Your R&D org has scaled fast. Why is everything getting slower?
Kortaliya realigns R&D teams around strategy and customer signals, restores delivery predictability, and reconnects effort to outcomes, by fixing the operating model, not adding process.
Fix the model,
not the symptoms.
Fix the model,
not the symptoms.
FOUNDER KOREN AISENSTADT · VP & LEADERSHIP ROLES HELD AT
What you get
Tangible deliverables at every stage. Not frameworks, not theory.
Constraint Heatmap
Where your operating model breaks down: decision bottlenecks, queue buildup, coordination overhead. Mapped in one week.
Quick Wins
High-leverage fixes you can ship immediately. Changes that unblock delivery within days, not months.
Short-Term Fix Plan
Prioritized interventions for weeks 2–4. The specific changes that address your biggest constraints, with leading indicators.
Target State Roadmap
The operating model your org is growing into. A clear path from where you are to where you need to be.
Hands-On Implementation
Not a slide deck handoff. We implement alongside your team, staying in the work until the changes stick.
What changes
The operating model shifts that restore R&D momentum.
One R&D system, two ways the friction shows up
Kortaliya partners with both CPO and CTO because fixing one part shifts the bottleneck elsewhere. The scope is always the full R&D operating model, across Product, Engineering, Design, and Customer-Facing teams.
For the CPO: Signal-to-Investment & Learning Velocity
What breaks
- Decision architecture fails: unclear accountability, slow/absent trade-offs, rising decision latency
- Signal → investment doesn't scale: VoC, usage, and frontline input don't consistently become opportunities → priorities → discovery → delivery → outcomes
- Focus fragments: prioritization drifts into team/feature backlogs; PM time shifts to negotiation across silos; insights from Sales/CS/Support arrive late, noisy, or disputed
What changes
- A reliable loop with clear ownership and feedback loops: signals → opportunities → prioritization → discovery → delivery → outcomes
- Investment concentration on the top customer problems/opportunities
- Outcome ownership and decision rules (outputs → outcomes → business impact)
For the CTO: Delivery & Reliability Flow Under Load
What breaks
- Reliability load overwhelms capacity: incidents/escalations create interrupt-driven work and context switching
- Maintenance + debt become the growth tax: change becomes slower and riskier
- Flow collapses: dependencies and queues grow; work starts easily but finishes slowly; WIP and rework increase
- Governance drifts: engineering effort diverges from company priorities
What changes
- Structured maintenance and reliability workflows (less chaos, fewer interrupts)
- Reduced queues/dependencies and improved predictability
- Clearer decision rights and team interfaces so engineering effort aligns to company priorities
- Reclaim engineering capacity lost to unmanaged interrupts and “shadow work”
Start with evidence. Stop when you want.
Every step is gated. You decide whether to continue.
Diagnostic
You know exactly what’s broken, why, and what to fix first.
Operating model heatmap, top constraints, first fix plan
Interventions
The highest-leverage fixes are implemented and measured.
Implemented changes, leading indicators, before/after evidence
Embed
Your team runs the operating rhythm themselves.
Operating cadences, governance forums, capability transfer
Advisory
Ongoing 1:1 advisory for CTOs and CPOs. Sounding board, pattern recognition, decision support, without the overhead of a full diagnostic.
Structured kickoff + weekly sessions
Topics driven by what matters most to you
Typical: 4–8 sessions, renewable. Can evolve into a full diagnostic.