Growth
IT Consulting
Vendor-neutral technology advice for teams making a decision they will live with for years. Build or buy, monolith or services, which cloud, which team shape. We are happy to conclude that you should not build the thing — that answer costs less than discovering it eighteen months in.
What we do
- Architecture and build-vs-buy reviews
- Technical due diligence
- Team topology & hiring plans
- Legacy modernisation roadmaps
What you end up with
- A written recommendation with the trade-offs made explicit
- Architecture decision records you can hand to your team
- A costed delivery plan with named risks
- A second opinion on a proposal already on your desk
How an engagement runs
- 01
Discovery & scope
A working session to map the problem, the constraints and the smallest thing worth building first.
- 02
Architecture & design
System design, data model and interface work — reviewed with you before a line of production code exists.
- 03
Build in two-week slices
Shippable increments every sprint, deployed to a staging environment you can click through.
- 04
Launch & operate
Hardening, observability and an agreed support model. We stay on after go-live.
Proof
Questions we get asked
- Will you recommend building something you would then be paid to build?
- Only when it is genuinely the right answer, and we will show the reasoning. We regularly recommend an off-the-shelf product. A consultancy that only ever recommends custom work is not consulting.
- How short can an engagement be?
- A focused architecture review runs one to two weeks. That is often enough to answer a specific build-or-buy question with real confidence.