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IT Consulting
Strategic advisory to align your technology roadmap with business goals. We help leadership teams plan digital-transformation initiatives, evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, benchmark vendor proposals, and set up engineering practices that scale — SDLC, code review, CI/CD, on-call. Typical engagements run 4–12 weeks and end with a written roadmap and concrete action plan.
Purpose
Independent, senior advisory to help leadership decide what to build and how to run engineering — before you commit to a vendor, a rewrite, or a hire.
Who it's for
- CEOs and COOs scoping a digital-transformation initiative.
- CTOs and heads of engineering evaluating build-vs-buy or a legacy replacement.
- Boards and investors wanting a technical due-diligence read on a portfolio company.
Common engagements
1. Digital-transformation roadmap
- Current-state assessment of systems, teams, and data.
- Target-state architecture aligned to 12- to 36-month business goals.
- Sequenced roadmap with cost, risk, and dependency callouts.
2. Build-vs-buy analysis
- Requirements matrix scored against 3–5 shortlisted vendors.
- Total cost of ownership over 3 and 5 years.
- Build estimate with team composition and timeline.
- Written recommendation with rationale.
3. Vendor evaluation & procurement support
- RFP drafting, scoring rubric, and reference-call checklist.
- Contract review focused on SLAs, IP, exit clauses, and data ownership.
- Negotiation support.
4. Engineering practice setup
- SDLC — trunk-based development, code review standards, PR templates.
- CI/CD — pipeline design, deployment gating, release automation.
- On-call — rotation, escalation, SLOs, postmortem cadence.
- Hiring — job descriptions, interview loops, calibration.
5. Technical due diligence
- Codebase, architecture, and team assessment for M&A or investment decisions.
- Red-flag summary + full report within 2–3 weeks.
How we work
- Fixed-scope, fixed-price — most engagements are 4–12 weeks.
- Written deliverables — every engagement ends with a document your team can act on without us.
- No implementation lock-in — recommendations are vendor-neutral; you're free to hire anyone (including us) to build.
Typical outputs
- Executive briefing deck — 10–20 slides for the board or leadership.
- Detailed report — 30–80 pages with architecture, cost, and risk analysis.
- Roadmap document — quarterly plan with milestones and success metrics.
- Action plan — 30/60/90-day list of concrete next steps.
What we won't do
- Ivory-tower recommendations — every recommendation is stress-tested against your team's actual capability and budget.
- Vendor referrals for kickback — we don't take partner commissions; our advice is unconflicted.