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SVC/ — Consulting services

Build, run, advise.

Three kinds of work, and it is worth knowing which one you are buying. Some engagements are only one of them. Most that last become all three, roughly in that order.

ADVISE/ — Advise

Advise.

Where the deliverable is a decision rather than a system. You end up with a written recommendation you can act on yourself, hand to another firm, or ignore.

Every practice above also offers a standalone review — you are not obliged to have us do the remediation afterwards, and the report is written to be handed to whoever does. See the network review , security review , AI readiness review and architecture review .

FIT/ — Is this you?

Where we're the right call — and where we aren't.

A good fit

  • You need senior capacity, continuously, without running a hiring cycle for it.
  • The system already exists and needs someone who will learn it properly rather than rewrite it.
  • You want one accountable person, not a team you manage at a distance.
  • Infrastructure, networks and applications overlap in your problem, and you'd rather not coordinate three vendors.
  • The work can be done remotely. Everything we do is remote — we don't attend sites.

A poor fit

  • You need twenty engineers next month. We're small on purpose; a body shop will serve you better.
  • You want the cheapest rate available. We're not it, and we won't pretend otherwise.
  • You need 24×7 follow-the-sun cover with a formal SLA and a rota. We can advise on building it; we aren't it.
  • The scope is fixed and the spec is final before anyone has looked at the existing system.

ENG/ — Engagement models

Three ways to buy.

Retainer
A fixed number of days per month, reserved for you. The best fit for continuous product work or ongoing infrastructure ownership. Ninety days' notice either way, so neither side is trapped or surprised.
Fixed-scope project
A defined deliverable — a network redesign, a migration, an audit, a feature — with a written scope and a date. Preceded by a short discovery if the scope isn't clear enough to cost honestly, because a guess helps neither of us.
Advisory
Architecture review, second opinion on a vendor proposal, or a design session before you commit to a direction. Often the cheapest useful thing we do.

CTA/ — Next step

Not sure which practice you need?

Most real problems cross two or three of them. Describe the situation in a few lines and you'll get a straight answer about what's involved — including if the answer is that you don't need us.

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