Professional Services
Senior engineering leadership, for exactly as long as you need it.
We are the hands on leadership that's here to help you transform your hardware business into its next phase. One of two principals is accountable throughout, and we plan our exit from the first week.
What we do
Four ways we usually get involved.
Most engagements start with one of these and widen once we understand the business. All of them start with a conversation, not a proposal.
Fractional Engineering Leadership
An experienced engineering leader in your business one to three days a week, running the function, mentoring the team, and carrying accountability for delivery.
- Interim GM Engineering or Head of Engineering
- Technical hiring and team structure
- Roadmap, capacity and capital planning
Teams & Systems
We map how work actually moves through your business, find where it stalls, and rebuild the operating rhythm around it: planning, handovers, quality, cadence.
- Value stream and constraint analysis
- Operating cadence and visual management
- NPI and engineering change process
M&A / Integration Support
Technical due diligence before the deal, and the unglamorous integration work after it. We are the people who make two engineering functions into one.
- Technical and operational due diligence
- Integration planning and execution
- Site consolidation and tech transfer
Product & Manufacturing Support
Hands-on help getting a product manufacturable and a line capable: design for manufacture, supplier development, process validation.
- Design for manufacture and assembly
- Supplier selection and development
- Process capability and validation
How we help
Good hardware businesses stall for non-technical reasons.
As you grow your company it's important to keep focusing on the critical path. We are here to build the systems and solutions that fall outside of your day to day focus.
We don't just show you the problem, we fix it.
We help you identify areas for improvement then make the changes to make them happen. We work to make sure you're never the bottleneck in implementation.
We work upstream, not on the symptoms
Late deliveries, quality escapes and firefighting are usually downstream of how work flows. That is where we go: upstream, where the leverage actually is.
We leave, and things stay fixed
The goal is not dependence on us. We build the habits, rhythm and capability so your people can hold the improvement after we go.
How an engagement runs
No discovery phase you pay for twice.
We keep the front end deliberately short and cheap, because you should not have to fund a long proposal process to find out whether we are useful.
Scoping call
Thirty minutes, no charge. You describe what is not working and we ask the awkward questions. You leave with a clearer read on the problem whether or not we work together.
Diagnostic on the floor
A short paid engagement, usually three to five days on site. We follow the work, talk to the people doing it, and come back with what we found and what we would do first.
The work itself
Either a fractional leadership retainer or a fixed-scope project. One principal is accountable throughout, and we bring in network specialists for the pieces that need them.
Handover
We plan our exit from the start. The cadence, documentation and capability stay with your team, and we taper out rather than disappearing on an end date.
Straight answers
The things people ask before they call.
Start here
Tell us what's not working. We'll tell you what we'd do about it.
No proposal, no discovery phase, no obligation. Just a proper conversation with someone who has probably seen your problem before and will be straight with you about whether we can help.
- 30 minutesStraight to the problem
- Amos@pivotinno.comWe reply same day
Based in Queenstown, onsite anywhere globally, or remotely at a moment's notice.