Advisory engagements

Defined scopes for architecture, AI governance, agentic delivery, and retained leadership.

A concise set of starting points for organizations that need clarity, governance, or senior architectural oversight. Each engagement has a clear purpose, a bounded timeline, and a usable handoff.

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Architecture Diagnostic

Assessment of current architecture, decision bottlenecks, platform risk, and delivery drag, with a prioritized view of what should change next.

Starting at $7,500 · ~2 weeks
assessment fixed scope
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AI Governance Sprint

Governance for organizations moving from informal AI experimentation to a more operationally credible model, with policy boundaries, reference patterns, and review workflow.

Starting at $12,000 · 10 business days
policy + architecture implementation roadmap
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Agentic Delivery Workshop

A working engagement for standardising agent-first delivery methods, document contracts, prompt systems, guardrails, and autonomous engineering techniques.

Starting at $9,500 · 5 business days
operating model rollout plan
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Fractional Chief Architect

A defined monthly architecture retainer for companies that need decision discipline, design review, and senior technical judgment without a full-time executive hire.

Starting at $8,000/month · defined retainer
retained support bounded cadence
Scope, timeline, output

Defined engagements with concrete handoff.

These are not generic templates. They are structured starting points designed to make buying and execution clearer.

Architecture Diagnostic

Assessment of decision flow, platform risk, and near-term priorities.

Best used when leadership can feel the system becoming harder to change, but needs a cleaner read on where risk, cost, and decision friction actually sit.

  • stakeholder interviews across engineering, product, and security
  • review of current-state architecture, constraints, and hotspots
  • analysis of decision flow and where escalation friction lives
  • risk register across architecture, operations, and governance
  • prioritised roadmap with immediate, 30-day, and 90-day actions
  • leadership memo and live readout session
AI Governance Sprint

Governance for organisations moving from AI experimentation to operational use.

Best used when teams are already using AI tools or discussing AI-enabled workflows, but leadership needs clearer boundaries, review expectations, and architectural consistency.

  • inventory of AI use cases, tooling, and undocumented usage patterns
  • risk-tier model for approved, experimental, and prohibited usage
  • reference architecture for internal or product-facing AI delivery
  • review checkpoints for privacy, security, and human oversight
  • lightweight governance model designed to survive delivery pressure
  • implementation roadmap for the next 30-90 days
Agentic Delivery Workshop

Standardise how agent-first engineering is meant to work.

Best used when AI coding and autonomous workflows are already appearing across teams, but prompt practices, review expectations, document standards, and delivery methods are drifting apart.

  • process conformance model for agent-assisted delivery
  • document contracts for specifications, tasks, ADRs, and review artefacts
  • prompt-system structure with ownership and maintenance guidance
  • guardrails for escalation, review passes, and human checkpoints
  • autonomous delivery techniques for decomposition and parallel execution
  • pilot rollout plan for scaling standards across teams
Fractional Chief Architect

Retained architecture leadership without a full-time executive hire.

Best used when the company needs sustained design oversight, better technical decision-making, and a credible senior voice across engineering, platform, and security work. Structured as a defined monthly retainer rather than daily embedded support, with Core, Expanded, and Embedded options depending on cadence and review volume. Most clients land in Expanded.

  • scheduled weekly leadership and architecture review cadence
  • design review for major initiatives and vendor decisions
  • bounded async review of priority documents and higher-stakes decisions
  • architecture review board creation or redesign
  • roadmap review and sequencing guidance for platform investment
  • executive translation between technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Buyer lens

Where different buyers usually start.

The same engagement can serve different leaders, but the trigger is usually different depending on the role.

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CTO

Usually starts with the Architecture Diagnostic for clarity, the AI Governance Sprint for control, or the fractional retainer when decision load has outgrown the current architecture function.

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VP Engineering

Usually starts with the Agentic Delivery Workshop or AI Governance Sprint when execution consistency, review discipline, and cross-team operating norms need to tighten quickly.

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Platform leader

Usually starts with the Architecture Diagnostic or Agentic Delivery Workshop when platform standards, developer workflows, and document or prompt systems need stronger shared structure.

Common sequence

How engagements often progress

  • begin with a defined scope to establish facts, trust, and usable artefacts
  • use the outputs to align leadership on the next quarter of decisions
  • move to retained support only if ongoing involvement will materially improve execution

Defined scope is not simplification for its own sake. It is discipline in the buying process.

Clarity is usually the fastest route to a useful engagement.
Related pages

Dedicated pages are available for the AI and agentic offers.

Useful for internal forwarding, proposals, and buyer conversations focused on governance or agent-first delivery.