Working together
We build GUIDE and studio services for teams that run on real constraints—grant cycles, security reviews, stage-appropriate risk. Every agreement starts with a conversation about how you actually work, and ends with terms that fit.
Departments, core facilities, and research groups need tools that serve both teaching and discovery—with terms their institution can actually sign. We design agreements around how universities buy: grant-funded timelines, site-wide access, and renewals that don’t restart from scratch.
GUIDE for academia
GUIDE scales by seats and storage. A single lab, a shared facility, or a whole department—each gets the access and support level it needs, with teaching and research covered in one agreement or two.
Studio services
Custom builds, brand work, and prototypes ship as milestone-driven engagements with documentation your team can carry forward. We handle the procurement path so the paperwork matches the relationship.
Pricing reflects seats, scope, and support—with the volume structures your institution expects. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so early.
Startups need room to pilot; enterprises need terms that survive security review. We write agreements for your stage—lean enough to start quickly, structured enough to scale to production.
GUIDE for business
Commercial GUIDE licenses track team size, deployment model (cloud, on-prem, or hybrid), and the integrations and SLAs you depend on. We write for procurement once—renewal is a checkpoint, not a reinvention.
Studio services
Custom software, identity work, and prototypes ship against milestones tied to outcomes you can measure. Whether you’re proving value in a pilot or running something your business leans on, the contract matches the stakes.
We take a limited number of engagements so each one gets real attention. If another firm would serve you better, we’ll tell you.
Every engagement takes one of three shapes—the same vocabulary whether you’re on campus or in a company.
Project-based
A bounded arc with a clear finish line: milestones, a shared definition of done, and handoff you can run without us. Pilots, builds, migrations, launches.
Fractional
Part-time leadership with a steady rhythm—ownership of direction without a full-time seat. When the gap is between lab, product, and IT, fractional keeps the through-line honest.
Advisory
Sharp judgment on demand: focused sessions, reviews, and office hours. Boards, diligence, vendor selection, architecture—we’re in the room for the decision, not running your operating rhythm.
See how these play out in practice: stories from real engagements.