Senior expertise.
Partnership pricing.
We embed as fractional CTOs, scrum masters, and product managers who are paid for outcomes — not hours. Toronto-based, globally experienced, and genuinely invested in your success. Plus free agile tools for your team: retrospective format picker, health check, and ceremony audit.
📅 Years
10+
🌐 Industries
5+
🔄 Repeat rate
3×
⚖️ Tech-neutral
100%
Dev Partner
Strategy to shipped product
Fractional Coach
CTO / Scrum Master on demand
Tech-neutral
Best tool for the job
Embedded team
Your people, amplified
Outcome-led
Metrics over activity
Global Reach
🇨🇦 Toronto · 🇨🇿 Mutěnice
What We Do
Product development partnership
& agile coaching for SMBs
We meet you where you are and take you where you need to go.
Product Development Partner
Your trusted technology strategy partner
Before a single line of code is written, we get into the weeds with you — reviewing your business processes, spreadsheets, and operations to find where technology can genuinely help. We're tech-neutral and don't recommend solutions to generate billable hours. Our bias is always toward simple, maintainable software that your team can understand and own for years to come.
- ✓Business & process review (including spreadsheets)
- ✓Technology opportunity mapping
- ✓Build vs. buy analysis
- ✓Simple, maintainable solution design
- ✓Ongoing strategic advisory
Product Development
Outsourced PM & engineering, fixed timelines
Need to ship? We take on the full product delivery role — from roadmap and requirements through to production-grade code. Engagements are fixed-duration with clear scope so there are no surprises on budget or timeline. We can cover product management, full-stack development, or both.
- ✓Product roadmap & requirements
- ✓Full-stack MVP to production delivery
- ✓Fixed-scope, fixed-timeline engagements
- ✓PM + engineering in one team
- ✓Developer team augmentation
Technical & Agile Coaching
Scale your teams — fractional leadership available
We embed with your team to build the skills, habits, and culture that make engineering organisations thrive. Whether you need a coach for your existing team or a fractional leader to fill a gap in your org chart, we bring the experience without the full-time hire cost.
- ✓Fractional CTO / CPO / Scrum Master
- ✓Agile transformation & Scrum adoption
- ✓Sprint facilitation & retrospective coaching
- ✓Team health & engineering culture
- ✓Technical mentorship & code review standards
5+
Industries served
Finance, Healthcare, Construction, Shipping & beyond
20–30%
Of full-time hire cost
Senior expertise. Fractional pricing. Zero recruiting lag.
Day 1
Time to impact
We embed fast — no lengthy onboarding, no ramp-up lag
Let's talk about
your next move
We embed as a true partner — fully invested in your outcomes, not just your deliverables. Tell us what you're working on and let's see if there's a fit.
Client Outcomes
What clients say
“The TechNest team was an exceptional business and technical partner from start to finish. Colin and Petr were a pleasure to work with, from initial product roadmapping through to app development, maintenance, and handoff. They helped our team hire our first software developers, and train them up on the stack. By the end of the project, we were fully and sustainably set up.”
Client — Finance Sector
CTO
“We originally contracted Colin to help us with processes and workflow. He provided practical exercises to rebuild our agile methodologies. This had a positive effect on both workflow and team culture. Our third project involved outsourcing a portion of development. Colin excelled at product management and Petr turned work around quickly. Highly recommended.”
Client — Construction Tech
VP Product
Free Tools
Tools for agile teams
Retrospective Format Picker
3 questions → the right retro format for your team, every sprint.
Pick your retro →
📊Team Agile Health Check
12 questions → scores across Delivery, Collaboration, Process & Morale.
Check your health →
🔍Sprint Ceremony Audit
15 yes/no questions → a ceremony-by-ceremony gap report.
Audit your ceremonies →
About TechNest
A decade building
products that matter
Founded in 2016, TechNest grew from a simple belief: technology should adapt to people, not the other way around. We bring a technology-neutral mindset to every engagement — startup or enterprise.
Based in Toronto and Prague, we serve clients globally across Finance, Healthcare, Construction, Shipping, and beyond.
Read Our Story →Strategy
We de-risk decisions with clear product thinking before a line of code is written.
Velocity
We remove blockers and install habits that let your team ship consistently.
Delivery
Full-stack engineering from MVP to production, tech-neutral and built to last.
Outcomes
We measure what matters — not just story points and deploys.