ProdWard Consulting

Forward Deployed Engineering Team Engineering Leadership Technical Rescue

The tech team you need,
without the overhead.

We become your technical team, not your vendor. From new ideas to products at scale, we build alongside you every step.

Based in Scotland, available worldwide

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Services

Forward Deployed Engineering Team

Your tech team, on demand

We bring senior engineering thinking without the overhead of hiring a full-time team, and we stay focused on building things that genuinely need to be built. We favour simple, flexible solutions over unnecessary complexity. If an existing tool does the job, we’ll tell you. If custom software is the right answer, we’ll build it properly.

How we work

Most agencies take a brief and disappear until the work is done. As Forward Deployed Engineers, we join your team instead, so you see progress every week and can shape it as we go.

What we do

  • Own the process of building software, taking it all the way from ideation to deployment.
  • Ensure your product is cost-effective, secure, scalable and allows you long term independence.
  • Help you decide what to build, what to prioritise and where to get value fastest.
  • Utilise the firepower of AI to get features out faster without compromising engineering quality.
  • Adapt as your product, users and priorities evolve.
Shape of the engagement
Cadence
2 days per week
Term
1-month minimum
Format
Remote, or based in Central Belt, Scotland
Onboarding
2-week ramp
Bring us in when
  • You don't need a permanent tech team.
  • You have projects that your current tech team doesn't have capacity for.
  • You need to turn prototypes into production ready applications.

Priced per engagement.

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Engineering Leadership

You're making technical decisions without a technical leader. We fill that gap, so you can make confident calls on your product, your team and your spend.

  • Set your engineering strategy. We help you decide what to build, what to buy and what to stop, so your technology serves the business.
  • Build and grow your tech team. We've led teams of 2 to 20 engineers and interviewed hundreds of candidates, so you hire the right people first time.
  • Put AI to work where it pays off. We ship AI features to production every week, so we know where it helps and where it wastes money.
  • Review your architecture and technical debt. You get a clear view of the risks and a prioritised plan to fix them.
Shape of the engagement
Cadence
Shaped around your needs
Term
3-month minimum
Format
Remote, or based in Central Belt, Scotland
Bring us in when
  • You have no CTO, and the technical decisions are piling up.
  • You're hiring your first engineers.
  • You're not sure where AI fits in your product.
  • Your product is live and proven, and you now need a permanent team to own it.

Priced per engagement.

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Technical Rescue

Your product has outgrown its foundations, and it's starting to cause problems. We get under the hood, figure out what's going on, and fix what needs fixing.

  • Understand the problem through a focused technical discovery.
  • Document what's wrong and why, with a clear view of the technical risks and consequences.
  • Create a prioritised plan for what needs to change and how we'll fix it.
  • Implement the fixes and get your product back on solid foundations.
  • No double charging. If we take on the fix, your discovery cost comes off the remediation work.
What we rescue
  • Accessibility
  • Scalability
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Reliability
  • Technical debt
  • Infrastructure costs
  • Testing and deployment

Priced per engagement.

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Meet the team

We’ve spent the last decade building software at startups, scale-ups and large organisations. Now we work as a small team in Glasgow, and bring that experience to every project we take on.

We’ve seen plenty of different approaches to building software, and experienced the consequences of the decisions that come with them. We’ve learned what works, what doesn’t, and when keeping things simple is the right choice. We care about our craft, stay curious and are always looking for better ways to build.

Peter Cockcroft

Ex JP Morgan Ex Wood Mackenzie Ex Globacap

Director

I’ve built software in very different places: JP Morgan’s asset management back office, Wood Mackenzie’s data platform, the regulated fintech startup Globacap, and a fast-moving scale-up. Each one taught me something different about what good engineering looks like, and which habits hold up at any size.

I grew from senior engineer to engineering manager at Globacap, then ran the whole engineering function at a scale-up, leading four teams of five to six engineers. I’ve interviewed hundreds of candidates, built teams people want to stay in, and kept delivery moving under real regulatory constraints. What I enjoy most is bringing technology and people together to build something that works, and I bring that same care and judgement to every decision we make with you.

Caitlin Hamilton

Ex JP Morgan Ex Goodlord

Director

Constraints have taught me more than anything else. At Goodlord, a proptech scale-up, property legislation and deadlines were always shifting, and at JP Morgan everything ran inside a strict regulatory environment. Both taught me to deliver well under pressure: start with why something is being built, prioritise ruthlessly, and take a lean startup approach that ships value quickly without backing the product into a corner.

I care about how people actually use what we build. I’ve designed, run and analysed UI experiments that improved conversion and showed us how users really behave. I led a team using AI to rapidly improve the accessibility of a legacy web application, and my talks on accessibility brought marketing and customer support into the work. I can’t leave a problem half-solved. If I spot one, I’ll take ownership of it and see it through.

Contact us

Let's talk.

Book a 30-minute call, or send a message and we'll get back to you within 2 business days.

It helps to tell us:

  • Who you are - Your team, what you're building, and where you are today.
  • What you need - The problem you are trying to solve and what you want us to take on.
  • What success looks like - Where you want to get to.

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