Selected work · Turnaround / Fractional CTO
Loan origination live in six weeks, after 5.5 stalled years.
About $1M invested before our engagement, with no working product.
- The situation
- The company had spent 5.5 years and about $1M building a lending platform. Seven different teams had worked on it, and none had produced a working product. For operational reasons, it also had to switch payment providers urgently.
- What we did
- We took over delivery. Clearing out the obvious waste cut infrastructure costs by 90% right away. We replaced an architecture that could not carry the product and restructured engineering into a smaller team. While the rebuild ran, we led the search for a new U.S. banking partner.
- First milestone
- Six weeks in, the loan origination flow was live with a new U.S. banking partner.
- Where it stands
- The platform now earns revenue, and existing users have moved onto it. It was revenue-ready by month six.
- Who did the work
- Our in-house team: a senior software engineer, a mid-level software engineer, a product manager and a UX designer.
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