Growing companies partner with us on mission-critical technology projects requiring speed and precision. We rescue projects gone sideways, modernize & re-write outdated systems, wrangle complex data and integrations, launch new products with aggressive deadlines, and put AI to work in your business.
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SOC 2 Type 2 Led by executives who see technology as the way to grow revenue, do more with less, and make life easier for their customers and employees.
Every business has them: the ugly, unglamorous problems that make growth harder than it should be. We're named Frogslayer for a reason. We like solving difficult problems, and these are the ones we see most often.
The project is over budget, behind schedule, or the vendor has gone quiet. Everyone is stretched thin, everything is a priority, and the finish line keeps moving.
Project Rescue →The software that runs your business doesn’t do what you need it to anymore. Bugs keep coming back, small changes take months, and the workarounds have workarounds.
Modernization & Enhancement →You know what the market needs: a new product, a service, a line of business. A year later it is still a slide deck, because nobody can say what it would take to build.
New Product Development →Reports don’t reconcile, the figures change depending on who you ask, and the real numbers arrive three weeks too late to act on.
Data & Reporting →Quotes, approvals, invoicing, status updates: done by hand, and a little differently by everyone. Growing means hiring more people instead of fixing the system.
AI Office →Vendors, architecture, security, AI: the decisions keep coming, and there is no one at the table who understands your business, knows the technology, and has nothing to sell you.
Fractional CTO/CAIO →We design and build new software, modernize and extend the systems you already run, and make your data and reporting something you can trust.
Learn more →Your AI & automation team on retainer — for those ready to leverage AI beyond the chat box.
Learn more →Hosting, monitoring, and support for the systems your business depends on — we fix issues fast and work to prevent the next one.
Learn more →A technology executive on retainer or by the hour — for the decisions, vendors, and roadmaps only a CTO should own.
Learn more →Get your people fluent — from a free peer roundtable to a guided 3-month program.
Learn more →Not sure we’re a fit, or where you’d start? Take the fast read on fit or answer one question on the Getting Started page.
Technology investments aren’t cheap, and most companies have been burned at least once. We help you get the most value, and the least risk, out of every dollar you spend. Six reasons clients keep coming back →
Growing, privately held companies in the middle market. Many are backed by private equity. Most are service businesses in industries that run on people and information: construction, logistics, financial services, healthcare, legal and professional services, energy services, hospitality and entertainment. They usually have a few hundred to a few thousand employees, and they need technology to solve the problems in front of them today.
Three kinds, mostly. You need something new built, whether that is a product, a service, or a line of business. You have a project in flight that is not going well: over budget, behind schedule, or the vendor has gone quiet. Or you have a system you already run that needs new life, whether that means modernizing it, integrating it, or rewriting it. Around those three, we also automate work with AI on the systems you have, host and support production systems, and provide a fractional CTO when nobody owns the technology decisions.
Most of our clients came to us after a bad experience with someone else, and rescuing troubled projects is one of our specialties. We learn your business and validate before we build. We work to mitigate risk up front and along the way. We tell you what you need to hear rather than what you want to hear. And we measure the work against a number we agree on before we start. Across hundreds of projects since 2005, 96.5% have succeeded, which is more than 3X the industry average.
It depends on how well the problem is defined. When the scope is still forming, we work on time and materials. When it is nailed down, we quote a fixed price for a fixed scope. When there is a standing queue of work, we provide a dedicated team. We recommend one of those after the Deep Dive; you do not pick from a menu. The prices we publish are on the page: AI Office is $5,000, $10,000, or $25,000 a month, and Sherpa is $7,500 per three-month cycle. VDP, System Evaluation, and Technology Due Diligence are fixed fees agreed before we start.
Our own team, in Texas. Strategists, designers, and engineers, all highly qualified. We do not offshore or outsource, and the work is never handed to people in another country after you talk to someone local. Everyone on the team can talk to you directly.
We validate before we build, so we do not spend your budget on the wrong thing. We deal with risk as soon as it shows up instead of at the end. We ship in short cycles so you see working software early. And we meet with you regularly to gather feedback, surface risks, and plan the next stretch. You always know where the budget, schedule, and scope stand, and you will hear about a problem from us before you notice it yourself.
Yes. We are SOC 2 Type 2, and we set up security and governance on day one. We work inside your environment, so your data stays yours. For sensitive work we can run a private language model in your own environment so nothing leaves your walls.
It takes 30 to 60 minutes and there are no slides. You describe the problem in your own words, and we tell you honestly whether we can help and where, including when the answer is that we are not the right fit. If it makes sense to continue, the next step is a Deep Dive with the people closest to the problem, followed by a written proposal. Every engagement follows the same five steps.
Pick a plan when you're ready, or talk to us first — 30 minutes, no slide deck, no pressure. We'll tell you straight which of the five doors fits, or if you should start somewhere else entirely.
Tell us a little about your situation. We'll email back within one business day. No newsletter. No drip. We email you back, that's it.