The cheapest week of any project is the one spent finding out what you are actually dealing with. We do discovery that ends in a costed plan, integration that joins up what you already run, and assurance on work built or quoted by somebody else.
Fixed-price discovery · API and systems integration · Second opinions · Architect-led · ISO 9001 delivery
Everything here ends in a document somebody else can act on — a plan, an architecture, or a recommendation with a number attached.
Systems mapped, risky integrations proven rather than assumed, and a scope with a price you can hold us or anyone else to.
How the finance system, the CRM, the MIS and the line-of-business tool talk to each other — APIs, events, batch, and what to do about the one that has no interface at all.
An independent read on a system, a supplier or a quote. What state the code is in, what it will cost to run and change, and what we would do differently.
Review of someone else’s build while it is happening, with findings written plainly enough for a board and specifically enough for the developers.
Buy, build, modernise or leave alone — costed over five years, so the business case is arguing about the right things.
Including the recommendation that you do nothing, which we give more often than you might expect from a supplier.
Quality assurance built into a commercial trading platform.
Testing and assurance built into delivery of a marine fuel trading ERP: 96% of user-reported issues caught in staging before release, and 97% of completed work items accepted first time.
Method more than tooling — but where it matters, here is what we work with.
If we assure a piece of work, we will tell you plainly whether we intend to bid for the delivery that follows. An assurance review written by the firm hoping to win the rebuild is worth very little, and buyers know it.
Same team and same standards either way. The route depends on who signs.
Yes, and we do it regularly. You get findings in writing: what is sound, what is risky, what it will cost to fix, and what we would leave alone. We write it so it can be shared with the supplier concerned.
We tell you at the start whether we intend to. Where independence matters more than continuity, we will do the assurance and stay out of the delivery — that is your call to make, not ours, and it should be made before we begin.
A costed plan: the systems as they actually are, the integrations proven rather than assumed, the risks named, a recommended approach and a price. It is written to be useful even if you never work with us again.
Two to three weeks for discovery on most engagements, one to two weeks for a focused assurance review. Both are fixed price, agreed before we start.
Yes — options appraised and costed over five years, in language finance and, in the public sector, Green Book-style appraisal will accept. We have written the technical half of plenty of them.
A short, senior-led conversation — or a free systems and data health check. No hard sell.
