Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
You should not buy a home without an inspection by a licensed home inspector and you should not buy a used car without having a mechanic check it out for you.…
If you have a premium product, at a premium price, it’s unlikely you would sell it out of a rundown, poorly lighted store that smells vaguely like stale meat.…
The rate of involuntary turnover for the senior executive running technology and engineering in a company is unfortunately high, with most senior technology…
Technical Due Diligence: Did We get it Right? AKF Partners have performed 100s of technical due diligence engagements on behalf of strategic investors,…
Three Reasons Your Software Engineers May Not Be Successful At AKF Partners, we have the unique opportunity to see trends among startups and…
Results = Results Apple, Google, and Amazon don’t exist based on a Utopian promise of what is to come – though certainly those promises keep their…
Intro: Capturing user intent sounds simple: listen, interpret, act. But in real systems, user input is messy, incomplete, and sometimes misleading.…
For years, we accepted a simple truth: If users wanted to get something done, they had to know how to navigate the system. Need a new customer invoice?…
Leadership has been studied, dissected, and redefined countless times throughout history. Various models attempt to categorize different leadership styles, but…
Why This Matters Adoption of large language models (LLMs) is accelerating rapidly—not just because of ChatGPT, but because the broader landscape of generative…
We were brought in by a leadership team that believed their engineering organization was falling short. From their perspective, the teams weren’t moving fast…
One of the first topics we teach in our CTO Accelerator workshops and webinars is speaking the language of the business. This article provides an example how…
