Category H · 5 services

Technology Consulting & Advisory

An independent read on an architecture, from the engineers who would otherwise build it.

We are asked most often to say what a system will do before anyone commits to it: whether an AI programme is worth starting, whether a design holds at the next order of magnitude, what a platform is really worth in an acquisition, and which layer to rebuild first. The answer comes from measurement and from having built the layer in question, not from a reference model or a maturity grid.

What we build

H.1

Technology Consulting & Architecture Advisory

A first read on the architecture, written by the engineer who would build it

Scoped engagements that produce a decision rather than a deck. We take the system as it is measured today, in latency, throughput, uptime, and unit cost, locate the layer that sets the limit, and write down the options with their trade-offs and what each would cost to build. Delivered as a written architecture read with the measurement behind every claim, and the engineer who wrote it available to defend it.

Architecture review
Trade-off analysis
Capacity modelling
Reference architecture

What we build

H.2

AI Strategy & Readiness Assessment

Which use cases are worth it, and whether your data can carry them

An honest assessment before the budget is committed. Use-case discovery scored on value, feasibility, and risk, a data readiness assessment that says plainly whether the data exists at the quality the use case needs, build-against-buy analysis per use case, a governance and policy framework covering acceptable use and human oversight, a sequenced roadmap with the first deliverable inside a quarter, and a total cost model including the part everyone forgets, which is running it.

Use-case scoring
Data readiness
AI governance
Model risk
ROI modelling

What we build

H.3

Digital Transformation Roadmaps

A sequence a business can actually execute while it keeps trading

Transformation planned as a sequence of shippable steps rather than a three-year programme with one delivery date. Current-state assessment across process, data, application, and infrastructure, target architecture with the trade-offs written down, a prioritised roadmap where each step pays for itself, an operating model and skills plan, a business case with measurable outcomes, and governance that reports on delivery rather than on activity.

Current-state assessment
Target architecture
Benefits realisation
Operating model

What we build

H.4

Technical Due Diligence

What an engineering asset is worth, and what it will cost to keep

Independent assessment of a technology asset ahead of an investment, an acquisition, or a long contract. Architecture and the scale at which it breaks, code quality and test coverage, code and data ownership, third-party and licence exposure, security posture and incident history, key-person and knowledge concentration, infrastructure cost per unit of work, team capability, and a costed remediation plan in the sequence we would actually follow.

Diligence
Cost modelling
Licence audit
Risk register
Code quality assessment

What we build

H.5

IT Audit & Architecture Assurance

Evidence that a design meets the standard it claims

Assurance for systems that must satisfy an external standard and prove it. Gap assessment against ISO 27001, IEC 62443, SOC 2, and sector-specific regimes, controls mapped to the architecture rather than to a spreadsheet, design review at each gate with findings raised while they are still cheap, evidence collection automated wherever the system can produce it, and independent verification before an audit rather than after one.

ISO 27001
IEC 62443
SOC 2
Control mapping
Evidence automation

What we build

How it connects

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