About
Independent judgment, from people who’ve run delivery.
We help owners and boards see the value in the software they’ve paid for — and give them the clarity to make one decision: keep it, fix it, or replace it.
Owners deserve to know what they actually own.
Too much software gets built by outside teams and quietly signed off — without anyone in the business able to say what they got, what they control, or what leaving would cost. We turn that fog into evidence, and evidence into a decision.
Built by people who’ve owned the outcome.
15+ years across software delivery, engineering leadership, and investment — from early-stage startups to large software organisations, and across both internal teams and outsourced, offshore developers.
We’ve optimised delivery and product value, led engineering transformation, and carried the commercial outcome ourselves. That’s why our reviews come back as money and months — not a list of technical complaints.
What we do: assess the software, the team and the delivery record, then give one clear recommendation. If you want help acting on it, that’s a separate, optional engagement.
“Most of the teams I look at are capable. The problem is usually the process around them, not the people in it.”
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Read the case fileWe’ve sat in every seat around the software.
That breadth is why our findings read as decisions an owner can act on — not tickets for an engineer.
Engineering leadership
Led and grown engineering teams, and owned the delivery outcome end to end.
Outsourced & offshore
Run, reviewed and turned around work built by agencies and offshore teams.
Investment & due diligence
Assessed software for investors — before the deal, and after it closed.
Product & delivery
Optimised delivery speed and the value each release actually ships.
Transformation & insourcing
Moved critical software in-house without breaking a live service.
Startups → enterprise
From the first engineers to large, multi-team organisations.
Four things we won’t compromise on.
Independence
Our fee isn’t contingent on findings, and we never sell you the fix. The advice stands on its own.
Evidence, not opinion
Every finding is a count or a pass/fail check — cited to something you can reproduce yourself.
Clarity for the board
Two pages a non-technical owner can act on — not a technical dump that needs translating.
Value in focus
We report in money and months — what the spend produced and what a change is worth.
Nothing here is an opinion you have to take on faith.
Every number in the report is measured, cited, and reproducible. The recommendation stands on evidence — and never on selling you the fix. That’s what makes it worth backing to a board.
How we workLet’s find out what you actually own.
One clear recommendation, in about ten days. No call needed to begin.