Our approach
We are a consulting firm specialised in R&D organisations. We advise executive teams — CTOs, CPOs, engineering leaders — at the inflection points that define how they build, scale, and deliver.
The problem
R&D organizations make decisions in boardrooms and lose them in execution. OKRs get defined, then forgotten. Architecture decisions live in slide decks. PRDs are written once and never updated. Coding agents work on stale markdown files.
The disconnect between intent and delivery is not a people problem — it is an infrastructure problem.
The consulting activity
We advise executive teams at the inflection points that matter: scaling an engineering organization, driving a technology transformation, aligning a product portfolio with business outcomes, or preparing for an M&A transaction.
We engage through two models, depending on whether you buy a defined outcome or embedded senior capacity within your teams.
Embedded capacity — time & materials
Senior expertise embedded within your teams, in one of two positionings:
- Fractional CTO & transition management — for PE-backed scale-ups in their acceleration phase: a CTO / VP Engineering calibre who drives the technology strategy, structures and scales the teams, and operates at board level.
- Forward Deployed Engineering — deployment of a hand-picked senior engineer, working directly alongside your business teams — Product Manager, architect, and software engineer in one — who takes a business need all the way to production.
Fixed-price — outcome-based
Focused, senior, outcome-oriented interventions, with a firm scope and price:
| Domain | What we deliver |
|---|---|
| R&D organization design | Team topology, delivery flow, operating model |
| Technology strategy | Cloud, architecture, and platform modernization |
| Product & portfolio governance | OKR frameworks, PRD industrialization, prioritization |
| Financial steering | CAPEX/OPEX analytical accounting for R&D |
| Due diligence | Technical and organizational assessment for PE and M&A |
The platform — capitalise and align
Most R&D advisory ends with a report, and the knowledge it captures dies in slide decks no one reopens.
Microscope flips the logic. Strategy, product, and tech live in one place, structured and connected: OKRs → PRDs → workloads → KPIs. A closed loop from strategy to code that aligns the whole organisation and feeds the spec-driven development of AI agents via MCP.
The platform is not a mission deliverable — it is the infrastructure that makes value last well beyond the engagement. Knowledge no longer scatters: it compounds, stays actionable, and sharpens with every cycle.
By making strategy and its evolution crystal clear, Microscope brings the why into focus across the whole organisation — and that is exactly what frees teams on the how. The clearer the intent, the more autonomous the execution: the opposite of micromanagement.
Clarity on the why, freedom on the how.
The flywheel
Consulting seeds the platform. Every mission structures OKRs, PRDs, and architecture decisions in your Microscope tenant, and equips the teams to use them. The knowledge doesn't leave with the consultant — it lives in the platform.
The platform amplifies delivery. Once knowledge is structured, AI agents act on it autonomously. Coding agents work from precise, contextual specs. Delivery accelerates without losing traceability.
Delivery data sharpens the next cycle. Incidents, changelogs, and progress flow back into Microscope. The next strategic conversation starts from facts, not assumptions. The next consulting intervention is sharper because the baseline is already structured.
Senior R&D advisory that leaves structured knowledge, not slide decks.