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Build the Practice, Not Just the Backlog
Your team can ship today. What it cannot do is the next thing leadership is asking for: own the design system, run agentic delivery, hold the line on a modern frontend practice, operate a DesignOps function across brands. Most consultancies sell training. We sell a different shape: coaches embedded in your real product work for six to twelve weeks, building the thing that matters next quarter alongside your team. The capability gets installed in the codebase, not in a binder. Bring us the practice that's stuck and we'll show you what a dojo looks like inside your team.
6 weeks
Global Figma + DesignOps transformation rolled out across The North Face's design org
Owned after handoff
Avinode, The North Face, Springboard — internal teams kept shipping the practice on their own
What changes when capability is built in the codebase
Most engineering capability work follows the same shape: a workshop, a deck, a Q4 retrospective in which the team admits the practice never stuck. The dojo model is structurally different. Three things change as soon as the coaching happens inside the work, not next to it.
Dojo, not classroom
Capability transfers in shipping, not in slide decks. We embed coaches alongside your team in your real product work — designing the system, writing the components, owning the operating model — so the practice gets installed by doing. Bring us the part of the practice that's stuck and we'll show you what a dojo looks like in your codebase.
Coaches who code
Our coaches are practitioners. They wrote the components your team will inherit, ran the dojos that levelled up our other clients, and ship under the same constraints your team operates under. Not advisors next to the work; collaborators inside it.
Practice that compounds
Avinode, The North Face, Springboard. The engagement ends, the team keeps shipping. The dojo isn't training-as-a-line-item; it's a way of working that compounds across releases. Ask us how we'd structure the engagement for your team's specific bottleneck.
The practice doesn't transfer in a slide deck
Most engineering capability work fails the same way. A consultancy comes in, runs workshops, ships a deck, and leaves. Six months later the team is back to its old habits because the practice never made it into the codebase. The frameworks were learned, not lived. The skills atrophied because the work that would have used them was already shipped.
We built our talent practice the inverse direction. Designing-a-Dojo, Staffing-a-Dojo, Operationalizing-a-Dojo are how we structure the engagement: real work, real code, real product, real coaches sitting next to your team while they build the thing that matters next quarter. The frameworks transfer because the team uses them on Monday morning, not in a Q4 retrospective. If your team is missing a specific capability — design system ownership, modern frontend practice, DesignOps, the operating model that makes the practice stick — that's the conversation worth starting.
Capability we've built alongside teams
Avinode
A design system foundation in 6 weeks
How we built a scalable design system foundation for Avinode in 6 weeks, unifying global teams and accelerating development across their aviation platform.
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The North Face
The North Face: Global Figma Training & Design Ops Transformation in 6 Weeks
How we helped The North Face's global design teams streamline operations, standardize workflows, and accelerate campaign delivery through strategic Figma adoption.
Case Study
Springboard
We helped Springboard build 10 design components in 5 weeks
We helped Springboard build 10 design components in 5 weeks.
Case StudyCapabilities behind the work
Talent Development
Talent Development
Build a stronger talent bench with immersive, hands-on learning models.
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Design Systems
Design Systems
Build a design system that helps teams ship on time and on brand.
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Agentic Product Engineering
Agentic Product Engineering
AI-augmented engineering workflows that ship production systems in weeks, not quarters.
See how we helpIf your capability problem is shaped a little differently
Capability gaps don't always show up as a training need. They sometimes look like a design system that won't scale, a stack that can't carry the practice, or a product that needs the loop to keep evolving. If your starting point is one of those, begin there and we'll fold the dojo work in when it lines up.
The capability gap is specifically a design system or DesignOps problem?
Scale design
Need the capability to keep going after the modernization ships?
Modernize your stack
Practice in place — now you need a loop to keep evolving the product on top of it?
Agentic product evolutionPractice stuck? Team plateaued?
Tell us where the practice is stuck. We'll bring the coaches.
Bring us the capability that isn't landing — design system maintenance, modern frontend practice, DesignOps, the operating model that makes the rest stick. We'll come back with an honest read on whether a dojo is the right shape, what a six-week immersion would look like for your team, and what we'd hand off when we leave. No deck-ware.
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