You feel when tech is holding the business back, knowing what to do is harder

We work with the people running the company. Founders, CEOs, owners, leadership teams. We look honestly at where your technology stands, bring in the senior engineers you cannot find on your own, and step in as Fractional CTO when the company needs technology leadership.

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90%

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3+ years

our longest engagement still running

Most companies do not have a technology problem. They have a clarity problem

By the time a CEO asks for outside help, they usually already know something is wrong. The releases are slow. The hires are not landing. The roadmap keeps slipping. What is missing is an honest read on why. Most outside firms answer that question with a report, hand it over, and leave. We do not work that way. We tell you what we see, we stay, and we help you fix it.

The standard approach

Most software outsourcing firms sell you a project. Their process, their tools, their team, decided before they ever understood your business. The work gets done somewhere next to your company, not inside it. A few months in you are managing a second organisation. Status meetings to translate between their world and yours. Handovers that lose something every time. Coordination overhead that grows quietly until it costs more than the work itself. And when the project ends, everything they learned about your business walks out with them.

The Devspace approach

We start with a conversation, not a proposal. We spend the first weeks learning what the business is actually trying to do, where the technology is helping, and where it is quietly costing you. Only then do we agree on what senior engineers will work on and how many of them you need. They embed into your workflow, according to your sense of what good looks like. We scale up when the work grows and step back when it does not. The person who understood your business in week one is the same person you are still working with in year three.

Most leaders come to us with one of three situations

The shape of the work depends on which situation is actually true for you. A company that needs honest answers does not need more engineers yet. We work that part out first, then we talk about what to do.

You need an honest read on your technology

Sometimes you can see that something is off, but the people closest to it cannot tell you why. Sometimes a relationship with a current vendor has quietly stopped working and you are not sure whether the problem is them, you, or the work itself. Sometimes the business is about to make a big decision and you want a second opinion that is not coming from the people whose work is being judged. We come in, talk to your team, look at what is actually there, and tell you the truth. What is real, what is overblown, what to do first, and in what order.

The business is growing faster than you can hire

You know what you need to build. You know roughly how many people you need to build it. You cannot get them into seats fast enough, and the candidates you are seeing are not the level the work demands. We give you access to a network of senior engineers we have spent years building across Europe. They join your existing process without unnecessary administrative overhead. We add people when the work grows and step back when it does not.

You need expertise your team does not have

There are moments when a company needs one rare person more than it needs five ordinary ones. Sometimes that person is a Fractional CTO who can advise the leadership team while the company decides what kind of permanent hire it really wants. Sometimes it is the senior architect who has done your exact migration five times before. Sometimes it is the specialist who can tell you in two weeks whether the bet you are about to make on AI is the right one. We bring those people in for as long as the company needs them, and not a day longer.

Five steps from first conversation to a signed engagement

We move fast because most of you are not asking us in calm weather. Most engagements are scoped within two days and underway within two to four weeks.

Thirty minutes, no slides. You tell us what you are trying to do and what is in your way. We tell you whether this is something we can help with. We turn down roughly one in four requests, and we will tell you on this call if we think you are better off with someone else.

What we have delivered

Three engagements. Three different entry points. One continuous relationship.

Hippo Manager

Hippo Manager is a veterinary software company in the US. They asked us to perform a technical due diligence of their platform before a possible sale. We mapped where the cloud setup was costing more than it should, where the application underneath needed work, and what a serious buyer would put under the microscope. Then we stayed and helped them close those gaps. When the buyer came in, the platform stood up cleanly to the review. The company was acquired by a larger group.

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SportAI

SportAI, backed by Magnus Carlsen, is building an AI engine that analyses sports footage and turns it into structured data for coaches, broadcasters, analysts and equipment makers. They had a strong core team but needed senior engineers who could work with computer vision and real-time video at scale, the kind of people you cannot just hire locally on a normal timeline, so they turned to us. Our specialists work alongside the core team so the company keeps moving at the speed its market expects.

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Optimarin

Optimarin makes ballast water treatment systems for ships. When they had to leave their IoT platform vendor, we helped them build their own solution. After that, the relationship kept growing. We worked with them on the strategic call to move away from a no-code customer portal and build their own custom one instead. The work is ongoing. The same team has now been with them across several different chapters of the business, and is still there for the next one.

Understand the technology before the next big decision

Whether you are planning a rebuild, preparing for a sale, or want senior eyes on a stack you have outgrown, we move quickly. Scope in two days, people at work in 2-4 weeks.

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What sets us apart

Senior people. Continuity that actually means something. Fast when you need it. Calm when you need that instead.

Senior-only

Every engagement is led and done by senior engineers and technology leaders. People who have built companies, scaled them, and run them. We do not put junior staff against a template and call the result a review. Knowing whether something is a real problem or a rounding error is a judgement call. It cannot be handed off to someone who has never made one.

Continuity

The people who have just spent three weeks inside your company are the right people to keep working with it. We have built our business around keeping them there. The half-thoughts, the relationships, the sense for who in your team to lean on, all of that stays with us and stays useful. In most engagements it walks out the door when the report is delivered. In ours it does not.

Speed when needed

We scope engagements within forty-eight hours of the first call. When something is urgent, we can run a full review in ten days, with the same senior people doing the work. Our network has 600+ senior engineers across eight European countries. When the work leads to a need for a team, we move at the same speed.

European, by choice

Our engineers work under European professional and data standards, with working hours that overlap the Nordics and the US East Coast. They raise a flag when something is wrong, even when it is awkward, and they adapt to your process rather than imposing their own.

Tell us what you need. We'll find the right engineers.

Whether you are after senior developers in your team, a Fractional CTO, or an honest look at where your technology really stands, most engagements are scoped in two days and underway within two to four weeks.

Or email us directly at post@devspace.no to get a free consultation.