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Assessment and direction for an existing system

Not every requirement calls for new software. We assess the system you operate, describe its current state and set out the next steps in order of priority. The deliverable is a written, reasoned and prioritised report.

Scope

Areas of work

Architecture assessment and roadmap

What the current system does well, where it is likely to fail under load, and what a change would cost. The result is a prioritised list: what to address first, what can wait, and what should be left as it is.

Infrastructure and server operation

Deployment chain, backups, monitoring, certificates and update procedures. We operate the infrastructure, or we set it up so that your own team can.

Security review and incident response

Review of access models, headers, dependencies and data flows. If an incident has already occurred: establishing what was affected, closing the vulnerability and documenting the course of events.

Scope and data boundaries of AI integrations

Which tasks an AI integration will actually take over, which data may leave the institution and which may not, and where the human decision remains. Defining this boundary before the integration is less costly than defining it afterwards.

How an engagement runs

Defined scope, defined duration

  1. Framing

    Which question is to be answered, and what would count as an answer. Recorded in writing before the work begins.

  2. Review

    Code, infrastructure, data flows and, equally important, the people who operate them.

  3. Report

    Findings, reasoning, priority and estimated cost for each item. In writing, so that it can be discussed within the institution without us.

  4. Follow-up

    Optional: we implement the items, or we support your team while they do.

Report standard

What a report contains

Each item in a report states what was found, why it matters and what correcting it would cost. Findings that cannot be explained are not included, and the report is not extended beyond what the findings support.

Where the appropriate recommendation is to leave a system as it is, the report says so. A system that is unremarkable but functions reliably does not need to be changed.

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Describe your system

Tell us what you operate today and where your concerns lie. We will indicate whether the question is one of consulting or of development.