About

A small studio,
with senior operators.

Starsong Consulting is a small Berlin-based practice for product, engineering, and strategy. We work with founders, exec teams, and investors who care whether the thing actually ships.

The work

Three ways we engage, one operator.

Most consultancies either think strategically or build technically. We do both. The practice draws on interim CTO/CPO chairs (most recently at MedKitDoc, a medical-device platform under EU MDR), four-and-a-half years across McKinsey Design and McKinsey Digital Labs, a long-running partnership with Philipps & Byrne on technical due diligence, and ongoing open-source firmware work in e-mobility via Librescoot. The strategic frame and the production codebase are the same conversation.

The track record

Two decades across industries and stacks.

E-commerce platforms going back to founder-only days, healthcare and SaMD under EU MDR, public-sector and federal-agency engagements through McKinsey Design and Digital Labs, B2B trade platforms, and connected-vehicle firmware. The throughline is hands-on technical work paired with executive-level strategy. We've built and shipped the same kinds of systems we now advise others on, and we stay engaged through implementation rather than disappearing after the strategy is presented.

The people

Senior, hands-on, few.

Lena Reinhard
Partner, People & Organizations

Organizational psychology expert specializing in leadership development, inclusive cultures, and sustainable organizational transformation. Partner with Teal Bauer for comprehensive digital transformation that addresses both technical and human systems.

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Teal Bauer
Managing Director

Managing Director of Starsong Consulting. Two decades across e-commerce, healthcare, public sector, and regulated software. Most recent operating chair: interim CTO then CPO at MedKitDoc on an EU MDR-certified SaMD platform. Before that, four-and-a-half years across McKinsey Design and McKinsey Digital Labs. Computational linguist by training.

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Open source

What we give back to the toolset.

We maintain and contribute to open-source projects in the regulated-software, developer-tooling, and e-mobility space. See what we work on.

Curious how we work?

A 30-minute conversation. No deck, no follow-up sequence.