Teams facing a bigger build
You want clarity before committing to the next phase of spend.
Risk Review
Techno-commercial clarity before you commit.
A bounded, independent review of a project that already exists. We read what you have, talk it through with you, and come back with the technical, commercial and strategic risks worth knowing about, each with a clear recommendation.
A project that exists · Risk register · Opinion Letter
Who it is for
When this is the right one.
Incubator and accelerator companies
An outside engineering view on a project that has only ever been assessed from the inside.
Anyone about to raise, hire or scale
An independent read that a funder or a board will take seriously.
Non-technical founders
Senior technical judgement without the cost of a full engagement.
What you get
The deliverables.
Risk register
Your risks set out by category, each with its likelihood, its impact and a mitigation.
Opinion Letter
One to three pages covering our understanding of the project, the risks we identified, a recommendation against each, and prioritised next steps. This is the deliverable you keep.
How it works
Step by step.
- Project briefYou share the techno-commercial information on your project, meaning documents, specifications, drawings and context. We guide you on what to include.
- Data scanA pass through everything you sent, to surface what needs investigating and to build a focused question list.
- Q&A sessionA short, prepared meeting. We ask, you answer. It fills the gaps a document review alone cannot.
- ReviewFull techno-commercial risk analysis across every discipline the project touches, building the risk register.
- Feedback sessionWe present the findings verbally so you can question, clarify and challenge them before anything is finalised.
- Opinion LetterWritten up, reviewed and delivered.
How long it takes
Three to four weeks start to finish, paced mostly by how quickly your project material reaches us. A short mutual NDA is signed before anything changes hands.
Where it leads
The next step.
Many Risk Reviews surface work worth doing properly. Where that happens, the natural next step is a Discovery Phase scoped to the specific questions the review raised. Where the project is in good shape, we say so.
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 →Discovery Phase
The full definition exercise. Requirements, functional specification, system architecture and a development plan, ending in a fixed-price statement of work you can commit to with confidence.
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.