Service 01 · Advisory Services

Before you build, get the architecture right.

Platform, architecture, design, product, build-vs-buy, team shape: get any of those wrong and you pay for it every quarter after. We help you make the early calls so engineering builds against a plan that holds up.

ArchitectureDesignAI StrategyDevOpsDue DiligenceRoadmapEmbedded SpecialistsInterim Leadership
Why us

Advisors who build.

By the time engineering writes the first line of code, you should already know which three decisions are expensive to reverse. The other forty don't need a meeting.

Greg WasowskiGreg WasowskiSVP Consulting & Strategy at Aquiva Labs │ Industry Advisor
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We've built what we advise on

Our advisors are practicing architects who ship the same systems they advise on. The recommendations come out of doing the work, not reading about it.

02

We're vendor-aware but vendor-neutral

We know Salesforce, AWS, Azure, and GCP. We carry no quotas on any of them, so recommendations follow the shape of your problem.

03

We leave you stronger

Advisory that creates dependency is bad advisory. We pair with your engineers so the practices and decisions stay when we roll off.

What we do

Advisory capabilities.

Nine areas, from architecture and design to AI strategy to interim leadership.

Architecture & System Design

Platform architecture, system design, and technology selection. We help you see the whole board before you commit to a direction.

Platform architecture

Multi-cloud design, Salesforce platform strategy, and system-of-record decisions.

System design

Domain modeling, service boundaries, data flow architecture, and integration patterns.

Technology selection

Build-vs-buy analysis, vendor evaluation, proof-of-concept design, and risk assessment.

Architecture reviews

Existing architecture assessment, risk identification, and improvement roadmaps.

Design & Experience

Product design, UX strategy, and design operations. We bring design thinking upstream so teams build the right thing, not just the thing right.

UX strategy & research

User research, journey mapping, information architecture, usability benchmarking.

Product design

Wireframes, prototypes, interaction design, and visual design for digital products.

Design systems

Component libraries, design tokens, governance, and cross-team adoption.

Design operations

Design team structure, tooling, handoff workflows, and quality standards.

AI Strategy

AI readiness, use case prioritization, and responsible adoption. We help you find the high-value applications and skip the science projects.

AI readiness assessment

Data maturity, infrastructure fit, team capability, and organizational readiness.

Use case identification

Opportunity mapping, ROI modeling, build-vs-buy for AI/ML capabilities.

Model & platform selection

LLM evaluation, vendor comparison, hosting strategy, and cost modeling.

Responsible AI

Governance frameworks, bias testing, compliance requirements, and risk mitigation.

DevOps & Platform Strategy

CI/CD, platform engineering, and release strategy. We design the delivery pipeline so your teams ship faster with fewer fires.

CI/CD pipeline design

Build automation, test strategy, deployment pipelines, and environment management.

Platform engineering

Internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, and golden paths.

Observability strategy

Monitoring, logging, alerting, SLO definition, and incident response design.

Release management

Release cadence, feature flags, rollback strategy, and progressive delivery.

Technical Due Diligence

Pre-acquisition and pre-investment technical assessments. We give investors and acquirers a clear picture of what they're buying.

Code & architecture

Codebase quality, architecture maturity, technical debt quantification, and scalability assessment.

Team & process

Engineering team evaluation, development practices, deployment maturity, and knowledge concentration risk.

Security & compliance

Vulnerability exposure, compliance posture, data handling practices, and incident history.

Integration risk

Post-merger integration complexity, platform consolidation scenarios, and migration cost modeling.

Org Health & Audit

Salesforce org assessments, platform health checks, and operational audits. We surface problems before your users hit them.

Org assessment

Governor limit exposure, technical debt inventory, customization analysis, and adoption metrics.

Security audit

Permission model review, sharing rule analysis, field-level security, and API exposure assessment.

Performance audit

Query analysis, page load profiling, integration bottlenecks, and storage optimization.

Operational audit

Release process, testing practices, monitoring coverage, and incident response readiness.

Roadmap & Modernization

Technology roadmapping, investment prioritization, and legacy modernization. We translate business goals into sequenced technical work — including what to retire.

Roadmap design

Multi-quarter technology roadmaps, dependency mapping, and milestone definition.

Investment prioritization

ROI modeling, effort estimation, risk-adjusted sequencing, and trade-off analysis.

Portfolio assessment

Application inventory, risk/cost scoring, and modernization sequencing (retire, refactor, replatform, rebuild).

Build handoff

Scoped SOW that lands execution in Product Development or Custom Solution Development.

Forward Deployed Specialists

Senior advisors embedded inside your organization. They drive outcomes, transfer knowledge, and leave when your team can carry the work alone.

Embedded architects

Solution and enterprise architects who sit with your engineering team through critical builds.

Embedded product owners

POs who run discovery, manage backlogs, and align engineering with business outcomes.

Embedded designers

UX/UI designers who join your product teams for design sprints, research, and delivery.

Embedded business analysts

BAs who bridge business stakeholders and engineering, own requirements, and validate acceptance.

Interim Leadership

Fractional and interim leadership across engineering, product, and design. Senior leaders for companies between hires, mid-transition, or scaling fast.

Fractional CTO

Technology strategy, board-level communication, vendor management, and hiring plan design.

Interim VP Engineering

Team management, delivery process optimization, hiring support, and engineering culture.

Interim Head of Product

Product strategy, roadmap ownership, stakeholder alignment, and PM team development.

Interim Head of Design

Design vision, team hiring, design system ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.

Let's build

Good architecture is invisible. Bad architecture is expensive.

Bring us in early. We're cheaper than the rewrite later.