Campaign Journal
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Altiplano Labs is a small studio of senior program managers, product thinkers, and engineers. We ship our own products and take on a handful of client engagements a year — the kind that actually need done.
Backed by a decade in the room
What we're shipping
Three deliberate attempts to make a corner of software feel a little more crafted — each one built on the same bench as the consulting work.
Campaign management for tabletop RPG players and GMs. Rich notes, session tracking, and world-building in one place.
Team capacity planning built natively into Jira. Balance workloads and plan sprints with confidence, without leaving your tools.
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Consulting
We've spent a decade inside product orgs — cross-team chaos, stalled roadmaps, unclear ownership. We know what the mess looks like, and we know how to ship through it.
A small number of engagements per year means teams get full attention, not calendar crumbs between five other clients.
Let's talkStep into complex programs — unclear ownership, runaway scope, broken cross-team coordination — and bring structure without adding bureaucracy.
Help teams actually use AI and automation — picking the right tools, wiring them into real workflows, cutting through the hype to what measurably moves the work.
From 0→1 definition to untangling an overgrown backlog. Figure out what to build, in what order, and how to communicate it clearly up the chain.
Fractional EM or tech lead support for teams that need process, planning, and technical direction — without a full-time hire.
Hands-on building when you need it. Web apps, internal tooling, integrations — delivered clean and handed off properly.
How we work
Engagements run in weekly beats. Real material in your hands every week — code, decisions, docs — not status you have to decode.
Thirty focused minutes to understand the shape of the problem and whether we're the right fit. No deck, no follow-up sequence.
A short discovery to define the smallest piece of work that actually moves the needle — scoped so you can see the outcome.
Working material in your hands every week. Progress you can touch, not status you have to decode.
Document, train, hand off cleanly. The goal: a team that doesn't need us next quarter — and calls us back anyway.
The studio
Altiplano Labs is an independent software studio in Atlanta. We spent the last decade inside product organizations as program managers, engineers, and leads — the people asked to turn strategy into something that actually ships.
We started the studio to do that work on our own terms: fewer clients, more ownership, and room to build our own products alongside the consulting. Everything here comes from the same set of hands.
A small number of engagements a year means the ones we take get full attention.
Every engagement leaves something real in the ground — working software, a decision doc, a roadmap teams can follow.
Codebase, product spec, or cross-team process — the team should be more capable after we leave, not more dependent.
Get in touch
Tell us what you're working on. We respond to every message, and if it's a fit, we'll set up a call. No pitch decks or discovery questionnaires — just a conversation.
Based in Atlanta, GA · Remote and on-site engagements.