Gaylord Aulke
Founder & Lead Consultant
30+ years in software development. Startup founder, CTO, enterprise architect. I have led teams of 3 and teams of 60. Built systems from scratch and modernized systems that were a decade overdue. 100 DAYS exists because I got tired of watching consulting firms extend problems instead of solving them.
Outcomes over activity. No slide decks that collect dust. No advice from a distance. We work inside your team, set measurable goals, and plan our exit from the start. The point is not to stay. The point is to make your team strong enough that they do not need us.
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, DataCollect, Schmalz: every engagement centers on knowledge transfer. Your team learns while we deliver. When we leave, you own everything: the architecture, the methods, the infrastructure.
I work personally on every engagement. No sales rep sending juniors. No account manager who forgets your name. 100 DAYS is a person-led brand. My name is on the line. I take that literally.
THE NETWORK
The Network
100 DAYS does not keep consultants on a bench. We maintain a curated network of senior specialists, assembled for your specific challenge, not pulled from a pool of whoever is available.
Curated per Engagement
Every team is assembled specifically for your goal. No drawing from a bench. No "whoever is free this week." Specialists selected because they fit your challenge.
Senior Only
Every team member is a senior practitioner. No juniors learning on your dime. No trainees filling hours. If they work with 100 DAYS, they have done this successfully somewhere else first.
No Bench
No idle consultants waiting for work. No incentive to stretch engagements. When the goal is met, we leave, because nobody at 100 DAYS is sitting on a bench that needs filling.
FOR INVESTORS
Technology Operating Partner for PE/VC
For investors, we work as a Technology Operating Partner: hands-on, execution-focused, not just advisory. We assess the technology capability of the portfolio company and fix what we find in the same engagement: same team, from assessment to results.
The difference from traditional consultants: we stay until it works. No 200-page assessment that sits in a shared drive. Execution.
OUR APPROACH
What we're not.
We are not a staffing firm. We do not fill seats. We do not bill by the hour and hope you need us for as long as possible. That is not our business model. That is the business model of the firms we replace.
We do not sell people. We sell outcomes. The difference is structural: staffing firms earn more the longer their people sit with you. We earn trust by delivering and leaving.
Staff Augmentation
- Warm bodies to fill seats
- Bill hours
- Open-ended engagements
- No knowledge transfer in scope
- Whoever is on the bench
- Exit when your budget runs out
100 DAYS
- Senior specialists with a defined mission
- Measurable outcomes in 100 days
- Time-boxed iterations with review
- Knowledge transfer from the start
- Curated network for this specific goal
- Planned exit, before we begin
Body shopping creates dependency. We create independence. When we leave after 100 days, your team is not weaker but stronger. That is the entire point.