Services

Technology Consulting & Architecture

Advice from people who build and operate systems rather than only talk about them. We review what you have, help you decide what to build, plan the move, and write it down in a form your team can act on without us.

What we deliver

Advice you can act on

Usually a few days of our time saves months of yours.

A second opinion on what you have

We look at your existing system and tell you what will hold, what will not, and in which order to deal with it.

Deciding what to build

Sometimes the right answer is a smaller system, and sometimes it is none. We will say so before you spend the budget.

Choosing a direction

A recommendation we would follow ourselves, with the trade-offs stated plainly instead of buried.

Planning the move

Getting years of records out of spreadsheets or an ageing system and into a new one, in steps that can be checked and reversed.

Reading a proposal

An independent view on a quote, a contract or a supplier you are considering, before you sign.

Getting a team started

Guidance for organisations new to running software: what to expect, what to insist on, and the mistakes that cost the most.

How we approach it

How a consulting engagement runs

Short, specific and written. No retainer required to get an answer.

01

Scoping call

We agree the question you actually want answered, which is often not the one you started with.

02

Review

We go through the system, the plans and the constraints, and speak to the people living with them.

03

Written report

Findings, options and a recommendation, in language you can hand to a board or a supplier.

04

Follow-through

We stay available while you act on it, whether or not the work comes to us.

What you get

What you are left holding

Every engagement ends the same way, whatever we built.

  • A working system

    Live, in use by your team, doing the job it was scoped to do — not a prototype that still needs finishing.

  • Documentation you can read

    Written in plain language: what it does, how to use it, and what to do when something looks unusual.

  • A proper handover

    Your team is shown how to run it, and you hold the keys to everything it depends on. Nothing stays locked to us.

  • Support afterwards

    Occasional help, a monthly arrangement, or we keep running it for you — whichever suits how your team works.

Get a second opinion that has shipped

Send us the question you are trying to answer. We will tell you whether a review would help and what it would cover.