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Tech management advisory for founders and technology leaders

Make your technology organization work better for your business.

We help founders and technology leaders decide what needs to change across teams, engineering practices and architecture—and turn those decisions into practical improvements.

Unpredictable releases, software that is hard to evolve or a technology investment to evaluate: start with a Check Up and leave with your GamePlan.

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Essentials €1,500 · Growth €3,000 · One-off engagement, excluding VAT.

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Across advisory, research and historical digital projects.

Client voices

Hear it from the people we worked with.

See how clients used external advice to understand organizational problems, compare technology options and define a practical way forward.

Original Italian recordings. Roles and engagements reflect the time of recording. Playback requires YouTube cookies; you can also use the direct links below.

Exelis

Massimo Pioli

CEO at the time of recording

A disappointing project prompted a broader question. The Check Up identified priorities in organization, CTO responsibilities and team development.

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Dagomedia

Marco Pigliapoco

CEO at the time of recording

A layered product needed to evolve. The assessment defined gradual modernization priorities while preserving the business logic customers depended on.

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Guanxi

Alberto Giusti

CEO at the time of recording

A growing learning platform needed a coherent architecture. The work connected integration choices with time-to-market and cost objectives.

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When to bring us in

Recognize the situation?

Start with the pressure you need to address: delivery, software evolution, a technology commitment or AI adoption.

01

Delivery and ways of working need to improve.

Examine recurring delays, unclear responsibilities and team practices before adding more process or capacity.

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02

A technology commitment needs a clearer basis.

Compare architecture options, supplier proposals or investment priorities before committing budget and people.

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03

The product needs to evolve. A rewrite is on the table.

Compare options and sequence the work around business value, dependencies and continuity.

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04

AI experiments are growing. The improvement is unclear.

Choose a bounded workflow, agree responsibilities and evaluate what changes before extending AI adoption.

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Your first engagement

Start with a Check Up.
Leave with your GamePlan.

Understand where to intervene before committing budget, people and months of work. Examine the situation, compare options and agree practical next steps.

WHAT YOU TAKE AWAY

A diagnosis connected to action.

  • A diagnosis grounded in conversations and available evidence, with assumptions and open questions made explicit.
  • Options, risks and priorities, including what to preserve, defer or stop.
  • Practical next actions, clear ownership and criteria for reviewing progress.

Your GamePlan is yours to use with your team, whether or not you continue with Axelerant.

FIXED-FEE CHECK UP

Know the first commitment.

Essentials · €1,500 one-off
For founder-led software companies.

Growth · €3,000 one-off
For structured engineering organizations.

Prices exclude VAT. We agree the question, participants, evidence, timing and scope before work begins.

Explore the Check Up

Speak with us first to check the fit. The Check Up is our usual starting point; the initial conversation does not commit you to a purchase.

Choose your context

Support that fits the organization you lead.

ESSENTIALS / FOUNDER-LED SOFTWARE COMPANIES

Make clearer decisions. Build a more capable team.

For founders and small leadership teams deciding how to evolve their software, improve ways of working and clarify responsibilities.

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GROWTH / ESTABLISHED ENGINEERING ORGANIZATIONS

Align teams, architecture and business priorities.

For technology leaders addressing cross-team constraints, modernization choices and changes that need a shared direction.

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After the diagnosis

A clear direction.
Practical improvements, step by step.

IMPROVE / FOUR-WEEK SPRINT

Move a priority forward within your GamePlan.

Work on one agreed objective through advisory, workshops and practical working materials. Review what changed and use the findings to inform the next step.

Essentials · €4,500
Growth · €9,000
Per four-week Sprint, excluding VAT.

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CONTINUE / IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP

Keep the direction clear as your organization evolves.

Work alongside experienced advisors to evaluate decisions, align stakeholders and review progress. Keep priorities, responsibilities and the next actions connected as circumstances change.

Essentials · €1,500/month
Growth · €3,000/month
Initial three-month commitment. Excludes VAT.

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Continuing after the Check Up is optional. Your team owns implementation; software development is scoped separately.

How the work gets done

Experience to interpret the evidence.
A plan your team can act on.

GamePlan connects business priorities, organizational practices and technical constraints. We combine conversations, existing delivery data, documentation and technical observations, according to the question and the evidence available.

Our experience spans organizational assessments, architecture decisions and complex digital platforms. Advisors work with your people to evaluate alternatives and review progress; proprietary software supports analysis where relevant.

See how we work

Axelerant · Method example

A working GamePlan: evidence to action.

Connect evidence, priorities, ownership and review in one working plan.


  1. Observe

    Map the work and gather evidence.


  2. Focus

    Choose a constraint and make trade-offs.


  3. Act

    Name an owner and test one scoped change.


  4. Review

    Compare outcomes: keep, adapt or stop.

QuestionWhat needs to improve?EvidenceWhat supports the diagnosis?PriorityWhat should happen first?OwnershipWho takes the next step?

Review what changed, then choose the next constraint. Keep reliability and recovery in view.

Illustrative example. Working materials are adapted to the question, the evidence available and the agreed engagement scope.

Continuous Tech Improvement

Your tech organization should get better every week.

Connect better decisions with better engineering work.

The first diagnosis establishes a direction. Each cycle of action and review helps you improve how the organization decides, builds and evolves its technology.

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Insights

Ideas for better technology decisions.

Practical perspectives on delivery predictability, founder bottlenecks, software modernization and AI enablement.

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Start with the situation you need to address

What is slowing delivery or holding up a decision?

Tell us what is happening, what it is affecting and which decision you need to make.

Discuss your situation