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Solution Architecture
Solution Architecture
The decisions you make before writing code determine everything after. We get them right — feasibility, system design and architecture planning.
Most expensive engineering problems are architecture problems that were cheap to fix on a whiteboard. We bring 20+ years of system design experience to the decisions that are hard to reverse: data models, service boundaries, platform choices and security posture.
Engagements range from a one-week architecture review of an existing platform to full technical due diligence and greenfield system design with your team.
Good architecture work is mostly deciding what not to build yet. We design for the scale you have and the one order of magnitude above it — not the hypothetical millions — and we write down which decisions are reversible and which are not, so your team knows where moving fast is safe and where a week of thought is cheap insurance.
Every engagement ends in artifacts your team uses after we leave: diagrams that match reality, decision records that explain why, and a sequenced roadmap with costs attached. The measure of the work is not the document — it is whether your next three quarters of engineering go where they should.
What's included
System Design
Service boundaries, data flows and scaling strategy for new platforms.
Architecture Reviews
Independent assessment of existing systems with a prioritized fix roadmap.
Technical Due Diligence
Codebase and infrastructure audits for investors and acquirers.
Security & Compliance Posture
Threat modeling and architecture hardening from day one.
Build vs Buy Guidance
Honest analysis of when to build custom and when not to.
Technologies we reach for
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL
- Kafka
- Terraform
- GraphQL
Why teams choose us
Expensive Mistakes Avoided
Architecture errors cost 10–100x more to fix in production than on the whiteboard.
Vendor-Neutral Advice
No reseller commissions — recommendations serve your platform, not a partner quota.
Founder-Level Review
20+ years of systems experience on your hardest technical decisions.
A Roadmap, Not a Report
Findings arrive as a prioritized, costed plan your team can execute immediately.
Industries we serve
- SaaS
- Fintech
- Healthcare
- Enterprise IT
- Private Equity & VC
Case study · Fintech
Scaling a fintech platform to 1M+ users
68% Faster page loads · 40% Lower infra cost · 10x Traffic scaled
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How we work
From concept to launch
01
Discovery & Strategy
Requirements gathering, technical feasibility and architecture planning — we define the fastest path to measurable outcomes.
02
Agile Development
Sprint-based design and engineering with continuous integration and daily communication. No bloat — rapid, transparent, iterative delivery.
03
Delivery & Support
Rigorous QA, smooth deployment, performance monitoring and ongoing maintenance — a product engineered to grow.
Frequently asked questions
What does an architecture review include?
Codebase and infrastructure assessment, scalability and security analysis, cost review, and a prioritized fix roadmap — typically delivered within 1–2 weeks.
When should a startup invest in architecture?
Before the decisions get expensive to reverse: choosing the data model, splitting services, picking the cloud platform. A week of design typically saves months of rework.
Do you do technical due diligence for investors?
Yes — codebase quality, team practices, scalability risk and hidden technical debt, summarized for non-technical stakeholders with the evidence attached.
Can you work alongside our existing team?
That is the default. We design with your engineers, not around them — the goal is a team that owns and understands the architecture after we leave.
What does an architecture engagement cost?
A focused review of an existing platform typically runs $4k–$9k; greenfield system design and technical due diligence are scoped after a call, since the size of the estate drives the effort. Every engagement is fixed-price with the deliverables listed up front.
Do you implement the architecture too, or only design it?
Either. Some clients take the roadmap to their own team — it is written to be executable without us. Others have us build the first slice or the riskiest component to prove the design in production. There is no lock-in built into the paperwork either way.
Monolith or microservices?
For most teams below serious scale: a well-modularized monolith, because it is cheaper to run, easier to debug and simpler to hire for. Microservices earn their operational cost when team count, deployment independence or genuinely divergent scaling demand them — we will tell you which side of that line you are on and why.
Ready to talk solution architecture?
Tell us what you're building. If it ships software, we can help.