Consulting

Plenty of organisations do not need a studio. They need two days of senior attention to settle an argument, confirm a hunch, or tell a board that the platform is fine and the problem is elsewhere.

We keep a small amount of capacity for that kind of work. It is deliberately separated from delivery, and we will say when the honest recommendation is to change nothing.

What you get

An answer you can act on this quarter Findings are ranked by risk and effort, with the three things to do first stated plainly on the first page.
Independent of the build We are happy for the conclusion to be that you need nothing, or that your incumbent supplier is doing fine.
Due diligence that looks at the real risks For investors and acquirers: dependency health, key-person risk, licence exposure, security posture and the true cost to run.
Leadership while you recruit A fractional head of engineering or design one or two days a week, including sitting in on your hiring loop.

How we work

Frame the question
A 60 minute call to agree what decision the work has to support and what evidence would change it.
1 day
Review
Repository, infrastructure, documentation and process, plus interviews with the team doing the work.
3 to 7 days
Report
Written findings ranked by risk, with effort estimates and an explicit list of what we could not verify.
2 days
Debrief
A working session with leadership, and a follow-up call four weeks later at no charge.
1 day