Technology decisions are expensive to reverse. Choosing the wrong platform, the wrong vendor or the wrong architecture commits an organisation for years, and the people best placed to advise are frequently the same people who benefit from a particular answer.
We provide consulting as a distinct service, with a deliberate separation: if we recommend a build, you are free to have anyone build it, and we will say plainly when the right answer is to buy rather than build.
Architecture review
An independent assessment of an existing system — where it will break under growth, where security exposure sits, which parts are genuinely fragile versus merely unfamiliar, and what maintenance realistically costs.
This is frequently commissioned when a system feels increasingly difficult to change and leadership needs an objective read on whether to invest in it, refactor it, or replace it.
Technical due diligence
For investors and acquirers we assess the technology asset behind a transaction: code quality and maintainability, architectural scalability, security posture, licence and intellectual property exposure, key-person dependency, infrastructure cost trajectory, and the realistic cost of the roadmap being presented.
The output is a written report with findings rated by severity and commercial impact, delivered on a timeline that fits a live transaction.
Vendor and platform selection
We help define requirements properly, evaluate options against them, and structure the commercial conversation — including the questions vendors would prefer not to answer, around data export, integration limits, true cost at scale, and what happens at renewal.
We take no referral commission from any vendor, which is the only thing that makes this advice worth having.
Fractional technology leadership
Companies too small for a full-time CTO but past the point where technology decisions can be made casually engage us on a part-time basis: setting technical direction, reviewing significant decisions, supporting hiring, and giving the leadership team someone technical who is not a vendor.
How we deliver
Everything comes as a written deliverable, not a presentation and a conversation. Findings, reasoning, options considered and rejected, and specific recommendations with cost and risk. You should be able to act on it after we leave, disagree with a specific conclusion, or hand it to another party without translation.