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Architecture & Planning

Infra audits, migration planning, tech debt assessment. Senior consulting before you write a line of code.

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Who Architecture & Planning is for

Infra audits, migration planning, tech debt assessment. Senior consulting before you write a line of code.

  1. CTOs choosing between two credible options

    Both plans have a champion inside the team and neither has been costed properly. A written decision record with the trade-offs stated makes the choice defensible a year after it is made.

  2. Teams starting a migration they have not scoped

    The destination is agreed, the dependency map does not exist, and the estimate is a guess. The risky part gets discovered halfway through, which is the most expensive moment to find it.

  3. Companies carrying tech debt nobody has counted

    Everyone knows which parts are fragile and nobody can say what fixing them is worth. An inventory with priorities turns a shared feeling into a budget line somebody can approve.

  4. Teams that want a second opinion before committing

    The design came from the people who will build it, which is not the same as an independent read of it. Days of review sit in front of quarters of implementation.

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Included

What Architecture & Planning Includes

Full infrastructure audit and risk assessment
Migration strategy and execution plan
Tech debt inventory with prioritised remediation
Cost analysis and optimisation roadmap
Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
Stakeholder presentation and recommendations

How it goes

How we run this engagement

The same four steps on every engagement, whether it is a one-off project or an ongoing retainer.

Step 1

You describe the work

A written request, answered by a senior engineer within one working day

Step 2

Audit & Plan

Full review of current stack, written action plan (AI-powered stack analysis + risk mapping)

Step 3

Execute

Implementation, migration or ongoing management begins

Step 4

Monitor & Support

Continuous oversight, alerts, regular reports (AI-correlated alerts, zero noise)

Overview

About Architecture & Planning

We review your stack, quantify tech debt, and deliver a prioritised action plan before any implementation begins. You get Architecture Decision Records, cost analysis, and a clear roadmap with stakeholder-ready recommendations.

FAQ

Architecture & Planning - Common Questions

We review your entire stack - cloud accounts, networking, compute, storage, databases, security posture, CI/CD, monitoring, and cost structure. You receive a written report with prioritised findings, risk ratings, and recommended actions.

Architecture and Planning is consulting only - no implementation. We assess, plan, and advise. If you want us to execute the plan afterward, we scope that as a separate project or retainer engagement.

Yes. We create detailed migration strategies covering application assessment, dependency mapping, provider selection, phased execution plans, risk mitigation, and rollback procedures. The plan is implementation-ready regardless of who executes it.

Yes. Every significant recommendation is documented as an ADR with context, considered alternatives, decision rationale, and consequences. These records become part of your team's institutional knowledge and make future decisions easier.

CTOs evaluating infrastructure strategy, teams planning major migrations or re-architecture, and companies that want an experienced second opinion before committing engineering resources to a large infrastructure change.

You get a written plan you can act on with or without us: the current state, the risks in priority order, the target architecture, the reasoning behind each decision and a costed sequence of steps. Plenty of clients hand that to their own team. If you would rather we build it, the plan becomes the scope and nothing gets rewritten to suit us.

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