We work with a range of companies: from solo founders looking to build their idea into a successful tech product, to startups and scale-ups looking to grow sustainably and make good product & tech choices, and corporates looking to introduce more structure to their tech businesses and upskill their employees.
We collaborate with Incubators & Accelerators, VC Funds & Angel Investors, Universities & Research institutions helping to grow healthy tech businesses and startup ecosystem in Europe.
Our collaboration with BOX ID played a pivotal role in shaping their product development process for high performance and success. In this collaboration we established product sync and discovery processes that led to better mutual understanding between functions and a closer connection with customers allowing the team to build the right software increments faster.
Deliverables
Product Management, Product Strategy, Technical Agile Coaching, Cloud Infrastructure Development, Leadership Coaching
Our Work
Our involvement began with interviewing leaders from product, engineering, customer success, and sales to understand their current pain points and needs. We identified a lack of communication between functions which we overcame within a couple of weeks by introducing a product sync. Furthermore, we worked with the engineering team to understand their current challenges. We introduced retrospectives and helped them to improve and accelerate their ways of working by reducing work in progress and increasing collaboration.
Furthermore, we overtook the interim product management for the development of a new mobile app and facilitated more structured approach to product discovery leading to increased impact of the engineering team.
With our wide experience from product to tech topics, we did not stop there but also consulted the engineering team on topics around infrastructure as code and continuous integration and deployment and the necessary requirements for achieving business-relevant certifications.
Last but not least we facilitated remote product strategy workshops to help the team create a shared understanding and get clarity about product vision and strategy. The results now help BOX ID to have higher alignment and thus allow more autonomy in decision making across all functions.
Summary
BRYTER’s strategic transformation from a manual deployment process to continuous deployments revolutionized its engineering operations. This shift enhanced developer experience, ownership, and product quality, driving significant business impact and positioning BRYTER for accelerated growth in the LegalTech sector.
Deliverables
Engineering Strategy, Product Management, Deployment Strategy, User Experience, Test Automation, Monitoring & Alerting, Incident Management Processes
Our Work
BRYTER faced significant challenges with its deployment process, characterized by limited visibility, inefficiencies within the QA team, and a lack of ownership among engineering teams. To address these issues, we established a dedicated Developer Experience Team focused on enhancing the deployment process and fostering accountability. We implemented a deployment rotation system allowing different teams to manage deployments weekly under the supervision of the QA team. This initiative not only facilitated knowledge sharing but also empowered teams to take ownership of their deployment responsibilities. Additionally, existing end-to-end (E2E) tests were migrated from Python/Selenium to TypeScript Playwright, making them more accessible and robust for the engineering teams. These strategic changes streamlined the deployment process, significantly reducing lead times and enhancing overall operational efficiency.
Summary
Robin Cook, a German food delivery startup, faced inefficiencies in their planning and work processes. Our collaboration with Robin Cook marked a turning point in how they planned their quarters and organized their work. When we started working with them, they were stuck in multi-week quarterly plannings and overloaded with invisible work. We established a leaner and more continuous planning and supported them in visualizing and identifying bottlenecks and tasks that consumed most of the time. As a result, we were able to improve their systems and processes so the teams can focus on the most valuable tasks.
Deliverables
Leadership Coaching, OKRs, Work Visualization, Project Management, Product Management, Team Coaching, DevOps Consulting
Our Work
We started our collaboration by observing their current work and interaction modes and suggested improvements. This resulted to reducing their quarterly OKR plannings from two weeks to half a week. We helped them to understand where most of the time of engineering teams went and how to remove those time sinks. Furthermore, we helped them to identify the most important product increments and created focus around those. Our engagement contributed to them having their most successful quarter to date.
Summary
PAYONE, a leading payment service provider specializing in B2B SaaS solutions, faced significant challenges with its outdated deployment process, which hindered the efficiency of its fraud prevention service. By establishing a remote team and implementing strategic initiatives, PAYONE successfully transformed its deployment practices, resulting in enhanced operational efficiency and improved responsiveness to emerging threats.
Deliverables
Engineering Strategy, Deployment Optimization, Process Automation, Team Collaboration, Risk Management, Technical Agile Coaching, DevOps Engineering, Backend Development
Our Work
We partnered with PAYONE to address significant challenges in their outdated deployment and development process, which was affecting the efficiency of their fraud prevention and payment services. By establishing a remote team, we focused on optimizing their operations.
We improved visibility into pending updates, helping the team recognize backlogs and inefficiencies. We also automated database migrations, reducing errors and streamlining the deployment process and automated large parts of their deployment process.
Shifting to a weekly deployment schedule allowed PAYONE to release updates more frequently, improving their responsiveness to market changes. This change led to a 25% increase in operational efficiency and enhanced customer satisfaction. Additionally, by decoupling services and migrating to independent virtual servers, we helped PAYONE minimize risks associated with cross-service disruptions.
Overall, these initiatives positioned PAYONE for greater agility and competitiveness in the FinTech landscape.
Summary
Our collaboration with Dräger Safety, a manufacturer of gas detection devices and system, we guided their teams to achieve higher levels of quality necessary to achieve crucial certifications while following modern software development practices and achieving high performance of their engineering teams.
Deliverables
Continuous Integration Pipelines; Training on Software Design Principles, Automated Testing and Version Control; Technical Agile Coaching; Safety Software Development; Rapid Prototyping of IoT and Cloud Solutions
Our Work
During our collaboration with Dräger Safety we up-skilled their teams and helped them to establish modern software development practices that led to higher quality and development speed. Furthermore, we supported the implementation of business critical features and established automated build and testing pipelines. We ran several trainings and workshops around software development and testing and established communities for knowledge sharing across teams and departments.
Furthermore we prototyped the connectivity of their gas detection systems with the cloud for better overview of complex environments as well as predictive maintenance use cases.
Summary
The company is developing a specialized ESG Reporting Tool for its customers to meet evolving sustainability needs. Our product-market-fit research identified key features—ESG data collection, reporting, and compliance—while prioritizing user-friendly design to boost engagement. We helped to develop the platform to be scalable and customizable through a set of filters fitting various use cases. We provided ongoing education, successfully upskilling 10 product teams in product development, enhancing product operations efforts, and creating collaborative environments for the teams to deliver outcomes faster.
Deliverables
A series of hands-on workshops, consulting conversations and documentation for Product Strategy, Product Team Development, and Product Operations, creating a space for team upskilling. Preparation for Product Operating Model.
Our Work
We collaborated on the initial PMF research and delivered a series of customized product workshops, problem space assessments, and educational content. Enabled the leadership team to delegate the majority of smaller decisions to the teams by streamlining the operations and introducing shared objectives and processes.
Summary
The company is developing its first Enterprise Collaboration Platform, where our CPO served as interim Product Lead, overseeing the entire process from strategy to launch. We gathered insights through workshops and surveys to define key features like real-time messaging and file sharing. Collaborating with UX/UI teams, we created intuitive wireframes and prototypes, conducting usability testing to enhance user experience. Using an Agile methodology, we promoted iterative development with regular cross-function meetings. Comprehensive quality assurance testing validated functionality, and a phased rollout allowed for adjustments. Introducing a set of metrics for the product performance helped to understand the usage. The platform notably improved communication and productivity between many categories of users already in the beta phase. The team was trained to prioritize new features based on user feedback to adapt to evolving needs.
Deliverables
Product Strategy, Product Roadmap, Co-creation of the Product Design and Collaboration with the Tech Teams, Stakeholder Management, User Research and Setup of Discovery Practices together with Product Operations efforts within the teams.
Our Work
Hands-on product leadership including user and market research, product design co-creation, product strategy and roadmap management, team management, setting up of discovery practices, creating cross-functional collaboration efforts to enable faster delivery and clear communication between different functions, and stakeholder management.
Summary
TheyDo enables businesses to align strategy, planning, and delivery around journeys. After their Series A, their CTO had to decide how to grow their engineering teams while still preserving their great culture. Through multiple interviews with his team followed by some coaching and consulting sessions we facilitated their decision making process. As a result, they decided against hiring external managers and for developing their some of their senior engineering into leaders. This decision served them well and led to a successful Series B in 2024.
Deliverables
CTO Consulting & Coaching, Hiring Strategy, Engineering Strategy
RecreateGoods – Circular Fashion Startup in collaboration with the EXIST Women Program provided by the German Government.
Summary: We are supporting female founders in developing their tech venture from an idea to a product. In this case, we started working with the Product positioning discovering the user and market research, identifying problem-solution fit, prototype development, and user interviews.
Larval – Sustainable Agriculture – a collaboration with Founder Institute.
Summary: We are supporting young minority founders (BIPOC) in developing their tech venture from an idea to a product. Working with Product positioning, problem-solution fit, and product growth strategies.
WEO Time – EdTech for ADHD Kids & Adults – a collaboration with Founder Institute.
Summary: We are supporting neurodiverse founders in developing their tech venture from an idea to a product. Working with Product positioning, problem-solution fit, product development strategies, and product growth strategies.
Accelerators/ Incubators:
- SIBB – Mentoring for founders, Product workshops, and educational efforts.
- Founder Institute – Mentoring for founders and Pitch Jury
- EXIST Women (Humboldt University) – Mentoring for female founders
MVP STAGE Startups:
- Patentiv – B2B Saas for easier patent royalty calculations – We helped develop the onboarding process and streamlined the Product Growth Funnels
- Robotikos – B2B Saas for evaluation of automation – supporting BIPOC female founders – We developed the Product Growth Strategy
- Luup – B2B Saas for ESG Reporting – Introducing processes to support Product Operations within the company.
- Flashquad – new social media app for Gen Z – We helped develop their Product Growth Strategy.
- InNoTime – 3d printing of spare parts and logistics software – We helped with Positioning and Product Discovery.
- Look at the labels – Fashion Tech – Wehelped with Positioning and Product Strategy.
- WeekOne – HR software for Onboarding of new employees – We helped with Positioning and Product Growth Startegy.
- Wings Software – automotive tools – We helped with Positioning.