Services / Technical consultancy
Technical consultancy
Architecture reviews, technology selection, supplier assessment and part-time technical leadership for companies that need senior direction but not a full-time CTO or an in-house team.
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What this involves
Some decisions are expensive to get wrong and hard to reverse. Which platform to build on, which supplier to trust, whether to buy or build, how to structure a system that will last ten years. Companies without a senior engineer on staff often make those decisions with only the vendor's advice to go on. We offer a second opinion from someone with nothing to sell.
Our consultancy work takes a few forms. Architecture reviews look at an existing or proposed system and report plainly on its risks and options. Technology selection compares the realistic choices for a project against your constraints. Supplier assessment reads proposals and code from other developers and tells you what you are actually getting. Each produces a short written report.
For companies that need ongoing direction we act as a part-time technical lead. That means a few days a month setting priorities, reviewing work from other developers, and sitting in on decisions where a technical voice is needed. It gives a growing company senior engineering judgement without the cost of a full-time appointment, and it can stop when it is no longer needed.
Typical work
Architecture and code reviews with a written report
Technology and platform selection
Reviewing supplier proposals, quotes and delivered work
Part-time technical leadership for a growing team
Due diligence on software as part of an acquisition
Suited to
Directors and technical leads who need independent senior advice on a decision, a supplier or a system, without hiring for it.
Not sure which of these you need?
Tell us what you are trying to build or fix. A short call is usually enough to say whether we can help and what it would involve.