Engagement models

Advisory review

Best for: A decision that needs an independent read: an architecture you have inherited, a migration you are weighing, an investment you are evaluating.

A bounded assessment with a written answer at the end. Long enough to understand the system properly, short enough that the findings are still current when you act on them.

• Discovery across the systems and the people who run them
• Prioritised written findings with the reasoning shown
• A walkthrough session with your team
• Clear separation of what was measured from what was inferred

Embedded partnership

Best for: Work that has to land, not just be recommended: a modernisation programme, a platform build, an integration layer nobody currently owns.

Working alongside your team for a defined period, with fixed scope and fixed fee. Not a body in a seat — a named set of outcomes with someone accountable for them.

• Architecture and design ownership for the agreed scope
• Implementation support through delivery
• Decision records for the choices that will be questioned later
• Handover built so your team can maintain what was built

Standing advisory

Best for: Leaders who have the decision but not the sounding board — or teams making a run of choices that will be expensive to reverse.

Ongoing counsel for engineering leaders, on a regular cadence. A second opinion from someone who knows your context and has no stake in which way you go.

• Regular sessions on a set rhythm
• Decision records for the choices that matter
• Availability between sessions for questions that cannot wait