Technology & architecture consulting
Most architecture advice comes from someone with a product to sell. Ours does not. We review your stack and architecture against your real constraints - team, budget, growth - and give you a direction with the reasoning written down, so it holds up when someone questions it later.
Service details
At a glance
- Architecture and stack review - in the code, not just the diagrams
- Scalability and resilience assessment
- Recommendations with no reseller stake
- A documented direction with trade-offs spelled out
Advice without a sales agenda
Stack and architecture choices are cheap to make and expensive to unmake, which is exactly why so much advice about them is compromised - resellers, partners and platform evangelists all have a horse in the race. We do not. The recommendation you get is the one that fits your problem, your team and your budget, with the working shown.
A review that goes into the code
We read the codebase, look at the infrastructure and sit with the engineers who live in the system - reviewing from a distance produces a report you could have downloaded. What comes back is specific: where the architecture will strain first, which risks are worth paying down now, which can safely wait, and what we would choose in your position.
- Hands-on review of code, architecture and infrastructure
- Time with the engineers who know where it hurts
- Risks ranked, with a view on what can wait
A direction that outlives the meeting
You get a written technical direction with the trade-offs behind each recommendation, pitched so engineers can act on it and a board can fund it. Take it in-house or have us help build it - either works. The reasoning travels with the document, not with us.
Frequently asked questions
- Are you tied to particular vendors or clouds?
- No. No reseller commissions, no partner targets, no platform to push. If the best answer is the boring one you already run, that is the answer you will get.
- Can you review a system that’s already live?
- Yes - much of this work is exactly that. We find what will and won’t scale, then give you a prioritised way to fix the risks without a rewrite.
- Will the advice make sense to non-engineers?
- Yes. It is written for both rooms - enough depth for your engineers to act on, framed clearly enough for a board to make the call.
- Do you help implement the recommendations?
- If you want us to. We can build to the direction we set, or your team can - everything needed to execute it is in the document.
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