About
A senior-only practice, deliberately small.
Gateway Delivery Partners was founded on a narrow bet: that most programs in trouble need one experienced person with real accountability far more than they need a team of six with a methodology.
Matt House
Matt House has spent [NN] years leading delivery on large, contested programs — [sector one], [sector two], and [sector three] — in roles spanning [previous role] at [previous company] and [previous role] at [previous company].
The through-line is unglamorous: programs that were already in trouble when he arrived. Enough of them to have formed strong views about what actually turns one around, and about how much of standard program management is theatre performed for an audience that has stopped believing it.
He founded Gateway Delivery Partners in [year] to do that work directly, without the staffing model that makes most consultancies quietly reluctant to finish.
[Optional: credentials, degrees, certifications, board or community roles.]
How the practice is built
The commercial model is a consequence of the delivery model, not the other way round.
| Who does the work | The person you meet first. There is no bench, no pyramid, and no substitution partway through an engagement. |
| Capacity | Two active engagements at a time. Being full is a real constraint we will tell you about rather than work around. |
| Independence | No reseller agreements, referral fees, or implementation partnerships with any software vendor or systems integrator. |
| Specialist network | Where an engagement needs depth we do not have — a particular platform, a regulatory regime — we bring in a named associate and tell you exactly who and why. |
| Every engagement ends | A named end state and a named successor, agreed before we start. If we cannot describe how it finishes, we will not begin it. |
Why St. Louis
Because that is where we live, and because being local to a client is worth more in this kind of work than it is in most. Recovery engagements need a room, a whiteboard, and someone who can be there tomorrow rather than next sprint.
The practice serves clients across the Midwest and further afield, on site where it changes the outcome and remote where it does not. But the home base is real, and it is here.
The mark is two catenary arches, offset and crossing once — a nod to the Arch that stops well short of putting a riverboat behind it.
Next step
Worth a conversation?
Thirty minutes, no charge. If we are not the right answer for what you are facing, we will say so and point you at what is.