Engineering Leadership for Growing Companies
Union25 helps small and mid-size companies manage, assess, and elevate their existing engineering teams — and steps in as your fractional Head of Engineering or CTO when you need senior technical leadership without the full-time cost.
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Tell us about your team — we'll identify gaps and opportunities fast.
How we work together
Share your challenges
Tell us about your current team structure, delivery problems, and goals. No commitment required.
Engineering audit
We assess your team's skills, processes, culture, and delivery bottlenecks.
Tailored action plan
Receive a clear roadmap to improve team performance, hiring, processes, and output.
Our Services
We embed with your company to fix, improve, and lead your engineering function — whether you need hands-on management, a strategic audit, or ongoing executive-level guidance.
Team Management
Hands-on management of your existing engineering team to improve velocity, accountability, and morale. We step in as a day-to-day leader so your team has the direction it needs to deliver.
Team Assessment
A deep-dive evaluation of your engineers' skills, working practices, and team dynamics — with a clear, prioritised report and actionable recommendations you can act on immediately.
Engineering Best Practices
Introduce the standards that high-performing teams rely on: code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, testing culture, architectural patterns, and documentation practices that scale with your growth.
Product Development Best Practices
Align your engineering and product functions with structured agile delivery, roadmap prioritisation, sprint discipline, and feedback loops that keep your team shipping the right things.
Hiring Process & Team Selection
Redesign your technical hiring pipeline from the ground up — job specs, structured interview frameworks, technical assessments, and hiring criteria that consistently land the right people.
Fractional Head of Engineering / CTO
Get senior engineering leadership without the full-time cost. We provide strategic technical direction, stakeholder communication, and executive-level decisions on a part-time or interim basis.
Cross-Team Alignment
Bridge the gap between engineering and the rest of your business. We improve communication, shared understanding, and collaboration between your technical team and product, design, sales, and leadership — so everyone is pulling in the same direction.
Who We Work With
We work best with small to mid-size companies — typically 5 to 100 engineers — who are growing fast and need their engineering function to keep up.
Signs You Might Need Us
- → Engineering deadlines are regularly missed or estimates are wildly off
- → Code quality is declining and technical debt is piling up
- → You're struggling to hire or retain the right engineers
- → Your team has no clear technical leadership or direction
- → Product and engineering are misaligned and constantly clashing
- → Engineering feels siloed from the rest of the business
- → Processes that worked at 5 people are breaking down at 20+
What We Help You Achieve
- → A high-performing team that ships reliably and at pace
- → Clear visibility into your team's strengths, gaps, and growth areas
- → A hiring process that consistently selects the right engineers
- → Engineering best practices embedded into your day-to-day culture
- → Strategic technical leadership you can rely on and communicate to investors
- → A scalable product development process built for your next stage of growth
- → Strong alignment between engineering, product, design, and the wider business
Ideal for companies at Series A / B, or bootstrapped and scaling
Whether you're preparing for your next funding round, experiencing rapid headcount growth, or simply want your engineering team to perform better — we've been there and we can help.
Led by an Engineer Who's Done It
Union25 was founded by David Broadhurst, an engineering leader with hands-on experience managing, assessing, and scaling engineering teams at growing companies. David brings a practitioner's perspective to every engagement — not a consultant's. He's sat in the same seat you're in, and knows what it takes to turn a struggling team into a high-performing one.
Connect with David on LinkedIn →