Who we help
Embedded QA and product ownership for engineering leaders and fractional CTOs. Small software teams with more work than people.
We work with founders, CTOs, and directors of software engineering at teams of 1 to 200 people, and with the fractional CTOs who support them.
Choose one or more to see where we’d start.
Book an intro callFor engineering leaders
QA and product ownership for small software teams. More capacity without another hire.
You lead an established team that ships real software, and the same few people are building features, chasing bugs, and answering product questions. We embed alongside them and take the work that keeps getting squeezed.
- Who
- Founders, CTOs, Directors of Software Engineering
- Team size
- 1 to 200 people, across the US
- Software and information
- Professional and technical services
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale and distribution
- Holding and management companies
- Associations and member organizations
Your developers are at capacity.
We add engineers to your existing team, working your backlog in your sprint.
Stakeholders and developers talk past each other.
We put one system in place for requests and feedback, and report back on what was delivered.
Nobody owns testing.
We implement a QA workflow: test cases, documented issues, and retesting on every fix.
For fractional CTOs
Backfill QA and product ownership across the teams you support. An established process, plug and play.
- QA and product roles are missing on the teams you support
- There’s no process or strategy around how work gets prioritized
- You don’t have the hours to cover those gaps yourself
Backfill the missing roles
QA engineering and product ownership, without your client hiring a dedicated person for each.
Feed the existing process
Everything we find and decide flows into the development workflow that’s already in place.
Keep it visible
Bugs, feedback, and documentation stay transparent to you, your client, and their developers.
Built for small teams that want a long-term partner.
- 1 to 200people on the engineering team
- USengineering teams nationwide
- Embeddedin your sprint and your tools
Questions
Is IsNull the right fit?
- What size teams do you work with?
- Engineering teams from 1 to 200 people across the US. Most are established small software teams that have outgrown doing QA and product management on the side.
- Do you only work with software companies?
- No. We work with teams building software inside many kinds of companies, including professional services, manufacturing, and wholesale and distribution.
- How do you work with a fractional CTO?
- You stay the technical lead. We step into the QA and product ownership roles on the teams you support and feed that work into the development process you already run.
- We already have developers. Where do you fit?
- Alongside them. We add QA engineering, product ownership, or extra engineering capacity to your existing team instead of replacing anyone.
- Who isn’t a good fit?
- Large enterprises with their own QA and product organizations usually need a different kind of vendor. We’re also not the right choice if the goal is the lowest bid, or replacing human oversight with AI.
- Have a different question?
- Send it with a few details about your team and we’ll answer it directly.
- Ask us
Next step
Put QA and product ownership on your team this quarter.
Tell us where releases are slipping. We’ll map out how an embedded team would help, in writing, before you commit to anything.
Field notes on QA and shipping
Occasional, practical notes for engineering leaders. No spam.