Case Studies

Results, not rhetoric.

A selection of engagements across our four practice areas. Client names are anonymised by default — references available on request.

Featured engagement

Digital Strategy—Series B FinTech — Toronto

Rebuilt a technology strategy that unlocked a $120M Series C in 90 days.

The challenge

A fast-growing payments company had outgrown its original technology roadmap. Investors were asking hard questions about scalability and architecture that the internal team couldn't answer with confidence. The Series C was at risk.

Our approach

We embedded with the CTO and leadership team for eight weeks. We audited the existing architecture, rebuilt the technology roadmap around the company's actual growth trajectory, and produced a board-ready investment case that addressed every investor concern directly.

The outcome

The Series C closed at $120M — above the original target range. Due diligence completed in three weeks. The CTO described it as the most useful external engagement the company had ever run.

$120M

Series C raised

3 weeks

Due diligence completed

8 weeks

Engagement duration

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Technology Architecture

Scale-up SaaS — Montreal

01

Monolith to microservices. Zero downtime. 8× deployment frequency.

A B2B SaaS company at $30M ARR was being held back by a monolithic architecture that made every release a risk event. We designed and led the migration to a microservices architecture over 14 months — without a single hour of customer-facing downtime.

8×

Deployment frequency

0

Hours of downtime

14 mo

Migration timeline

ArchitectureCloudEngineering

Transformation Execution

Enterprise Software — Toronto

02

$40M in annual efficiency gains across four product lines.

An enterprise software company needed to modernise four legacy product lines simultaneously while maintaining customer commitments. We led the 18-month transformation programm, redesigning the operating model, replatforming the products, and managing the organisational change across 400 people.

$4.2M

Annual efficiency gains

4

Product lines transformed

18 mo

Programme duration

TransformationOperating ModelChange Management

Scale-Up Advisory

HealthTech Scale-up — Toronto

03

From Series A chaos to IPO-ready in three years.

A HealthTech company that had grown rapidly post-Series A was struggling with the organisational and technology debt that fast growth creates. We worked with the CEO and CTO over three years — through a $60M Series B, a US market entry, and ultimately a successful NASDAQ listing.

$60M

Series B raised

3 yrs

Advisory relationship

TSX

Listed

AdvisoryIPO ReadinessScale-Up

Digital Strategy

Retail Group — Bogota

04

A digital strategy that turned a cost centre into a $20M revenue line.

A traditional retail group wanted to understand whether its technology investments were creating competitive advantage or just keeping the lights on. Our strategy engagement identified three digital business models the company was uniquely positioned to own — one of which became a standalone $20M revenue line within two years.

$20M

New revenue line

3

New business models identified

2 yrs

Time to revenue

StrategyDigital BusinessRetail

Technology Architecture

InsurTech — Vancouver

05

Data platform built for AI — 60% infrastructure cost reduction.

An InsurTech company was spending more on cloud infrastructure than its three largest competitors combined. We redesigned the data platform architecture from the ground up, optimising for the AI and ML workloads that were driving the majority of costs — and reducing total infrastructure spend by 60%.

60%

Infrastructure cost reduction

4×

ML pipeline throughput

6 mo

Engagement duration

Data PlatformAI/MLCloud Optimisation

Transformation Execution

Media Company — Colombia

06

Agile transformation across 12 countries in 24 months.

A global media company needed to move from a waterfall delivery model to an agile operating model across 12 country markets. We designed the target operating model, trained 200 practitioners, and embedded with the leadership team to drive adoption — achieving full transition in 24 months.

12

Countries

200

Practitioners trained

24 mo

Full transition

AgileOperating ModelGlobal

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