Welcome to Five²!
At Five Squared, our mission is to empower businesses of all sizes to navigate the challenges of rapid growth, modern technology adoption and business optimization required to achieve sustainable success. We offer specialized services such as fractional CTO engagements, strategic consultancy, comprehensive solution delivery and demonstrating what good can look like using our innovative Lighthouse Initiative framework.
By leveraging technology effectively, we help you drive sustained business agility through tailored strategies and cutting-edge solutions, maximizing value delivery in your business.
Our goal is to harness the full potential of your organization, setting you on a path to outshine competitors and thrive in the modern marketplace. Join us on this journey to transform your ambitions into achievements.
How Can We Help You?
Five² offers a versatile range of engagement models tailored to meet your unique needs:
- Founders Seeking Guidance: Whether you need strategic advice or hands-on support, our consultancy services and fractional CTO engagements are designed to navigate your startup through its pivotal stages.
- Senior Technology Leaders in Need of Support: Our suite of services for technology leaders includes bespoke consultancy, comprehensive health checks with actionable recommendations, and flexible Time & Materials (T&M) services to address specific challenges.
- SMEs Confronting Scaling Hurdles: Scale with confidence as we guide you through the complexities of growth, offering strategic insights and practical solutions to overcome your scaling challenges.
- Boards of Directors Seeking Strategic Insight: For boards aiming for a holistic and unbiased analysis, Five² delivers strategic business and technology roadmaps, assessing your current landscape to chart a path forward that aligns with your organizational goals.
- Technologists Passionate About Change: Join our community of change-makers in our Meetups and Business Improvement sessions to share insights, learn, and grow together in the ever-evolving technology landscape.
- Fractional Leadership: Access high-level expertise without the cost of a full-time hire. Our fractional CTO services provide strategic guidance and hands-on support to help your business succeed.
- Lighthouse Initiatives: Showcase new technologies, working practices, and delivery methodologies. These timeboxed projects demonstrate what is possible to existing teams, driving innovation and adoption.
- Consultancy Services: Our consultancy and advisory services offer strategic insights and practical solutions to overcome your technology challenges. We also host local "Office Hours" Meetups in San Diego to support the local business community.
- Technology Solution Delivery: From cloud adoption and migration to software automation and continuous delivery, we have the expertise to deliver high-performance, highly available web applications and services.
The Five² Pillars
At Five², we believe in the power of principles to drive successful business initiatives. Through years of pioneering business and technology change at the enterprise level, we’ve crafted an adaptive and iterative method based on a set of guiding principles contained in Five Pillars:
Build Things Better by empowering those doing the work to make decisions, streamlining organizations to enhance responsiveness, fostering small, empowered, and high-trust teams, cultivating continuous learning and growth, and encouraging cross-functional collaboration.
Make Time-to-Value an Obsession by aligning closely with customer needs for better value delivery, embracing flexible planning and focusing on outcomes, optimizing value streams for efficiency, seeking rapid feedback for continuous improvement, and measuring success by outcomes, not outputs.
Accelerate Safely and Securely by integrating security into all aspects of operations, maintaining high standards of quality, embedding compliance into organizational culture, prioritizing system stability, and ensuring services are reliable and consistently available.
Cultivate Happy, Productive People by providing a clear sense of purpose and direction, building trust and mutual respect, promoting accountability and ownership, recognizing and rewarding contributions, and leading with empathy and commitment to growth.
Embrace and Implement Modern Technology by fostering an innovative mindset, choosing simplicity in technological solutions, leveraging automation for efficiency, adopting cloud technologies strategically, and integrating AI/ML to stay competitive.
Start Your Journey with Five²
Choosing Five² means opting for a partner that sees beyond conventional frameworks. Our principles-driven, customized approach aligns with your unique business needs, driving sustainable growth and innovation. We offer specialized services including fractional CTO engagements, strategic consultancy, comprehensive solution delivery, and our innovative Lighthouse Initiative.
By leveraging technology the right way, we drive sustained business agility, ensuring impactful progress tailored to your business. Contact Five² today to start your journey of innovation and growth. Let's shape the future together.