Services we provide

Free report, tailored IT “health-check” or agency evaluation

We start with a chat with founders or investors as appropriate, and there's never a cost for this. Depending on the scenario, we will likely prepare a free report, outlining the business's situation and the immediate choices available with a summary recommendation.

We are able to provide a report on the health of the company's IT, in general or with a specific focus such as cost-effectiveness, security, or quality.

New companies often struggle with technical or creative suppliers and we are experienced at rapidly auditing supplier capability. Many web agencies don't use best practice: will they really deliver value for your start-up's seed capital?

“Live in five” rapid builds & prototyping of 1.0 products

Where a business is seeking to explore a new model, we can produce “micro-proofs” to flesh out and provide a functional, low-cost prototype of the model. We use agile methodologies for software development, typically using a mixture of Extreme Programming and Scrum.

In many cases, we can deliver prototypes within five working days.

Securing funding & investment opportunities

Reincubate works with a network of angels and professional investors and have raised six-figure investments. We can help you get the right offer, or assist negotiation and evaluation of existing offers.

Our support here may be as straightforward as reviewing the business plan and summary, assembling an investor presentation, or sketching out a P&L.

Project management, specification and tendering

With our wide project experience, Reincubate can oversee or steer existing IT or operational projects with an eye to cost, quality and time. We can also help you get the right contract with your delivery supplier... but if it's too late for that we have experience with rescue and turnaround projects.

The oft-cited Standish Group CHAOS Report showed 31% of IT projects cancelled prior to completion, with 52% having cost overruns of 189%. If your project is struggling, we can mount a project rescue.

Non-IT based companies can struggle to agree product or site specifications with vendors. We can help you nail what to ask for, and what not to settle for.

Part-time or interim Chief Technology Officer

If your company lacks a Chief Technology Officer or Technical Director we can provide a capable technology leader for your office or boardroom. As part of this service, we can assist you in finding a permanent CTO: externally, or through training and handover to an internal candidate.

Strategy

  • IT strategic planning
  • Project rescue & turnaround
  • Requirements, process & KPI modelling
  • Disaster recovery & business continuity planning

Start-up & funding

  • Budget & spend review (opex, capex)
  • Business plan review, investor presentation support
  • Due diligence: preparation & audit
  • Angel introduction, executive referral

Executive & embedded

  • On-call CTO or virtual IT director
  • Interim CTO: day-to-day, operational resource
  • Restructuring, team structure, recruitment & interview support
  • Mentoring, assessment & culture, agile methodology

Technology delivery

  • Software: prototyping & proof-of-concept, enterprise, sprints, quality, XaaS (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), cloud
  • Infrastructure: solution analysis, tendering & negotiation, SLA, availability & monitoring, colocation & molocation
  • Specific technology targets: milestones, scalability, reliability

We work with…

  • Django
  • Google App Engine
  • Python
  • Rails
  • .NET
  • Java
  • Amazon Web Services
  • iPhone
  • JQuery
  • MySQL
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • Facebook
  • OpenSocial
  • PHP