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Map first. Then invest.

Before you invest in technology, we understand your business, review what you already have, and deliver a plan with priorities, risks, and costs. And everything we build, we architect ourselves.

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areas of their data platform reviewed in 2 weeks, before investing further: 10 confirmed decisions and 5 critical risks. Energy, Colombia.

The problem

The situation today.

Technology gets bought before anyone knows what it's for, and every vendor pitches its own product.

No one validates what's already been built until it breaks.

Projects compete with each other, and no one knows which one comes first.

How we decide

A decision, step by step.

This is how we work alongside leadership: from business goal to plan, with numbers and proof at every step. The examples come from real projects.

  1. 1
    Understand the business

    First, where you want to go and where you are today.

    Before we talk technology, we put in writing leadership's goals, how the company operates today, and what's non-negotiable. That sets the criteria for every decision that follows.

    That's how a pharmacy chain's program began: before any system was on the table, leadership set its criteria.

  2. 2
    Decide with sound judgment

    Not every decision carries the same weight.

    What can be undone gets tested quickly. What's hard to undo, like the choice of cloud or the foundation of a system, gets analyzed in depth. And when possible, we design so that a hard decision becomes reversible.

    At the pharmacy chain, storing the data in an open format left the door open to a different analytics platform later on, without paying for it today.

  3. 3
    Build or buy

    Build what sets you apart.

    Module by module, we decide what to build, what to buy, and what to keep. Investment goes into what makes the business different, and we don't reinvent the rest.

    The pharmacy chain's sales system: inventory and franchise management are built, electronic invoicing is bought, and accounting stays as it is.

  4. 4
    Cost and forecast

    What it will cost to run as you grow.

    Before building, we forecast what it will cost to run in the cloud at different scales: how fast it grows, where the money goes, and which lever brings it down. You decide with that number in front of you, not when the bill arrives.

    The actual forecast for the pharmacy chain's data platform, using official cloud pricing. Shown in relative terms, without amounts.

  5. 5
    Test before you build

    A short test, with the bar set in advance.

    When there's doubt, we run a tightly scoped proof of concept: one question, one test, and a success criterion defined in advance. The result decides, even when the answer is not to buy.

    Three real tests, three different decisions.

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    One plan, several initiatives

    Every initiative, in a single plan.

    We rank initiatives by their value, by the cost of waiting, and by what each one needs. Each initiative touches one or more service areas, and a single pod covers them all.

    The pharmacy chain's year-long program: 614 tasks in a single plan.

And once the decision is made, it's measured every day.Every cloud account's spend, reported by an agent every day at 6 p.m.
See how we operate
Capabilities

What we do well.

Architecture for every solution

Before anything is built, every solution is designed and put in writing: what gets done, why, and how it will grow.

  • Architecture document and diagrams
  • Decision records (ADRs)
  • Growth and cost scenarios

An assessment of what you already have

We review what you've built or plan to build, and tell you what works, what to fix, and in what order.

  • Data platforms, AI, machine learning, and BI
  • Validation of what's already built
  • Risks ranked by urgency

A phased plan

We rank your projects by what each one needs and by its value, so you know what comes first.

  • One-year programs with their dependencies
  • Roadmap prioritized by value
  • Estimated cost before building

Measure before you buy

Often, what you already have delivers more when it's configured well. We measure that before recommending a purchase.

  • AI processing on GPUs
  • From standalone containers to Kubernetes
  • Switching AI models without losing quality

Secure and well-organized by design

Security, cost, and operations are thought through from the first diagram, not after the fact.

  • Well-Architected Framework
  • Infrastructure as code, built to our own standard
  • Threat modeling: STRIDE and OWASP for LLMs

Technical leadership

A technical director works alongside your executive team on every technology decision.

  • Leading the technical side of multi-team projects
  • Architecture review before every investment
  • Support for your executive team
What we've architected

Decisions backed by numbers, before investing.

Real cases, described by industry. Client names are kept confidential.

EnergyArchitecture review · AWS

Their data platform, reviewed in depth before investing further.

Over four sessions with their team, we reviewed how their data is brought in, processed, protected, and governed. We delivered a formal assessment, an architecture document, seven diagrams, a cost calculator, and a phased plan.

14areas reviewed in 2 weeks: 10 confirmed decisions and 5 critical risks
Pharmacy chainYear-long program

Six technology projects, organized into a single plan for the year.

First, the two foundations all the others use: the sales and inventory system and the data platform. On top of them: the WhatsApp agent, the online store, franchisee recruitment, and the counter assistant.

614tasks in a single plan, week by week
Conversational analyticsGPU · SageMaker

Measure before investing: the recommendation was not to move to the most expensive option.

We tested how many recordings to process at a time and how many processes to run in parallel, and compared that with other alternatives. The same machine got faster, with no need to buy more expensive hardware.

42%faster with 1,000 recordings, on the same machine
Architectures we've designed
  • Air cargo

    Customs documents that AI reads automatically

  • Consumer goods

    Every order's status, checked every 15 minutes, with alerts in Teams

  • Regulated fintech

    An agent that handles complaints and requests with the compliance the regulator requires

  • Insurance

    Every tender, analyzed automatically

Technologies

With the tools you already use.

Clouds
AWSGoogle CloudAzure
Design and governance
TerraformWell-ArchitectedCollibraJira
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