Your engineering system is the bottleneck.

Your team isn't slow. Your system is.

Good engineers lose enormous amounts of time to systems that were never designed to scale.

• 01

  Slow CI

  A 30-minute build turns every iteration into a context-switching exercise.

• 02

  Manual hardware testing

  Engineers become the glue between firmware, test benches and lab equipment.

• 03

  Fragile integration

  Failures appear late because the real system isn't being tested continuously.

• 04

  Release bottlenecks

  One or two people become the only ones who know how to produce a reliable release.

• 05

  Developer environments

  Every engineer spends hours recreating a slightly different version of the same system.

• 06

  Infrastructure debt

  Tooling accumulated around the product becomes harder to maintain than the product itself.

These aren't individual developer problems. They're systems problems.

Where does the time disappear?

Most teams know something's slow. Few know exactly why. Your workflow gets instrumented, baselined, and the constraints that actually matter get named.

Four weeks. Not consulting. A defined product.

Start with a 4-week assessment

The Engineering Bottleneck Assessment is a focused four-week engagement to identify, measure and attack one engineering constraint.

1. 01

   Observe

   Get a map of your workflow from commit to integrated system: tools, infrastructure, test systems and handoffs included.

2. 02

   Measure

   Get a quantitative baseline: build times, test duration, failure rates, manual steps, release frequency, engineer-hours, measured from your pipeline.

3. 03

   Prove

   Get a targeted improvement against your most valuable bottleneck. The goal isn't a presentation. It's evidence.

4. 04

   Plan

   You receive a technical roadmap showing what to fix, what it will take and what should happen next.

The report isn't the end.

When the solution's worth implementing, it gets put into production. You don't carry the engineering load alone.

1. Assessment↓→
2. Proof↓→
3. Implementation↓→
4. Engineering partnership

• 01

  Fix

  The specific improvement from your assessment, implemented to prod with measured before/after.

• 02

  Modernize

  Your underlying engineering infrastructure, redesigned so the constraint can't return in the same form.

• 03

  Embed

  An engineering partner embedded with your team at the hardware/firmware/infrastructure boundary.

Organized around engineering problems.

Firmware, hardware and infrastructure meet here; that's where the expensive problems live, and where you get advantage.

• Development infrastructure

  • Embedded CI/CD
  • Build systems
  • Developer environments
  • Cross-compilation
  • Reproducible builds

• Verification

  • Automated testing
  • HIL
  • Hardware automation
  • Integration testing
  • Test infrastructure

• Systems

  • Embedded Linux
  • RTOS
  • Firmware architecture
  • CAN / communications
  • Hardware/software integration

• Delivery

  • Release engineering
  • Deployment pipelines
  • Infrastructure
  • Observability
  • Engineering workflows

From bottleneck to baseline

Typical shift after the fix: builds run in minutes and hardware-in-the-loop results land in the pipeline with every release.

• 42 min build

  11 min build

• Manual HIL

  Automated HIL

• Flaky CI

  Deterministic CI

• Manual release

  Reproducible release

Built at the system boundary.

Who this is for

Clear packages. No open-ended retainers to start.

USD for US teams. EUR for EU teams. Start with the four-week assessment. Fix and Embed follow only when the evidence says they should. One price for startups and mid-market.

• 01

  Assessment

  One bottleneck solved in four weeks: observe, measure, prove, plan. Measured baseline and working proof included.

  $9,500

  €8,500

  • Current-state engineering architecture
  • Bottleneck analysis and quantitative baseline
  • Working proof-of-concept
  • Prioritized remediation plan
  Book an assessment
• 02

  Fix

  The specific improvement from your assessment, implemented to prod with measured before/after. Fixed base plus optional success fee tied to the assessment baseline.

  From $22,000

  From €19,000

  • Scoped implementation against one constraint
  • Measured before/after
  • Production handover
  • Fixed base plus capped success fee; no open-ended retainer
  Talk about a fix
• 03

  Embed

  Engineering partner at the hardware/firmware/infrastructure boundary. Two days a week; 3-mo initial, then month-to-month.

  $15,000/ mo

  €13,000/ mo

  • Embedded in your engineering workflow
  • Hardware / firmware / infra boundary
  • Weekly cadence
  • Stop when the constraint is gone
  Book a conversation

Modernize (redesigning the underlying infrastructure so the constraint cannot return) is scoped after the assessment. Not a catalog price. Fix success fee, when offered, is tied to the assessment baseline and capped in the SOW.

Find the bottleneck.

Tell us what's slowing your engineering team down. We'll determine whether there's a problem worth investigating and whether we're the right experts to solve it.