Boutique technology consulting since 2016
Cohesive Technology Ltd is a boutique technology consulting company founded in 2016, specializing in helping businesses and investors navigate complex technology challenges.
Cohesive Technology is deliberately small. When you engage us, Rory Gibson does the work — not a graduate analyst, not a panel of associates whose names you'll never learn. That's how a boutique pays for itself: senior eyes on the actual problem, faster turnaround, no escalation chain.
We focus on technology due diligence, private equity portfolio advisory work in technology, fractional CTO and CPTO services, and general executive technology consulting. Our approach combines strategic thinking with practical, hands-on experience to deliver real results.
Rory Gibson is the founder and Managing Director of Cohesive Technology. With 25 years of experience in technology and over 13 years as a CTO/CPTO, Rory brings deep expertise across development, architecture, team leadership, agile practices, and strategic technology planning.
Rory has worked across multiple sectors including public sector, agencies, startups, gambling, fintech, marketing tech, big data, and enterprise software.
Since 2002, we've been advocates of agile methodologies and XP practices. We believe in the agile manifesto more than commercialized methodologies like Scrum or SAFe. Our approach is to look at technology and people problems from first principles, always starting by simplifying wherever possible.
Great software is made by teams; our job is to make yours work better, not to install a parallel one.
We practice Radical Candor — kind, honest, helpful. Our reports tell you what we think, not what's safe to write.
We approach problems from first principles. Often the right answer is to do less, not more.
We help write the independent guides. Cohesive co-sponsors technologyduediligence.net and technologyadvisoryboard.net — neutral resources for founders, boards, and investors. The guides exist to make the work better-understood across the industry, including by competitors of ours; that's the point.
We've worked with a diverse range of clients including Dstny, Kaiko, Thortful, Azur, TUBR, Reframe, Luno, Sky Betting & Gaming, Flashpack, Qwist GmbH, HSBC, Seccl, and CLEO Systems.