Technology discovery & scouting
Technology scouting and an honest recommendation — the stack, vendors and architecture.
The costliest decisions on a project are the ones made at the very start — the database, the cloud, the model, the vendor you’ll be tied to for years. We scout the options, weigh them against your real constraints, and hand you a confident, independent recommendation — so you spend your months and budget building the right thing, not discovering the wrong one.
01 / What it gives you
We scan the market — tools, platforms, models and vendors — so you choose from the real field, not the three names you already knew.
Every candidate scored on the things that matter to you — cost, fit, maturity, lock-in and risk — not on a vendor’s feature list.
A clear-eyed buy-vs-build view and architecture options with their trade-offs, so you know exactly what you’re committing to and why.
One honest recommendation and a roadmap — what to pick, what to prove next, and the order to do it in.
02 / Stack
Industry-standard, boring in the good way: tools with a future, that the next engineer will know too.
Scouting
Market scan
A structured sweep of the tools, platforms and vendors in play
Vendor shortlists
A ranked shortlist with the reason each made or missed the cut
Model comparisons
Candidate models and services compared head to head
Reference checks
What real teams report after living with the choice
Evaluation
Criteria matrix
Your priorities turned into a weighted scoring matrix
Proof spikes
Small, time-boxed builds that test the risky assumptions
Cost modelling
Total cost over time, not just the sticker price
Risk & lock-in review
Where each option could trap or surprise you later
Deliverables
Options document
The field written up, with the trade-offs laid bare
A recommendation
One clear pick, with reasoning you can challenge
Architecture sketch
How the chosen pieces fit together at a high level
A roadmap
The order to build, prove and de-risk it in
03 / Approach
We don’t resell anything, so the recommendation follows the evidence — including when the honest answer is the boring, cheaper one.
Risky claims get tested with small spikes and reference checks, so the decision rests on what we saw, not on what a vendor promised.
Discovery is scoped and short — the point is to unblock the decision quickly, not to study it forever.
Options are judged against your team, budget and timeline — the right choice for someone else is often the wrong one for you.
04 / Standards
We adhere to industry standards and proven methods on every project — they are what makes the estimate hold.
05 / Infrastructure
Start
Tell us the decision you’re stuck on. A senior engineer — not a sales rep — writes back.
Let’s manage Proof of concept
