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Three ways to get your method out of your head

Every service includes twelve months of Platform, counted from the day your firm first logs in.

Worldview and Kernel joining into Foundation, which leads to the Platform

What is method engineering?

Method engineering is the engineering practice of designing and building proprietary methodologies to solve practical problems in knowledge firms.

How it works

How we turn the way your firm works into a method it runs on

Your method is real. It just isn't written down anywhere useful.

You have frameworks, a way of running workshops and a clear sense of what a good report looks like. Most of it lives in your head. The rest is scattered across last year's deliverables and a few templates nobody updates.

So every hire costs you more of your week

A new consultant learns by sitting next to you. Leave them alone for a fortnight and they fill the gaps by guessing, and the draft comes back to you to fix at night. Meanwhile any client can get a chatbot to write a passable report. The part they'll still pay for is the part you haven't written down.

We pull the method out of the people who hold it

We interview you and your senior people, walk back through past projects, and read the documents you already have. We separate what you repeat from what you decide fresh each time. Then we build the repeatable part into pieces your team can run, and write down where a person's judgement is still needed.

What changes when the firm runs on its method

This is what we're building toward with our founding firms. A junior opens a job and finds the steps, the templates and your standard. Drafts reach you with nothing missing. When a project teaches you something, it goes back into the method, and the next project starts from the better version.

Pick how much of it we do

Worldview and Kernel each work on their own. Foundation is both in one project. Every one of them comes with twelve months of Platform.

The four parts of the Ex Cognia method

Worldview
We build your method for you, then run your first project on it alongside your team.
Kernel
You do the method work. We fit Pulses to it and connect it to the tools you already use.
Foundation
Worldview and Kernel as one project, with one team and one plan.
Platform
The software your method runs on. It comes with every service.
Worldview and Kernel joining into Foundation, which leads to the Platform

Choose how much of the work we do

Worldview

For firms that want the method built for them. We interview your people, study past projects and build your method into parts your team can run. Then we run your first project on it with you.

  • Your method, built into reusable parts
  • A map of the concepts your method depends on
  • Default Pulses and connections for that method
  • Twelve months of Platform
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Worldview + Kernel

Foundation

For firms that want the method and the software shaped together. One team does both, so nothing gets lost between a methodology consultant and a software agency.

  • Everything in Worldview
  • Everything in Kernel
  • One plan and one team
  • Twelve months of Platform
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Kernel

For firms that want to write their own method. You do the method work. We fit Pulses to it and connect the Platform to the tools you already use.

  • Pulses fitted to your method
  • Connections to your existing tools
  • Scoping, specification and build for each
  • Twelve months of Platform
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Questions founders ask us

What does each service do?

Worldview: we build your method for you. Kernel: you build it and we fit the software around it. Foundation: both, in one project.

Do you do it for us or with us?

We do Worldview for you, then hand it over by running your first project on it together. We do Kernel with you. Your firm writes the method and we shape the Platform around it.

When do the twelve months start?

The day your firm first logs in. After that, the Platform renews every twelve months.

Can we buy the Platform on its own?

No. It runs on a method, so it comes after Worldview, Kernel or Foundation.

Is the Platform finished?

No, and we'd rather tell you now. Founding firms start on the parts that are ready and get the rest as we build them, with a founder on hand the whole way.

What is the Early Access Program?

It's how our first firms work with us. A founder onboards you personally and stays your first call, and your feedback shapes what we build next.

What if a phase doesn't deliver?

Every phase has written acceptance criteria, agreed before work starts. If a phase misses them, we redo the work or refund it.

Who owns our method?

Your firm does. On the Platform, everything your people and Pulses read or write stays inside your firm's own space.

Who is this not for?

Commodity and generic firms who are not willing to invest in developing unique ways of solving problems in their field, firms that buy on price, and anyone who wants software to make their consultants' decisions for them. Worldview also takes real time from the founder, because you're the one who holds the method.

Early Access Program

Talk with us about one of your projects

Tell us how your firm works today. A founder will reply, and we'll walk through one of your own projects together.