LEARNSYNTH · BY CATERPILLAR GARDEN

Value is the
new emperor.

Most consultants still sell features.

LearnSynth is the training arm of an active IT consultancy. Built on one practitioner's 18-year playbook for finding, naming, and proving value — for consultants who want to work better, and for the leaders who decide what their teams learn next.

Featured at InfoShare, Flowtopia Live, The Hack Summit · Co-author, Routledge 2025

Marcin Karkocha — Chief Technology Strategist and Founder of Caterpillar Garden
AI made building cheap. The next edge isn't what your team can ship — it's what they can name, defend, and price as value. The consultants who learn this stop chasing scope. They start shaping it.
FOR TWO PEOPLE

For the consultant who knows they can do more

You're technically strong. You've been on enough projects to feel the patterns. But somewhere between the brief and the proposal, value gets lost — yours and the client's. LearnSynth gives you a method, vocabulary, and instincts you don't get from delivery work.

For the leader who wants the team to think differently

Your people are good engineers, architects, consultants — and sales and pre-sales professionals. They aren't yet good at conversations where the client doesn't know what they need. We change how a team listens, frames, and chooses — in two days, or across a curriculum.

WHAT LEARNSYNTH TEACHES
01

Discovery before proposal.

Most projects fail at the first meeting, not at delivery. We start where work actually starts.

02

Value in the client's language.

Frameworks, not buzzwords. Stakeholder maps, control letters, red flags — tools that hold up at the board.

03

Hypothesis over plan.

Roadmaps lie. Hypotheses are honest. We teach how to scope an engagement around evidence, not promises.

04

Stakeholder geometry.

Every decision has a hidden topology. We teach how to read it before you walk in, not after you've lost.

THE METHOD

A method, not slides.

Every LearnSynth programme is built on the same loop. You leave with worksheets you’ll re-use, not a certificate you’ll forget.

HYPOTHESIS What if… EXPERIMENT Test it. EVIDENCE What did we learn? DECISION or loop again.
PROGRAMMES
Flagship · Announcing soon

VCPS — Value-oriented Consulting Pre-Sales

A two-day workshop on how to discover, frame, and close work around value before scope freezes. For experienced IT consultants, architects, and the leaders who develop them.

Następna edycja: wkrótce
Szczegóły i rezerwacja →
Available on demand

5pillars Ninja — Goal Alignment Training

A short, sharp programme on aligning team goals to outcomes that actually move the business. Format adapts to your context.

Details coming next —
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Transformation Leader Mentoring

1×1 work for CTOs, Heads of Transformation, and senior consultants leading complex change. No fixed curriculum — your decisions, my method.

Details coming next —
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Understanding VSM Hypothesis Management Wargaming Hypothesis Validation Scoping Value-oriented Consulting Projects Stream-oriented Account Management
"Stakeholder Map, Control Letter, Red Flags — these aren't buzzwords. They're concrete work that helps you decide what's actually worth proposing to the client, and whether your firm should even be in this."
Maciej Kacprzak · Tech Lead, UNIQA ↗ LinkedIn
Marcin Karkocha — trainer and creator of the Value-oriented Consulting Pre-Sales methodology
ABOUT THE TRAINER — MARCIN KARKOCHA

Co-author, Routledge 2025 · Speaker at InfoShare, Flowtopia Live, The Hack Summit, WDI · Methodology used daily inside Caterpillar Garden client work.

Full credentials at marcin.karkocha.tech ↗
FIND YOUR STARTING POINT

Not sure where to start?

LearnSynth is bigger than any single course. The right first step depends on what you're trying to change — your own work, your team, or how you contract engagements.

A

Use the Discovery Prompt

Copy a single prompt into your favourite AI tool. Answer six questions. Get a tailored first step from LearnSynth — programme, worksheet, or conversation.

Open the prompt →
B

Take the survey

Three minutes. Same recommendation — plus the option to request a personal reply from Marcin himself.

Tick the box — I reply personally
Start survey →
C

Download the Training Map

Dependency graph of the full curriculum + description for each element and 3 "is this for me?" questions. Mark what you've done — see your own path.

Open the map →