8x your product delivery velocity

I help SaaS founders transform their Product and Engineering teams for building the most valuable data products.

Why

If any of the following are keeping you up at night

  • You've hired a team but they're failing to move the needle.
  • You're missing out on market opportunities because your team can't keep pace.
  • It seemingly takes forever to ship even the simplest new features.
  • You're struggling to attract and retain top talent.
  • You know you need new capabilities and skillsets in your team but don't know how to get the right people in and delivering value.
  • Your users are getting fed up with all the bugs.

How

I focus on meaningful outcomes for the business. Some tangible results for previous clients:

  • 1.5x increase in revenue performance over 6 months.
  • 8x increase in product delivery velocity.
  • Identifying and shipping meaningful changes same-day.
  • 6-figure savings on cloud infrastructure bills.
  • GenAI MVP delivered 40% under budget

Healthcheck

You want to ensure that your Product and Engineering teams are set up to deliver on your business goals. You want to know that you're not missing anything important, and that you're not wasting time on things that don't matter.

This fair but objective assessment will highlight where your strengths and weaknesses are along with providing you with actionable suggestions on where to apply your focus ahead of upcoming milestones.

Healthchecks are priced at £5,000.

Advise

You're facing challenges that the team has limited or no experience with or they are being pulled in so many directions it seems nothing will be delivered.

Having Fergus as an advisor to your senior leadership team will help to de-risk upcoming challenges, increase confidence and conviction in the right course of action, and level up your leadership team's ability to tackle Product and Technology challenges independently.

Advisory retainers are priced at £5,000/month. Discounts are available for commitments over 3 months.

Engage

You have the vision and have built a team to achieve it but you're not moving the needle enough. There's untapped revenue potential in existing products or new products that need launching and the team is struggling to hit milestones. Maybe you feel the team is good but yet to be great and don't know how to get it there.

Having Fergus work directly with your teams will demonstrably accelerate your progress towards your goals whilst levelling up your key talent in the process.

Engage is priced at £15,000/month. Discounts are available for commitments over 3 months.

About

Fergus specialises in maximising the value in data products for startups and early-stage scaleups by applying best practices from software engineering, product management and data strategy. Fergus either works directly with the teams involved or as an advisor at the executive level.

Fergus founded Unferled to empower organisations with the foundations and the tools needed for lasting success. Startups have raised over $100m in early stage funding with Fergus' direct involvement. The vast majority of these companies go on to have successful exits, raise further investment and/or exceed revenue targets subsequent to working together. Fergus is trusted by Founders, Technology Leaders and Investors to advise on key decisions and to be a fair and empathetic thought partner.

Fergus coaches founders and technology executives, and teaches as part of the CTO Programme at the University of Cambridge.

Find out what's holding your team back.

Book time for an exploratory call on how best we can work together below or feel free to send any questions directly to [email protected]. This isn't a sales call, it's just to get to know each other a little better.