Tell us where you are and what you are trying to move forward. We read every message. If there is a fit, we come back within one to two business days with a proposed next step. That next step is almost always a 30-minute discovery call with a senior operator, not a sales rep.
On that first call, expect a working conversation: the situation you are facing, the decision you are trying to make, the constraints — board, runway, team, deadline — and which of our engagement models fits. We typically work in one of three shapes: Advisory for boards, founders, and CEOs who need a senior thinking partner; Assessment as a fixed-scope diligence, architecture, or team review with a written deliverable; and Embedded fractional CTO, CPO, or CDO leadership inside your organization.
Grant founded Develomentor after serving as CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation and co-founding Lucidworks. He is the author of the best-selling Taming Text and a committer on Apache Lucene, Solr, and OpenSearch. The team you talk to is the team that does the work.