Knight Rider Consulting, Inc

Knight Rider Consulting, Inc is a small consultancy for organisations that want to turn a product idea into a first release. Its pitch is a small senior team that carries a product from the early decision through design, engineering, testing and launch, with clear ownership throughout.

Services

• Product validation: work to establish who a product serves, what problem it solves and whether it is worth building.
• Design and build: full-stack engineering with automated tests for a first release.
• Launch support: release checks aimed at shipping something narrow enough to launch and learn from.
• Handover: decision records, trade-off notes, runbooks and ownership notes are left for the client team.
• Agile and XP consulting: an earlier focus on custom software and agile practice.

Customers and markets

Leaders who have a product opportunity but do not want to hire a full product team first. The firm points to past work with organisations whose software has to perform reliably.

Key facts

• Experience: 32 years of production software
• Approach: Senior staff by default, with specialists brought in when needed
• Engineering stack: DevOps, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Node and React