Development
Technical Consulting & Project Management
Architecture review, vendor evaluation, and project oversight — from people who build software, not just manage schedules.
The problem
A lot of software decisions get made once and then lived with for a decade. Whether to buy or build, which platform, whether a vendor's proposal is realistic — these are hard to evaluate without someone technical who isn't selling you the answer.
The related problem is oversight. Plenty of organizations have an outsourced development project going sideways and no one internally positioned to tell whether the explanations they're getting are reasonable.
What's included
- Build-versus-buy analysis with real cost modeling for both paths
- Vendor proposal and quote review — is the estimate credible?
- Architecture review of existing or proposed systems
- Code and security review of work delivered by another team
- Technical project management and delivery oversight
- Requirements and discovery workshops
- Technology selection and roadmap planning
- Due diligence on software assets during an acquisition
How we deliver
Discover, prototype, build, support
Discover
A paid, fixed-fee engagement producing requirements and a real estimate. You own the output.
Prototype
Clickable screens before code. Changing a wireframe takes an hour; changing a built screen takes days.
Build
Short increments with something demonstrable at the end of each. No six-month silence.
Support
Source code, documentation, and infrastructure handed over. Ongoing support optional, never required.
Consulting: common questions
Will you review work another development company delivered?
Yes, and we do it fairly. The report says what's solid as well as what isn't. We're not looking to win the project by disparaging the incumbent, and if the work is good we'll tell you that.
How is consulting priced?
Fixed fee for defined engagements like an architecture review or build-versus-buy analysis, since the scope is knowable. Ongoing project oversight is a monthly retainer sized to the project.
Can you help us decide whether to build at all?
That's frequently the most valuable engagement, and the answer is often no. Talking a client out of a build they didn't need has been the right call more than once — it's a better outcome than the alternative for both of us.
Related services
Web Applications
Full-stack applications for the processes your business actually runs — the ones a spreadsheet has outgrown and no vendor sells.
Front End
React and Angular interfaces built for the people who use them eight hours a day, not for a demo.
Back End & APIs
.NET and Node services with database design, real authentication, and documented endpoints other systems can actually consume.
Have a project in mind?
Tell us what the process looks like today and where it breaks. Discovery turns that into a scoped, priced plan — and sometimes into advice not to build at all.