Outsourced Tech Department
Be your technology arm. We embed product, engineering, design, and DevOps under one accountable engagement.
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R&D as a Service.
A complete technology department on demand, for founders and corporates who need to ship without hiring a team first. Bring an idea; we take it from sketch to finished product, end to end.
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R&D as a Service
Prototypes
Hardware and software, fabricated and shipped from Cairo.
Leadership
CTO-as-a-service, embedded with your founders or board.
End-to-end
Bring an idea. Walk out with a product, a roadmap, and a team.
Scope
What we do.
Six engagement shapes - from a one-week consult to a multi-year embedded technology arm. All anchored in deliverables, not hours.
Prototype Development & Testing
Product prototype development and testing - rapid hardware and software prototyping, with a path to production.
Engineering Team Management
Management of in-house and external engineering teams - delivery cadence, code quality, hiring, and retention.
Trends & Future-proofing
Technology trend analysis and future-proofing consultations. Strategic horizon scans tailored to your roadmap.
CTO as a Service
Senior technology leadership on demand. Roadmap, architecture, hiring, and the board narrative your investors want.
Topic-specific Consultation
Deep, targeted consultation on bounded technical problems - architecture, audit, vendor selection, build vs. buy.
Engagement
How an R&D engagement runs.
Every engagement starts with a discovery sprint and a phased plan. We do not invoice for a sprint that does not produce a deliverable you can hold.
Discovery
One to two week sprint. Stakeholder interviews, technical risks, market context, and a phased delivery plan with a fixed scope and price for phase one.
Prototype
End-to-end prototype that proves the riskiest assumption. Hardware mock-ups, click-through software, or both. Tested with real users where possible.
Build
Production engineering across hardware, cloud, mobile, and edge. Daily build, weekly demo.
Operate
Ongoing operations, support, and improvement. We stay through the boring middle of a product's life, where most of the value compounds.
Hand-off
When you are ready to bring it in-house, we hand off code, documentation, runbooks, and the team contacts who built it. Clean exits, on purpose.
Why Solace
Why founders and corporates choose us.
The same teams that ship our products ship for you.
You get the bench that built Solace Iris and Solace Stay - not a B-team for outside work.
Outcomes contracts, where they fit.
For well-bounded problems, we will price against the result, not the time.
Confidentiality is the default.
Most of our R&D work never gets a logo on this site. It stays yours.
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