Discovery, strategy, implementation and optimization, with success measures agreed up front.
How we work
Whichever practice leads the work, you know what happens next, who owns it and how it will be judged.
Four stages, every engagement
Whichever service leads, the work moves through the same stages, each with an outcome both sides agree on.
Discovery
We learn the business, the constraints and the outcome that matters before proposing anything.
- Interviews with the people who own the outcome
- A look at the systems and teams as they are today
- Constraints written down: budget, timing, compliance
Strategy
We design the solution and the roadmap with you, with success measures agreed up front.
- Options with trade-offs, not a single pitch
- A roadmap broken into stages
- Measures of success both sides sign off on
Implementation
We deliver in short increments: working software, and people who fit the team.
- Short delivery cycles you can see and test
- People placed into your team, not beside it
- Progress reported against the agreed measures
Optimization
We monitor, review and improve against the SLA, with quarterly reviews.
- Monitoring against the service levels
- A review with you every quarter
- Improvements planned from what the numbers show
Why one accountable partner
Usually each need is a different vendor, a different contract and a different phone number. When something goes wrong, they point at each other.
| Question | Several vendors | Oceanblue |
|---|---|---|
| Contracts to manage | One per vendor | One |
| Numbers to call | One per vendor | One team, one number |
| Who watches the systems | Whoever's contract covers that part | We do, with monitoring around the clock |
| Service level agreements | Several, none covering the gaps | One, covering all of it |
| Who owns the outcome | Each vendor points at the next | We do |
Engagement models
Five ways to work with us, from one specialist on your team to a team that owns the outcome.
| Model | Who directs the work | Who owns the outcome |
|---|---|---|
| ContractSpecialists join your team for as long as you need them, scaling up or down as the workload moves. | You | You, with our people accountable |
| Contract-to-hireProve the fit on a real deliverable before you bring someone on permanently. | You | You, with our people accountable |
| Direct hireWe run the search and vetting, and you make the permanent hire. | You | You |
| Project teamA team under an outcome-based statement of work: we own scope, staffing and delivery from start to finish. | We do | We do |
| Managed servicesWe run the work for you, measured against one SLA. | We do | We do, to the SLA |
Questions clients ask
What does Oceanblue actually do?
Five connected practices under one accountable team: IT staffing and talent, engineering talent and services, enterprise solutions such as cloud, ERP, Salesforce and AI, managed services, and training and upskilling. We serve enterprises and state government agencies across North America.
Read moreHow do engagements usually start?
With a discovery conversation. We learn the business, the constraints and the outcome that matters before proposing anything, then design the solution and roadmap together with success metrics agreed up front.
Read moreWhat engagement models do you offer?
Four: by the project, try before you hire, permanent hire, and a managed project team under an outcome-based statement of work where we own scope, staffing and delivery.
Read moreDo you work with government agencies?
Yes. We serve state government agencies alongside enterprise clients, and we are a certified MBE and WBE supplier, which counts toward supplier-diversity requirements in public procurement.
Read moreWhere are your offices?
Four offices across three countries: Powell, Ohio in the United States, Hyderabad and Vizianagaram in India, and London in the United Kingdom.
Read moreHow quickly can you provide a shortlist?
Typically within 48 hours of an agreed scope. The shortlist is curated to fit rather than padded to volume, and every candidate has been through technical screening plus background and reference checks.
Read moreHow do your engineers work with our team?
They are embedded with the client and accountable for the outcome, not working a ticket queue at arm's length. They carry real scope from the first week.
Read moreWhich engineering disciplines do you cover?
Nine: mechanical, electrical and electronics, structural and civil, aerospace, manufacturing and industrial, controls and automation, quality and reliability, power and energy, and communications and RF.
Read moreDo you support ongoing operations after a project ships?
Yes. Managed services covers monitoring, helpdesk and application support, cloud and infrastructure management and security monitoring, under one accountable SLA with quarterly reviews.
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Why clients choose us
What stays the same whichever service you buy.
- One team, one contract, one person who answers for it.
- One accountable partner
- NMSDC, State of Ohio and City of Columbus certifications, so programs with supplier-diversity goals can buy through us.
- Certified diverse supplier
- Our cloud, data and AI work runs on AWS, Snowflake and Databricks.
- Hands-on platform expertise
- From a single Ohio office in 2013 to delivery in the US, India and the UK.
- Thirteen years of delivery
Let's talk about
your requirements
One conversation covers people, platforms and operations. You talk to someone who can answer for all of it.