For a lot of companies, working with a tech consultancy still feels like a gamble.
Will they understand our systems?
Will they slow us down with their process?
Will they actually deliver what we need, or just hand us a nice-looking deck?
The skepticism is earned. A lot of external partners over-promise and under-integrate. But when it works, a good consultancy doesn’t add overhead, it adds clarity, speed, and support that your internal team can feel right away.
Here’s what that actually looks like.
Step 1: Everything starts with the problem. Not the pitch.
The first conversation is never about what we offer. It’s about what’s stuck.
Maybe delivery timelines are slipping. Maybe technical debt has started showing up in bugs, outages, and missed features. Maybe your roadmap is solid, but your team’s buried in maintenance.
We ask real questions about how your systems are working, and where they’re working against you. Not in theory, but in daily execution. From there, we figure out what kind of support makes sense.
It might be a short-term fix. It might be a longer engagement. It might be full delivery. But it's always shaped around what your team actually needs, not a pre-set model.
Step 2: The team you get reflects the problem you have
You don’t need a battalion when you’re trying to fix a misaligned integration. You don’t need a single contractor when your whole infrastructure needs redesigning. And you definitely don’t need people who just follow tickets without thinking.
The team you get should be built around three things:
- Your internal capacity
- The complexity of the challenge
- The need for speed and sustainability
Sometimes we embed quietly into an existing squad. Sometimes we lead from the outside. Sometimes it’s a hybrid, support where you need it, delivery where you can’t afford delays.
You’ll know who’s on the team, what they’re doing, and how their work fits into the big picture.
Step 3: Strategy and execution stay connected
This is where most consultancies fall short. A strategy team comes in, hands off a document, and disappears. Then the delivery begins, disconnected from the original insight.
That’s not how we work. From day one, strategy is tied to the people doing the building. We identify blockers, map systems, clean up architectures, and design plans that our engineers actually know how to implement. Because they’re in the room.
The strategy doesn’t live in a slide. It lives in how we make decisions daily, in pull requests, in planning meetings, in progress check-ins that keep things grounded.
Step 4: You keep control. We carry the weight.
Good consultancies don’t take over your org. They give your team relief.
You decide what stays in-house. We support what’s missing, slow, or stuck. That could be QA, infrastructure, backend, product, or architecture. It could be people to get a project to launch while your core team focuses on post-launch support.
You still own the roadmap, the direction, and the decisions. We make it easier for you to move.
What to actually expect?
- You won’t be sold a shiny process
- You won’t be handed a team that doesn’t get your context
- You will get answers to hard questions, fast
- You’ll see progress where things used to stall
- You’ll still be in control, just with more support than you had before
At Akurey, we’ve helped companies across healthcare, AI, fintech, and biotech launch cleaner, scale faster, and fix what’s been dragging their systems down. We’ve delivered over 300 projects. Not all of them were perfect. But all of them got better.
A good consultancy doesn’t change what you’re building. It makes it possible to build it the way you meant to.
That’s what to expect. Nothing more. But definitely nothing less.