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Database Migration Assessment — 3 weeks
Full inventory, compatibility scoring, effort model, and cutover plan for moving to PostgreSQL.
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Fixed-scope entry points that de-risk larger engagements.
Big programs fail on framing, not effort. Our productized engagements are small, fixed-scope, fixed-timeline entry points — assessments, health checks, reviews, and one workshop — each with a written deliverable your team can execute with anyone. They are how you start with evidence instead of a leap of faith.
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featured entry points across AI, data, and cloud
1 day
shortest engagement — the Agentic AI Discovery Workshop
0
obligation to continue — deliverables are yours to execute with anyone
Featured engagements
Eight ways to start with evidence
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AI Readiness Assessment — 2 weeks
Where AI should go, what your data can support, and the sequence that de-risks the rest.
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Agentic AI Discovery Workshop — 1 full day
Align leadership and engineering on one honest pilot shortlist for agents.
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PostgreSQL Health Check — 1 week
Automated scan plus manual review of vacuum, backups, HA, security, and slow queries.
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RAG Architecture Review — 1–2 weeks
Measured review of your retrieval pipeline against what production demands.
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Evals & AI Governance Sprint — 3–4 weeks
Make your AI pilot production-safe: evals from real questions, guardrails, human-in-the-loop, and a governance pack your risk team can sign.
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SQL Server License Optimization Review — 1–2 weeks
Find the 20–40% licensing overspend hiding in your SQL Server estate — or build the case to escape it.
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Executive AI Briefing — half day
A half-day session for boards and C-suites: what AI can and cannot do for your business, and the first three moves.
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Also available — ask an architect
Nineteen fixed-scope and on-request engagements sit behind this hub. The eight above are the front door; the rest are available through a conversation with an architect.
- Databricks Architecture Review — workspace, catalog, and cost audit with a remediation plan and found savings.
- Snowflake Cost & Architecture Review — turn the bill into a diagnosis and a written plan with a savings estimate.
- Data Platform Health Check — the full platform — reliability, quality, cost, governance — ranked by blast radius.
- Cloud Architecture Review — landing-zone, security, delivery, and FinOps audit with quick wins called out.
- Agent Deployment Accelerator — six weeks, one scoped production agent — quoted after a scoping workshop.
- FinOps Implementation Sprint — we implement the savings the reviews find — fixed fee or share of verified savings.
- Fractional Data/AI Architect — senior architect judgment on call, 2–4 days a month, sold quarterly.
- Technical Due Diligence — ten days to smell a rotten data platform before you buy the company. Confidential, fixed fee.
- Private Academy Bootcamp — private cohorts for your team, on your stack — from PostgreSQL to agentic AI engineering.
- Production Support Retainer — the people who know your system pick up the phone. Monthly health reports included.
- Graph Architecture & Knowledge Graph Review — specialist review for graph estates and GraphRAG pipelines — model, performance, grounding.
How they work
Fixed means fixed
| What | How | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed scope | Agreed in writing before work starts | You know exactly what is in and what is out — no scope creep, no surprise invoices |
| Fixed timeline | From one day to three weeks, per engagement | Findings arrive while they are still useful, not quarters later |
| Written deliverable | Blueprints, reports, roadmaps — not decks | Executable by your team or any vendor; nothing is shelfware by design |
| No obligation | Continue with us, your team, or someone else | Assess → Architect → Deploy is our spine, but the deliverable stands alone |
FAQ
Productized engagements, answered
A fixed-scope, fixed-timeline service with a defined deliverable and a defined duration — the opposite of open-ended consulting. You know what you get, when you get it, and what happens next before any work starts.
The free self-assessments give you a band in minutes — useful orientation. The productized engagements get inside your environment: read-only access, code and corpus review, interviews, measured findings. Free is “see your band”; paid is “we do the work.”
No. Every deliverable is written to be executable by your team or any vendor. Most clients do continue — the engagement is designed to de-risk the follow-on build — but there is no obligation.
Regularly. If the data is not there, the ROI does not pencil out, or a simpler approach wins, we say so in writing. An assessment that only ever recommends building is a sales document.
A free 30-minute call with an architect to confirm scope and timeline. From there we agree the fixed scope in writing and start. Start a project if you already know which engagement you want.
Start here
Start with evidence, not a leap of faith.
Thirty minutes with an architect. Pick the engagement that matches your question — or bring the question and we will match the engagement.