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Advisory
Straight answers from engineers who still ship.
Architecture reviews, technology strategy, and technical due diligence from senior engineers who build real systems every week. Clear answers backed by evidence, including the ones you weren’t hoping to hear.
Overview
Our Digital Consulting service helps you make important technology decisions with confidence. That might mean choosing between building and buying, deciding whether to rebuild an existing system or improve it, selecting the right vendor, or assessing the technology behind a company you plan to invest in. Our advice comes from senior engineers who build and run real systems every week, not from people who only write reports. You get clear, practical recommendations, along with the evidence and risks behind them.
Our engagements are short and focused on a decision. Most questions can be answered in two to six weeks, not months. At the end, you receive documents your team can act on right away: a clear record of each decision and why it was made, a comparison of your options with estimated costs, a list of risks with named owners, and a realistic roadmap for the next steps.
Our advice is fully independent. We take no commissions from vendors, and we will recommend against building something when that is the better choice for you, even if it means we aren’t the ones doing the work. In around a third of our engagements, the right answer turns out to be an existing product, a smaller project, or a better process. Our clients come back because the advice saved them more than it cost.
Capabilities
Clear, practical advice for your most important technology decisions, from senior engineers who build and run real systems every week.
Technology strategy
A clear plan for the big decisions that will shape your next few years, such as whether to rebuild, upgrade, or combine systems. Each option comes with its costs, timing, and trade-offs explained in plain language.
Architecture reviews
An in-depth review of how your systems perform under real conditions: where they are strong, where they could fail, and whether they can support your plans. Findings are ranked by risk and effort, so you know exactly what to fix first.
Technical due diligence
An independent assessment of a company’s technology before you invest in it or acquire it, covering its code, architecture, security, and team. You get a clear picture of the risks before you commit.
Team and process assessment
We measure how quickly and reliably your team delivers software and find what is slowing it down. Often the problem isn’t the people. It’s the way the work is organized around them.
Build versus buy analysis
A full comparison of building a solution yourself or buying an existing one, including long-term maintenance, integration effort, and the cost of switching later. We recommend the option we would choose if it were our own budget.
Modernization roadmaps
A step-by-step plan for updating older systems without disrupting your business. Each step can be budgeted, approved, and reversed if needed, so your leadership team can sign off with confidence.
Process
No black boxes. Each phase has explicit outputs, and you see progress weekly, in staging, not slide decks.
- 01
Frame the decision
One week to state the actual question, the options on the table, and the evidence that would settle it, many engagements shrink here, which is a feature.
Outputs
- Decision statement
- Option list
- Evidence plan
- 02
Evidence gathering
Code and architecture review, system instrumentation, stakeholder interviews, and cost analysis, evidence over opinion, measured over remembered.
Outputs
- Architecture review
- Cost analysis
- Interview findings
- 03
Analysis and options
Two to four genuinely distinct options, each costed and sequenced, with risks and second-order effects stated rather than footnoted.
Outputs
- Costed options
- Sequencing
- Risk analysis
- 04
Recommendation
A written recommendation with the reasoning attached, presented to the decision-makers and defended under questioning, that defense is the product.
Outputs
- Written recommendation
- Decision-maker readout
- Supporting evidence
- 05
Follow-through
Thirty, sixty, and ninety days on, we review what the decision met in reality and adjust, advice that ends at the readout is theater.
Outputs
- 30/60/90-day reviews
- Decision outcomes
- Adjustment plan
Outcomes
The results this service is accountable for, the reasons clients keep the engagement running.
A defensible recommendation
A written recommendation with evidence attached, something you can take to the board and be questioned on.
Faster decisions
Decisions resolved in two to six weeks instead of drifting for quarters.
Diligence that pays off
Due-diligence findings that have repriced deals and prevented at least one bad acquisition.
Honest build or buy
An honest build-versus-buy answer, including the third of cases where the answer is buy.
Bottlenecks measured
Delivery bottlenecks located in the system with measurement, not attributed to the people by anecdote.
A fundable roadmap
A modernization roadmap sequenced into fundable, reversible steps rather than one heroic ask.
Stack
Chosen for your constraints, not our comfort, this is the toolkit we know deeply for this kind of work.
- Frontend
- React
- Backend & workflow
- .NET
- Data & streaming
- PostgreSQL
- Apache Kafka
- Snowflake
- Cloud & infrastructure
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
FAQ
How we plan, price, and deliver Digital Consulting.