Clarity on where your digital investment should go
Technical consulting from somebody who builds this for a living — code and architecture audits, vendor and proposal review, and an honest answer on whether to build or buy.
What we do
Digital strategy consulting for decisions worth getting right
The decision usually gets made under pressure
A competitor launches something. A salesperson pitches a platform. The board asks what the plan is. And a decision worth several hundred thousand rand gets made on a proposal nobody in the room is qualified to assess.
That is what this service is for. You are buying technical judgement — twelve years of building the things being proposed — applied to a specific question, before the money is committed.
What people actually ask for
A code audit on something they inherited or paid for, and an honest view on whether it is worth continuing. An architecture review before a platform gets built the wrong way round. A second opinion on a proposal from another agency — what it does not say, and what the quote implies about how it will go.
Or build versus buy, which is the most common of all. Whether an off-the-shelf platform will do the job, or whether the workarounds it forces will cost more over three years than building the thing properly. That answer depends on specifics, and it is worth an afternoon of somebody’s time to get it right.
Where the audit covers application security, we assess against the OWASP guidance rather than a private checklist — so the findings are something your own developers can verify.
What you are not buying
A slide deck. A marketing plan. A recommendation that happens to conclude you should hire us for a large build. The engagement is independent, and the most common outcome is a shorter list of things worth doing than the one you started with.
Most expensive software decisions are made by people with no way to judge the answer they were given.
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What to expect
What a consulting engagement delivers
A written recommendation you own, whether or not we do the work.
Development experience behind every recommendation
Typical turnaround for a consulting engagement
Independent — no obligation to build what we recommend
Written recommendation you own outright
What is included
Every digital strategy consulting engagement includes
Discovery session
A structured conversation about the business, the decision in front of you, and what is already in place.
Technical audit
The existing systems, code, architecture and tooling assessed against what they are being asked to do.
Gap analysis
The distance between where things are and where they need to be, stated plainly.
Written recommendation
A prioritised document — what to build, what to fix, what to stop, and in what order.
Indicative costing
Rough order-of-magnitude figures per initiative, so the plan can be budgeted rather than admired.
Briefing session
We walk you through it and answer questions before you decide anything.
Common questions
Digital strategy consulting questions answered
What people ask before booking a session.
No. The engagement is independent, and you own the recommendation outright.
You might use us for all of it, some of it, or none of it. Plenty of clients take the document to their existing developers, and that is a perfectly good outcome — our job is to give you a plan you can act on, not to generate work for ourselves.
It also keeps the advice honest. A recommendation that always concludes with a large build is not advice.
Ready to talk?
Book a fixed-price consulting engagement
Tell us where you are stuck, or what decision you are trying to make. We will help you think it through properly — and tell you if the answer is to do nothing.