Engagement Models

Engagements for enterprise delivery.

Lightheart delivers defined workstreams within complex software programs. Strategic Workstream Delivery, Product Build Phase, and AI Delivery Sprint provide a clear scope for implementation, release, and handover within your governance.

Recommended

Strategic Workstream Delivery

For broader platform, DAM, integration, data, and AI-enabled programs that need specialist implementation ownership inside existing client governance.

Scoped workstream plan
Implementation ownership
Architecture and release alignment
Cross-team dependency visibility
Transition documentation and handover

Discuss your scope

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Product Build Phase

For teams with validated scope and a clear first-release or production boundary that now needs structured delivery, stabilization, and handover.

Production-ready product increment
Database and API integrations
User authentication and onboarding
Product design components where needed
Weekly progress updates
Launch stabilization and handover

Discuss your scope

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AI Delivery Sprint

For one clearly defined feature, integration, or release-critical delivery step that needs to move quickly under senior engineering oversight.

AI-assisted developer team
Clearly bounded delivery scope
Product and delivery alignment
Integrations and APIs
Weekly progress updates
Release checklist and handover

Discuss your scope

Additional expertise

Technical expertise alongside delivery.

Technical direction

CTO advisory

Support for technology leadership and program owners on architecture, priorities, and technical risk. The role fits within existing responsibilities and decision-making.

Technical strategy and architecture decisions
Engineering team structure, hiring, and mentoring
Technical risks, supplier choices, and investment priorities

Best for

Organizations that need additional expertise in technical decisions and governance

Discuss CTO support

Development leadership

Lead Developer as a Service

Hands-on technical leadership within an existing engineering team. Support with implementation, code reviews, technical planning, and release preparation within the program’s architecture and quality standards.

Hands-on development and technical planning
Code review, testing, and release preparation
Developer mentoring and practical team support

Best for

Engineering teams that need technical coordination and hands-on development expertise

Discuss lead developer support

What these engagements assume

For project delivery, we agree the scope. For ongoing technical leadership, we agree responsibilities, availability, and who makes which decisions.

✓The scope has one accountable decision-maker on your side.
✓You can provide timely access to the codebase, product context, and required systems.
✓Project work has an agreed scope; ongoing leadership has agreed responsibilities and availability.
✓Additional scope or major discovery gaps are surfaced before kickoff, not buried mid-engagement.

What you leave the first review with

The first review should produce clarity, not another vague next step.

A recommendation on the workstream, build phase, or delivery sprint that fits your program, with additional expertise where needed.
A clearer definition of the delivery milestone, workstream boundary, or blocking risk.
Visibility into what could change timing, scope, or delivery risk before kickoff.

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Need a tailored scope?

If your situation sits between the standard models, we can define a clear custom scope with explicit ownership, delivery boundaries, and handover expectations.

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