Simple, transparent pricing
Our packages are designed to provide the flexibility you need to make Investigative Engineering work for you. Whether you need a snappy, objective, trusted opinion or a long-term delivery partner to assist you through multiple iterations, we can help.
We deploy as squads of three (a tech lead, an engineering lead and an investigations lead). Where your objectives demand it, you can bolster your Spike Squad with complementary skillsets from our satellite scheme.
With any Spike Squad engagement, you get:
- Collaboration
- Allocated time with Spike Squad members to gain a common understanding of the task at hand (*one day is equivalent to 6 hours)
- Analysis
- Strategic and engineering analysis from our multidisciplinary squad of three experts
- Objective-based
- Together we identify your objectives, to make sure our time together is meaningful and focussed on actionable outcomes
- Frictionless Comms
- Get access to our slack channel for dropping us questions at times that suit you
... plus all the benefits of working with Investigative Engineering.
Unify
Use Spike Squad expertise for impartial opinions and analysis on your software ideas and decisions. A short, sharp and powerful engagement.
One-off fee
£7,000
2 days to unify thinking and identify outcomes- Analysis and recommendations on next steps
- Bespoke outcomes with potential to include architecture assurance, vendor selection, hypothesis validation and more...
- Access to slack channel for 15 days
Unlock
A dedicated Spike Squad to work through a software challenge. Get something tangible that you (or we) can take to the next stage of development.
One-off fee
£30,000
- A dedicated Spike Squad for 10 days
- Engineering excellence to focus on a discrete challenge
- Bespoke outcomes – including PoCs, prototypes, engineering analysis and assurance, imaginative architecture and more...
- IP that you own and control
- Access to slack channel for 30 days
Unleash
Investigative Engineering with the gloves-off. Gain access to all the value of a Spike Squad for a duration that suits you and your challenges.
Weekly from
£15,000
- An ongoing, self-organising dedicated Spike Squad
- An extension of your engineering team to explore new concepts and innovations
- Engineering excellence to allocate to best suit your needs - including new ways of working, best practices and in-house team setup
- Bespoke outcomes – including PoCs, prototypes, engineering analysis and assurance, right through to shipping production-ready code.
- IP that you own and control
- Ongoing access to slack channel + 30 days
Need more?
Why not bolster your Spike Squad with a User Experience expert, a Quality Assurance/Testing maestro, or a Data wizard? We can upgrade you to a 4-person squad, with the opportunity to diversify the outcomes of our collaboration - particularly powerful when targeting production-ready code.
Our satellite scheme allows us to maintain fantastic relationships with a whole host of very talented professionals. They complement our core squads when your circumstances and objectives demand it, and they always slide seamlessly into place.