THE STRUCTUREIT SKUNKWORKS
A small team.
A clear brief.
No committee required.
For businesses where a good idea is stuck behind a complicated process: a team already committed elsewhere, budgets rerouted to other priorities or a technology that nobody has tested. We build the thing. Fast. Then you decide what to do with it.
THE CHALLENGE
Innovation shouldn’t be this hard.
The idea wasn’t bad. The system that processes ideas was.
If any of this sounds familiar,
you’re exactly who we build for.
“We have smart people with good ideas, but nothing ever gets built.”
“We want to explore AI but don’t want to bet a major programme on it yet.”
“Our tech team is good, but they just have no capacity.”
“We need to know if something is technically feasible before we commit.”
“Our innovation budget produces slide decks, not software.”
“There’s a prototype we need to take to the board in eight weeks.”
“We think a point solution might help but we’re not sure it will cover it all”
“We need to know whether this pays for itself before we ask for the budget.”
WHAT WE DO
Four modes of engagement.
All of them are fast.
01 Validate the idea
Build a prototype
You have a concept. We build a working version of it – not a mockup, not a wireframe, but something that runs against your data. Enough to put in front of stakeholders, users, or investors and get a real answer to the real question.
4 – 8 weeks
Deliverable: A working prototype, documented and ready to demo or hand over.
02 Justify the investment
Build the business case
You believe in the project but can’t get it through approvals without evidence. We work with you to size the opportunity, model the cost of delivery, identify the risk, and answer the question the CFO will ask: when will it pay for itself?
2 – 4 weeks
Deliverable: A quantified business case with delivery cost estimate and ROI model.
03 Answer the hard questions
Investigate an idea
You’re not sure if something is technically feasible, commercially viable, or worth doing at all. We dig in: architecture, data, vendor landscape, regulatory angle. You get an honest assessment, and sometimes the honest assessment is: don’t build it.
2 – 6 weeks
Deliverable: A structured investigation report with a clear recommendation.
04 Explore without committing
Experiment with new technology
There’s a technology – AI, a new data platform, an emerging standard – that your organisation wants to understand without betting the farm on it. We run a contained, time-boxed experiment and tell you what we found.
4 – 10 weeks
Deliverable: A working experiment, findings summary, and a go / no-go recommendation.
Not sure which one fits?
NO STRINGS ATTACHED
We build it.
You decide what
happens next.
The skunkworks engagement has a defined end point. What happens after that is entirely your decision. We go in with no assumption that we’ll be the ones to take it further – and that makes us more useful to you, not less.
Your internal team
We build it clean, document it properly, and hand it over in a state your engineers can actually work with. We don’t lock you in. You own it.
Another vendor
If you have a preferred technology partner for the build phase, we hand it directly to them. We’ll brief them, answer questions, and make the transition clean. No ego, no friction.
Us
If the skunkworks phase goes well and you want us to take it to production, we can do that too. But it’s your call – not our default assumption going in.
Designing the End of Spreadsheet Reconciliation
Every deal a broker pursues costs money before it earns any. Travel, marketing, aerial photography, legal fees and closing dinners are either deducted from the broker’s commission when the deal closes or billed back to the client under an engagement letter. Our client, a US commercial real estate brokerage, had been carrying that spend across four systems that did not talk to each other, and recovering it by hand.
OUR TRACK RECORD
Two decades of delivery.
Since 2006
Delivering for clients in structured credit, capital markets and beyond since 2006 – through two recessions and the arrival of AI.
135+
Projects scoped, built, and shipped – on time, to brief, and to a standard our clients come back for.
Taking Compliance and Security seriously
We are registered with the ICO (reference number ZA397954) and boast a flawless track record. As a result, we’ve achieved a 100% success rate in vendor audits. Furthermore, we maintain continuous compliance monitoring across all projects.
