Technology strategy
A 90-day to 18-month plan naming what to buy, build, and switch off, with a cost against each line.
Services
Advice you can act on. Software you own.
Engage VerveLink for the decision, the build, or both. Every scope is quoted as a fixed fee, so you know the cost before the work starts.
Service
IT Consultancy
For leadership that needs an answer, not a longer backlog. It ends in a written recommendation with costs attached.
What you receive
- A written findings and recommendation document
- Costed options with timelines and risks
- A one-page summary for your board
- A live readout session with your leadership team
Vendor selection and contract review
Whether a platform fits, what it really costs over the term, and how hard it is to leave — including a clear "do not sign this yet".
Architecture and cost review
Where your cloud and platform spend is going, which parts carry real risk, and which problems are safe to leave for another year.
Delivery assessment
An honest status read on a stalled project: what is done, what finishing it takes, and whether it should continue.
Operating model
How product, engineering, and vendors work together — roles, cadence, and who decides what.
Board and investor support
Technology due diligence and plain-English briefings for people approving the spend without being engineers.
Service
Software Development
For organizations that already know the direction. Software is built and released in a state your own engineers can take over without a translator.
What you receive
- Working software released during the project, not only at the end
- A demonstration every two weeks that non-technical stakeholders can follow
- Code, infrastructure, and documentation in your accounts from day one
- Training and a defined support window at handover
Custom business software
Internal systems built around how your organization actually works, where off-the-shelf software has never quite fit.
Customer-facing products
Portals, applications, and digital services taken from discovery to a production release customers can rely on.
Integrations and data flows
The unglamorous connective tissue between CRM, ERP, payments, and identity systems, so teams stop reconciling by spreadsheet.
Site optimization and SEO
Page speed, site structure, and structured data tuned so pages load fast and rank for the terms your buyers actually search.
Legacy modernization
Ageing systems replaced or wrapped in slices, with the business running throughout — no big-bang rewrite unless staying put is riskier.
Automation
The manual steps between systems removed, where the payback is measurable in hours saved per week.
Support and handover
Documentation, training, and a defined support window so your team can run the system once the engagement ends.
Engagements
Three ways to engage
The fixed fee for your scope is confirmed in writing after the free scoping call, and it does not move unless you change the scope.
Technology Review
Boards and executives who need an independent answer before committing budget.
- Duration
- 2 to 4 weeks
- Stakeholder interviews and system review
- Written findings and a recommended path
- Costed options and a risk summary
- Readout session with your leadership team
Delivery Project
Organizations with an approved direction that need the software built and shipped.
- Duration
- 3 to 9 months, phased
- Discovery, design, build, and release
- Two-week increments with working software
- A written scope agreed before each phase
- Documentation, handover, and training
Ongoing Advisory
Leaders who want an experienced technology voice on call without a full-time hire.
- Duration
- Monthly, rolling
- A standing monthly block of advisory time
- Vendor, architecture, and hiring input
- Review of plans and proposals before you sign
- Cancel with 30 days notice
No cost to start
The scoping call and the proposal that follows are free.
Fixed, not hourly
Each phase carries an agreed price, and an overrun is VerveLink's problem, not a change order.
Stop at any phase
Phases are sized so you can reassess between them; nothing commits you to the next.
Your first two weeks
Whichever service you start with, the opening fortnight looks the same.
Week one
Interviews with the people affected, a walkthrough of the systems, and a written problem statement in business language.
Week two
Options with costs and a recommended path — or, on a delivery project, the first working slice of software.
Then
A fixed-fee proposal for the next phase — or a clear note that VerveLink is the wrong partner for it, before anyone has lost a quarter.
Questions
Before you get in touch
How does VerveLink charge?
Consulting work and each delivery phase are quoted as a fixed fee, so the number you approve is the number you pay. Advisory work is a monthly retainer. Defined scopes are never billed by the hour, and the first scoping call is free.
What does the first conversation cost?
Nothing. A 30-minute call is enough to understand the situation and give you a straight answer on fit. If VerveLink is not the right choice, you will hear that, along with a pointer to somewhere better.
How quickly can work start?
A review engagement can usually begin within two to three weeks. Delivery projects depend on current commitments, and you will be given a real date rather than an optimistic one.
Is there any obligation to continue into the build?
None. The review is written so that any competent firm could execute it. If another provider — or your own team — is the better choice for delivery, you will be told so plainly.
How much of our time will this take?
Expect a few hours of stakeholder time in the first week for interviews and system walkthroughs, then a short review session every two weeks. Beyond that, your people carry on with their jobs.
Who owns the code and the documentation?
You do, in full, from the first commit. Everything lives in your repositories and your cloud accounts, and no licence fees are payable to VerveLink once the engagement ends.
What size of organization is a good fit?
Mostly mid-market and growth companies, plus larger enterprises that want a focused engagement rather than another layer of process.
What happens when the project ends?
Handover includes documentation, training for the people who will run the system, and a defined support window. Some clients continue on a light retainer; most do not need to, which is the intended outcome.
Still not sure which you need?
Working that out is part of the free call. Describe the situation and you will get a straight answer on which service fits — or that neither does.