An independent read on your stack, your options and the trade-offs, before you commit budget to a direction.
An independent read on your stack, your options and the trade-offs, before you commit budget to a direction.
Deciding whether to rebuild or redesign. Choosing between platforms. Working out whether a proposal you have been given is reasonable. Situations where the expensive mistake is made before any code is written.
We audit what exists, talk to the people who run it, and write down the options with their real costs and risks — including the option of doing nothing.
The recommendation is not a sales pitch for our own services. Sometimes the honest answer is that what you have is fine, or that another supplier is a better fit.
Whether to rebuild or redesign. Which platform to commit to. Whether a proposal someone has been given is reasonable. Whether an existing supplier is delivering what they are charging for.
These are the decisions where the expensive mistake is made before any code is written, which is exactly why an independent read is worth buying.
We audit what exists, read the code where there is code, and talk to the people who actually run the thing rather than only the people who commissioned it. The gap between those two accounts is usually where the problem is.
Then we write the options down with their real costs, their risks and their timelines — including the option of doing nothing, which is more often right than anyone selling you something will say.
We will tell you what a proposal has left out, what is priced optimistically, and which assumptions will move the number later. Not to disqualify a supplier, but so you can ask them the right questions.
Frequently the honest verdict is that the quote is fair and the concern is elsewhere — in the scope, or in who owns the result.
The recommendation is not a pitch for our own services. Sometimes the answer is that what you have is fine and needs maintenance rather than replacement, and sometimes it is that another supplier fits better than we do.
A consultant whose advice always concludes in their own favour is not being paid for advice.