Understandingthe challenge
Industry
- LawTech
- Legal
- SaaS
Platform
- Web
Services
- Embedded engineering
- React development
- Agile delivery
- UX
StructureFlow is a legal-technology startup. Their platform lets lawyers and dealmakers build visual maps of complex corporate structures and transactions as they think, instead of wrestling with static diagrams.
They had proved the idea and raised early funding, but they had no designers or developers of their own, in an underdeveloped niche where getting to market first mattered. Recruiting a full engineering team would have cost them months they did not have.
Not a build we owned, but capacity they could lean on: their product, their vision, our engineers.
We started with a technical audit of what they had and interviews with their team to lock the vision, then embedded senior React engineers to accelerate the roadmap. We deliberately worked inside StructureFlow’s own tools and platforms, so they kept full control of their product and there was no friction when they eventually took it back in-house.
Delivery ran in Agile sprints against a roadmap of prioritised work, with demos and feedback at the end of each one. Over the course of the engagement, more than one of our product teams worked on it, and when StructureFlow had built their own in-house engineering team we supported a clean handover rather than a cliff edge.
Capacity when hiring would have been too slow
The point of an engagement like this is to disappear well. StructureFlow got to market without the delay of hiring, kept ownership of everything, and grew into a thriving firm. That we are no longer needed is the sign it worked.
Their product, not ours
We added senior engineering capacity to accelerate a roadmap they owned, rather than taking the product off them.
Inside their own tools
We worked in StructureFlow's own stack and platforms, so control never left them and the handover was clean.
Agile, with the founders close
Sprint-based delivery against prioritised work, with regular demos and feedback from the team.
Built to be handed back
When they were ready to build in-house, we supported the transition rather than creating a dependency.
Sometimes the most useful thing we can be is the engineering team a company doesn’t yet have. We added the capacity StructureFlow needed to move fast, worked inside their world so they kept control, and set it up so they could take it in-house when the time came. That is a good outcome.
