Private client

The situation found

The client, a music manager and entrepreneur based in Dubai, had a business he wanted platformed and no appetite for the agency route. The first agency quote was heavy enough to make the whole project look questionable.

The project needed someone on his side of the table: technical enough to scrutinise every line of that quote, close enough to protect what the platform was actually for. The client stays unnamed here by agreement, which is part of the point.

The operation built

I flew out, sat with the process the platform had to carry, and turned it into two things: a visual concept the client could react to before any code existed, and a technology-agnostic brief that let any competent team quote accurately against the same document.

With comparable quotes on the table, I sourced and vetted the development talent directly, then ran communication both ways for the length of the build: the client never fielded a technical question, and the developers always had fast, direct answers from someone who understood both sides.

What it runs like now

The platform was delivered with £100k saved against the agency quote, my fee included, without the client managing a single developer conversation. The engagement is private, the method is not, and the platform is still running today.