Strategy, Goals & KPI Design
Get the whole company pulling in one direction: clear goals, a structure without bottlenecks, and KPI/OKR frameworks that tie strategy to day-to-day execution.
Growing IT companies rarely lack talent — they lose margin, people and speed to misalignment. We fix strategy, structure, finance and people processes, then wire in AI — so growth turns into profit, not chaos.
We run these functions inside growing IT companies every day — so we advise from the P&L, not from a textbook, and bring engineering-grade rigor to every engagement.
We know what survives contact with reality — because our own results depend on it.
Start with the problem that costs you most. Every direction connects to the others, so each fix makes the next one faster and cheaper.
Start from the problem — what's hurting most?
Pick a challenge to see which directions solve it together.
Discuss this challengeClear direction, faster decisions
Get the whole company pulling in one direction: clear goals, a structure without bottlenecks, and KPI/OKR frameworks that tie strategy to day-to-day execution.
Remove the bottlenecks that slow delivery and burn margin: clear ownership with RACI, workflows designed from zero, and retrospectives that actually change things.
Make partnerships and acquisitions pay off: clear goals and governance, smooth post-merger integration, and mechanisms that capture real joint value.
Keep and grow the people who deliver
Keep billable people on the right projects and your best engineers in the company: a Resource Management Office, performance management and career paths that scale.
Grow the talent you can't hire fast enough: bootcamps, mentorship and an internal university for cross-skilling — each with a clear cost and payback.
Turn your engineering community into an employer brand that lowers hiring costs and keeps people engaged — meetups, hackathons, newsletters and public speaking.
Protect margin, grow revenue
See which projects and clients actually make money: P&L and budgets, cost allocation and fair compensation models — so decisions rest on numbers, not gut feel.
One version of the numbers that leadership trusts: standard dashboards in Power BI, Excel or Google Sheets — so meetings start with decisions, not reconciling figures.
Win more of the right deals and grow existing accounts: pre-sale and cross-sale playbooks, sharper client communication and negotiation that protects margin.
Do more without hiring more
Cut 70–90% of manual work in the processes that eat your team's time — OpenAI, Claude and Gemini built into real workflows, with ROI measured, not promised.
Stop re-keying data between systems: one secure, automated flow via API, SFTP and cloud pipelines on AWS or Azure, with AI checks that catch errors before they cost money.
Launch the product your business needs — from MVP to enterprise platform, on any tech stack, with the architecture and delivery discipline to scale with you.
How the work is structured — and what changes for the business.
HR, time tracking and payroll lived in separate systems. Worked days were reconciled by hand every month — slow, error-prone, dependent on a few key people, and a risk to employee trust when a salary came out wrong.
Salaries are calculated from real worked days with no manual reconciliation. Errors are caught before payday — not by employees after it — and the process no longer depends on key people.
Costs were tracked at company level only. Nobody could say which projects and clients were profitable, bonuses were decided case by case, and strong engineers started leaving over perceived unfairness.
Margin per project and client is visible every month, loss-making work gets repriced or restructured, and pay follows one model people understand — worth ~$310K a year for a company this size.
Projects were staffed through personal networks and escalations. Managers were overloaded, there were no career paths or regular reviews, bench time grew and good people burned out or left.
Staffing follows one predictable process, every engineer has a growth path and a regular review, and managers get their time back. The function keeps running without us after handover.
Plug in your numbers. The model applies the assumptions behind our Strategy and Finance frameworks — and shows when the engagement pays for itself.
Pays back in about 2 months
Illustrative model. Assumes an engagement of $80–100K for a 150-person company, scaling with size. We model your exact case during the assessment.
A repeatable engagement model with a business result at every stage: your top-3 ROI moves within two weeks, working frameworks within six.
Typical timeline for one module. We scope yours during the free assessment.
Recommendations arrive as working systems your teams can run — not decks that gather dust.
Tell us where it hurts most. Within one business day we'll come back with a focused view of where your biggest return is — and what it's worth.
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