Software delivery you can measure, fix and prove.
We audit, build and run engineering for software companies and their investors, with AI where it pays off. Senior people, and a number behind every result.
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Pick the one that sounds most like you, and we will show you where we would start.
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What we do
From a two-week audit to a platform in production. Everything we recommend, we can also build and run for you. Open any of them, or read the full services page.
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Architecture and workflow audit
We read your code, pipelines, tickets and org chart, and hand you a ranked map of what to fix and what each fix returns. Not a findings deck.
Fixed price1 to 3 weeks
Technical due diligence
For private equity and venture capital, on either side of the deal. Architectural rot, vendor lock, key-person risk and hidden operating cost, translated into EBITDA impact.
Buy side or sell side
Security and compliance assessment
How you build and ship, checked against our security baseline, with only the frameworks your market needs. SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and for European customers NIS2, DORA and the EU AI Act.
AI readiness
Whether your codebase, your data boundaries and your team are ready for AI to help, and what to fix first if they are not.
2 weeks
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Platform engineering and DevOps
Pipelines, release management and infrastructure as code. Deploy is not release, so feature flags and progressive delivery come as standard.
Cloud on Azure and Kubernetes
Landing zones and golden paths, built so your team can run them without us.
Azure first
Architecture and modernization
Event-driven design, microservices where they earn their place, and legacy replaced piece by piece instead of in one big bang.
Secure delivery
Security controls built into your pipeline, each one keeping the records an auditor will ask for.
Custom development
Senior engineers, not a body shop. AI only where it belongs.
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AI-assisted engineering
Claude Code rolled out properly, with the skills, hooks and guardrails your stack needs. Then assisted and unassisted work compared on rework, review time, batch size and escaped defects, per team.
Agentic workflows in the pipeline
First-pass code review, tests from acceptance criteria, incident summaries, release notes. Each one gated and audited. An agent that cannot be audited does not go to production.
Custom tools, MCP servers and plugins
Your stack exposed to the model the way it should be, so the model stops guessing how your company builds software.
Agentic process automation
Process first. If a workflow is unclear, an agent only automates the confusion, and we tell you before we build anything.
LLM application architecture
Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, or both behind a model gateway. Evals before release, data boundaries that survive an audit, and a vendor swap without a rewrite.
AI governance and the EU AI Act
Risk classification, evaluation and monitoring built into the checkpoints you already run, on the current EU timeline.
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Delivery transformation
Our method, PROVEN. We find where your work waits, fix it with your engineers wave by wave, and prove the result in your own numbers.
Starts with 2 weeksPROVEN
Security baseline
The same security engineering baseline for every customer, enforced in the pipeline instead of written in a policy.
PROVEN Secure
Compliance overlays
SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIS2, EU DORA, the EU AI Act, PCI DSS, HIPAA and GDPR, mapped to the evidence your pipeline already produces. Only the ones your market needs.
PROVEN Comply
Organization design
For companies whose bottleneck is the structure, not the code. Structural changes made one measured decision at a time.
PROVEN Organise
Annual check-up
One week a year at a fixed price for existing customers. We read a year of delivery data and hand you a refreshed roadmap.
Fixed pricePROVEN Check-up
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Managed Azure platform
Landing zone, identity and access, policy, Defender and Sentinel, networking, infrastructure standards, cost governance, backup and disaster recovery, mapped to ISO 27001, NIS2 and DORA.
Priced per subscription
Support you can plan around
Business hours, Central European Time, with response times by severity. We do not offer 24/7. Workload operations stay with your team, and we say so up front.
Business hours CET
Marketplace publisher support
Help for software vendors who sell through the Azure Marketplace.
Add-on
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Fractional CTO
Technical leadership on a retainer, a fixed number of days a month. Every decision is made in writing, so it outlasts the retainer.
Fixed days a month
Fractional enterprise architect
Architecture decisions, standards and reviews for companies that need an architect, but not a full-time one.
Retainer
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Claude Code
Three one-day parts: Foundations, Advanced workflows, and Enterprise SDLC with governance.
3 daysOn-site or remote
Delivery metrics for leaders
What to measure in software delivery, what to leave alone, and how to read the numbers without gaming them.
Half day
Secure delivery
Security built into how software gets made, from the first commit to production.
1 day
Custom courses
Built around your stack and your team.
On request
Where your work waits
Follow one change from ready to running in production. Cyan is work. Grey is the change waiting for someone or something. The pipeline behind this page runs the same way, gate by gate.
Fourteen days, and someone works on the change for two of them. The rest of the time nothing happens to it.
Round numbers for illustration, not client data. In an engagement, we measure these waits in your own tools in the first weeks. The research keeps finding the same pattern. Teams with high AI adoption merged 98% more pull requests, review time went up 91%, and delivery at company level did not improve (Faros AI, telemetry from 10,000+ developers, 2025).
How we fix it
Three steps, in this order, with a number at the end of each.
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Find
We connect our measurement platform, Verdict, to your tools on day one, read-only, and run workshops with the people who do the work. You see where your work waits and what each wait costs.
Profile, then Reveal
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Fix
We agree the order, then build checkpoints into your pipeline with your engineers, one team at a time. Old paths are deleted, not left next to the new ones.
Orchestrate, then Velocity
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Prove
The before and after from the same instrument, every quarter. After we leave, Verdict keeps watching and tells your team when something drifts.
Evidence, then Nurture
Done before, and how we know
Every number opens to show what it counts, the period and the context.
Production deployment failures in 12 months, at an enterprise software vendor.
How it was measured
- What it counts
- The share of production deployments that failed.
- Period
- 12 months.
- Context
- Around 35 enterprise customers. Gated delivery with an ownership matrix, the company's first cloud workload on Azure and Kubernetes. Zero attrition during the change.
Releases a year at a task mining startup, which was then acquired by ServiceNow.
How it was measured
- What it counts
- Production releases per year, from yearly to monthly.
- Period
- May 2023 to February 2024.
- Context
- Platform rebuilt, two-week sprints with monthly milestones. The buyer's technical due diligence singled out the platform design.
In its market, for an IoT platform built by a one-person engineering team.
How it was measured
- What it counts
- Technology ranking in its market.
- Period
- April 2021 to April 2023.
- Context
- Pharma cold-chain monitoring, FDA-compliant reporting, live with paying customers.
Who we say no to
We say it on the first call. It saves everyone a month.
- Anyone who wants to rank developers.We measure the system, never a person. Verdict has no person-level table.
- A dashboard subscription.Verdict is the instrument we deploy during the work, not a product you rent.
- Staff augmentation.We are not a body shop.
- One certificate for one deal.Compliance follows your market, not a single contract.
- Teams too small to measure.Below roughly 50 engineers there is too little flow for a method. A fractional CTO can still help.
- Executives who cannot agree what the company is for.No pipeline fixes that.
Not promised. Proven.
Book 30 minutes. By the end of the call you will know whether we are the right fit, and if we are not, we will say so.
Pick a situation at the top and it goes with your booking, so you do not have to explain it twice.