A technology advisor helps make and document consequential technical decisions: whether to build or buy, which vendor or platform to select, how systems should fit together, and what the trade-offs of each option actually are. The output is a defensible decision with the reasoning recorded.
Undocumented decisions get relitigated
Every organisation has a system nobody can explain the choice of. The people who decided have left, the constraints they were working under are forgotten, and the team relitigates it annually without new information.
Writing the decision down — options considered, criteria applied, trade-offs accepted, assumptions made — costs an afternoon and saves that argument for years. It also makes it obvious when an assumption has changed and the decision genuinely should be revisited.
Process
How we deliver it
Process flow for Technology advisory
01
Frame the decision
What is actually being decided, and what constrains it.
02
Generate options
Including the option of doing nothing.
03
Set criteria
Weighted, agreed before evaluation rather than after.
04
Evaluate
Against criteria, with trade-offs stated plainly.
05
Document
A decision record capturing reasoning and assumptions.
Deliverables
What you receive
Options analysis with weighted criteria
Cost modelling across build, buy and hybrid paths
A clear recommendation with trade-offs stated
Architecture decision record for the repository
Presentation to stakeholders with the reasoning open to challenge
Engagement shape
Two to six weeks per decision, or a retained advisory arrangement for ongoing questions.
Stack decisions follow the problem. This is where we usually start, not a fixed menu.
Frequently asked
Questions we get about this
Are you independent of the vendors you evaluate?
Yes. We hold no reseller agreements or referral commissions, which is deliberate — it is the only way an evaluation is worth anything. Where we could plausibly deliver the build ourselves, we say so explicitly in the report.
Build or buy?
Buy where the capability is common and your requirements are ordinary; build where the process is a genuine differentiator or licensing at your scale exceeds the build. The honest answer is buy more often than technology teams instinctively prefer.
Talk it through before you commit
A discovery call is a working session on your constraint, not a sales pitch.
