Add a software engineer with startup experience to your team.
Independent advice and hands on support to accelerate your business's product development.
How we can help
Timely Questions
£300+VAT/month
There are a million things you could worry about when growing a software business. We'll ask you the right questions at the right time so you can focus on what's most important.
Have you considered using a 3rd party service to solve that problem?
What percentage of your users are active each day/week/month?
What would happen if your lead developer stopped work tomorrow?
When did you last ask ten customers about that?
Honest Answers
£3,000+VAT
Not all questions have easy answers, it's the unknowns that make your business risky. We'll dig deep into your business, your data and your code to find answers.
How to reduce hosting costs from $20K to $800 per month
The best candidate for CTO didn't have the best CV
A feature costing £100K would only generate £10K revenue
How to differentiate in a crowded SaaS market
Ambitious Solutions
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Building and maintaining commercial software is hard. We only build custom software when we believe it can have a positive impact worth more than 10X the cost.
A system to codify information used by all UK doctors prescribing drugs
A portfolio management system used by high profile UK angel investors
A social network analysis SaaS monitoring 36 online services
A logistics system handling over £5 million of music deals per month
Nice things people have said
Jonathan really came through for us in his personal evaluation of prospective technologists interviewing for the CTO position at QikCut. I would enthusiastically recommend Jonathan as a key ally in supporting entrepreneurs to make informed and strategic hiring decisions.
Michael Propper
Founder, QikCut
We've been in the software as a service business for over 10 years and Jonathan introduced us to a wealth of valuable opportunities we hadn't previously spotted. It was refreshing to get perspective from someone who genuinely understands how things work at the intersection of business and technology
Rebecca Kimber
Cofounder, Create.net
Jonathan recommended a change to our website that took 10 minutes to implement and resulted in over 4,000 additional downloads of our Android application within a few days. Great breadth of knowledge and ideas.
James Robinson
Cofounder, OpenSignal
Jonathan has a practical and broad knowledge of technology that, coupled with his thirst for learning enable him to spot opportunities to innovate and deliver solutions that develop the business.
James McCarthy
Programme Manager, American Express
Communities we founded
When you need specialist advice and support we can connect you with members of these communities.
The Skiff
A place to surround yourself with people you love working with.
One of the world's largest coworking communities with over 150 active members in Brighton.
Sussex Founders
Casual coffee mornings in Brighton with people who start tech businesses.
More than 500 entrepreneurs have participated since 2007, one of the longest running groups of its kind in Europe.
DevNest
Inspirational gatherings of people who love discovering new ways to code.
The world's first event for Twitter developers. Over 500 developers have explored new ideas in London, Brighton, New York and San Francisco.