Understand first, build after
Most projects that fail do not fail because of the code: they fail because nobody agreed which problem was being solved.
Our assessment is not a document of general recommendations. It is an inventory of what you have, a target architecture and a migration plan with order, cost and date.
We work on the real system, not on somebody's description of it. We read the code, look at the database, review the deployments and talk to whoever runs it every day.
What it includes
- Technical inventory of systems, integrations and dependencies
- Technical debt assessment with impact and remediation cost
- Target architecture with justified decisions and discarded alternatives
- Phased migration plan with usable intermediate deliveries
- Effort and cost estimate per phase, not one global figure
- Operating model and the profiles needed to sustain it
- Identified risks with a concrete mitigation plan
How we do it
Week 1 — Discovery
Interviews with the business and with whoever operates the system. Access to code and infrastructure. We do not ask for documentation: if it existed, you would not have called us.
Week 2 — Analysis
Real technical review: code quality, data model, single points of failure, infrastructure cost and bottlenecks measured, not assumed.
Week 3 — Proposal
Target architecture, phased plan and estimate. Results presented with the open decisions made explicit, so they are taken by whoever should take them.
When it makes sense
- The current system slows the business and nobody knows where to start
- You have to decide between modernising what exists or rebuilding it
- A previous supplier left the project half finished
- Infrastructure cost grew with no clear explanation
- You are about to integrate with a new system and the impact is unknown
Other practices
Data and artificial intelligence
Most data initiatives die in the pilot. Usually not because of the model, but because nobody settled where the data comes from or who maintains the result.
View →Engineering and custom development
We build systems that other people will maintain. That changes how they get written.
View →Product design and experience
An interface is judged by a tired user, in a hurry, with the sun in their eyes. Not on a presentation screen.
View →Tell us what you need to build
Initial assessment at no cost. We answer with a concrete scope, with cost and date.
