Scaling & advisory — The leadership your business needs, before you can hire it.

Not at all. It's who we work with most. The work itself barely changes, but how it reaches you does. We steer the technical side, so your team has someone senior to go to, and you get decisions back in business terms: what it costs, what it gets you, and what it rules out later. You shouldn't need an opinion on databases to run your business. The diagnostic at the start is written with that in mind. It's a plain-English account of where your technology stands, one you can act on and share with a board or an investor.

Early on, they're usually the same job. What to build, what it'll cost and what it rules out are one set of decisions, and splitting them between two people too soon tends to slow both down. A simple test is where it hurts. If delivery is late, unpredictable or fragile, you need the technical side. If the team ships steadily but the numbers don't move, you need the product side. We do either or both, and we'll tell you which you need rather than sell you the bigger option.

Not as part of our advisory work. That's steering: we guide your team rather than write code alongside them. But if there's no team yet and you need a first version built, that's what our build your MVP service is for. We build it ourselves, quote it as a project, and make sure it's built to be handed on to a team one day. A throwaway first version costs more to redo than it ever saved.

It depends on what your business needs, and we agree it up front rather than billing by the hour. Typically it's a set number of days each month with a clear remit, reviewed every quarter. Businesses in the middle of a rebuild or a raise usually want more time early on, and less once things are in place.

We work with them, almost always. Your team usually knows where the problems are. What's missing is someone senior to steer the big calls. If something does need to change, we'll tell you early and straight.

A fixed monthly fee for an agreed scope, so your costs are predictable and there's no reason for us to drag the work out. The diagnostic that usually comes first is priced separately, so you can stop there if that's all you need. Building a first version through our build your MVP service is quoted as a project instead, because it has an end.

Yes, and it's often the better option. Advisory for equity puts operating, technical and product leadership into your business instead of cash, or alongside it if you want to bring the monthly cost down without losing the support. Take a look at investment and equity partnerships to see how those deals work.

Yes. We're based in Cornwall and have a particular interest in businesses across the South West, but we work with founders anywhere. Good businesses aren't only built within an hour of London.