Cases · Ascend Griffin
What the work looks like — illustrative patterns.
These aren't reports about real clients. They're composite patterns from 8 years of work in IT — fintech, logistics, AI products, B2B SaaS, civic initiatives. No names; the mechanics are real. If you recognise your own pain in one of them, that's a sign it's worth a conversation.
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8 cases
The vendor vanished for 3 weeks — and half the product and every access credential were with him
How to regain control of a project when the external team goes silent and you have no passwords, no documentation, and no plan B.
A founder lets his CTO go and doesn't know whether the remaining team can carry on
How to move calmly through a change of technical lead — without stopping the product and without overpaying the next CTO twofold.
A logistics company pays a vendor $8K/mo and can't name what he does
How to check whether an external IT team is actually building something or just billing hours — without a falling-out and without breaking the contract.
An online store on an outdated platform for 6 years — rebuild everything, or keep patching?
How to choose between 'rebuild from scratch' and 'keep patching' — without emotion, based on the real economics of the business.
A vibe-coder founder built a fintech prototype over a weekend — and now can't launch it or hand it off
What to do when you've built a product yourself with AI, and now you don't understand whether it's safe or whether you can show it to your first customers.
A transport company wants to 'adopt AI' but can't name which process actually hurts
How to figure out where AI will genuinely help your business — and where it would just be an expensive toy with no return.
A non-technical founder spent 4 months explaining to developers what a 'smart recommendation' actually means
How to translate product intuition into a language developers can finally build from — so they ship what you actually had in mind.
A team won a digitalization grant and doesn't know how to spend the budget wisely
What to do when you have $80K and a deadline for a tech solution, but internally you're non-technical and the vendor market is a mystery to you.
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