THE PROBLEM
A decision is about to be made that is expensive to reverse, and the people making it are the same people who proposed it.
What we usually hear- Technology chosen for reasons that were never written down
- Due diligence needed on a system before an acquisition or investment
- Internal disagreement with no neutral party to resolve it
- Architecture decisions with no clear owner
HOW WE APPROACH IT
Engineering, not guesswork
We assess against your stated goals and constraints, not against fashion, and we write down the reasoning so it can be challenged.
Where we review code or architecture, we quantify risk rather than listing preferences.
We give a recommendation, including when the recommendation is to change nothing.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Deliverables
- Written assessment with the trade-offs made explicit
- Architecture or code review against your stated goals
- Technology selection with total cost of ownership modelled
- A recommendation, including when the answer is to do nothing
WHAT CHANGES
Business outcomes
- Decisions documented with their trade-offs
- Risk identified before it becomes expensive
- A neutral view when internal opinion is split
- Total cost of ownership modelled, not guessed
TECHNOLOGY
What we typically build with
Selected against your constraints and your team's ability to maintain it — not against fashion.
- Architecture review
- Technical due diligence
- Cost modelling
- Security review
- Team assessment
HOW WE DELIVER IT
The same five phases, every time
See the full twelve-stage process for what each phase produces.
Discovery
We map the business problem and define success in measurable terms.
Architecture
Technology and data decisions made against your constraints, documented with reasoning.
Design
Journeys and interfaces resolved on screen, including everything that goes wrong.
Engineering
Short cycles ending in working software, reviewed and tested before it merges.
Deploy & Scale
Automated release, monitoring in production, and support as usage grows.
QUESTIONS
About technical consulting
Will you recommend we hire you to do the work?
Only if we are genuinely the right team. A consulting engagement that exists to sell a build is worth nothing to you, and we would rather keep the relationship.
Can you do technical due diligence for an acquisition?
Yes — codebase quality, architecture risk, key-person dependency, security posture and the real cost of ownership.
How long does a review take?
It depends on the size of the estate. We scope it after an initial conversation and give you a fixed price.
RELATED SERVICES
Often needed alongside this
Digital Transformation
Modernising systems the business already depends on, incrementally, without the outage a big-bang rewrite invites.
Enterprise Systems
Systems that carry real operational load — role-based access, audit trails, integrations and the reliability an organisation depends on.
Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps
Infrastructure treated as part of the product — provisioned as code, deployed automatically, and observable in production.
Tell us the problem, not the brief
We will tell you whether technical consulting is actually the right answer, and what a first phase would take. See all services or how we work by industry.