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Make a clearer decision before funding a software or AI project. Our consulting reviews your workflow, existing systems and constraints to assess build versus buy, architecture, AI suitability and migration priorities. You receive a practical plan you can use with our team or another development partner.
Vendor proposal review
Example
A vendor quoted a full rebuild of your order system
The quote rebuilds all 7 modules. Ask the vendor to rescope?
An example with made-up figures. The buttons send nothing.
One choice you need to make, such as whether AI fits a task, which system to replace first or whether a vendor quote is fair.
Senior engineers read your systems, code and documents and talk to the people who use them. Every finding shows what it rests on.
You get a written answer, a plan and a price in plain language. What you do with it, and who builds it, is up to you.
Pick the decision you are stuck on. Each tab shows the question as it stands today and what you get from us.
We look at the tasks your team does by hand and the data behind them. You learn which ones AI can take on, which ones plain software handles better and which to leave alone. If AI is not a fit, we say so.
Task by tasknot a blanket yes to AI
Start a projectWe set an off-the-shelf product, a custom build and your current system side by side: what each costs, what it ties you to and what it changes for your team. You choose with the trade-offs on one page.
Side by sideevery option on one page
Start a projectWe read the code, proposal or quote another vendor gave you and tell you what is sound, what is risky and what is worth keeping. You go back to them with specific questions.
Specificquestions to take back to your vendor
Start a projectWe map the systems your business runs on, where they break and how they connect. You get a roadmap that puts the changes in order, with a fixed price for the first step.
One orderfor the changes, agreed before you spend
Start a projectAdvice from people you have never met has to earn your trust, so every consulting engagement we take on follows these four rules.
We recommend; you decide. Nobody buys, builds or cancels anything on our word, and each recommendation comes with the options we ruled out and why.
We sign an NDA before we see your code, contracts or figures. You choose what we can see, and your files stay in your own accounts.
We work alongside your IT people and your current vendors. Where they are doing good work, we say that too.
Every recommendation shows what it rests on and what each option would cost. Paid advice is billed at a daily rate, agreed in writing before any paid work starts.
Every stage leaves you with something usable, so you can stop at any point. At the end of week one your first question already has a written answer, with what it rests on.
Week 1
We sit with the people involved, read the systems, code or proposal in question and pin down the decision you need to make.
You end withA first answer and an agreed daily rate.
Week 2
Senior engineers go deeper into the code, the architecture, the vendors and what each option would cost.
You end withEvery option, with its risks and costs.
Week 3
We turn the findings into a roadmap: what to do first, what it should cost and what kind of team could build it.
You end withA roadmap with a price for each step.
Week 4
We walk your leadership through the plan and answer every question. Then you decide who builds it, if anyone.
You end withA plan that is yours to keep.
After the plan, you can keep us on as a part-time or virtual CTO, ask us for a fixed price to build it, or hand it to someone else.
Bring us one decision you are stuck on, before you sign anything. On day five you hold a straight recommendation, the options we ruled out and a price for the next step.
Free, 5 days
The recommendation is yours, whether you act on it with us or not.
From clients in the US, Portugal, New Zealand and the UK.
What consulting costs, whether our advice is independent and what you walk away with.
Bring the business decision you need to make, a description of current systems and the constraints on budget, timing and staff. Existing architecture diagrams or vendor proposals help but are not required. We agree the questions the engagement needs to answer before starting.
The price moves with the size of the question, how many systems and vendors it touches and how deep the review goes. You start with the free 5-day audit, which ends with the cost of any further work: paid advice at a daily rate agreed in writing, a build at a fixed price. Nothing paid starts without your yes.
No. You keep the plan whoever builds it. If an off-the-shelf product, your own team or your current vendor is the better choice, we say so.
Something smaller and more concrete than the phrase suggests. We find the systems and tasks that cost you the most time, put them in order and price the first step. You change one part of the business at a time.
Yes. Senior engineers read the code, the architecture and how your data is protected, then write up what is sound and what is risky in plain language. The same review works as technical due diligence before you invest in or buy a business.
You do, from the moment we write it. Every plan, review and report sits in your accounts under your name. Use it with us, with another vendor or with your own team, and owe nothing extra.
A founder handles your first call. We overlap 3 to 4 hours with US and UK business hours, send updates through your own tools and reply within 4 business hours.
Each one shows what the client needed, what we built and the result, so you can judge how close it is to your own project.
Free project estimate
Talk the decision over with a founder for 30 minutes. You leave knowing what we would look at first, whether AI or new software fits at all and roughly what the next step would cost. If you don't need us, we say so plainly.
What you get back
A few lines is plenty. You get a number before any call.