05 / HOW WE BUILD
A solution becomes a product once the need repeats.
Two ways in: a client pays for a build and others want the same thing, or a tool built for our own 375 consultants turns out to be every firm’s gap. Then it is extracted onto the shared layer with clean IP.
THE LOOP
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Design
Architected for the client’s constraints — and, quietly, for reuse.
INSIDE A RAVEN ENGAGEMENT
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Deliver or use
It goes live and sells again, or our own consultants run on it every day.
DEMAND TEST ON A PAID BUDGET
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Encapsulate
Four clients or teams, 70% of delivery repeating, two renewals: the core comes out with clean IP.
WHERE THE INVESTMENT GOES
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Productise
The five layers make it multi-tenant, metered, observable and secure.
WHERE THE INVESTMENT GOES
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Distribute
Raven accounts first, then direct, with partners extending the reach.
MARGIN FUNDS THE NEXT ONE
PART OF THE RAVEN GROUP
Raven is a 375-person consulting group operating worldwide. Five Layers is its software house: the same people, working on products instead of projects — and never selling services, so a partner never competes with us.
Practically, that means there are consultants in your country who know the product, can implement it and stay after go-live — a rare combination for software of this kind.
THE NAME
The name is an inventory, not a metaphor.
Most software companies name themselves after an idea. We named ourselves after the thing we actually own: five layers of platform — build, run, know, sell and hold — staffed once and inherited by every product in the house. Count them and the name is spent.
It is also why the economics work. A product team here does not rebuild single sign-on, billing or a compliance programme — it inherits five working layers and spends its time on the one part only it can build.
Five bars
One per layer. Not four, not six — the mark is the same inventory the name is, so it can be checked.
Widening downward
Each bar carries the ones above it. The lower a tier sits, the more of the house depends on it.
One blue base
The single accent sits on the foundation, never on the top: this is what everything rests on.
Right-aligned
Flush on one edge, the way a real structure is built against a wall — and the way our product brands sit against the platform without wearing its name.
NEXT
Tell us what you are trying to run.
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