Design | Produce

We ship the thing
the RFP was afraid to ask for.

Every engagement is an asymmetric bet: small stake, outsized return. IT consulting for nonprofits and government agencies working within real budget constraints.

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What We Do

Three ways in

Scoped work with clear deliverables and a fixed timeline.

Modernize

Systems & Case Management

Replace the spreadsheet-and-fax-machine workflow with a case management or data system your staff wants to open.

Migrate

Cloud & Infrastructure

Move off aging, unsupported infrastructure without the downtime, the surprise invoice, or the compliance gap.

Advise

Fractional CTO

Executive-level technology leadership and change management, sized to a budget that doesn't have a CTO line item yet.

How We Size the Bet

Scope, read like a payoff matrix

Every engagement gets sized before it starts. No discovery phase that quietly becomes the whole project.

Baseline

1–2 week engagement

Break-fix, a stuck integration, a report that's been due since March.

In Play

4–8 week build

A system integration or migration with a hard external deadline.

Epic

Quarter-plus modernization

Full platform rebuild. The work that changes how the org runs.

Outsized

Multi-year partnership

Embedded, ongoing, on call for whatever the mission needs next.

Who's Behind It

Built by someone who's sat in your budget meeting

Epic Underdogs is led by an IT leadership and change-management consultant who has spent a career delivering enterprise-grade work inside real government and nonprofit budgets.

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Reads the incentives

Every recommendation accounts for how people work

We design around how caseworkers, boards, and auditors behave in practice, not how the org chart assumes they should. Every claim we make gets a number attached.

We ship the thingthe RFP was afraid to ask for.