Rivac LabsProject Shepherd
Most delivery problems aren't technical — they're the handoff that never happened, the stakeholder who found out about a scope change two weeks late, or the dependency between two teams that nobody owned. This service assigns a single person to shepherd a project end to end across every function it touches — design, engineering, marketing, whoever's in the mix — keeping stakeholders aligned on status, decisions, and risk without you having to chase updates yourself. It's for projects with enough moving parts and enough stakeholders that coordination itself has become a full-time job nobody's officially doing. What you get is one throat to choke and one person who actually knows where the project stands at any moment.
How We’d Approach This
A clear, staged plan — not a black box
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Map every team, dependency, and stakeholder the project touches, and where coordination is currently breaking down.
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Shadow one active workstream to pressure-test a lightweight status and escalation rhythm.
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Review the rhythm with stakeholders and adjust update cadence and detail to what they actually need.
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Run ongoing cross-functional coordination, surfacing risks and decisions before they become blockers.
What You Get
Deliverables from this engagement
- A stakeholder and dependency map for the project
- A weekly status and risk reporting cadence
- A documented decision log and escalation path
- A single point of accountability for cross-functional coordination
Six Ways We Could Architect This
Different engagement, different build — pick the shape that fits
There’s more than one way to deliver on this service. Browse a few of the ways we’d structure the work, depending on your speed, budget, and integration needs.
Ready to get started?
Tell us what you’re trying to get done and we’ll help you find the highest-leverage place to start — scoped small enough to prove itself before you commit to anything bigger.
Talk to us about Project ShepherdMost engagements like this start as a $500–$2,500 pilot — see full pricing.