Services
A plan you can put a price on, before you commit to building anything.
We work through your objectives, your market position and the systems you already run, then hand you a written strategy: a roadmap with milestones, an assessment of your technology, and the risks named. It is yours to act on, with us or with anyone else.
- A written analysis of your business model, competitors and market openings
- A roadmap with milestones, timelines and the KPI each must hit
- An assessment of your current technology against your goals and budget
- The risks to the plan, named early, each with a contingency
- 12years building
- 43systems delivered
- 37organisations
- 18sectors
What you receive
Six things in writing. None of them lives only in a slide deck.
Each is a document you can hand to your board, your IT team or another supplier.
Your business, analysed
Your business model, competitors and market openings, written down, so the strategy rests on facts about your situation rather than on assumptions about it.
A roadmap with dates and measures
Milestones, timelines and the KPIs each milestone must hit. You can tell month by month whether the plan is working.
An honest assessment of your current technology
What to keep, what to replace and what each choice costs, matched to your goals and your budget rather than to what is fashionable.
The risks, named early, each with a plan
Where the project can go wrong, identified before it does, with a contingency for each so execution does not stall on a surprise.
A view on new technology you can act on
Which emerging technologies matter to your business and which do not, with a way to test the ones that do before you bet on them.
Technical and business teams on one page
We run the sessions that get engineering and management agreeing on the same goals. The plan then has both behind it before the work starts.
How the engagement runs
Five sessions. Each ends with something written down.
- 01Discovery workshopA shared statement of your vision, constraints and objectives.
- 02Market and competitor analysisA written picture of your sector and where you can differ from it.
- 03Strategy developmentThe strategy itself, with recommendations you can act on.
- 04Roadmap presentationThe plan, presented with timelines, resourcing and success measures.
- 05Ongoing supportGuidance and adjustments as your initiatives progress.
Where the advice comes from
Findings from people who have shipped in 18 sectors.
The recommendations come from 43 systems delivered since 2014 rather than from a framework. The number beside each sector is how many systems we have built in it.
In writing
Two things you get before the first invoice.
A free consultation before you commit.
A working session on your existing system or your plan. You leave with written findings you can act on with anyone.
Phase one is fixed price.
Defined scope, defined cost. The specification and prototype are yours to keep whether or not you continue with us.
Where this sits
The first of five stages. You receive something you own at each.
- 01 · this serviceInsightA written scope and the findings behind it.
- 02StrategyThe specification and architecture, with a fixed price for phase one.
- 03BuildWorking software every sprint, in your own repository.
- 04LaunchThe production release and the tests that verify it.
- 05SupportDocumentation, a warranty, and named response times if you want them.
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What a strategy leads into.
Start with a free consultation on your system.
Bring the plan you are about to commit to. We spend a working session on it and you leave with written findings. They are yours to act on, with us or with anyone else.