Delivery consulting · St. Louis
Make the investment show up in what ships.
The tools are bought and the teams are in place. We work with enterprise development organizations to turn that into delivery you can measure — one problem, six weeks, a change your teams own before we go. Most consulting engagements are designed to continue. This one is designed to end.
What we do
Three ways in, and each one stands on its own. The work is scoped as a series of bets: pick one problem worth solving, fund six weeks against it, and find out.
The First Conversation
Free, 45 minutes, no deck. A working session on the problem your teams keep tripping over — and a straight answer on whether it is worth paying anyone to solve.
Detail 02The Assessment
Two weeks, $12,500 fixed fee. Where the real constraints are, not where the org chart says they are. Output is a shortlist of problems worth funding, ranked.
Detail 03The Iteration
Six weeks, $35,000 fixed scope. One problem, materially solved, with the capability documented, demonstrated, and owned by someone with a name.
DetailWhen people call us
Usually at the point where the tooling demo and the delivery record stopped agreeing with each other.
The tooling is bought and rolled out. Adoption is uneven, and nobody can say in one page what it actually changed.
A pilot went well. Eighteen months later it is still a pilot.
Engineers are demonstrably shipping faster, and the portfolio is not delivering anything sooner.
Your delivery metrics describe a process your teams quietly stopped following.
The diagnosis of what is wrong changes depending on which room you ask in.
Every proposal to fix it comes back as a transformation program with no end date attached.
How an engagement runs
Three steps, escalating on purpose. Each one is designed to stand on its own — you can stop after any of them, and plenty of clients should.
The First Conversation
45 minutes · Free
Is this a real problem, and are we the right people for it? You leave with at least one concrete observation about where your delivery model and your tooling have come apart — whatever happens next.
The Assessment
Two weeks · $12,500 fixed fee
Which problem is actually worth solving first? Two weeks inside the delivery organization looking at how work really moves, ending in three to five problems ranked by the cost of leaving each one alone — and a scoped, priced recommendation for the first.
The Iteration
Six weeks · $35,000 fixed scope
Solve it, and leave the capability behind. A fixed appetite, a real deadline, and a scope that flexes to fit — the shape borrowed from Shape Up. We work alongside your teams, because the point is what stays after we leave.
It ends
Or it doesn't continue
If there is another problem worth six weeks, we will make the case for it. If there isn't, the engagement closes and you have your budget and your people back. That is the normal ending, not the disappointing one.
A small practice, on purpose
Gateway Delivery Partners is a senior-only practice based in St. Louis. The person you meet in the first conversation is the person doing the work — there is no bench, no pyramid, and no junior team learning your business on your budget.
That constrains how much we take on at once, which is the point. We would rather run two engagements properly than six at arm's length.
Next step
Start with the conversation.
Forty-five minutes, no charge, no deck. You will leave with one concrete observation you can act on — and if we are not the right answer, we will say so and point you at what is.