Sagewing

Sagewing provides startups with flexible, cost-effective access to CTO-level technical leadership and a proven network of outsourcing partners. You can count on us to help you stay lean, save money, and move rapidly toward success. We need a technical co-founder! Sagewing helps you meet your short-term goals without a huge equity commitment. Ask yourself this: do you really need a technical co-founder or do you need a skilled, trusted technology partner who can bring your startup vision to life? The answer is likely the latter. After all, it's great to bring a technical co-founder on board (if you can find one!), but it's also a risky commitment that will require you to relinquish substantial equity and control. Our - more conservative - equity arrangements offer a stress-free balance for early startups. You retain control while taking advantage of our CTO-level skill, experience and commitment and without a huge cash outlay. This arrangement has allowed our startup partners to quickly reach short term goals (like an MVP). We need to build a prototype ASAP! Streamlined project management delivers fast results. Some startups are truly lean - they just need to launch a prototype and start getting feedback as quickly as possible. Their challenge is they are not coders and do not want to spend hours learning to code when they could be spending that time developing profitable partnerships. This is where our outsourcing network really shines. We can match your project needs to proven developers - either domestic or offshore - and bring you to market quickly. We desperately need to scale up. We can scale up your application architecture for your rapid growth. Your startup is already a phenomenal success but your server is struggling under the load. We can help scale your application architecture and bring it onto the cloud or a powerhouse hosting setup. And we can integrate features such as analytics, security, and disaster recovery that will help mature your startup into a grown-up acquirable business. We hired a programmer/team but they are slow and hard to manage. We can get your developer back on track or offer you alternative resources. We are regularly brought in to help rescue trouble projects, or just to help manage existing teams. We have also successfully rescued dozens of projects from technical disasters. We've spent years developing our developer network and our own management skills. You can depend on us to bring you the momentum you need. We have our initial funding but we need to spend our tech dollars wisely. You need a flexible but sensible execution strategy. You need to show your investors that you are spending enough to move confidently towards your goals. But you also need them to know you are prudent and making good decisions about the use of those funds. We'll help you develop an execution strategy that lets your investors know you are serious about success.