TDG works two ways. Some organizations need a specific problem solved in a defined window. Others need a sustained technical partner who compounds in knowledge and capability over time. Both are engagements we do well. The right fit depends on what you're building.
A senior, cross-functional TDG team embeds for a focused sprint — typically two to five months. We scope the work, manage the build, and hand off a running system. Fixed deliverable. Clean exit.
A TDG senior leader embedded as your fractional COO, CPO, or CEO — senior product and operational leadership without the full-time cost. Ideal for organizations navigating a critical transition, scaling a new program, or managing a leadership gap.
Take a TDG platform — Funding Scout, the Interview Guide, or a future product — and deploy a version configured for your organization's specific context, brand, and workflows. We build it, configure it, train your team, and hand it off.
Before a major build, most organizations need clarity on what they have and what they need. We embed a senior team to audit your existing data, systems, and workflows and deliver a prioritized roadmap with enough specificity to act on immediately. Often the right entry point before a longer engagement.
A focused build with a defined deliverable — a new platform, a major feature, a production-ready MVP. TDG assembles and manages a senior development team against a fixed scope and timeline.
Some problems aren't sprints. When an organization is building foundational technology — a platform that will evolve over years, a system that needs to grow with the mission — we become a sustained technical partner. We bring the same senior team, compounding domain knowledge, and a roadmap orientation that a short engagement can't provide.
This is TDG's most intensive engagement model. It's also where we do our most consequential work.
A long-term partnership isn't a bigger project sprint. It's a fundamentally different relationship — one where we're accountable not just to a deliverable but to the health and trajectory of the technology over time. We plan in quarters, deliver continuously, and carry institutional knowledge that no new vendor engagement could replicate.
Every paying client TDG has ever worked with has renewed their engagement. Three have been active for more than a year. That's not a coincidence — it's how we build relationships.
Global Nomads needed a funding intelligence tool built for their specific mission. TDG white-labeled Funding Scout — reconfigured with proprietary changes for their target funder landscape, focus areas, and organizational strategy — and gifted it to them. They own and operate it independently.
Classroom Champions had successfully acquired two organizations — including their brands, codebases, and user bases of 50K+ each — but the assets had sat in limbo for over two years. At the same time, the board had mandated a restructure of their program offering to break through a growth ceiling and scale.
TDG led a senior leadership retreat to do both at once: we took the acquired brands and technologies and built a SaaS-inspired business model around Classroom Champions' intensive, hands-on program — creating a top-to-bottom funnel that let the organization grow without compromising the integrity of what made it work. The engagement delivered a new business model, a restructured program architecture, and a strategic roadmap to execute it.
A pioneering research organization needed foundational technology that didn't exist — purpose-built for a forensic methodology with no software equivalent. TDG built the platform from scratch, then designed and delivered an AI intelligence layer on top of it. Now in year two of an ongoing partnership, with a roadmap that continues to evolve alongside the organization's research practice.
We don't do RFPs. We do honest conversations about what your organization is trying to build, what's blocking it, and whether TDG is the right partner. If you're not sure which track fits — tell us what you're facing and we'll tell you what we'd recommend.
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