Garrett Winder and Iain Harper

Be better
than good.

Better Than Good is the business strategy and technology consultancy of Garrett Winder and Iain Harper. We solve problems across process, design, code, and AI, with two generations of experience to help organizations run better.

Garrett Winder and Iain Harper

Our capabilities

Every engagement follows the same discipline. Diagnose the problem, define the strategy and build the solution.

BTG/digital

Our in-house branding, design and technology studio. When our consulting capabilities point to a build, BTG/digital delivers it. Same team, no hand-offs.

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Enterprise-grade ops at a scale that fits your business and budget

Large consultancies developed their methodologies for enterprises with seven-figure transformation budgets, leaving the rest of us to make do with piecemeal advice or figuring it out ourselves.

We took the disciplines that make that work worth paying for, stripped out the layers that make it expensive, and built a practice that delivers the same quality and intellectual rigor for organizations of all shapes and sizes.

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Latest insights

  • The trust problem that you already solved

    Every developer who has spent time with AI coding tools carries the same low-grade anxiety. You ask the model to build something, it hands you back a file, and then you stare at it like a customs inspector wondering whether the suitcase has a false bottom. Line by line, function…

  • The flatness of the machine

    You can feel it before you can name it. A paragraph arrives, fluent and frictionless, and something in the back of your reading brain flinches. The sentences are grammatically flawless, the structure orderly, the tone warm but not too warm, authoritative but not too authoritativ…

  • Software was never meant to last forever

    There is a particular kind of frustration that anyone who has worked inside a mid-sized organisation will recognise. You are eighteen months into a Salesforce implementation. The original scope was clean and reasonable. But somewhere around month four, somebody realised that you…

  • The vibe coding spectrum: from weekend hacks to the dark factory

    A year ago, Andrej Karpathy posted a tweet that would come to define how an entire industry talks about itself. “There’s a new kind of coding I call ‘vibe coding,’” he wrote, “where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” He d…

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