Platform Consulting
Build-versus-buy and vendor assessment before you commit.
Sometimes the useful thing is not more building but an outside read on what already exists. We review strategies, codebases and architectures and report what we find, including when the finding is unwelcome.
On a platform consulting engagement this means starting from what you already have — an idea, a spreadsheet, a running system, or a set of results that do not add up — and working from there rather than insisting on a rebuild. Where the honest answer is that the work is not worth doing, that is what you will be told.
What you get
- Strategy and system audits against stated assumptions
- Codebase review for correctness, look-ahead bias and fragility
- Architecture review before a significant build commitment
- Written findings with prioritised, costed recommendations
How the work runs
Scope
A short call and a written scope: what the system must do, what data it needs, what counts as done. Fixed price where the scope allows it.
Build
Work in reviewable increments, with running code you can see rather than a status update. Assumptions are surfaced as they arise, not at the end.
Test
Independent testing against the acceptance criteria agreed in the scope, including the failure cases.
Handover
Source code, documentation and a walkthrough. You own the result and can maintain it without us.
Tell us what you are trying to build
Describe the problem and we will tell you plainly whether we can help, roughly what it would take, and what it would cost. If it is not a fit, we will say so.
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