Fractional / Consultancy Services

Bring in decades of experience exactly where you need it: growth leadership, knowledge graphs and AI, localization operations, or software engineering. You get a senior practitioner who works as part of your team, owns the outcome with you, and hands back something your people keep running after the engagement ends.

These look like different problems. In our experience they are usually the same one underneath: the systems that carry your data, your language, your growth motion, and the software that runs them.

Often a fit for founders and leaders who have a clear problem and the budget for senior help, but not yet the case for a permanent hire.

What you can bring in

Engage one discipline or a few. Each is run by a senior operator who has done the work before.

• Fractional growth leadership. A Chief Growth Officer who owns the full growth surface: demand, acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, expansion, referral. Operated to a first result, then handed back as a motion your team runs. See Growth →
• Knowledge graphs and AI. Senior help getting your data ready for AI: knowledge-graph design, GraphRAG, and the architecture calls that decide whether an AI project ships or stalls. See Knowledge Graphs →
• Localization operations. Hands-on help scaling a localization programme: workflow automation, quality at volume, and tooling that takes the manual admin out. See KGMT →
• Software engineering and team extension. Pre-vetted engineers, architects, and QA who slot into your team and ship, delivered with our engineering partner, Instea. See Custom Software Development →

How it works

• Understand. We start with where you are and where you want to get to, before proposing anything.
• Embed. The operator works inside your tools and cadence, as part of the team.
• Operate or build. They run the function or ship the work, with you, against a number or a deliverable you both agree.
• Hand back. You keep a system your team can run without us. The asset outlives the engagement.

No pricing on the first call. We look at fit before terms.

Why fractional

• The scarce part is judgement. In our experience, execution has rarely been cheaper; deciding the right moves and owning them is the work. Fractional gives you that judgement without a permanent line on the payroll.
• Right-sized. Scale the engagement up when it matters and down when it doesn't.
• Accountable. An operator who owns an outcome with you and stays on the hook for it.

Where it fits, and where it doesn't

• Likely a fit if you have a specific problem and want a senior pair of hands to own it, you value experience over a playbook recital, and there is budget for senior help.
• Probably not the right call if you need a full-time leader in the room every day, if the goal is the cheapest possible execution, or if the work sits behind regulation that rules out an external operator. We will say so on the first call.

Proof

Work by LangOptima and our partners spans knowledge-graph analytics for Dow Jones Factiva (with Lead Semantics), a global automotive localization programme, an automated language factory for a non-profit, and platform engineering with Instea.

Tell us what you are trying to move.

One question for the first call: what needs to be true 12 to 18 months from now that is not true today?

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