IT Consulting & Strategy
Decide what to build, buy, fix or retire — with the numbers to back it.
- A written architecture and systems audit of what you run today
- Build, buy or integrate recommendations with three-year cost modelling
- A sequenced 12-month roadmap with owners, budgets and dependencies
- Vendor and licence review that usually pays for the engagement itself
Why companies bring us in
Most technology spend goes wrong long before a line of code is written — the wrong platform, the wrong sequencing, or a roadmap nobody costed. Archanix works with founders, CTOs and operations leads to map the current estate, model the options honestly, and leave you with a decision you can defend to a board.
- A written architecture and systems audit of what you run today
- Build, buy or integrate recommendations with three-year cost modelling
- A sequenced 12-month roadmap with owners, budgets and dependencies
- Vendor and licence review that usually pays for the engagement itself
The work, itemised
Everything below is part of a it consulting engagement. We scope which parts you actually need before quoting.
Technology audit
We inventory applications, infrastructure, licences, integrations and data flows, then score each one on cost, risk and how much of your roadmap it blocks.
Architecture review
A senior engineer reads the codebase and infrastructure and reports where it will break under the growth you are planning for — with the remediation ranked by effort.
Build vs buy analysis
Side-by-side modelling of a custom build against the realistic SaaS options, including implementation time, switching cost and the total three-year picture.
Roadmap and budget
A quarter-by-quarter plan with headcount, vendor costs and delivery milestones that your finance team can actually approve.
Vendor selection
We write the RFP, score the responses against your real requirements and sit on your side of the table through negotiation.
Fractional CTO
Ongoing senior technical leadership for companies that need the judgement without a full-time hire on the payroll.
How the engagement runs
Every stage ends with something you can read, click or decide on — never a status update alone.
- 01
Discovery
Two weeks of interviews with leadership, engineering and the people who use the systems daily — including the workarounds nobody documents.
- 02
Assessment
We benchmark the estate against where you plan to be in three years and quantify the gap in cost, risk and delivery speed.
- 03
Options
Every recommendation arrives with at least two alternatives and the trade-off written out, so the decision stays yours.
- 04
Roadmap
A costed plan presented to your leadership team, with the first 90 days broken down to the week.
- 05
Support
We stay available through execution — reviewing vendor work, unblocking decisions and revising the plan as reality lands.
What we build with
We pick tools for how long they will be maintainable, not for how new they are. Where you already have a stack, we work in it rather than arguing for a migration you did not ask for.
- AWS Well-Architected
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- TOGAF
- Terraform
- Datadog
- Jira
- Notion
IT Consulting by industry
The same capability behaves differently depending on what the business does. These are the sectors where this service comes up most.
A focused audit and roadmap runs four to six weeks. A broader transformation programme where we also help execute typically runs three to six months, reviewed quarterly.
Yes. A large share of our consulting clients are non-technical founders and operations leaders. We write every recommendation in plain language and cost it, and we can also run the delivery afterwards.
Only when building is genuinely the cheaper option, and we show the comparison either way. Several engagements have ended with us recommending an off-the-shelf product and helping configure it.
Archanix prices audits and roadmaps as a fixed fee agreed before work starts, so there is no hourly drift. Contact us with your scope for a written quote.
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for it consulting
Tell us the situation and the deadline. You get a scope, a price and a start date — not a discovery call that turns into three.