Strategy & Architecture
Honest, technically credible roadmaps for what to build and what to skip.
Book a Ship Audit →Leadership is under pressure to "do AI" and drowning in vendor pitches. The last initiative burned a quarter before anyone could say whether it would ship. Most AI projects fail here, on the plan. They bet budget on the wrong thing before the hard questions get asked. We give you a technically credible read on what's worth building and what to skip. Where buying beats building, we say so. The budget then lands on the initiatives that actually reach production.
- Opportunity and feasibility audits
- Target architecture for the AI system
- Build-vs-buy and vendor review
- ROI and cost modelling
- A phased roadmap with named risks
Everything below transfers to you at handover. You need no retainer to keep it running.
- A written strategy and architecture document
- A prioritized, sequenced roadmap
- An ROI model you can defend internally
- A build-vs-buy / vendor recommendation
- A deck and document defensible to your board
You own every line.#
Explicit handover terms — this is what transfers to you when we're done.
- All source code transfers to you at handover.
- Infrastructure-as-code for the whole system transfers to you.
- The eval suiteAn eval suite is a versioned set of test cases that measures whether outputs are good. and tests transfer to you.
- Credentials and accounts we provision transfer to you.
- Documentation and runbooks transfer to you.
- No retainer required to keep it running.
- You can operate and extend the system without us.
- A clear, sequenced plan instead of a scattered backlog of AI ideas
- Budget aimed at the initiatives that actually ship and pay off
- Dead-ends named before they cost you a quarter
- Model-agnostic recommendations you could execute with any competent team, including your own
- Alignment across leadership, engineering, and finance on one defensible plan
Questions, answered.#
The questions we get asked most, with plain answers.
01 Will you tell us NOT to build something?
Yes, and we do it regularly. Our incentive is a credible recommendation. Sometimes the right answer is to buy, wait, or do nothing yet.
Link to this answer: Will you tell us NOT to build something?02 How is this different from a big-consultancy deck?
We're hands-on engineers who ship this kind of system ourselves. The roadmap reflects what's actually feasible to build and operate.
Link to this answer: How is this different from a big-consultancy deck?03 Do you lock us into a stack?
No. Recommendations are model-agnostic and favor open standards. The goal is a plan you could execute with any competent team, including your own.
Link to this answer: Do you lock us into a stack?04 What do we walk away with?
A written strategy and architecture document, plus a prioritized roadmap. You also get an ROI model and a build-vs-buy recommendation. These are concrete artifacts your board can act on.
Link to this answer: What do we walk away with?