Architecture Advisory
Lighter-touch senior input for when you don't need full architecture ownership: a tool to commit to, a migration to green-light, or a sounding board once the platform is stable.
- ✓You're about to commit budget to a platform or vendor and want a sanity check first.
- ✓An internal debate has stalled and you need an outside tie-breaker with no stake in the outcome.
- ✓You suspect the obvious answer is wrong but can't yet articulate why.
- ✕You need someone to own delivery end-to-end, that's the Fractional engagement.
- ✕The question is really about people, not architecture.
The deliverables, in plain terms.
Decision brief
A written argument for the recommended path, the alternatives considered, and the reasoning, something you can forward to a board or a sceptical staff engineer.
Risk log
The failure modes of each option, ranked, with the early-warning signs to watch for.
Recommendation
A clear call. Not five options with a shrug, the one I'd make, and what would change my mind.
Brief
30–60 min to frame the decision and surface the real constraints.
Dig
I review the relevant context async, diagrams, costs, code, the org chart.
Recommend
A written brief plus a session to pressure-test it together.
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