We serve as your trusted consultant in software development matters. We assist in implementing the software and product development lifecycle, and guide you away from agency-dependent models towards building and directly managing in-house contractor teams. We enhance your business growth by streamlining remote developer efficiency and refining development workflows.
Everything to get your project going smooth and clear. Getting processes streamlined, mentoring on best practices and how to manage and getting you the best people within your budget.
We specialize in remote work and remote teams.
Work with you and understand your needs, then identify issues in current process and get it fixed.
Source, screen, interview for hard and soft skills, perform live coding and other checks.
Make sure you, your managers and other stakeholders knows how to approach it to get it done right.
Drop expensive underperforming agency and get your own team. With or without additional PM/PO.
Or, you can call us if you just need a second opinion or someone with experience to mentor you along the way.
Vygandas Pliasas, Founder & CEO of Cortip Inc. is leading and providing consultations to the clients. He has 17+ years of experience of working with product based software products in world leading companies, and now, sharing his expertise with other.
Vygandas served as a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and similar for various clients, specializing in SaaS products on a contractual basis. His duties included ensuring the development team's performance, establishing and prioritizing the product roadmap, designing the product robustly, maintaining continuous uptime of production, securing data and restricting contractor access, managing DevOps, in addition to fostering efficient leadership among team leads, product managers, and owners. He maintained a smooth and interconnected operational flow within the teams.
Recognizing his consistent focus in these areas, Vygandas decided it was time to channel his efforts into founding a consultancy firm. Hence, he began offering these services and also concentrated on productizing the sourcing and vetting of developers and managers.
Vygandas was employee #1 of our Lithuania branch, and his hard work was crucial in getting the new office and team up and running.
I worked closely with Vygandas on a day-to-day basis as the product manager of the team he managed. We frequently discussed ways to optimize the team and to prioritize features. It was truly a pleasure working alongside Vygandas as he will go above and beyond to support his team. He excels when it comes to capacity planning and providing high-level estimates on LOE for the initiatives on the roadmap. His management style is pretty straightforward - ensure that everyone is equipped to succeed. This includes removing blockers, researching the unknowns, and getting the right people in the room. This mentality is the reason for the success of the team, why his direct reports thrived and how the Product team was able to manage stakeholders and expectations. I would highly recommend Vygandas for a management position at any company that requires building strong teams and effective, strategic planning.
Vygandas was amazing and went above and beyond in every way. The whole team is looking forward to working with him again soon.
Vygandas is a very creative person who knows how to matarialize complex ideas into reality easyly. It's because he has strong IT background and management skills which let him to see end picture in the begining of new project. Vygandas comes up with creative solutions to difficult problems and know how to manage all process to seek best result on time.
Vygandas is great to work with and brings a depth and breadth of experience. He's thoughtful and detail-oriented and is able to switch quickly from big-picture planning to granular project management.
We are flexible and we can offer you a solution and pricing plan according to your unique situation.
This kind of approach is usually picked first by our clients so they could also evaluate our fitness for the job.
This is a mix of consulting, mentoring, hands-on implementation & management, sourcing, assessing and hiring people, etc.
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We ensure you're equipped with the necessary tools, strategies, and product management understanding. Additionally, we handle the initial roadmap planning and prioritize the first batch of tasks to set the stage for success. Afterward, clients often choose to have us find a competent product manager who can maintain the momentum at a lower rate planned for the long term. We regularly perform check-ins to confirm that everything is proceeding smoothly, stakeholders are satisfied, and we're prepared to address any issues that may arise.
Starting work with our team is straightforward. Book an exploratory meeting where we'll quickly discuss your project, needs, tech stack, and main issues. During this call, our goal is to understand if we possess the expertise in your area and assess our usefulness to your project.
If there is mutual interest, we will proceed by signing a contract. You will then decide how many hours you want to cover in advance so that we can get started. For instance, you could pay for 5 hours, where usually 3-4 hours are dedicated to a thorough investigation of the situation by talking on calls with various stakeholders, with the remaining time allotted for our own research into your specific context. From this, we can provide a plan laying out options for the next steps.
Should our service meet your expectations, we can arrange for a recurring deposit of a certain number of hours per month. This will allow us to dive into management, tool implementation, stakeholder communication, roadmap building, and more.
Once we've developed the roadmap, the usual next step is to start looking for full-time management staff to handle daily operations. This leads to team-building, mentoring leaders, ensuring quality, and so on.
After the team is set up, we usually scale down on hours, but we always remain available for assistance when needed.
The workload will depend on the project and our current obligations with other clients, as we strive not to oversell and maintain top-notch service.
Consulting is charged on an hourly basis and paid for upfront.
The sourcing and screening process is complimentary and not included in billable hours.
You may opt to directly contract the freelancer through a buyout arrangement or select our default option, where you are invoiced upfront for one month of the talent's work. We will then handle contracting and all legal matters internally. In the event of a mismatch, we can either secure a replacement using the remaining budget or issue a refund for the unused portion.
You can expect to get Fractional CTO level support.
