Professional services: first products and long-term engineering teams
You want to turn your expertise into a product, but the people who know the business are busy with client work. We work with consultancies, accounting and partner-management platforms and creative studios.
Problems we are brought in to solve
We want our own product without hiring a team for it
A Swiss project-delivery consultancy needed senior engineering capacity it could start quickly and scale as its first enterprise product matured, without hiring in-house.
Engineers leave just as they learn our business
Partner-relationship and accounting platforms need engineers who stay long enough to hold the domain: one embedded engineer has run continuous development on an accounting platform for more than 30 months.
The process lives in people’s heads
At a booking and training operator, five administrative staff handled around 300 bookings a month across six manual steps, with the dependencies and acceptance criteria carried informally until someone wrote them down.
What we do in professional services
Embedded engineers on long engagements
Full-stack, backend and frontend specialists who join an existing product team and stay with it, rather than rotating through it.
Business analysis that makes the work visible
Surface the dependencies and acceptance criteria that are being carried informally, and turn them into a planned, reviewable pilot.
Product and platform delivery
Design, build and extend the platforms these firms sell: partner management, accounting, learning and service products.
Case studies
Thrive
Thrive, an Irish accounting platform for property managers, needed a senior full-stack developer. We onboarded one in 12 days, and the work has run for more than 30 months.
- Team
- 1 Full-Stack developer
- Time to hire
- 12 days
- Duration
- 2.5+ years (January 2022-ongoing)
Kiflo
Kiflo, a French partner relationship management platform, struggled to find developers. Our dedicated team brought it to market 25% faster and cut development costs by 30%.
- Team
- 2 Full-Stack Developers
- Time to hire
- 21 days
- Duration
- 3 years
AI Delivery-Management Platform
A Swiss consultancy building its first enterprise product started with one senior back-end engineer in three days. The work has since grown into integrations, QA and project management.
- Team
- embedded engineering team, backend, integrations, QA, TPM
- Time to start
- in 3 days
- Duration
- 8+ months
AI-Powered Project Orchestration Platform
A Swiss consultancy building an AI agent for project orchestration needed senior back-end help fast. We proposed a developer within a day, fully onboarded in three business days.
- Team
- 1 Senior Back-end Developer
- Time to start
- 3 business days
Little World
Little World helps people practise German with native speakers. Pro bono, our designer, BA/PM and QA defined its random call feature in two months, ready for engineers to build.
- Team
- UI/UX Designer, BA/PM, QA
- Duration
- 2 months
WallaWalla
WallaWalla is a US studio for 3D and 2D art, animation and games. One dedicated full-stack developer looked after its website and made it 30% faster.
- Team
- Full-Stack Developer
- Time to hire
- 12 days
- Duration
- 1+ year
Where to start
Hard to find engineers
One specialist, part-time expertise, or a team that grows with the product.
Build or modernize software
For a first enterprise product, or a platform that has outgrown how it was built.
Strike Team
When the delivery process, not the engineering, is what is slipping.
Let’s talk
We usually start with advice. You get a direct answer on whether we can help and what should happen first.
Talk to an expert
Yurii Kotula
CEO and Engineering Leader
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