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Technology consulting

Sometimes you do not need a team to build something. You need someone who has built it before to look at your plans, your vendor or your code and tell you what they see. Our consultants are the same engineers who design and ship our products.

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What we can take on

  • Architecture and code reviews before you scale a product or move it to production.
  • Technical due diligence on a hardware or IoT company before you invest or acquire.
  • Fractional CTO and technical advisory, on a monthly basis.
  • Engineering management for teams that have developers but no one setting standards.
  • Vendor and component evaluation: chips, modules, cloud platforms and manufacturers.
  • IIoT feasibility: whether connecting a machine or process is worth doing, and how.
  • AI readiness: whether your data can support the AI you have in mind.

Reviews and due diligence

An architecture or code review looks at firmware, cloud and the code that joins them, and gives you a written report: what works, where the risks are, ranked by how serious they are, and what to change. Due diligence asks a different question, whether the product can be built, certified and made at the cost claimed, and answers it for people deciding on an investment.

Advisory and team leadership

As a fractional CTO we take ownership of architecture decisions, vendor discussions and hiring interviews, and you get direct access to our founder. For teams that already have engineers, we can provide the management layer instead: code reviews, technical direction and sprint planning, with the aim of handing it back to your own lead.

Feasibility and evaluation

Choosing the wrong chip, cloud platform or manufacturer can cost months. We evaluate hardware, software and supply chain together, because each affects the others. For IIoT and AI, we look at your equipment and data first and give a plain recommendation on whether the project makes sense, with the reasons.

Questions about this

Do you only advise, or can you also build what you recommend?

Both. Many clients use the advice on its own. If you want us to build what we recommend, the same people carry it forward.

Can you assess a startup before we invest?

Yes. We look at whether the product can be built and made at the cost they claim, whether the architecture holds up, and whether the plan is realistic. The report is written for decision-makers, with the technical detail in an appendix.

Will you tell us if we are not the right partner?

Yes. If someone else is a better fit for what you need, we will say so on the discovery call.

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