Runway-aware stack decisions, build-versus-buy calls and hiring plans sized to your funding stage.
Stack decisions sized to your funding stage. We help founders decide what to build, what to buy and what to defer, so runway goes into the things that prove the business.
That includes the first technical hires, the architecture that will not need rewriting at Series A, and the security basics investors will ask about in diligence.
Technology decisions weighed against months of runway, not ideal-world architecture.
A clear call on what is genuinely your differentiator and what should be bought.
Architecture that holds to Series A without a rewrite, and no further gold-plating.
The engineering roles to hire, in what order, and what to keep outsourced.
Security, licensing and documentation in the state investors expect to find.
Ongoing senior technical guidance without a full-time executive salary.
A costed, sequenced roadmap from your current state to a digital operating model, ranked by business impact.
Lower total cost of ownership from platform selection, migration planning and modelling across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
A prioritised remediation plan from architecture, security posture and scalability reviews.
Hours returned to the team by mapping workflows and automating handoffs between marketing, sales and operations.
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Enough to ship and learn, and no more — managed services and off-the-shelf tools until a capability becomes a genuine differentiator. Premature platform engineering is one of the most common ways seed-stage runway disappears.
Buy anything that is not your core differentiator, and build only what customers pay you for. Every internal tool built early becomes a maintenance obligation that competes with product work forever.
When the product direction is stable enough that a permanent hire will not spend six months building throwaway work. Before that point, a small senior contract team usually delivers more per pound spent.
Deliberately short — two to four weeks, ending with stack decisions, a hiring sequence and a costed 12-month plan. Long consulting engagements are the wrong shape for a company that pivots quarterly.
Send one paragraph. You get a channel mix, scope, budget range and timeline back within 24 hours — from a senior specialist, not a salesperson.
