where you want ongoing technical leadership alongside the build, fractional CTO support runs in parallel.
Risk Review
For a project about to get expensive. An independent techno-commercial read on what could go wrong, with a recommendation against each risk and a view on whether deeper work is warranted.
Read more →Rescue
For a project that has already gone wrong. A vendor who stopped delivering, IP you cannot trace, a funder milestone about to be missed, a unit cost the market will not carry. We establish what happened and what can be saved.
Read more →If this is not quite your situation
Then tell us about the project anyway.
They exist so that starting with us is small and low-risk, and they are not the limit of what we take on. This one is a starting point, not a boundary. Describe what you are trying to build and we will scope something that fits it, or say plainly that we are not the right people for it.