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COGNIVISE

How we work, from first call to support

A five-step way of working: understand, plan, assemble, deliver and improve, with responsibilities and outcomes agreed at every stage.

* Nothing starts until we have agreed what done looks like, and who is responsible for it.

A clear
path from
requirement
to result

This is how to work with a software agency in practice — the same five steps whether we are building the software or building the team. What changes is step three, and who ends up doing the work.

  1. Step 01

    Understand

    Your company, your users, your goals and the constraints nobody writes down.

  2. Step 02

    Plan

    Turning that into a scope, a build plan, or a role to fill.

  3. Step 03

    Assemble

    The right people for this particular piece of work.

  4. Step 04

    Deliver

    Clear communication, defined responsibilities, measurable outcomes.

  5. Step 05

    Improve

    Supporting, maintaining and improving the software or the team.

No long sales process

The first conversation is free, and it is a conversation rather than a pitch. Tell us what you are trying to build, or who you are trying to hire, and we will tell you what it would take.

  • How quickly we can start

    For most work, weeks rather than months. A single specialist is usually faster than a full team, and a permanent hire for your own payroll takes the longest of the three.

  • What you get before you commit budget

    What is worth building, in what order, what it will cost, and what happens if the assumption underneath it turns out to be wrong. Often a few weeks of work that saves months of the wrong build.

  • Who you actually deal with

    The people doing the work. Senior engineers, designers, QA and DevOps — nobody learning on your project at your expense, and no account manager relaying messages.

  • How the work reaches you

    In your own repositories and accounts, handed over as we go rather than in one delivery at the end. The source code and the documentation needed to run it without us are yours by default.

  • Working across time zones

    Our specialists are in several countries. That is what makes it possible to find a specific skill in weeks instead of waiting months for the right person to appear locally.

  • When we say no

    If something is not worth building, or we are not the right people for it, we will say so in the first conversation rather than three months into a project.

Next step

Tell us what you are trying to build

Tell us what you need built, or who you need to build it, and we'll tell you plainly if we're the right people.