Tech department as a service · W 270°
The tech department you do not have yet, run by people who have run one.
Some companies need software but have nobody to own it: no CTO, no team, or a team that grew by accident. We build and run that function for you. Strategy, hiring, delivery, infrastructure and support, with one point of accountability.
What is a tech department as a service?
A tech department as a service is an outside firm building and running a company's whole technology function: strategy, hiring, delivery, infrastructure and support. Norwind provides a technical lead, hires a team sized to an agreed plan from Latin America, and reports monthly on what shipped and what it cost.
Who it is for
You will recognise yourself, or you will not.
- Companies whose IT is one overloaded person and a folder of vendor contracts
- Businesses that outsourced piece by piece and now have five vendors and no owner
- Owners who know software is the next lever and do not want to become a software company to pull it
- Companies replacing a departed technical lead without hiring the next one blind
What you get
What arrives, and what stays.
- A technical lead on your side, in your leadership meetings
- A team sized to the work, hired from Latin America and managed by us
- A roadmap, a budget, and a monthly account of what shipped against both
- Systems that stay documented and running when people change
How it runs
Four steps. The card goes round once.
Every step ends with something you can see.
01 · Audit
What you run, what you pay for, what breaks, and who knows how it works. Written down, often for the first time.
02 · Plan
A twelve-month roadmap and a budget, agreed with you, with the first quarter in detail.
03 · Staff
We hire the team the plan needs and run it. You get names, not a pool.
04 · Report
A monthly review with you: what shipped, what it cost, what changed. No surprises in either direction.
How it is priced
Monthly retainer, sized to the plan.
Norwind does not publish rate cards. Every price is written before work starts, after a short discovery, and is specific to the engagement. The first call is free.
A monthly fee covering the technical lead and the team the agreed twelve-month roadmap needs, reviewed against a budget every month. Team size and fee change only when the plan does.
- Code, repositories, cloud accounts and domains in the client's name from day one
- A written weekly note on client builds and a monthly review on retainers
- No lock-in: documentation and handover are part of every engagement
Questions
The ones we are asked first.
Is this outsourcing?
It is closer to a department with an outside manager. The team works on your systems and reports to you through us.
What if we want to bring it in-house later?
Then we help you do that. The documentation, the repositories and the accounts are yours from day one.
How big is the team?
As big as the plan needs. Some companies need one engineer and a lead. Some need six. The audit tells us.
Do you replace our current vendors?
Only the ones that are not earning their keep. Deciding which contracts stay is part of the audit.
Other headings
Tell us what you
are building.
Or what is in the way. We will tell you plainly what it needs, whether that is us or not.
- 01A reply from a person
- 02A free half-hour call with an engineer
- 03A written answer: scope, rough cost, where to start
Replies come from a person, within two working days.