One hour. Your team. Our experts. No invoice.
Every engagement we have ever done started with a conversation, so we stopped pretending it should be a sales call. Book an hour and you get a practising architect and, where it helps, a domain specialist — on your problem, not on our brochure.
- You describe the problem. We ask the awkward questions.
- You get an honest read on approach, risk and realistic effort.
- You get a short written summary afterwards — yours to keep, whoever you hire.
- If we are not the right people for it, we will tell you that too.
Tell us what to prepare
The hour is worth most when the question is specific.
These are the conversations we have most often. Pick whichever is closest — we will match the right person to it.
“We built an AI demo and now it has to be real.”
The prototype impressed everyone and now nobody knows how to make it reliable, evaluable or affordable. We map what has to change between the demo and production.
“Our cloud bill grew and nobody can explain it.”
We look at the architecture, not just the invoice — because the line item is a symptom and the design is usually the cause.
“These two systems will not talk properly.”
Integration that half works, breaks nightly, or needs a person to babysit it. We look at the contracts, the failure modes and what a durable version costs.
“We want to automate, but where do we start?”
Before tooling, the process has to be mapped and measured. We show you what that audit looks like and what it usually finds.
“A customer is asking for ISO 27001.”
What the certification actually requires of your engineering practice, what evidence an auditor wants, and a realistic timeline to being ready.
“We are about to invest in this platform.”
An independent technical read before the money moves: architecture, team, security posture, debt, and whether the AI claims hold up.
Questions people ask before booking
Is it really free? ▼
Yes. One hour, no invoice, no obligation to buy anything. It is how we find the engagements worth taking, and it is a fair trade — you get a senior opinion, we get to understand a problem properly before quoting on it.
Who will actually be on the call? ▼
A technical architect who has delivered systems of the kind you are describing, and where the topic calls for it, a specialist in the relevant domain — cloud, AI, integration, process or assurance. Never an account manager reading from a deck.
Will you sign an NDA first? ▼
Happily — say so in the form and we will have one signed before the session. If you would rather keep it high-level for a first conversation, that works too.
What if we are outside Ireland? ▼
Most of these sessions happen on a call. We are based in Ireland and work with clients across Europe and further afield; tell us your timezone in the form and we will find a sensible slot.
What happens afterwards? ▼
You get a short written summary of what we discussed and what we would do next. If you want a proposal, we will send one. If you want to take the summary and run it in-house, that is a perfectly good outcome and we will not chase you.