Tech and AI transformation
colayer takes the whole arc: assessment, target architecture, build, rollout, and a handover that leaves your team running it without us.
Selected transformation programmes
100+
Transformation programmes delivered
15+
Years running complex tech change
90%
Client NPS
30+
Countries rolled into live operation
The gap
colayer was built around a specific frustration: the gap between a transformation strategy and a transformation that actually happened, and the fact that no established model held anyone responsible for crossing it.
The analysis is usually right. Then the engagement closes, and the eighteen months that decide whether any of it actually happens begin without them.
Precisely the specification, including the parts that were wrong, because revisiting those was somebody else’s scope.
Strong people, often. Along with a coordination problem you did not have before, which is now yours to solve.
Each model is internally coherent. None of them owns the result.
We run programmes the way an internal team would if an internal team had this much pattern recognition: full target architecture decided first, iterative delivery toward it, the rollout and the change work inside scope rather than adjacent to it, and a handover with a date on it.
What ownership means here
A single senior lead drives the plan and the execution, near full time, for the life of the programme. Not a committee, not a rotating bench. One name against the outcome.
We fix the target architecture before anything gets built, then ship toward it release by release. No big bang, and no local optimisation you pay to unwind in year two.
Training, change management, market by market waves, live support. This is where most programmes quietly stall, so it sits inside our scope rather than next to it.
Runbooks, architecture documentation, your own people in the seats, and our run rate declining on a schedule agreed up front. The only engagement model we offer is one that ends.
What we take on
Replatforming, ERP and CRM programmes, data and BI foundations, legacy modernisation. Run as one programme with one owner, from assessment to live operation in every market.
Tech transformationFrom the first workshop to production systems that hold up under load, governance and audit. We build the cases that pay for themselves, and we say so plainly when a case does not.
AI transformationHow it runs
Every workstream runs the same cycle. The effort curve is designed to fall, not to compound.
Understand the real situation, decide the target, and produce a plan you can fund.
Build toward the agreed architecture, release by release, starting where it hurts most.
Get it into live operation across every market, with the people who have to use it.
Leave a team that runs it without us, and a run rate that goes to zero.
Workstreams (shop, OMS, ERP, data) are modular and start staggered, roughly a month apart, so senior capacity stays cleanly loaded and no single cutover carries the whole risk.
Track record
A headless, API first rebuild of Europe’s fastest growing mattress brand, rolled out across more than 30 countries without a single big bang cutover.
sevDesk, a leading German cloud accounting and tax software provider for small and mid sized businesses, was growing fast but running into technological scaling limits. We modernised the legacy stack and built the organisational structure for product led development.
A fast-growing D2C beauty brand selling through Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop and retail partners was running finance, product and inventory data across roughly 25 separate spreadsheets and tools. colayer is leading the target architecture, ERP selection and implementation.
How we staff it
Every programme is led by a senior transformation lead who stays with it from assessment through handover. Around that lead we assemble the expertise the work actually calls for: ERP and commerce architects, data and integration engineers, AI engineers, product managers, change leads. Specialists join when their workstream starts and come off when it no longer needs them, which is why the cost curve bends down rather than up.
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