HOW WE WORK

We forward deploy engineers into your team.

You get the engineers doing the work, reachable the way you already work, for as long as the work needs them.

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ENGAGEMENT MODELS

Three ways to work with us, depending on your needs.

Pick the one that sounds like you. If none of them do, tell us where you are and we will create something that fits your business.

SET UP AND SUPPORTED

We get you running and keep you running

You are running the business on email, spreadsheets and whatever the last person set up. We put in the systems that fit how you work, get you live, then look after them.

Best when nobody in the business wants to own the tech
BUILD AND HAND OVER

We build it with you

You know the problem but not how to solve it. We prove the idea, build the thing, train whoever is going to run it, then step back and leave it working.

Best when you are starting from nothing
EMBEDDED

We join your team

You have people and a roadmap, and a skill gap you need filling. We forward deploy an engineer into the team, for an agreed period or an ongoing relationship.

Best when you have a technical team already
ENGAGEMENT MODES

How an engagement actually runs.

Whichever way you work with us, the shape of the work is the same three stages.

01

Discover and scope

We sit with your team, map the workflow and agree what is worth building before anyone writes code.

02

Build and ship

Your people build alongside ours, in your repo and your accounts, shipping in small pieces you can see.

03

Train and hand over

Documentation and pairing until someone on your payroll can change it without calling us.

HOW EMBEDDING WORKS

Working inside your business.

The people writing the code are the people you talk to, in the tools you already use.

Where you already work

Teams, Slack, email or the phone, whatever you already use. If you run a repo and a ticket board we work in yours, and if not we set them up for you.

Your hours, mostly

We work UK hours. If you run a standup we are in it, and if you do not we agree a catch up that suits how you run your week.

Your people alongside

Wherever you have a developer or an analyst, they pair with us. Where you have nobody technical, we cover the role ourselves.

Everything in your accounts

Code, logins, documentation and decisions live in your accounts from day one, open to you the whole way through.

Straight answers on spend

We tell you which of the things you have asked for will pay for themselves, before you commit budget to any of them.

A proper handover

Every engagement ends with training and documentation, so your team carries it on confidently.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

Four things, and we can start.

All four are simple, and none of them are technical. Tell us at the start which you have and we will shape the work around it.

One person who can decide

Someone who can answer a question the same week it is asked. Quick decisions are what keep an engagement moving.

Access to your systems

The systems you actually run on, the data in them and the accounts they sit in. Seeing the real thing is how we judge what is worth building.

Time from whoever does the job

An hour with the person who runs the process beats a week of specification, whether that is a department or it is you.

Who runs it afterwards

Tell us at the start. If you want it in house we train one of your people while we build it. If nobody there wants to own the tech, we keep running it.

WHERE THE WORK HAPPENS

Remote first, on site when it matters.

We are based in Chester and work with businesses across the UK. Most of the work is done remotely because that is where the work actually gets done, but there are points in an engagement where being in the room is worth the journey.

  • Mapping the workflow at the start, where we watch the job being done
  • Anything with hardware in it, which has to be seen on the site it will live on
  • Training your people at handover, done face to face where we can
  • The conversations that are quicker in person than in a thread
WHAT STAYS WITH YOU

If we step back, the capability stays with you.

Everything we build is yours, in your accounts, documented, and understood by someone on your payroll.

  • The code, in your repository, under your licence
  • The infrastructure, in your cloud accounts, billed to you
  • The data, in your systems, exportable at any time
  • Written documentation aimed at your team, not at us
  • One of your people trained to change it, or us still running it for you
  • A standing offer to answer the phone afterwards
CREATE THE FUTURE

Let us build your future.

Bring us a plan or just an idea. We will arrange a discovery meeting with you to go through it.