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.

How we work

A clear
path from
requirement
to result

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.

Step 01

Understand

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

Step 02

Plan

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

Step 03

Assemble

The right people for this particular piece of work.

Step 04

Deliver

Clear communication, defined responsibilities, measurable outcomes.

Step 05

Improve

Supporting, maintaining and improving the software or the team.

We do not stop at advice

We’re deliberately practical. Plenty of good plans die because nobody was free to carry them out. So we don’t stop at advice. We help work out what to build. Then we build it. And we can find the people to keep building it afterwards.

In practice

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.