Tech advisory, solution implementation, AI rollout, website creation, all under one practice. Vendor-neutral, fractional-CTO energy, with a delivery team behind it.
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Service Engineering is Bluematter Labs' tech advisory plus implementation practice. We sit with SME founders and operators through technology decisions (CRM, ERP, AI, website) and then ship the rollout end-to-end, vendor-neutral, fractional-CTO energy, fixed-price after a brief.
Practice lead: Mel George · Founder & Forward Deployed Engineer
See what's inside ↓Sit alongside the founder or operator and figure out what to build, buy, or ignore. Tech roadmaps, vendor selection, build-vs-buy calls. Fractional CTO without the full-time bill.
You've decided to roll out a CRM, ERP, AI agent, or analytics stack, we run the implementation end to end. Setup, data migration, integrations, team training, go-live support.
Custom, SEO-friendly Astro websites from a one-pager to a content-led authority site. Built fast, yours to keep, engineered to rank and capture leads from day one.
Sales co-pilots, ops agents, document extraction, support automation, picked and rolled out from off-the-shelf tools (Claude, OpenAI, ChatGPT Team, Glean). No custom build required.
Tech audits, SEO audits, security reviews. Migrations off Webflow / Wix / Squarespace / WordPress with backlinks intact. Cloud-cost reviews. Honest reports, no upsells.
Onboarding your team to new tools (HubSpot, Notion, Airtable, AI assistants). SOPs, internal playbooks, recorded training. We leave when your people can run it.
Our job is to make the decision obvious, not to be the only people who can run the thing. We over-document and over-explain on purpose.
We don't take affiliate fees from any platform. The recommendation is what we'd choose if it were our money, usually the boring option that compounds.
If a Service Engineering engagement hasn't produced something live by week 10, we've failed. We're explicit about deadlines and what they're tied to.
One question, one decision
Half-day or one-day workshop on a specific decision, "which CRM?", "what's the AI rollout plan?", "how do we migrate off Webflow?". Output: a written one-pager with the call and the reasoning.
Scope
Light
Quoted per engagement
Fixed-scope rollout
A specific deliverable, quoted in writing. A new website. A CRM rollout. An AI assistant for ops. Audit + migration. Fixed price after a 30-min brief.
Scope
Scoped
Quoted per engagement
Fractional tech partner
Monthly retainer. We're alongside the founder or operator on every tech decision, vendor calls, build briefs, hiring, escalations. Like a fractional CTO with a delivery team behind them.
Scope
Retainer
Quoted per engagement
Custom-designed Astro websites for service businesses, consultants, advisors, tradies, agencies, clinics. SEO-friendly by default, yours to keep, no retainer.
One-pager that converts
Scope
Lean
Quoted per project
4–8 pages for local & service SEO
Scope
Standard
Quoted per project
10+ pages, blog, case studies, CRM integration
Scope
Custom
Quoted per project
Migrating off Webflow / Wix / Squarespace / WordPress with backlinks intact? Included. Get a quote.
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Product Engineering ships custom software, code we write for you. Service Engineering ships decisions and rollouts, strategy, tool selection, off-the-shelf implementations, websites. Most SME leaders need both at different times; we run them as separate practices so you only pay for what you actually use.
No. Consulting hands you a deck. Service Engineering hands you a working system, your new CRM with data loaded, your website live, your AI assistant deployed and your team trained on it. The advisory and the implementation are the same engagement.
A half- or one-day Workshop is our smallest engagement, useful when you need a written take on a single decision (CRM choice, AI rollout, migration plan). Implementation jobs run 1–8 weeks fixed-price after a 30-min brief. We're upfront if a problem is too small to be worth the overhead and will refer you out.
Regularly. If an off-the-shelf tool solves your problem and you don't need help configuring it, we'll point you there. We'd rather refer you out today and earn the bigger engagement when the problem grows.
Three website tiers sit under Service Engineering. Starter (one-pager), Growth (4–8 pages for local + service SEO), and Authority (10+ pages with blog, case studies and CRM integration). All SEO-friendly, all Astro-based, all yours to keep with no retainer. Quoted in writing after a 30-min brief, fixed price, no surprises.
Yes, the Embed tier is exactly that. A monthly retainer with weekly calls, decision support and delivery oversight. Think fractional CTO + a delivery team you can pull in. Quoted per engagement; cancel any month, no exit penalty.
A 30-minute brief is the fastest way to find out if we're a fit.