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Leading your operating model through technical leadership and engineering excellence.

We help organisations improve the performance of their digital products by creating operating models that increase speed, strengthen decision-making, and reduce delivery friction. Our work aligns strategy, discovery, delivery, and operations so teams can move faster with greater clarity and accountability.

We enable leaders to build empowered teams, clearer value flow, and measurable business outcomes. Clients see faster delivery cycles, higher product quality, and better economic returns by focusing on evidence-based decisions and strong engineering leadership.

Our expertise ensures that technology becomes a strategic advantage rather than a constraint, providing organisations with a more resilient, adaptable, and effective system of work.

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What you gain

You experience improved conditions across delivery, quality, and economic visibility. Teams deliver with greater predictability. Risk reduces. Innovation becomes sustainable.

Economic Returns from Engineering

Engineering capability becomes competitive advantage through flow economics, strategic visibility, and evidence-based decisions that connect technical work to measurable business outcomes.
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Upskilled Engineering Teams

Build engineering capability that becomes competitive advantage through hands-on coaching embedded in delivery work.
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Strategic Decision-Making

Enable evidence-based decision-making through clear metrics, aligned operating models, and systems that connect strategy to execution with confidence.
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Reduced Risk, Increased Stability

Deploy with confidence and sleep at night. Create the conditions for safer delivery, clearer visibility, and proactive risk management without sacrificing speed.
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How we work with you

Our engagement model removes transactional friction. You retain strategic capacity through timeboxed partnerships—no hourly billing, no change orders, no scope debates. Full refund if you're not satisfied. You choose advisory, embedded, or fractional executive involvement at the level that fits your context.

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Capacity, not hours

High trust
Transparent collaboration

What we provide

We deliver assessments, operating model design, coaching, and engineering excellence enablement. Our capabilities span strategy alignment, delivery system optimisation, and technical leadership development.

DevOps Technology Consulting

Tired of tool sprawl and fragmented pipelines? We provide DevOps consulting that creates coherent delivery systems. Operating model design, CI/CD architecture, DevSecOps integration, and team enablement for organisations serious about flow and engineering economics.
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Business Agility Consulting

Consulting that addresses systemic constraints in strategy-execution alignment, organisational structure, and evidence-based decision-making.
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Engineering Excellence in One Hour A Week

Weekly engineering support that provides clear visibility into delivery systems, technical debt, and flow constraints, enabling better decisions about modernisation, quality, and predictable delivery.
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NKD Insights™

Evidence-based team assessment that creates visibility into collaboration quality and teamwork effectiveness. Provides actionable feedback to help teams improve continuously.
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Experience and reach

We've partnered with organisations across finance, healthcare, technology, government, and more. Our work spans multiple continents and regulatory contexts.

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Years in business

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Years as Microsoft MVP

16

Years as Scrum.org trainer

13

Countries served

200+

Organisations supported

2,600+

Professionals trained

Our Happy Clients​

We partner with businesses across diverse industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, engineering, transportation, hospitality, entertainment, legal, government, and military sectors.​

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Connect with Martin Hinshelwood

If you've made it this far, it's worth connecting with our principal consultant and coach, Martin Hinshelwood, for a 30-minute 'ask me anything' call.