Technology decisions made under pressure tend to create the debt that slows you down for years. We give you an independent, security-informed perspective — so your stack choices are defensible, your AI use is safe, and your platform can evolve without a rewrite.
No vendor allegiances. No preferred resellers. Just clear recommendations with trade-offs explained.
What we help you decide
Architecture Fit
- Is your current stack fit for purpose?
- What to keep, replace, or phase out
- Avoiding lock-in and reducing technical debt
- Monolith vs services vs serverless trade-offs
AI Platform Choices
- Managed provider vs self-hosted models
- Data residency, latency, and cost analysis
- Model selection for your use case and risk profile
- Fine-tuning and RAG pipeline architecture
AI Safety & Privacy
- Prompt and response controls (input/output filtering)
- PII handling in prompts, completions, and embeddings
- Red-teaming and abuse scenario analysis
- Model guardrails and content policy design
Core Platform Picks
- API gateways and WAF selection
- Identity: SSO, MFA, and authentication providers
- Secrets management and vault strategy
- Observability, logging, and alerting stack
Engagement models
Discovery
2–3 days
Interview key stakeholders, review current stack, and produce a gaps and priorities report.
Assure
1–2 weeks
Options analysis with proof-points, target state architecture, and hardening checklist.
Adopt
2–4 weeks
Implement the first slice — gateway, WAF, SSO, or AI guardrails — and hand over with full runbooks.
Deliverables
| Deliverable | What you get |
|---|---|
| Decision Brief | One-pager per choice with trade-offs, costs, and risk |
| Architecture Sketch | Annotated diagram of target state with migration notes |
| Hardened Baselines | IaC and policy snippets where applicable |
| Operational Runbook | Risks, limits, and how to scale each component |
| Debrief Call | 30-minute walkthrough and Q&A |
When this helps
- Evaluating AI platforms — choosing between OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure AI, self-hosted, or hybrid
- Pre-fundraise or pre-acquisition — technology due diligence preparation
- Platform migration — moving cloud providers, replacing auth stack, or adopting Kubernetes
- Compliance groundwork — EU AI Act, ISO 42001, or AI-specific SOC 2 addendum readiness