Free consultation
30 minutes, with a co-founder
Describe the problem in your own words. We tell you honestly whether we can help, and what a sensible first step would be.
You leave with
A straight answer on fit and a suggested next step
How we work
One delivery model. No black boxes.
Our engineers work in your tools, against a scope you agreed, on a board you can see. This page sets out how an engagement actually runs — who owns what, when decisions get made, and what lands on your side at each step.
Most IT firms build your project from their own office and hand over the result. We do it differently. We call our approach Forward Deployed Engineering: our engineers join your team directly, attend your meetings, work in your tools, and learn your business from the inside.
In practice, that means a small team (usually 2-4 people) working alongside your staff for a defined period, with clear milestones and measurable results.
Most delivery goes wrong in the gaps: between the people who understand the problem and the people building the solution, between what was agreed and what is being built, between a status update and what is actually happening. Every part of this model exists to close one of those gaps.
Concretely, the engineers making technical decisions are the ones who watched the work being done, the same board and repository are open to both sides, and an uncomfortable fact reaches you while there is still time to act on it rather than at the next steering meeting.
The journey
From a free consultation to Ongoing Support.
An engagement moves through these in order, and you can stop after any of them. Each step has an output you can hold, so the decision to continue is made on evidence rather than optimism.
Discovery Workshop
Paid, 3–5 days
Work through the goals, workflows, systems, data and risks with the people who live with them, then rank the opportunities honestly.
You leave with
Ranked opportunity list with a recommended Focused Project
Proof of Value
Optional, 2–4 weeks
When the plan rests on an assumption worth testing, build a working prototype on real data before committing to the full project.
You leave with
Working prototype and a decision on whether to proceed
Focused Project
8–12 weeks
A small embedded team takes one bounded outcome to production, with clear milestones and the controls and validation it needs to be operated.
You leave with
Production increment, automated tests, rollback path
Ongoing Support
Continuing, by agreement
Run and improve what has shipped — AI behavior, cloud, security, quality and compliance — extend it to the next workflow, or hand it over cleanly.
You leave with
Ongoing support agreement or a clean ownership handover
Also available
Dedicated Team
A longer-running embedded team that works your roadmap alongside your staff, with a charter, named decision rights, and measures agreed up front.
More about a Dedicated TeamAlso available
Expert Review
A senior LYVATE engineer reviews an existing system, architecture, or AI prototype and gives you a written, prioritized assessment of what to fix first.
How the work is run
The parts of the model that apply throughout.
These are not sequential steps. They describe how an engagement is staffed, governed and secured at any point in its life.