Startup & SME Tech Consulting
Independent senior technical judgement, on tap — for the decisions that are expensive to get wrong and awkward to reverse.
Services
Pick the problem. We will tell you honestly if we are the right fit.
Eight areas where our experience compounds. They overlap constantly in practice — a performance problem is often an architecture problem, and a cost problem is usually both.
Capability Building & Team Augmentation
Senior engineering capacity that leaves your team permanently more capable — not permanently dependent on us.
Technical Architecture Design & Implementation
Systems designed for the load, the money and the audit you will face in three years — and then actually built, not just diagrammed.
Cloud Migration & Cost Optimisation
Move to the cloud without carrying your problems across with you — and stop paying for capacity you never use.
Leveraging Technology for Business Efficiency
Find the manual, repetitive and error-prone work quietly taxing your business, and engineer it out.
Troubleshooting & Incident Response
The problem nobody on the team can crack. Fresh eyes, deep experience, and a strong bias toward root cause over workaround.
Performance Optimisation
Latency, throughput and infrastructure cost are the same conversation. We measure first, then fix what actually matters.
Tech Process (Re-)Engineering
Shorten the distance between an idea and it running safely in production — so releases become routine instead of events.
Engagement models
How the work is usually structured
Scope, duration and price are agreed before anything starts. No open-ended time and materials unless you specifically want it that way.
1–2 weeks
Technical review
A fixed-scope assessment of your architecture, cloud spend, delivery process or a specific problem area. You get a written findings document, a prioritised list of recommendations, and a walkthrough with your team.
Best when you need clarity or an independent opinion fast.
1–6 months
Embedded engineering
Hands-on design and implementation alongside your team. We take real tickets, write real code, and hand over documented systems your engineers own afterwards.
Best when you have a build to get done and need senior capacity.
Ongoing
Fractional architect / CTO
A recurring commitment — typically 1–3 days a week — covering architecture decisions, technical governance, hiring, vendor selection and roadmap.
Best when you need senior technical leadership but not a full-time hire.
Not sure which one you need?
That is a normal position to be in, and working it out is part of the first conversation rather than something you should have to solve before booking one.
next step
Got something that needs an experienced pair of eyes?
A first conversation is free, thirty minutes, and has no deck. Tell us what you are wrestling with and we will tell you honestly whether we can help — and if we cannot, who might.