Services
Technical Architecture Consultancy
Architecture engagements focus on decisions that are expensive to unwind: platform choices, integration boundaries, security, scalability and team structure.
Who it is for
Leaders making expensive technical decisions
Architecture consultancy supports CTOs, engineering directors, and product leaders before or during major change: platform replatforming, mobile rewrites, SaaS scaling, acquisition integration, or recovery from a troubled vendor delivery.
You benefit when you need independent senior judgement without immediately hiring a full-time architect, or when your team wants a second opinion grounded in delivery experience.
Typical problems
Unclear direction and hidden delivery risk
Symptoms include conflicting technical opinions, roadmap slips blamed on “technical debt”, integrations that nobody owns, and non-functional requirements discovered late. Teams may lack a shared vocabulary between product and engineering.
We translate business goals into technical options with explicit trade-offs — cost, time, risk, and operability — so decision-makers can commit with eyes open.
What is included
Reviews, design, and governance support
Deliverables can include current-state architecture assessment, target-state options, API and integration design, security and scalability considerations, migration strategies, and engineering standards. We can also facilitate architecture decision records and review forums.
We do not sell specific vendor products; recommendations are based on your context. We also avoid mandating rewrites when incremental evolution is the lower-risk path.
Timeline
Typical engagement length.
A focused architecture review often completes in two to three weeks including stakeholder workshops and written deliverables. Follow-on implementation support runs according to the roadmap we agree with you.
How it works
From discovery call to delivery.
We interview stakeholders, inspect systems and code where access is granted, and produce actionable recommendations — not shelf-ware diagrams. You can consume the output with your own teams or engage us for subsequent delivery phases.
FAQ
Common questions.
Do you need access to our source code?
For depth reviews, read-only repository access is valuable but not always mandatory. We can start with architecture interviews and documentation review, then deepen with code inspection as trust and NDA allow.
Is this the same as a free discovery call?
No. The discovery call is a short fit conversation. A paid audit or architecture engagement is structured work with defined outputs and senior time allocated.
Can you stay on as a fractional architect?
Yes. Retained advisory or embedded leadership is a common follow-on, with cadence agreed to your delivery calendar.
Do you produce cloud infrastructure designs?
We advise on architecture and delivery patterns for AWS and Azure, CI/CD, and observability. Managed hosting or 24/7 NOC services are outside our consultancy scope unless separately agreed.
How are findings delivered?
Typically as a written report plus a read-out workshop. Severity-ranked risks and recommended sequencing are included so product and engineering can align on next steps.
Ready to talk?
Book a free discovery call or send a short brief — we will respond with sensible next steps.