When this is for you
You signed the statement of work. Six months in, the status reports are green. The ceremonies are happening. Nothing is actually shipping except for PowerPoint presentations.
You need to ask your vendor hard questions. You need the technical background to know whether the answers you get are real.
We help you ask those questions. The conversation with your vendor is yours.
Why vendor-blind
We have worked for, beside, and on the aftermath of well known consultancies in the past. To keep the advisory bias-free, we require you to withhold their names for the duration of the engagement.
You know who they are. We don't need to.
What you get
Observations from your environment.
Questions to ask your vendor. Specific, technical, hard to deflect.
What good answers look like, so you can evaluate the response.
What weak answers look like, so you can spot deflection.
How we look
Practice. What practices did the vendor commit to? We look at what is happening in your environment and where it departs from the commitment.
Pipeline. Build and deploy claims versus your observable reality. Branch strategy, merge frequency, deploy frequency, waste indicators, test strategy, pipeline trustworthiness.
Value stream. Where work actually gets stuck. Is "Agile" producing faster delivery, or just more tickets and meetings. Honest lead time from idea to users.
Who this is for
Executives who signed the statement of work and suspect the delivery is not matching the pitch.
Typically three to twelve months into an engagement worth half a million dollars or more.
Who this is not for
Dev teams advising themselves.
Consultancies advising on each other.
What we need from you
Read access to your repositories, your build and deploy pipelines, your project management tooling, your incident records, and your deploy logs for the period under review.
Access on day one means the engagement finishes faster. Access in week three means the engagement starts in week three.
Names of the consultancies involved redacted from the artefacts we see.
Helpful, not required: conversation with three to six engineers, chosen by us, not by the consultancy under engagement. Up to one hour each. Up to one hour with the engineering leader who commissioned the original work.
One week max, fixed price
The price is for the observations, the questions, and the debrief. One week is the ceiling. If access is granted on day one and the artefacts are clean, you'll have the output sooner.
AUD 18,000 ex GST (approx GBP 9,500 / USD 12,000), fixed.
Travel at cost, billed without markup. Remote by default.
If you need a written record of findings
The Advisory engagement is conversational. You walk away with questions to ask and the framework to evaluate the answers, but the deliverable is verbal in the debrief and informal in writing.
If you need a written record with specific findings against named practices, that's the Audit. Two weeks, fixed price, one report.
Get in touch
Tell us the engagement scope, the codebase, the time window under review. Don't tell us the consultancy's name.