We Love Software
Who are we?
We are Glenn Verrijkt & Katya Bensch, a team of experienced CTOs and tech leads.
We help you build your tech team, guide you through the tech jungle and make sure you stay on track.
We are strong believers in software craftsmanship, ensuring that every line of code is clean, maintainable, and built to last.
Our approach revolves around self-managing agile teams, where collaboration and ownership drive success.
Quality is at the core of everything we do, achieved through rigorous automated testing and continuous improvement.
We embrace DevOps best practices and automation to streamline workflows and accelerate delivery.
Validating product ideas and market fit through clickable prototypes allows us to refine concepts before full development.
Instead of just building an MVP, we focus on creating a Minimal Marketable Product delivering a Simple, Lovable, Complete product that provides real value from day one.
Partner with us to build software that’s crafted with care, tested for excellence, and designed for success.
Sparring Sessions
We will listen to your early ideas and study your material: mockups, prototypes, designs, business model, project plan, funding, ...
Gain insights
Some topics include
- How you can validate your product idea without building anything
- Non-functional technical requirements to run your product in a sound way: scalability, reliability, security, compliance, ...
Provide feedback
Some topics include
- Product roadmap: define scope for a MMP with an eye for your longer term technical needs. Focus on avoiding technical debt and opportunity costs.
- Team composition: number of people, technical skills, how to choose between employees, freelancers, nearshore, consultancy companies etc.
- How to build your team gradually over time
- Match your budget with your priorities ie. you may very well want to delay building anything at all until you have validated your idea and signed enough customers and/or secured funding.
- What technical research you do have to pick up early
Advise
Some topics include
We’ll always advise:
- Not to build too early
- Focusing on market research rather than building an MVP
Pricing
The minimum duration of a sparring session is 2 days, which can be used in half-day blocks if desired
Build your product development team
We help you build your tech team, guide you through the tech jungle and make sure you stay on track.
When starting a product, your priorities will change depending on what you learn every day
from customers, your market, investors and how planets and stars align. Your team has to be
able to role with that. We do that by fostering a culture of agility, customer focus and
software craftsmanship.
Options
Full Team
Duration
Minimum 1 year
Rates
Rates start at 450€ / day, depending on required skills and experience
AIESEC
Rates
Rates start at 300€ / day depending on skills and experience.
Admin fee to do interviews, selection, contract etc.
Timing
Requires 3-4 months from the day a person is selected until they can start working
Nearshore Hybrid
Rates
Rates start at 300€ / day, depending on required skills and experience
Admin fee to help with interviews, selecting a location, agency and/or freelancers, ...
Full Nearshore
What does it involve
Incorporate and organize
Rates
Cost TBD, but most efficient option long term
Legal and HR fees
CTO as a service
Not ready to hire a full-time CTO? No problem! We offer CTO as a service to help you with your tech strategy and execution
What we offer
Glenn can
- Define your tech strategy and roadmap
- Architect your product and technology stack
- Lead your tech team and drive execution
- Implement best practices and processes
- Provide mentorship and coaching
- Support recruitment and onboarding
- Prepare for certification or compliance: ISO27001, SOC2,
Pricing
Negotiated before start, it should ramp up to at least 1000€ / day
Duration
Minimum 3 months, but can be discussed
Availability
Max 4 days / week
Stay involved
When we are successful in our first steps, we will happily stay involved.
We are open to discussing a long-term partnership that includes equity options or a seat on your board of directors.