Cloud architecture, migration, access control and operations — the foundational work that decides whether the target state on the whiteboard ever exists anywhere else.
Service lines
06
Accelerators
04 reusable assets
Typical entry
Three weeks
You keep
Code, docs and runbooks
A target architecture is a diagram until somebody provisions the landing zone, works out how identity federates, decides what an isolated environment actually means for this estate, and runs the migration without dropping a transaction. That work is where programs are won and lost, and it is the work most advisory firms hand to someone else.
The consequences are specific and expensive. Access models designed on a slide fail the first security review. Migrations sequenced without knowing the integration surface run twice. Cloud bills that looked fine in the business case arrive with a run-rate nobody modeled, because the architecture was never costed at the workload level.
We treat infrastructure as a first-class capability rather than the implementation detail at the end of a strategy engagement. The people who set your target state configure the environments, write the Terraform, design the access boundaries and stay on call while it proves itself.
Named, scoped and independently buyable. Most engagements combine two or three.
Getting workloads onto the right platform, in the right shape, without a cutover weekend nobody will approve.
Reproducible environments that behave the same on a Tuesday as they did during the pilot.
Designing who can reach what, and proving it — the control that fails first and costs most.
What happens after go-live, which is where most of an estate's life is actually spent.
Making the run-rate a design input rather than a quarterly surprise.
An independent read on whether an estate, a team or an acquisition target is what it claims to be.
Reusable engineering assets we bring into engagements — reference architectures, tested component libraries and assessment methods. They are yours to keep and modify; nothing here is a runtime you have to keep licensing.
Infrastructure blueprint
Terraform-defined account structure, network, identity and guardrails, deployable on day one.
Reference framework
Least-privilege role and segmentation patterns with control evidence pre-mapped to SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Analytical tool
Workload-level total cost of ownership across cloud, license, run and people cost.
Assessment framework
Structured evaluation across sixteen dimensions, producing scores comparable over time.
Three weeks · fixed scope · fixed price
An independent read on your estate: what it costs to run, where it will break, what the access model actually permits, and the three interventions with the highest return — with the reasoning shown rather than asserted.
What you receive
05 outputs
We are deliberately fluent across the credible options in each layer so that the choice can be made on your constraints rather than on ours.
Platforms
Provisioning & runtime
Identity & security
Operations
Most engagements start with a short, fixed-scope diagnostic — three to four weeks, a written recommendation, and a costed path forward. If we are not the right firm for it, we will say so and point you somewhere better.