FRACTIONAL DELIVERY LEADERSHIP · RETAIL & ECOMMERCE TECH
Strategy Needs Delivery.
Your vendors write your status reports — everyone's grading their own homework, and you're paying for it. Tango puts a senior delivery leader on your side of the table: the people behind Wendy's, Bath & Body Works, and Abercrombie & Fitch programs, for a fraction of a full-time hire. Eyes on it every day. The truth, even when it's ugly. Accountable until it ships.
Largest single program delivered, on plan
Combined senior delivery leadership — retail, eCommerce & enterprise
Abercrombie & Fitch · BBW · Eddie Bauer · SiriusXM & more
Real-time risk & drift intelligence on every project
MEET THE FOUNDERS
Senior-led. Founder-accountable. On every engagement.
When you bring in Tango, the engagement is owned by a founder — directly. We're in your standups, on your calls, owning the work. As Tango grows, the model doesn't change: a founder leads every engagement, backed by a delivery team trained on our methods and our standards.
Eric Polansky
FOUNDER · SENIOR DELIVERY LEADER
I've spent 15+ years owning the programs most people would rather hand off — payment security, data platforms, ERP modernization, the integration-heavy work where the details decide whether it lands. When you bring in Tango, you get me in the room and accountable for the outcome — not a name on a proposal.
Bridget Mae
FOUNDER · SENIOR DELIVERY LEADER
I've spent 12+ years in the delivery trenches — enterprise retail, eCommerce, cybersecurity, and infrastructure. I'm the one who jumps into the deep end and surfaces with a tracker, a rebuilt plan, and a clear next step. When you bring in Tango, you get me in the room and accountable for the outcome.
WHAT WE DO
Most projects don't fail loudly. They drift.
Drift is invisible until it's expensive. Tango pairs senior delivery leadership with AI-driven delivery intelligence — so variance, risk, and slippage surface while there's still time to act. And your team changes nothing — keep Jira, Office, Google, whatever already works; we bring our own instruments and connect the dots above them. Four engagements, one lifecycle — wherever your project is, that's where you pull us in.
The Blueprint
Build the bid that wins the work.
The Operator
Your fractional delivery lead — present every day, scaled in hours.
Ground Truth
The independent SI audit — is the story you're being told the truth?
The Turnaround
Get a struggling project back to predictable.
The State of Delivery
Let's be honest: project management earned its bad name.
In too many organizations, the discipline has become process theater — status meetings about status meetings, decks that stay green until the day they turn red, coordinators chasing updates while no one truly owns the outcome. The work of managing the project has been replaced by the work of managing the paperwork about the project. Executives feel it. Teams feel it. The data proves it:
12 hrs /week
lost per team to disconnected tools
Tool Sprawl Report, 2026
11 apps
the average organization's project-management stack
2026 industry research
60%
of the workweek disappears into "work about work" — chasing status, switching tools, coordinating — instead of the work itself
Asana, Anatomy of Work
61% vs 47%
on-time delivery with AI-enhanced project management vs. without
PMI, Pulse of the Profession
Tango is built to be the opposite. No coordinators — a senior owner who has shipped this exact work. No optimism — evidence, even when it's ugly, and you hear it from us first. No paperwork factory — we delete the admin, so every hour you pay for is judgment.
Clients Served
Hands-on delivery across retail, eCommerce, DTC, and enterprise IT.
AND MORE
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
"I can't recommend Eric enough. He is the full package when it comes to Agile, Project Management, Stakeholder Management, and Delivery Management. Eric led a cross-functional team delivering complex digital projects, including the launch of our new payment processors — a project that touched every aspect of our digital business. Eric kept the project on time, on-budget, and customer focused."
Sarah Samuelson
CSPO, Senior Digital Product Manager, UPPAbaby
