A nationally recognized strategic innovation consultancy needed software engineering partners capable of executing high-complexity projects with quality and discretion, delivering results for institutional clients and portfolio startups without the development partner appearing in the chain.
Challenge
Act as an invisible engineering arm across multiple simultaneous contexts: institutional projects that were significantly delayed and needed to be unblocked, digital products built from scratch for ecosystem startups, and technical leadership in mixed teams with internal staff and freelancers, all to a high standard and without appearing publicly.
What Cubo9 did
Over 7 years, across multiple fronts:
- Major institutional portal: took over a project that was significantly delayed with no concrete deliverables, and achieved the first functional deliverables in just over 4 months, unblocking a critical relationship between the consultancy and a high-profile institutional client
- Hyperlocal news platform: full digital product development for one of the ecosystem’s startups, neighborhood and street-level coverage in Recife. Cubo9 acted as technical lead, participating in product decisions alongside the internal team and other collaborators
- Startup MVPs: development of minimum viable products for business hypothesis validation for portfolio startups
- Institutional websites: digital presence for the consultancy’s clients and startups
In all projects, Cubo9 never appeared publicly. We delivered results, not visibility.
Result
- Critical portal unblocked with first functional deliverables in 4 months
- Hyperlocal platform built and launched under Cubo9’s technical leadership
- Multiple MVPs and websites delivered across the ecosystem
- 7 years as one of the engineering partners for one of Brazil’s most relevant innovation consultancies