Case Studies
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.
Summary
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, Department Alignment, Technical Agile Coaching, Cloud Infrastructure Development, Leadership Coaching
Our Work
We started our involvement by interviewing leaders from product, engineering, customer success, and sales to identify their pain points and needs. We discovered a lack of communication between departments, which we addressed within a few weeks by implementing a product sync. We also collaborated with the engineering team to understand their challenges. By introducing retrospectives, we helped them improve their workflows by reducing work in progress and enhancing collaboration.
In addition, we took on interim product management for developing a new mobile app, creating a more structured approach to product discovery that increased the engineering team’s impact. Drawing on our extensive experience in both product and technology, we also advised the engineering team on infrastructure as code, continuous integration and deployment, and the requirements for obtaining important business certifications.
Finally, we facilitated remote product strategy workshops to help the team align on their product vision and strategy. As a result, BOX ID now enjoys better alignment and greater autonomy in decision-making across all departments.
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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.
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Robin Cook, a German food delivery startup, was struggling with inefficient planning and work processes. Our partnership with them changed the way they organized their quarterly planning and work. Initially, they were bogged down by lengthy multi-week planning sessions and hidden workloads. We helped them adopt a leaner, more continuous planning approach and assisted them in visualizing and pinpointing bottlenecks and time-consuming tasks. Consequently, we improved their systems and processes, allowing the teams to concentrate on the most important tasks.
Deliverables
Leadership Coaching, OKRs, Work Visualization, Project Management, Product Management, Team Coaching, DevOps Consulting
Our Work
We began our partnership by looking at how they worked and interacted, and we proposed some improvements. As a result, they cut down their quarterly OKR planning time from two weeks to just half a week. We helped them see where engineering teams were spending most of their time and how to eliminate inefficiencies. Additionally, we assisted them in identifying the key product increments and focused their efforts on those. Our collaboration helped them achieve their most successful quarter ever.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
RecreateGoods – Circular Fashion Startup in collaboration with the EXIST Women Program provided by the German Government.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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Fashion Tech
We helped 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.
SortApp
A mobile app for managing personal home inventories.
We helped them to reduce the MVP scope, streamline architecture and infrastructure, and focus the team around a simple to use and robust app to explore the market.