Sometimes you do not need another project. You need a second opinion you can trust, on a regular basis.
Digital Consulting & Workshops
Technical and design reviews, roadmap support and team workshops for organisations building digital capability in-house.
- Timeline
- Ongoing, minimum three months
- Investment
- From R12 500 per month
- Timeline
- Ongoing, minimum three months
- Investment
- From R12 500 per month
- Good fit for
- In-house teams without a senior design or front-end voice
- Founders who need a technical sounding board that is not selling them a build
- Organisations rebuilding their digital function
Sometimes you do not need another project. You need a second opinion you can trust, on a regular basis.
Plenty of teams have the talent already and are simply missing the outside perspective that stops a good idea being quietly diluted through six rounds of internal review, or a technical decision being made because it was the first one suggested.
Typical shapes: a monthly design and code review with your in-house team; a quarterly digital health check across performance, accessibility, SEO and security; hiring support for design and engineering roles; or a two-day intensive that gets a stuck product moving again.
I also run practical workshops on design systems, accessibility and shipping faster, built for the specific team in the room rather than delivered off a shelf.
Exactly what lands in your hands
Everything below is included as standard. Anything outside it gets quoted separately before we start, never after.
- 01Scheduled design and code review sessions with written feedback
- 02Product, performance and accessibility audits with prioritised fixes
- 03Facilitated workshops, on site or remote
- 04Hiring support: briefs, portfolio review, technical interview panels
- 05Design system and engineering process documentation
- 06Vendor, stack and agency selection advice
- 07Quarterly written health check
- 08Direct access between sessions for quick calls
Five phases, in this order, every time
You will always know which phase we are in and what is needed from you to close it.
- 01
Baseline
An honest audit of where the product is now and what is actually holding it back.
- 02
Agreement
We set the cadence, the scope and what success looks like in six months.
- 03
Sessions
Regular reviews with written notes, so decisions survive the meeting.
- 04
Interventions
Workshops or short sprints wherever the review keeps finding the same blockage.
- 05
Review
A quarterly look back at what moved, what did not, and what the next quarter should target.
About this service specifically
General questions about fees, ownership and revisions are answered on the FAQ page.
Is there a minimum commitment?
Three months. Less than that and there is not enough time to see whether anything actually changed.
Can consulting turn into a project?
Frequently. Where it does, the consulting fee for that month is credited against the project.
Other ways to work together
- Web Design & DevelopmentMarketing sites, portfolios and online stores: designed, built and handed over ready to run.
- App DevelopmentWeb apps, progressive web apps and cross-platform mobile builds, from MVP through to a product you can staff.
- UI/UX DesignResearch, flows, interface design and design systems for teams who need the product to make sense before it gets built.
- Brand & Graphic DesignLogos, identity systems, decks, social templates and print: the visual layer that keeps everything looking like one company.
- Hosting, Care & SupportManaged hosting, backups, updates, monitoring and a monthly block of change hours, on four plans you can compare side by side.
Thinking about digital consulting & workshops? Let's work out whether it's the right spend.
Typical engagements run ongoing, minimum three months and start at R12 500 per month. Send a brief and you'll have an honest answer within two working days.
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Bonolo Mathabela · Designer & Developer · bonolomathabela.com