About Cooper Agile

Serious engineering. Personal commitment.

Cooper Agile brings together practical business understanding, senior technical thinking and a disciplined approach to delivery. We help organisations improve the systems they rely on, connect the tools they already use and turn new technology into useful capability.

ReliabilityConsistent, high-quality service delivery.
Technical excellenceCurrent knowledge and best practices, applied pragmatically.
Long-term partnershipLasting relationships, evolving with your needs.
Our story

A clearer route from ambition to working results.

Cooper Agile was founded by Troy Changfoot around a straightforward idea: businesses need a clearer route from technical ambition to working results.

That means understanding the problem, choosing the right approach and staying accountable through delivery and handover. Whether the next step is an automation, an integration or a wider platform improvement, we organise the work around a defined outcome.

Leadership

The people behind the practice.

Troy Changfoot

Founder & Managing Director

Troy connects business needs with hands-on engineering. His work spans business applications, integrations, automation and operational platforms, with a focus on making complex systems more useful to the people who depend on them.

At Cooper Agile, he shapes the business direction and delivery approach, translating ambitious ideas into practical, measurable steps.

Explore Troy’s career and project portfolio →

Neil Riedel

Founding Partner & Technical Director

Neil brings an enterprise engineering perspective to Cooper Agile’s technical direction. His focus is architecture, engineering quality and practical decisions that connect immediate needs with long-term ambitions.

Troy and Neil’s longstanding friendship provides a foundation of trust and candid discussion. Their ambition is to bring that same openness and commitment to the way Cooper Agile works with clients.

The method

FORT, in brief.

Every engagement — from a two-week cycle to a programme of linked FORTs — runs through the same four moves.

01

Frame

Define the problem, baseline, constraints and acceptance criteria.

02

Orchestrate

Assemble the people, systems and tools needed.

03

Realise

Build, integrate and test the agreed capability.

04

Transfer

Deploy appropriately, document, train and hand over.

Working principles

How we hold ourselves accountable.

Start with the business problem.

Technology is the means. The outcome your business needs is the definition of done.

Make progress visible.

Show working improvements, supporting evidence and plain-language status against the agreed outcome.

Match the solution to the scale.

Reuse working systems where practical. Choose the smallest change that meets the agreed business need.

Keep people accountable.

Named ownership, agreed acceptance criteria and traceable decisions, start to handover.

Leave the client with usable capability.

Documented, trained and transferred — not a system only we can operate.

Contact

Ready to talk about your systems?

Bring us the bottleneck, the disconnected process or the next platform challenge. We’ll help define a sensible first step.