Transform. Deliver. Scale.

Strategies don't fail.
Execution does.

We engineer the leap.

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Here's how

Everyone has a transformation roadmap. Almost nobody has the organization to survive it.

You've seen the playbook. Vendor evaluation. Center of Excellence. Dedicated team. Proof of concept. Scale. Rinse. Repeat. Regret.

It worked for cloud — eventually, after a few million in sunk cost and some reorganizations nobody put on their LinkedIn. Now the same playbook runs again with “AI” swapped in and a fresh set of sticky notes.

The strategy exists. The board approved the budget. The market window is open. What's missing is the operational muscle to actually ship — and no amount of alignment meetings will build it for you.

What we do

We don't advise from the sidelines. We embed in your organization and build the thing.

Delivery Organizations

You need a delivery engine that doesn't exist yet. We build it — structure, governance, hiring, onboarding, culture. We've scaled organizations from a handful of people to 450+ members. Then we hand you the keys.

AI & Cloud Transformation

Not the kind where a team of PhDs plugs an LLM API into your existing apps and leadership calls it innovation. The kind where you start with “what would we build today if we started from zero?” and work backward to where AI is the obvious answer.

Program & Portfolio Governance

The operating system your transformation runs on. Investment prioritization, cross-program dependencies, value stream mapping. The unsexy infrastructure that determines whether your ambitious roadmap ships or dies in quarterly reviews.

Exit & Scale Readiness

IPO prep. Pre-acquisition maturity. The operational due diligence that investors actually scrutinize — not your pitch deck, your delivery capacity. We build what they need to see, then we run the programs that prove it works.

Track record

We don't talk about it in the abstract. Some numbers from actual engagements.

450+
Members — largest delivery organization we've designed and scaled
$140M+
In funding milestones directly supported
$80M+
Portfolio value managed across capital markets programs
95%
Operating cost reduction through AI-powered enterprise automation
Enterprise · Retail · Consumer Products · Capital Markets · FinTech · GovTech · AgriTech · RPA  — Not a vertical shop. Operators who've delivered across industries where getting it wrong has consequences.

Partnership. Not the kind with a 200-page SOW.

We embed alongside your leadership. Same standups. Same steering committees. Same hard conversations about what's actually happening versus what the status report says.

We co-own delivery outcomes. That means we're accountable for the thing shipping, not for the hours billed. And we design every engagement to end — the goal is always to build an organization that makes us unnecessary.

If that sounds unusual for a consulting firm, that's because most consulting firms aren't built by people who spent their careers on the receiving end of consulting firms.

Founded by operators. The kind who've sat through enough alignment meetings to know they don't align anything.

Nick and Daniela Colea built MakeLeap because they kept seeing the same pattern: brilliant strategies dying in execution. Not for lack of talent. For lack of the delivery infrastructure, operational honesty, and sheer organizational muscle that turns a roadmap into a shipped outcome.

Between them: hyper-growth at UiPath from Series B through D. Enterprise transformation at Honeywell. Delivery organizations scaled to hundreds across AgriTech and GovTech. $80M+ portfolios in capital markets at Luxoft/DXC. Sovereign cloud infrastructure for government. ML solutions in production with measurable impact. They've also built and run their own product companies — from B2B retail to patented consumer electronics — so they know what it feels like when the delivery problem is yours, not a client's.

They've been the operators in the room when things went right — and, more usefully, when things went sideways. MakeLeap is what they'd want to hire if they were still on the other side of the table.

Nick Colea
Nick Colea
Co-Founder & Portfolio Strategy Director
Daniela Colea
Daniela Colea
Co-Founder & Delivery Director
Bucharest · London · Wherever the work is
Remote-first. On-site when it matters.

Let's talk.

If you're running a transformation and the gap between the plan and reality is getting uncomfortable — we should have a conversation. No pitch deck. No discovery workshop.

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