Architecture review
2 weeks · fixed
- System, data, and dependency map
- Hotspot, risk, and tech-debt register
- Performance and reliability findings
- Prioritized recommendation list
- Read-out with leadership team
Consulting
An outside lens with skin in the game.
Architecture reviews, vendor and tooling selection, team coaching, and transformation roadmaps. We write the recommendation, then help you ship it.
- Architecture review
- Vendor selection
- Engineering coaching
- Roadmap design
- CTO-as-a-service
- Due diligence
Engagements
Three ways to bring us in.
Pick the engagement that fits the question. Most clients start with the architecture review.
Roadmap engagement
6–8 weeks · fixed
- Business goals to technical bets
- Org & staffing recommendations
- Vendor / tooling decisions
- 12-month roadmap with budget
- Optional quick wins shipped during the engagement
Fractional CTO
Monthly · min. 3 months
- Embedded leadership (1–2 days a week)
- Run engineering rituals and reviews
- Hiring loops and onboarding
- Sit in on board / investor meetings
- Backed by the wider studio for surge capacity
Topics we cover
The questions clients bring us.
Architecture & scale
Monolith vs services, data partitioning, caching, queues, and how to scale without rewriting yearly.
Team & org design
Squad design, hiring loops, levels and ladders, and the rituals that make engineering teams ship.
Vendor & tooling
RFP design, scorecards, and contract review for ERP, CRM, payments, infra, and the long list of niche SaaS.
Security & compliance
SOC 2 readiness, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA. Practical gap analysis and a remediation plan you can resource.
Performance & reliability
SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and incident review. Up-and-to-the-right without burning out the team.
AI strategy
What to build, what to buy, what to avoid. Pragmatic AI bets with eval-driven roadmaps and clear cost models.
What you get
Written outcomes, not slide decks.
One-page brief
A summary your CEO can read in five minutes and act on. Anchored to your business goals.
Findings memo
15–25 pages of evidence, risks, options, and a recommendation. Written for technical depth and clarity.
Costed plan
Initiatives, owners, sequence, and a budget envelope. Ready to defend at the next board or steering meeting.
Read-out & coaching
Stakeholder read-outs and one-on-one coaching with engineering leads to land the recommendation.
Client love
What leaders say after the engagement.
“Their architecture review caught two single points of failure we’d shipped over. Calm, written, and actionable — not a 90-slide deck.”
JSJonas Schultz · VP Engineering
“We brought them in for a 6-week consulting engagement. They left a roadmap, staffing plan, and three quick wins already in production.”
DTDaniel Trujillo · COO
“They told us not to migrate — and saved us a year. That alone paid for the engagement.”
RARashida Ali · CTO
Let’s scope it
Got a hard call to make?
Tell us the question — even one paragraph. We’ll come back inside a business day with a proposed engagement and a no-obligation fit call.