What Makes Us Different with Co-founder and CCO Andrew Strickland

Questions to ask a software partner

This archived company video features Code and Trust co-founder Andrew Strickland on what makes the company different. Alongside the video, use the questions below to evaluate how a software partner would approach your business problem.

The following is an editorial companion to the archived video, not a transcript.

Ask for specifics you can compare

A proposal is more useful when it connects technical work to an outcome. Ask a prospective partner to explain how they would learn about your users, test assumptions, and decide what belongs in the first release. Concrete examples can help you understand how a team works and whether that approach suits your organization.

• Request examples of comparable problems, including what changed after users tried the product.
• Discuss how design and engineering decisions will be explained, and how your team can give feedback.
• Ask what ownership, documentation, deployment, and ongoing support will look like for the agreed scope.

Compare answers against your actual needs: the people available to make decisions, the systems you must integrate, and the outcome you need to measure. Browse our case studies to prepare a more specific conversation about those tradeoffs.

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