For Engineering Leaders
Transform Your Engineering Team Into a High-Performance Machine
For VPs of Engineering at growth-stage startups: Reduce operational toil, improve DORA metrics, and build the engineering culture your team deserves.
What do engineering leaders actually get from working with Pilotcore?
A measurable drop in toil, predictable deployment pipelines, and a platform your developers can self-serve. We embed with your squads, ship the guardrails, and hand you a runbook plus the metrics to prove it.
Who This Applies To
VPs of Engineering, Heads of Platform & DevOps, CTOs at Series B+ companies
Timeline
90-day platform & process rollout with visible ROI every 3 weeks
Investment Range
$18K assessment → $45-90K rollout → optional $12-20K/mo advisory retainer
Timeline & investment
Your Engineering Transformation Roadmap
Share this with product, finance, and platform leads so everyone knows what happens when.
Weeks 1-3
Assessment & scorecard
- • DORA benchmark, toil analysis, and developer experience survey.
- • Executive briefing + prioritized transformation roadmap.
- • Quick wins backlog aligned with squad structure.
Investment: $18K-$25K
Weeks 4-10
Platform & process rollout
- • Platform engineering pods, self-serve IaC, and CI/CD guardrails.
- • Incident response playbooks + observability baseline.
- • Enablement sessions to embed new rituals and KPIs.
Investment: $45K-$90K
Weeks 11+
Scale & handoff
- • Developer portal, golden paths, and internal advocacy program.
- • Executive dashboard with weekly KPI review.
- • Transition plan + optional advisory retainer.
Investment: $12K-$20K / month
Give Every Stakeholder the Narrative They Need
Engineering transformation only sticks when execs, platform, product, and finance move in lockstep.
VP Engineering / CTO
Get your time back
- • Roadmap tied to DORA + business outcomes you can show the board.
- • Toil reduction quantified so you can justify platform investment.
- • Weekly exec-ready updates so there's no surprise cost.
- • Clear exit criteria to hand back ownership to your teams.
Platform & DevOps
Help your engineers ship faster
- • Reusable modules, playbooks, and golden paths your team controls.
- • Hands-on pairing + documentation for every new capability.
- • Monitoring + incident response tuned to your stack.
- • Change management support to drive adoption.
Product & Finance
Predictable delivery with measurable ROI
- • Sprint velocity, QA cycle, and incident MTTR all tracked weekly.
- • Cost model showing how platform work defers headcount.
- • Impact narrative for product roadmap and budget planning.
- • Communications kit to keep non-technical stakeholders aligned.
Your Engineers Are Drowning in Operational Work
While your competitors ship features daily, your team is stuck fighting fires, managing infrastructure, and dealing with deployment bottlenecks.
Challenge
Engineers spending 60%+ time on operations instead of features
Our Solution
Platform engineering approach that automates infrastructure and enables self-service
Challenge
Slow deployment cycles blocking product velocity
Our Solution
CI/CD optimization and progressive delivery strategies
Challenge
Frequent production incidents and long recovery times
Our Solution
Observability, chaos engineering, and blameless post-mortems
Challenge
Difficulty scaling engineering team effectively
Our Solution
Developer experience improvements and standardized tooling
Readiness triage
Engineering Enablement Readiness Estimator
Plug in a few details and we'll recommend the engagement model, timeline, and stakeholder brief you need to align leadership.
Recommended engagement
Timeline & KPI horizon
Includes cadence of demos, retros, and platform ship dates.
Stakeholders to brief
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Engineering Teams That Work With Us See
Measurable improvements in the metrics that matter
Reduction in Operational Toil
Deployment Frequency
Mean Time to Recovery
Time on Infrastructure
What Elite Engineering Teams Do Differently
Platform Engineering Focus
- Self-service infrastructure provisioning
- Automated environment management
- Golden paths for common tasks
Engineering Excellence
- Deploy multiple times per day
- Sub-hour incident recovery
- Engineers focus on business value
How We Transform Engineering Teams
A proven approach to building high-performance engineering organizations
Start With a Free Engineering Assessment
Get a detailed analysis of your team's current performance and a custom roadmap to achieve elite DORA metrics.
- Benchmark against industry DORA metrics
- Identify your biggest improvement opportunities
- Get a prioritized transformation roadmap
Why Engineering Leaders Choose Pilotcore
Data-Driven Approach
Every recommendation backed by DORA benchmarks and business KPIs
Embedded Partnership
We work alongside your squads, building the platform and transferring ownership
Measurable Outcomes
Toil %, deployment frequency, MTTR, and change failure rate tracked weekly
Two Ways to Move Forward
Need an executive-ready plan or just want to scope the work? Pick your starting point.
Paid · Credited Toward Delivery
Engineering Readiness Review
60-minute session covering current KPIs, platform gaps, and a 90-day enablement plan.
$950 USD
Credited toward platform engagement if you start within 45 days.
Free · Low Friction
Engineering Ops Starter Kit
Includes KPI scorecard template, platform playbook outline, and change management checklist.
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