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Make platform decisions with implementation evidence

Senior technology consulting for SaaS platform strategy, internal platform foundations, commerce platform reviews, cloud cost governance, and delivery operating models.

Use it when build, buy, simplify, migrate, or govern decisions need a practical path before implementation starts.

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Decision-ready evidence

Review options against reliability, security, cost, tenancy, delivery, and ownership constraints.

Platform strategy scope

Focus on SaaS foundations, internal platforms, commerce operations, and cloud governance decisions.

Implementation-ready plans

Turn recommendations into scoped audit, GitOps, Kubernetes, cost, or managed-support next steps.

Service playbook

From problem to operating evidence

Main content is structured like a case study: context first, scoped work next, then the operating changes and evidence a team can use after handoff.

Service briefWhat we deliverConsulting engagementsEngagement modelsWhat makes us different

Technology consulting gives leadership and engineering teams a decision-ready view before committing to a platform rebuild, migration, managed service, or larger implementation project. We focus on choices Assistance can help implement: SaaS foundations, internal platforms, commerce reliability, cloud governance, delivery flow, security posture, and operating ownership.

Case-study lens

Scoped

Problem, responsibility, and handoff boundaries before implementation.

Evidence

Dashboards, runbooks, reviews, and operating records over borrowed logos.

Outcomes

Conservative summaries focused on observable operational improvement.

ScopeSection 01

What we deliver

The work is broken into visible capabilities, acceptance points, and handoff artifacts.

What changes

SaaS platform strategy

Decision support for teams building, buying, or simplifying a SaaS platform.

What we evaluate:

  • Tenancy model — customer isolation, shared services, data boundaries, and operational blast radius
  • Reliability targets — availability expectations, incident patterns, recovery objectives, and support ownership
  • Compliance expectations — evidence needed for customer security reviews, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 preparation, and audit trails
  • Cost drivers — cloud spend, tenant economics, environment sprawl, and commitment decisions
  • Build vs. buy trade-offs — managed services, platform components, and internal ownership boundaries

What changes

Internal platform foundations

Define foundations that product teams can use without creating a platform nobody owns.

Strategic guidance:

  • Platform scope, service boundaries, and golden-path candidates
  • Infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD, and environment promotion model
  • Developer experience and self-service needs
  • Ownership, support model, and escalation paths
  • Technical debt that blocks reliability, security, or delivery speed

Assessment step

Commerce platform review

Review platform and delivery risks that affect revenue confidence.

Review scope:

AreaWhat we review
Hosting and operationsownership, upgrade path, dependencies, and incident response
Reliabilitycheckout, search, inventory, payment, and integration failure modes
Securityaccess, secrets, customer data exposure, and compliance expectations
Deliveryrelease process, rollback, test evidence, and third-party integration changes
Costinfrastructure waste, seasonal capacity, and scaling trade-offs

Deliverables:

  • decision brief with risks, options, and trade-offs
  • prioritized roadmap for remediation or implementation
  • recommendations linked to owner, impact, and evidence
  • next-step scope for audits, GitOps, Kubernetes migration, or managed support
Operating modelSection 02

Consulting engagements

Responsibilities, response paths, and technical changes are made explicit before work starts.

Engagement option

Decision brief and roadmap

Document the smallest practical path forward before the team commits to implementation.

Common outputs:

  • Current-state notes and decision constraints
  • Options with trade-offs, risks, and owner implications
  • Recommended next step with scope boundaries
  • Implementation sequence for audits, remediation, or platform work
  • Questions that need validation before spend or migration decisions

Engagement option

Cloud cost governance

Create a practical FinOps path for AWS, Azure, or GCP environments where spend ownership is unclear.

What we help with:

  • Rightsizing, commitment, storage lifecycle, and data-transfer review
  • Tagging, showback, budgets, anomaly detection, and governance routines
  • Kubernetes and database cost drivers
  • Reviewable remediation backlog with expected savings and rollback notes
  • Links from cost recommendations to teams, workloads, and infrastructure code where possible

Assessment step

Advisory reviews and audits

When a decision needs deeper evidence, technology consulting can lead into focused reviews:

OutcomeSection 03

Engagement models

Expected changes are framed as practical operating improvements, not unsupported guarantees.

Operating step

Advisory Retainer

Ongoing access to senior technology advisors.

  • Monthly strategy sessions
  • On-demand architecture reviews
  • Technology decision support
  • Priority access to expertise

Operating step

Project-Based

Focused engagements for specific initiatives.

  • Discovery and assessment
  • Solution design
  • Implementation guidance
  • Knowledge transfer

Operating step

Embedded Consulting

Consultants working alongside your team.

  • Full-time or part-time engagement
  • Direct collaboration with your engineers
  • Hands-on implementation support
  • Continuous knowledge transfer
EvidenceSection 04

What makes us different

Runbooks, dashboards, reviews, and handoff material make the work auditable.

Practitioner-Led Our consultants are practicing engineers who build and operate production systems daily.

Vendor Neutral We recommend the right tools for your needs, not the ones that pay us commissions.

Actionable Advice Every recommendation comes with specific implementation guidance and priorities.

Hands-On When Needed We can implement recommendations directly, not just advise.

Next stepSection 05

Getting started

Decision points and common questions are made explicit so follow-up work is scoped cleanly.

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Pricing

Flexible scopes available. if you need custom terms or bundled service pricing.

Hourly rate
€90/hr

Minimum engagement: 20 hours

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