What we do

The engineering rarely differs. The constraints always do.

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Most clients arrive somewhere in the middle of the process. Usually with an assessment somebody else wrote and a decision nobody has made.

The five stages

Assessment, modernization, models in production, the move, and turning the old one off.

Estate assessment

Six weeks and a fixed fee. You get a counted inventory with a named owner against every entry, criticality established from real traffic rather than from interviews, and a cost band to modernize, migrate or retire each system with the working attached. We sell no software and resell no licenses, so there is nothing for a finding to be steered toward.

Modernization

A full rewrite is a three-year bet most people are not allowed to make. We deliver behind a facade instead, capability by capability, with your engineers in the pairs from the first week. Behavior is characterized and tested before it moves, so bugs are not promoted to features, and every parallel run has an end date written into the plan.

Data and AI in production

We start only where an operations team is willing to own the result on a Tuesday. Lineage and ownership are fixed first, evaluation runs against your live distribution before anything is built, and every production decision is logged, replayable and explainable to somebody who has complained about it.

Migration and cutover

Rehearsed end to end against production-shaped data, three times. The rollback is executed and timed rather than written down, the go/no-go criteria have an owner against each line, and one named decision-maker per phase is published before the weekend and is awake for it.

Decommissioning

Almost nobody sells this, which is why the old system is still running and the saving never appeared. Retirement is scoped as its own engagement with a switch-off date, retention settled with legal before anything moves, traffic starved rather than cut, and the saving checked against your invoice after cutoff.

Line	The question it answers	Typical length
Estate assessment	What do we even have?	Six weeks
Modernization	How do we change it without stopping?	Six to eighteen months
Data and AI in production	Why are all eleven pilots still pilots?	Nine to sixteen weeks
Migration and cutover	Who signs the go/no-go?	Four to twelve weeks
Decommissioning	Why are we still paying for it?	Six to twenty weeks

Our business model

Every engagement is a fixed fee with a stated proportion held against the cutover date. If the date slips for a reason that is ours, we are paid less. The share is written in the proposal, repeated in the contract, and we will tell you what it is in the first meeting rather than the third. It is the only part of this document anybody ever asks about.

Do you take strategy-only work?

No. If there is no team and no date at the end of it, there is nothing for us to be judged on, and being judged on the outcome is the only unusual thing about us.

Do you resell software?

No. We sell no licenses and take no vendor commission. That is why an assessment finding has nothing to be steered toward, and it is worth checking against anyone else you are speaking to.

Can you start in the middle of something somebody else began?

Usually. It is most of what we do. The first two weeks are spent establishing what is actually true, which is rarely what the last status report said.