Architecture you can defend in three years.
Business, data, application, and technology architecture aligned to your strategy. TOGAF-based where it helps, plain-spoken where it doesn't.
We help organisations make architectural decisions they can still defend three years later. That means starting from business outcomes, not technology preferences, across life sciences, fintech, retail, logistics, telecom, and manufacturing, including under regulatory frameworks like GxP, GAMP 5, GDPR, and SOC 2.
Advisory: We run the workshops, produce the decisions and documentation, and leave your team equipped to execute.
Embedded: We sit alongside your engineers through delivery and adjust the architecture as the system tells us what we got wrong.
We cover the full architecture stack, or just the layer you're stuck on.
Business Architecture
Capability maps, operating models, and process designs that connect strategy to day-to-day work, for when teams know the destination but disagree on how to get there.
Data Architecture
Data domains, ownership, lineage, and integration patterns across distributed systems: warehouses, lakehouses, event streams, and operational stores.
Application Architecture
Application portfolios, integration patterns, and API contracts, from monolith decomposition to microservice boundaries to deciding what to keep and what to retire.
Technology Architecture
Cloud reference architectures, landing zones, network topology, and platform choices across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Hybrid and multi-cloud where it earns its keep.
Performance & Scalability
Sizing, capacity planning, and load patterns. Where the system bends before it breaks, and what to change before it does.
Reliability & Availability
Failure modes, recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), and resilience patterns, focused on the scenarios you actually need to survive, not a checklist.
Security & Compliance
Identity, access, data protection, and regulatory alignment (GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GxP, HIPAA), baked into the architecture, not bolted on.
Cost Optimisation
Total cost of ownership across compute, storage, network, and licensing. Finding the cuts that don't compromise reliability or compliance.
A short engagement that leaves you with decisions, not slideware.
Discover
Stakeholder interviews, current-state review, and constraints. We map what exists and what's actually causing pain.
Decide
Options, trade-offs, and recommendations captured as Architecture Decision Records, with the reasoning, not just the verdict.
Document
Target-state diagrams (C4, ArchiMate, or boxes-and-lines) and roadmaps at the right level of detail to act on.
Hand over
We leave a team that can run, extend, and reason about the architecture without us in the room. By design.
Architecture Decision Records
Concise, dated decisions with context, options considered, and consequences. Your future engineers will thank you.
Reference Architectures & Diagrams
Target-state diagrams at the right level of detail, with the rationale behind each component.
Capability & Process Maps
Business capability models and as-is / to-be process flows that align stakeholders before code gets written.
Roadmaps & Work Breakdown
Sequenced delivery plans with dependencies, risks, and milestones. Built to be executed, not to sit in a deck.
“His work has been of great use for us, especially due to his deep knowledge, from current-state analysis through to a new technical architecture and governance strategy.”
Controls Your Agent Cannot Rewrite
Three kinds of control shape what an agent can do, and they are not equally strong. One is advice the model may ignore, one is enforced by the tool, and one is enforced somewhere the agent cannot reach. Knowing which you have written is the whole game.
AI Security, Made Simple: Defence in Depth for Agents
Treat an AI agent like an eager developer: capable, fast, well-meaning, and guaranteed to occasionally overreach. Give it its own machine, its own accounts, and the least privilege it needs.
Transparent Use of AI
Using AI is not cheating. Using it and pretending you did not is. A practical scale for being honest about what the tool did.
Stuck on an architecture decision?
Bring us the current state and the constraints. We'll help you choose a target you can defend, and a path to get there.
Get in touch →