Yabolt was founded by people who'd spent years inside larger consultancies and watched the same patterns play out, over and over again.
The patterns were always the same. A client would describe a problem. A 60-page proposal would describe a solution that was twice as complex as needed. The project would start with optimism, slow down in month three, and limp to a finish that pleased nobody. Eighteen months later, half the system would be quietly abandoned and the client would be sourcing a new vendor to replace it.
We thought there was a different way to do this. A small, senior team. A narrow set of disciplines we could be genuinely excellent at. Honest scoping. Real demos. No proposal theater. And — crucially — the willingness to say "this isn't a project worth doing" when that was the truth.
Six years in, the model still works. We've stayed small on purpose. We've turned down work that didn't fit. And we've built long relationships with clients who came to us with one problem and have come back with five more, over years.
That's the company. That's all of it. No unicorn ambitions. No exit story. Just engineers doing focused work for businesses we genuinely respect.