Engagements
Engagements that show their working.
Every UniMatter engagement is fixed fee, scoped at proposal, and instrumented from the first week: gates with pass criteria, evidence-linked quality assurance, and decisions recorded as auditable objects — exhibited to you throughout, not asserted at the end. The products are the systems; these are the engagements that stand them up.
Launch readiness & technical remediation
Launch Sprint
An early-stage software product brought into a launchable technical condition: the defects that block a controlled launch are found, triaged, and remediated — in a controlled codebase, under change control, with the evidence to show for it.
Launch readiness + security, privacy & operational controls
Launch Sprint + Assurance
Launch readiness plus the practical security, privacy, and operational-risk controls that make the product defensible, not merely launchable. The recommended tier wherever real users, health information, client records, or payments are involved.
Positioning, claims review & customer trust
Digital Strategy
The public posture brought up to the standard of the engineering: positioning, stakeholder engagement, and a review of every public claim, so what is said about the product never outruns what the record can carry.
Stabilisation, handover & controlled self-service
Post-launch support & training
The period after launch, run deliberately: intensive support while the product settles, a safe-editing framework so the team can change the product without breaking it, and a staged path to self-service.
Standing counsel, review & prioritisation
Advisory retainer
Monthly advice, review, prioritisation, and risk discussion on a standing basis — a considered second set of eyes on what is changing, what it costs, and what it risks. Expressly not unlimited development.
Embedded product & technical leadership
Fractional consulting
Higher-engagement embedded involvement: product execution, technical coordination, a risk and compliance operating rhythm, governance materials, roadmap, vendor coordination, and readiness for funding or sale.
Launch Sprint
An early-stage software product brought into a launchable technical condition: the defects that block a controlled launch are found, triaged, and remediated — in a controlled codebase, under change control, with the evidence to show for it.
- Platform and access review, with export and source-control options where the product sits on an opaque low-code platform.
- Payment-integration triage, including the relationship between payment status and access.
- Role, permission, and administrator-access remediation.
- Cross-tenant data-visibility and isolation remediation.
- Migration into a controlled codebase and deployment path, with staging and baseline smoke tests.
- A launch-blocker register and technical handover notes.
For software founders approaching launch — particularly products built quickly on low-code platforms that now need to hold real users.
Launch Sprint + Assurance
Launch readiness plus the practical security, privacy, and operational-risk controls that make the product defensible, not merely launchable. The recommended tier wherever real users, health information, client records, or payments are involved.
- Structured security testing of the highest-risk launch surfaces.
- Authentication, role, and tenant-isolation testing, documented to a gate standard.
- Payment-workflow review, held to one non-negotiable rule: payment state never assigns role or widens data scope.
- A launch-risk register, a launch-gate checklist, and a plain go or no-go recommendation.
- Policy and control starters: privacy, access control, incident response, acceptable use.
- An audit trail of findings, remediation, open items, and accepted risks.
For products carrying real users, regulated data, or subscription payments — where the launch has to be defensible, not just live.
Digital Strategy
The public posture brought up to the standard of the engineering: positioning, stakeholder engagement, and a review of every public claim, so what is said about the product never outruns what the record can carry.
- First-window digital strategy and launch communications.
- Public-facing positioning on security, privacy, trust, and product maturity.
- Review of core claims — product, security, privacy, AI, and automation statements checked against the evidence.
- Brand and design visibility review.
- A customer-trust pack for prospective clients and partners.
For founders and principals whose product is sound but whose public posture has not caught up with it.
Post-launch support & training
The period after launch, run deliberately: intensive support while the product settles, a safe-editing framework so the team can change the product without breaking it, and a staged path to self-service.
- An intensive post-launch support window with defined response expectations.
- A codebase-editing training framework: safe-editing checklist, change-test-deploy workflow, escalation rules.
- Ad hoc critical-issue support on defined terms.
- An operating model for staged self-service — review-and-promote, with the guardrails written down.
For teams taking ownership of a newly launched product who want the handover to be a system, not a farewell.
Advisory retainer
Monthly advice, review, prioritisation, and risk discussion on a standing basis — a considered second set of eyes on what is changing, what it costs, and what it risks. Expressly not unlimited development.
- A standing monthly cadence of advice and review.
- Review of proposed changes, vendors, and risks before they are committed to.
- Prioritisation of the backlog against the objectives that matter.
- Light oversight of the operating and technical posture, with material drift flagged early.
For organisations that want continuity and judgement on call, without an embedded lead.
Fractional consulting
Higher-engagement embedded involvement: product execution, technical coordination, a risk and compliance operating rhythm, governance materials, roadmap, vendor coordination, and readiness for funding or sale.
- Embedded product and technical leadership on a fractional basis.
- A risk, compliance, and delivery operating rhythm the organisation keeps.
- Governance materials, roadmap, and vendor coordination.
- Fundraising and sale-readiness support where that is where the work is heading.
For organisations that need a fractional lead accountable for delivery — not another adviser at the edge of the room.
Delivered glass-box, through Orbit
Every engagement is delivered with Orbit — the live engagement record issued to each client: schedule and progress against plan, launch gates with pass criteria, evidence-linked quality assurance, decision elections, flagged communications, and the document register. Orbit is not a product and is never sold; it is how the work is shown. Read how delivery is instrumented →
Evidence, not adjectives.
A recent engagement, from the engagement record: a near-launch allied-health software product taken from an opaque low-code posture into a controlled codebase — a live security exposure patched under change control and independently verified; access-control, payment-entitlement, and data-isolation testing to a documented gate standard; and a launch gated on evidence rather than optimism.
Figures are actual, drawn from the engagement’s evidence register. The client is not named: references and case studies are consent-gated as a matter of standing policy — which is itself how UniMatter treats every client’s name.
The instrumentation.
Gates with pass criteria
Work proceeds through named gates, each with criteria that are met or not met — never an impression.
Evidence-linked QA
Every quality claim links to the artefact that proves it, so checking is reading, not trusting.
Decision elections
Material decisions are put as recorded elections — options, recommendation, and your call, kept as an auditable object.
Flagged communications
Anything that bears on risk, scope, or cost is flagged to you in plain language when it arises, not discovered later.
Curated document register
The engagement record is kept as a register, current and versioned, not a chat transcript.
Evidence-linked impact ledger
Progress and impact are exhibited from the record — velocity shown, never asserted.
Standard artefacts, produced as the work runs: verification certificate; adversarial review report; source-verification memorandum; change-control report; decision-election audit trail.
What an engagement never includes
No compliance, certification, or accreditation guarantees. No legal or clinical advice. No penetration-testing representations. No outcome warranties, and no claim the record cannot carry. What is promised is the work, the boundary, and the evidence.
Scope the engagement to the work.
Describe the problem and you will receive a plain answer on whether and how UniMatter can help — and, where it can, a fixed-fee proposal scoped to the work.