Rescues and fixed-deadline delivery
Pick up where another partner stalled, with a Good / Better / Best decision matrix so the client picks which compromises buy back the schedule. Deliver to the launch date that is already public.
See offer Principal-led · AV systems since 1998
We finish technology projects. Including the ones already started.
Consult, design and build for jobs where the deadline is fixed, the previous partner missed it, the budget is already half-spent, or a new physical product has to be in production this quarter.
No charge. No deck. Bring the constraint. We will tell you whether to hire us, hire someone else, or do it yourself. Reply within four working hours, weekdays.
We do not do AI strategy decks. We do AI features that survive a Tuesday.
Crucible problems
Most technology problems are not technical.
They are commitments stuck between sales, engineering, suppliers and customers.
A launch date that is already public when the previous partner stops returning calls. A new physical product that has to ship in twelve weeks because that is when the trade show opens. A platform that needs an AI surface enterprise customers will actually adopt rather than another demo. A workflow trapped between spreadsheets, manual process and half-connected SaaS tools.
Thrucible exists for the seam between code, hardware, supplier and contract — where pressure, ambiguity and commercial consequence collide.
Where we are useful
Senior help where the work crosses code, hardware, suppliers and contracts.
Hardware end-to-end, on a quarter timeline
Concept, mechanical, electrical, firmware and low-volume production. Most recent: a Patent-Pending appliance from concept to US production in twelve weeks.
See offerAPI, SDK and AI surfaces customers actually use
Full API remap, an SDK real engineers want to use, plus open-source reference AI integrations so each customer can roll their own surface against their own data and policies.
See offerNot a fit for
Refusing the wrong work is the cheapest signal we know to send.
If any of these describe you, we are not the right consultancy. We will say so on the call and point you somewhere better.
- Your budget is under £15,000 for the work being scoped
- You want a slide deck more than a working system
- The decision-maker is not on the first call
- You think AI strategy is a quarterly offsite, not a feature
- You need someone in your office five days a week
- Your timeline is shorter than two weeks and the spec is still moving
Everyone else: bring the constraint. Below is what we have actually shipped.
What we own, not what we say
Since 1998
Effective Tech Solutions has been designing AV systems for over twenty-seven years
Patent Pending
SANDER — a hardware appliance we invented and put into US low-volume production in twelve weeks
olitrack.app
A live, MIT-licensed consumer product we designed, built and run on our own infrastructure
Engage Works
"Knowledge second to none in his field, delivers what he says he will, on time and on budget" — Steve Blyth, CEO
Reference work
Real engagements. Different stories.
Three of the six engagements below. The rest, including the Big-Four marketplace audit and the open-sourced AI integration code, sit on the reference page.
Start with the pressure point
Bring the messy version. Leave with a yes/no.
Useful context: what is at stake, what has already been tried, what success looks like, and the deadline.