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We strive to improve upon the typical consulting modelOur goal is not simply to have a transactional dollars-for-code relationship, but to leave your business with stronger and more sustainable technology capabilities than we found it.You should be left not only with a finished product, but your own capabilities to maintain and build upon that product. What does "finished" even mean in today's business landscape? A business that's not innovating or evolving is probably dead.We want to plan our own obsolescenceTypical consultants come with a myriad of problems — they might leave you with something you're unable to maintain, require expensive re-engagements or even re-writes, and encourage dependence. We prefer our engagements to also provide a scalable architecture, policies and procedures, and management structures. We look beyond just a single project-based solution, including toward the hiring and training of the next generation.Your transitional CTOHiring technical staff and finding technical co-founders is hard; knowing if they're doing a good job is even harder; replacing them if they're not performing can become near-impossible. A lot of companies, in a desperate scramble to hire someone to hit that deadline three months from now, either enter into a big commitment that later turns out to be a mistake, or put off the decision to build something correctly from the start. Let us buy you the time to comfortably make the right decision for your business.What we aren'tWe are not a staffing firm that collects payments in order to help meet a quota of filled chairs. We do not measure productivity by the number of lines of code typed; "work" in a mechanical sense doesn't translate to accomplishing anything. We will not seek to make ourselves irreplaceable. We are not the generic "lowest bidder."