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Technology Consulting · 4 services

Independent technology advice you can act on

Strategy, architecture, cloud and process advice from people who also build software, delivered as clear written recommendations with the reasoning shown.

Starting from
$1,900
Services
4 consulting services
Format
Workshops, reviews and reports
Pricing
Fixed fee per engagement
Stance
Vendor-neutral

What consulting covers

Good technology decisions are rarely about technology alone. They balance cost, risk, people and time, and they're easier to make with an advisor who has nothing to sell you.

Consulting is for the moments before and between projects: choosing what to build or buy, planning a move to the cloud, checking whether an architecture will hold up, or finding out where the working day actually goes before anyone spends money on software.

Each engagement has a fixed scope and price and ends with a written deliverable: findings, options, a recommendation and the reasoning behind it. You can act on it with us, with another supplier or with your own team.

Services

The four consulting services

Four kinds of advisory work, each ending in a written deliverable. Each page explains what's included and how long it usually takes.

07 Consulting

IT Consulting & Technology Strategy

Independent, vendor-neutral advice on what to build, buy, keep or retire, turned into a roadmap and budget your leadership team can act on.

From$1,900
08 Consulting

Cloud Strategy & Migration

Decide what to move, rebuild, keep or retire, model the real costs, then migrate in planned waves with a tested way back at every step.

From$2,300

Not sure where to start?

Describe the problem. We'll suggest the service.

Many projects touch two or three services. Tell us what's slowing you down and we'll recommend a sensible first step, with a fixed quote.

How we advise

Advice that survives contact with reality

What makes our recommendations practical rather than theoretical.

  1. 01

    Vendor-neutral by design

    We don't resell software licenses or cloud services, so our recommendations aren't shaped by margins or partner targets.

  2. 02

    Everything in writing

    Every engagement ends with a document you keep: what we found, the options, what we recommend and why. Decisions can be explained to a board, a budget holder or a future team.

  3. 03

    Grounded in delivery

    We also design and build software, so our advice accounts for what implementation really costs and how long it really takes.

  4. 04

    Sometimes the answer is less

    Keeping a system, buying a product or doing nothing for now are all legitimate recommendations. We'll make them when they're right.

How engagements run

From question to decision

Consulting engagements are fixed in scope and price, run in weeks rather than months, and always end with a written deliverable you keep.

  1. 01

    Briefing

    A call to agree the question, the scope, who we'll speak to and what the deliverable will look like.

  2. 02

    Research

    Interviews, workshops, document and system reviews, and data where it exists.

  3. 03

    Recommendations

    Options compared on cost, risk and effort, with a clear recommendation and a sequenced plan.

  4. 04

    Presentation

    A walkthrough with your decision makers, then the final written report, yours to keep and share.

Weighing up a technology decision?

Tell us what you're trying to decide and by when. We'll suggest the smallest engagement that gives you a confident answer.