Moonshots

by | May 1, 2025 | The Practice Gap

Fast Forward Banking

Moonshots

Aligning
Business and Tech:

The Moonshot Approach
to Innovation
in Software Delivery

Moonshot thinking can: Encourage teams to think bigger and transcend conventional boundaries.

But a moonshot is not for the faint of heart.

It’s not for lack of vision. Most leadership teams have a bold digital roadmap — one that redefines how liquidity, payments, or cross-border services will work in a real-time, API-first world.

But bold ideas don’t deliver results on their own.
They need Structure. Alignment. Momentum.
And the ability to turn ambition into action, fast.

The Problem with Most Moonshots

– Problems worth Solving

They’re designed by smart people.
Approved at the top.
Then they stall in the middle.

Why?

Because the day-to-day complexity of banking hits hard:

  • Legacy systems don’t cooperate
  • Tech teams and business units speak different languages
  • Testing takes forever
  • Staff are burnt out from “yet another transformation”
  • Everyone’s busy, but no one’s moving forward

How We Help Moonshots Land

Our work focuses on turning a bold strategy

into working product in just 90 days.

We partner with banks to deliver shippable, tested, and aligned MVPs that attract customers in a highly competitive environment.

It is all about what features and functions you deliver in your:

  • Liquidity & Cash Management
  • High Value Cross Border Payments and API interoperability

How you effectively meet tactical compliance of budgets and compliance.

Leveraging technology, specifically API interoperability, Platform-as-a-Service and microservices.

Leverage the architectures of ISO 20022, Open Banking, 3-layer API model (used in PaaS).

Most importantly how you use AI securely and ethically to improve software delivery so that it is better, faster, smarter, cheaper.

Here’s how we do it:

The Result?

A moonshot project
that doesn’t just
look good on slides.

  • It works in production and does not take a year and a big budget to complete.
  • We convert big thinking into practical steps of delivery.
  • You build internal confidence.
  • You deliver better, faster, cheaper.
  • And your bold strategy gains traction because it delivers results early.

Big Vision Doesn’t Require Big Risk

You don’t need 18 months and 5 consultancies to prove progress.
You need a small, focused, empowered team with the right tools – and the right delivery partner.

Ready to land your moonshot project?

We’d love to show you what’s possible with a 20-minute demo.

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