Technology Consulting
Independent technical judgement, in writing
Sometimes the requirement is not a build but a decision: whether an architecture will hold, whether a vendor's estimate is credible, whether a codebase you are about to acquire is an asset or a liability, whether your team needs three engineers or a different structure. We give you an assessment you can act on, with the reasoning shown.
- A written recommendation with evidence and trade-offs
- Risks named and ranked, not buried
- A sequenced plan your team can execute
- No incentive to sell you a bigger project
Capabilities
What this practice actually covers
Written at the level of detail you would need to decide whether we can do the specific thing you have in mind.
Architecture review & advisory
An independent read on whether the system will support the next three years of the business.
- Architecture and code review against your actual growth plan
- Scalability, performance and single-point-of-failure analysis
- Build-versus-buy evaluation with total cost of ownership
- Architecture decision records for the choices being made
Legacy modernisation
Moving off systems that still run the business but can no longer change at the speed the business needs.
- Assessment of PHP, .NET Framework, ASP classic and legacy CMS estates
- Strangler-fig migration planning with incremental cutover
- Data migration strategy with reconciliation and rollback
- Sequencing that keeps revenue-critical paths live throughout
AI strategy & governance
Deciding where AI belongs in your organisation, and setting the rules before the tools spread on their own.
- Use-case portfolio scored on value, feasibility and risk
- Build, buy or fine-tune decisions per use case
- Acceptable-use, data-handling and model policy
- Vendor evaluation and lock-in analysis
Technical due diligence
For investors and acquirers who need to know what is actually behind the product demo.
- Code quality, test coverage and maintainability assessment
- Security posture, licensing and IP ownership review
- Infrastructure cost and scalability analysis
- Team capability, key-person risk and integration cost estimate
Fractional CTO & engineering leadership
Senior technical leadership at the fraction of time the stage of the company actually justifies.
- Technology strategy and roadmap ownership
- Hiring: role definition, technical interviewing and onboarding
- Engineering process, delivery metrics and quality standards
- Vendor selection and contract review
Team augmentation
Named engineers embedded in your team under your process, for capacity rather than a defined project.
- Dedicated engineers, designers and QA with overlapping hours
- Monthly rolling terms with a defined notice period
- Direct integration into your standups, tooling and reviews
- Structured onboarding and knowledge-transfer plan
In detail
Modernising a system you cannot switch off
Most of the estates we are asked to modernise are running the business right now. Rewrites that go dark for nine months are how those projects fail. We use an incremental route where every step is independently valuable and independently reversible.
01 — Establish a safety net
Characterisation tests, monitoring and a reproducible environment for the existing system, so any change can be verified rather than hoped about.
02 — Draw the seam
Route traffic through a facade so old and new implementations can serve the same endpoint and be switched per route, per tenant or per percentage.
03 — Migrate by slice
Move one bounded capability at a time, highest risk-adjusted value first, with the old path kept warm until the new one has proven itself in production.
04 — Decommission deliberately
Retire legacy components only once traffic, data and reporting have been verified against them, and archive what compliance requires you to keep.
Deliverables
What you receive
- Written assessment with findings ranked by severity
- Target architecture and migration sequence
- Cost, effort and risk estimates for each option
- Executive summary suitable for a board or investment committee
- Working sessions with your engineering team
- Follow-up review after implementation begins
Questions
About technology consulting
Will you recommend work you would then bid for?
Advisory engagements are priced and contracted independently of any build that follows, and the deliverable is yours to take to any vendor. If we think the right answer is an off-the-shelf product or your existing team, that is what the report will say.
How quickly can a due diligence be turned around?
A focused technical due diligence typically takes one to two weeks depending on codebase size and access. Compressed timelines are possible for live transactions if repository and infrastructure access is arranged upfront.
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Have a technology consulting problem?
Send a short description of the problem. You will get a reply from an engineer, not a sales sequence — usually with a first read on the approach and whether we are the right partner for it.
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