Software Consulting
A straight answer about where your technology stands.
Most businesses don't need another vendor telling them to buy something. They need someone technical, independent, and unafraid to say what isn't working — and then to lay out the shortest credible path forward.
Why companies call
The four conversations we have most.
"We've outgrown what we have."
The spreadsheet, the shared inbox, or the off-the-shelf tool that worked at ten people is now the bottleneck at sixty. You need to know what to replace, what to keep, and in what order.
"Nobody here understands this system."
A developer left, a contractor disappeared, or the system predates everyone currently employed. You need it documented, assessed, and made safe to change.
"We know AI should be doing more."
You've seen the demos and you're being pitched constantly. You need a sober read on where AI would actually pay off in your business — and where it would just burn budget.
"This project is not going well."
Timelines have slipped twice, the estimates keep moving, and you can't tell whether the problem is the team, the scope, or the architecture. You need an outside read before you spend more.
Scope
What we look at.
Depending on what you're facing, an engagement covers some or all of the following. We'll agree the scope in writing before we start.
Architecture & system design
Service boundaries, data flow, integration points, and failure modes. Where the design is holding you back and what it would cost to change it.
Cloud strategy & spend
Whether you're on the right platform, the right services, and the right pricing model. Azure and AWS, including migration paths and realistic cost forecasts.
Identity & application security
How users and services authenticate, what they can reach once they're in, and where the gaps are. Modern identity, OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect, and service-to-service authorization.
Data & integration
Where your data actually lives, how many copies exist, and what it would take to get one trustworthy view of a customer, an order, or an asset.
AI readiness
Which workflows are genuine candidates, what your data would need to support them, what the ongoing cost looks like, and which options keep your data in-house.
Team, process & delivery
How work gets from idea to production — code review, testing, branching, release cadence, and where the process is producing rework instead of preventing it.
Vendor & licensing
An independent read on what you're being sold, what you're already paying for, and where consolidation or renegotiation would free up real budget.
Deliverables
What you actually walk away with.
Not a slide deck that gets filed and forgotten. Everything we produce is written to be used — by your team, by a future vendor, or by whoever inherits this after us.
- A written assessment Plain-language findings, ranked by what will hurt you soonest — not by what's most interesting to engineers.
- A target architecture Diagrams and a written design for where you should end up, with the trade-offs we considered and rejected.
- A sequenced roadmap What to do first, what can wait, and what to stop doing. Sized so a decision-maker can budget against it.
- Cost and risk estimates Honest ranges with the assumptions stated, including the cost of doing nothing.
- A walkthrough with your people We present the findings live and answer questions. The document is the record, not the deliverable.
Engagement types
Three ways to work with us.
Assessment
A fixed-scope review of your systems, architecture, or a specific problem area, ending in a written assessment and roadmap. The most common way clients start with us.
Fractional architect
Senior architectural oversight without a senior architect's salary. We review designs, sit in on technical decisions, and keep your team pointed in a coherent direction.
Project rescue
An independent read on a project that's slipping — what's recoverable, what should be cut, and whether continuing is the right call. Delivered fast, because it usually needs to be.
Next step
Start with a conversation, not a contract.
Tell us what's happening. We'll tell you whether an assessment would help, and if it wouldn't, we'll say so.