The backlog isn’t a prioritization problem. It’s a capacity problem.
Engineering, Product Design, Research & Insights, and Security & Compliance handle the small but blocking work: PRs, interface specs, research reads, and security questionnaires. Your team reviews and approves before anything ships.
14 days or 10 deliverables, whichever comes first. No credit card.
You’re in the right place if…
- The backlog is a capacity problem, not a prioritization one.
- The landing page has been “next sprint” for a month.
- A security questionnaire is blocking a deal.
What you can brief this group to do
A landing page stuck in the backlog
Build a pricing-page variant with this copy and open it as a pull request.
A GitHub pull request, ready to review and merge.
A feature with no spec
Write the interface spec and flows for this feature.
An interface spec (docx) with flows.
A decision with no data
Pull trial-to-paid conversion by tier for the last two quarters and tell me if it’s down.
A short analysis (docx) with the real numbers.
A questionnaire nobody can answer live
Draft answers to this security questionnaire from our real data-handling facts.
A completed questionnaire (docx).
14 days or 10 deliverables, whichever comes first. No credit card.
How these departments work together
Engineering ships the change as a pull request, Product Design specs the interface, Research & Insights supplies the read, and Security & Compliance answers the questionnaire. Your team reviews and approves before anything merges or ships.
Engineering
Led by Hugo.
Engineering ships real product changes as GitHub pull requests your team reviews and merges — landing pages, fixes, and features. Hugo reads the repo's true state, branches, commits, and opens a PR; he never pushes to main or merges his own work.
Produces: Real GitHub pull requests — landing pages, fixes, features, full projects.
Product Design
Product Design specs the interface before it's built — flows, wireframes, and interaction detail — and reviews what ships against it. Brief the feature and get a spec engineering can build from.
Produces: Interface specs, flows, wireframes, design QA.
Research & Insights
Led by Pemberton.
Research & Insights owns the numbers you report on yourself — a SQL answer, a cohort read, a churn pattern, a source audit — so no page ships an unchecked stat. Ask in plain language and get the real number back.
Produces: Market scans, competitor audits, data reads, source audits.
Need this in your own environment?
Research & Insights runs inside Alyvon on your connected tools. If you need custom agents, data systems, or analytics workflows deployed in your infrastructure, that is Alyvon Analytics.
See Alyvon AnalyticsSecurity & Compliance
Security & Compliance answers the questionnaires that block deals and drafts the policies auditors ask for — control mapping, vendor reviews, and data-handling facts pulled from how you actually operate.
Produces: Security questionnaires, policy drafts, control mapping, vendor reviews.
How Alyvon delivers
Brief the Chief of Staff in plain language. It routes to the right Director and specialists, a Director reviews what comes back, and the finished file lands in your Library — with anything that sends, publishes, or spends held for your approval.
Works in the tools you already run
Alyvon connects to 1,000+ integrations — Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, GitHub, your CRM and ad platforms — so specialists act inside your systems, not a walled garden you have to export from. The output shows up where the work already lives.
The cost math
A hire for this work takes ~44 days to fill and ~$4,700 to recruit, then a salary line whether the work is steady or not (SHRM, 2025). A department is briefable today, and internal telemetry shows recurring work can run at model/runtime costs measured in dollars per week.
Figures are model/runtime cost, not total business cost; examples on this site use illustrative data.
Pairs with
Strategy & Leadership
The board deck, the model, and the monthly finance work that keeps getting deferred.
Brand & Content
Positioning, the words, and the announcements — all in one company voice.
Creative
Ad variants, campaign visuals, and product shots that look like your company.
Pricing
Starter includes core routing plus 2 selected departments, Growth plus 7, and Scale and Enterprise include the full Workforce. Creative carries separate add-on pricing.
Frequently asked questions
Four departments — Engineering, Product Design, Research & Insights, and Security & Compliance — with thirty-two specialists handling the small but blocking work.
Ship your first pull request this week.
14 days or 10 deliverables, whichever comes first. No credit card.