Consultancies Like Labs

If your company, or a company you know, is looking for a Labs-like consultancy to help with a project, here is a list of firms that were either started by pivots, or have pivots on staff.

How to Add to this List

Please add the firm name, link to website, contact point, and any other notes you may want to add about specialties. Not everyone in this community knows everyone, so more details help people decide who might be able to help them best.

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- [Name of consultancy](homepage)
  - What type of consultancy are you? Full team? Design-only? "Digital Transformation"? You know, your company's blurb or elevator  pitch
  - Feel free to flesh this section out with more details
  - [Contact for further discussion](url to LinkedIn, or a contact page, or something)

Independent consultants

  • Matt K. Parker Leadership coaching, organizational architecture, fractional product leadership, Lean/UCD/XP enablement. Point me at an initiative, and I’ll set it right.
  • Antonia Horvarth Where startups and small businesses go to become snazzy. For unapologetically cool branding, clever product design, or a workshop that’s more fun than it has any right to be. Fluent in design and technology alike, I’ve got AI tricks up my sleeve too.
  • Felicia Schwartz and Jenn Spykerman We empower midsize and growing companies to achieve their business objectives by leveraging cutting-edge technology and AI Solutions
  • Jason Fraser Strategic consulting, skill building, facilitation.
  • Mary Baldwin Hughes Fractional CPO, consultant and coach
  • Hannah Foxwell Figuring out what to do with AI - Advisor, Creator, Speaker, Writer
  • Felipe (Phil) Guimaraes UX, UI, AI, Marketing & Sales for Business Growth
  • Robbie Clutton Product and business minded fractional CTO, advisory, one-off projects.
  • Mike Gehard Need a hand on, staff level IC engineer to help your teams deliver user value more quickly and sustainably using AI-assistants? Hit me up.
  • Joe Masilotti I help Rails-powered businesses launch iOS and Android apps in the app stores.

Firms

  • 33 Teams
    • Whether you are creating your first product, scaling to the next level, or need to modernize or add capability to legacy apps, we can help. (from the home page)
    • Drew McManus
  • Initial Capacity
    • Our team has decades of experience building web and mobile apps at scale for the world’s largest companies. (from the home page)
    • Mike Barinek
  • Ignition Works
    • Based in the UK and Spain.
    • We are engineers, product managers and designers with Pivotal heritage who help others create create software while also building our own product. We also have expertise running PCF (aka TAS) platforms.
    • Jesse Heitler(https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesseheitler/)
  • Mechanical Orchard
    • We combine custom application development with cloud operations as a service, reducing risk and increasing predictability for Global 2000 customers. (from the home page)
    • Dan Podsedly
  • Melostat
    • We product better so you can business better.
    • Rathan Haran
  • SuperOrbital
    • Your partner in delivering success on Kubernetes (from the home page)
    • Tammer Saleh
  • StartOps
    • StartOps focuses on DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering as its two significant practices, delivering streamlined commits to stable and performant production environments.
    • Jim Park
  • Artium
    • We build incredible products, recruit high-performing teams, and help you achieve the culture of craft you need to build great software long after we’re gone.
    • Ross Hale
    • Henry Meller
    • Mike McCormick
  • Reflective
    • Application development and workflow automation consulting, specializing in Elixir, Phoenix, and Rust.
    • Eric Saxby
    • Erik Hanson
  • FF Studio
  • Down Under Software Consultanting (DUSC)
    • Down Under Software Consulting create technological solutions to enhance human life.
    • Dirk Kelly
  • Focused Labs