Technology and product partners
For software vendors and product companies that need an engineering team beside their own for years rather than a sprint. A module we own end to end, a platform we help operate, or a second team carrying the roadmap you cannot staff, with the same people staying long enough to learn the domain.
Different from buying a project
A project has an end, and everything about how it is staffed follows from that: people are assigned, the domain is learned well enough to finish, and the knowledge leaves with them. A product does not end. What it needs from an outside team is continuity, an interest in the architecture surviving the next two years, and people who push back when a shortcut will cost more later than it saves now.
That is the relationship this page describes. Commercially it usually looks like a dedicated team; what makes it a partnership is that we are answerable for an outcome in your product rather than for a list of tickets.
What we typically own
A module we own end to end
One bounded part of your product: the integrations layer, the reporting side, the admin surface, the mobile client. We own it in your codebase, to your architecture, and we are answerable for its defects rather than for a ticket count.
A second team on the roadmap
Everything you know you should build and cannot staff. A parallel team working in your repositories and your rituals, so the roadmap moves on two fronts instead of being reprioritised down to one.
The platform underneath
Cloud infrastructure declared in Terraform, pipelines, environments, observability, database and security work. The part a product team never has time for and feels every week that it is missing.
Bringing an old product forward
A product that sells but has stopped being changeable. Nine take-overs so far, the oldest written in 2008, always starting with a read-only review and a written list of risks rather than a rewrite proposal.
What makes a long partnership work
People who stay
Engagements here run for years rather than sprints, and the domain knowledge stays with the same people. A partner’s worst outcome is paying twice for the same learning curve.
Your architecture, not ours
We are used to picking up whatever a product already runs on instead of steering it towards what we happen to know. A partner team that keeps proposing a rewrite is a partner team that has stopped being useful.
Rules that survive a handover
Tests ship with the feature, the build ends with zero warnings, security is deny-by-default and infrastructure is code. Code written this way is code your own engineers can pick up.
One owner per fact
Derived values are computed once and consumed everywhere. In a product with several teams in it, duplicated truth is the bug you find six months later and cannot explain to a customer.
Cover that is ours, not billed
Architecture review, a second pair of eyes on pull requests and cover during leave come from BigTree108 rather than from your budget.
Your IP throughout
Every specialist assigns their work product to the company before access, and it is assigned onward to you, so nothing about a long partnership complicates who owns the product.
We run a product of our own
Everything we use internally, from hiring and onboarding to time tracking, contracts and invoicing, is one platform on the stack we offer partners: .NET on Azure Functions, Angular, Azure SQL, Terraform. It is not a portfolio piece; it is the system the company depends on, and we have lived with our own architecture decisions long enough to know which of them were wrong.
That is the judgement a product partner is actually buying. The case study describes what it does and how it is built.
How it starts
With something small and reversible. One engineer on a contained piece of your backlog, or a read-only review of the part of the product you are least comfortable with, delivered as a written list of risks in order of production impact. Both are cheap ways to find out whether we read your codebase the way you would want a partner to read it.
From there the usual shape is a dedicated team that grows with the roadmap. If you would eventually rather own the team outright, Build-Operate-Transfer is the same people with a transfer written into the contract.
Need a second team on your product?
Send the product, the part of the roadmap that keeps slipping and a repository link if you can. You get the questions we still have, an approach and an estimate within one business day.