Consulting & technical advisory
An outside technical opinion before you commit budget. These engagements are short and the deliverable is a written answer: an architecture review, a vendor evaluation, or a second opinion on a build-versus-buy decision. We will tell you if we think the plan is wrong, which is the point of asking someone outside it.
Technical due diligence
For an acquisition, an investment, or a partnership that will run on someone else's system. We report what the code and its commit history show about maintainability, key-person risk, security posture and the real cost of the roadmap being promised. We write it so a non-engineer on the deal team can act on it.
Architecture and systems design review
We read a design before you build it, or a system before you scale it. We look for the assumptions holding weight that nobody wrote down, because those break first and cost the most to change late.
Build-versus-buy analysis
The full comparison: licence cost against engineering hours, the maintenance you take on, the exit cost if the vendor turns out to be the wrong one, and whether the capability sits close enough to your core to be worth owning.
Fractional CTO support
Senior technical judgement on hiring, architecture and vendor decisions, for teams not ready to make a full-time hire. We run it as a retainer with a written scope, and we structure it to end cleanly once you make that hire.
What we hand over.
- Technical due diligence
- Architecture and systems design review
- Build-vs-buy analysis
- Fractional CTO support
Questions this work usually raises.
Can we start with a smaller trial engagement first?
Yes. A short paid discovery or a small fixed-scope piece is a normal way to test how we work before committing to something larger. Plenty of engagements start that way on purpose.
Do you have experience in our industry?
We lead with process, not vertical claims. The same scoping, the same written price and the same weekly update apply whether the system touches inventory, patients, transactions or trades. Ask on the call and we'll tell you plainly if your domain is a stretch for us.
What if we're not technical?
We write proposals and updates for whoever is paying the invoice. If a decision needs a technical tradeoff explained, we explain it in plain terms before asking you to choose.
How do you turn a vague idea into a number we both trust?
We start with a scoping call and ask the questions that usually get skipped: what “done” means, what happens if requirements change, who owns what. The scoping itself happens after that call, not on it. From the scope we recommend the pricing model that fits the work and put it in writing. You approve the number before we write any code.
Most engagements cross more than one.
Bring us the whole problem.
Book a one-hour scoping call. No deck, no pitch: you describe the problem, we ask the questions that usually get skipped, and you get a straight answer on whether we're the right people for it. Scoping comes after, in writing.