About
Built for the companies that move first.
Cerulean Eight was founded on a single conviction: the firms that win the next decade will be the ones that treat technology as a strategic asset, not an operational cost.
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Our story
Why we exist.
We started Cerulean Eight because we kept seeing the same pattern: brilliant founders and operators making expensive technology decisions without the strategic context to make them well. Not because they lacked intelligence — but because the consulting firms available to them were either too large to care or too junior to help.
We work exclusively with startups and scale-ups. Not as a market segment — as a deliberate choice. The challenges at $10M ARR are fundamentally different from those at $100M, and both are different from the enterprise. We've built our entire practice around the inflection points that define whether a company scales or stalls.
Every engagement is led by a principal. No bait-and-switch, no junior teams running the work while partners collect fees. When you hire Cerulean Eight, you get the people you met in the room.
How we work
Principles, not platitudes.
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Principals only
Every engagement is led and delivered by a senior principal. We don't staff junior consultants on client work.
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Embedded, not advisory
We work alongside your team — not above it. We measure success by outcomes delivered, not decks produced.
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Honest over comfortable
We'll tell you what we actually think, including when the answer is that we're not the right fit for your challenge.
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Long-term orientation
94% of our engagements come from repeat clients or direct referrals. We optimise for the relationship, not the invoice.
The team
The people behind the practice.
A small, senior team with deep operating experience across technology, product, and strategy.
Michael Rewucki
Founding Principal
Former CEO at a venture-backed scale-up, with award-winning transformation strategies that drove measurable growth across many successful companies. For over 30 years, he has built and reshaped companies and their teams across numerous countries — turning complex challenges into competitive advantages.
Joel Eastburger
Principal
Former Partner at a Big Four Accounting firm, where he led technology strategy and M&A advisory for more than 40 companies across FinTech, HealthTech, and enterprise SaaS. Joel brings a rare combination of financial rigour and deep technical fluency to every engagement.
Bruce Burgetz
Principal, IT
Bruce has spent 35 plus years at the intersection of product, engineering, and organisational change. He has designed and led large-scale agile transformations at more than 150 companies — helping leadership teams build the operating models their strategies actually require.
Work with people who've been in the room.
Every engagement starts with a direct conversation with a principal — no intake forms, no junior associates. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.