Second opinion on a vendor proposal
a written assessment of technical assumptions, hidden costs, lock-in and the questions to ask before signing.
By the hour
A specialist, for the time you need.
Architecture reviews, second opinions, escalations and short investigations. Agree the named practitioner, hourly rate and booking block before work starts.
How the work starts
Define the problem
Share the system, the decision or incident, and the constraints.
Agree who and what
Review the proposed practitioner or team, scope, rate, availability and acceptance criteria.
Work with visibility
Agree your tooling, reporting cadence, access and decision owner.
Leave with a handover
Keep the agreed deliverables, decisions and next steps in your own environment.
How planning and review differ
Planning
Agree the question, named practitioner, booking block and what “done” means for the time booked.
Customer involvement
Provide context and access for the investigation; decisions stay with you.
Handover
Leave with notes, options and recommended next steps in your environment.
Scope boundaries
Hourly work suits exploration and advice. For a fixed deliverable with a hard deadline, discuss a sprint. Critical systems need agreed operational coverage; an hourly booking is not an incident-response SLA.
Work we take on
Example engagement — illustrative. Typical scopes of work, not named client case studies.
Architecture review before commitment
options, trade-offs and risks documented so the team can decide, not a verdict imposed.
Production escalation
a root-cause analysis with evidence and a fix or documented mitigation.
Cutover weekend cover
named engineer on the agreed window with a written handover afterwards.
Interim cover while hiring
continuity on defined responsibilities and a handover pack for the eventual hire.
Start with clarity.
What would make your business easier to run?
Tell us the operational challenge. We will discuss whether a short conversation, a scoped assessment or a delivery engagement is the right next step.