Method Engineering
Your firm's knowledge system limits the reach and impact of your expertise. Software runs your information systems, and methodware runs your knowledge system. We engineer your expertise into methodware, and Machina OS: Method Operating System runs it.
Designing a firm's methodology so its team can execute it. We build it from the way your firm already works into methodware: your method and knowledge, built so they run and support your delivery. We engineer the methodware, and Machina OS runs it.
How it works
Your frameworks, workshops and eye for a good report live in a few heads and last year's files. Your project tools can't see any of it.
Every new hire and every contractor learns by shadowing. Every draft waits in one review queue. A chatbot drafts a passable report, and clients still pay for your methodology.
We interview you and the people who deliver with you, and walk back through past engagements. We map what repeats into parts your team can execute, and mark where your judgement decides.
Engagements run step by step on your methodology, Pulses take the tasks you delegate, and delivery speeds up. MethodOps is running your firm on its method.
Paradigm and Kernel each stand alone, and Foundation is both together. The path below shows how you choose.
Application. You complete your complimentary Method Investment Brief.
Screening. We assess your Brief and, if it fits, confirm an appointment.
Interview. We talk through your Brief and test the fit both ways.
Selection. We offer to work together. Our first firms join on Group Zero terms.
Scoping. You pick Paradigm, Kernel or Foundation and agree the scope.
Onboarding. Your team starts on Machina OS.
Method engineering. We engineer your method into methodware.
Co-design. We shape Machina OS around your method with you. You accept each phase against written criteria.
Handover. Your team takes over running your methodware.
Membership. Your twelve included months of Machina OS begin.
Capability building. We help your team build the skills to run and improve your method.
Support. We stay on hand as Machina OS grows.
Your methodology lives in a few heads, and you can give time up front. We engineer it for you, then run your first engagement on it with you.
Paradigm + Kernel
The methodology and the software, shaped together. One team, so nothing drops between a method consultant and a software agency.
Your methodology sits in documents and you'll do the method work yourself. We customise Machina OS around it, with Pulses fitted and your tools connected.
Expert-led firms of up to twenty people with a method clients pay for. Paradigm takes your time up front, because your method doesn't draw itself out.
Firms that buy on price or have no method of their own. Anyone who wants software making the calls, since new judgement stays with whoever does the work.
How our first firms work with us. We choose each one by fit. We onboard you, stay your first call, and your feedback sets what we build next.
Every Group Zero phase has written acceptance criteria, agreed before work starts. Miss them and we redo the work or refund it.
Your firm does, and you own the methodware we engineer from it. Machina OS keeps your method and your team's client material in your firm's own space, closed to every other firm.
Paradigm we do for you, then run your first engagement on it together. Kernel we do with you.
The day your firm first logs in. Then Machina OS renews every twelve months.
No. It executes a methodology, so it comes after Paradigm, Kernel or Foundation.
Method Investment Brief
Twenty minutes of questions puts your method on one page and names where it's thin. Then talk to us about what fits.