Specialised in AI systems and AI-built software
Independent architecturefor software and AI.
We assess software, design AI systems, keep delivery on course and check the result before you accept, launch or buy. A named senior architect leads each engagement, with AI-assisted investigation and specialists where needed.
BEFORE YOU APPROVE · SCALE · MODERNISE · ACCEPT · BUY
Production Readiness Assessment · Example executive summary
Is the billing platform ready for more customers?
Not yet.
Ready after one fix. No rewrite needed.
- Fix now: Customers can read other customers' invoices and payment details. Check who owns every billing record.
- Fix before the next stage: Failed payment events disappear silently, so customers can be charged without access, or get access without paying. Add retries, alerts and a daily reconciliation.
- Fix later: Price calculations are copied in checkout, renewals and reports. They match today but will drift with the next pricing change. Move them into one module.
Two specialisations
Software with AI inside.
Software built with AI.
AI is our deep specialisation, in two forms. The same practice covers existing software, legacy estates and transactions. Your team or delivery partner builds and runs the system.
Architecture for AI systems
Agents, RAG and AI features that use your data and act in your core systems. We design and review their integration, access, evaluation, failure handling and controls.
- Our AI pilot works. Can it run in production?Production Readiness Assessment
- How should our AI agents connect to our core systems?Legacy-to-AI Integration Architecture
- We're about to approve an AI platform or vendor proposal.Architecture Peer Review
- Our AI programme is stuck. Recover it or stop?AI Project Rescue Assessment
Architecture for AI-built software
Products built fast with AI coding tools that now carry real users. We find out what to keep, what to fix first and whether your team can change the code safely.
Example design handoff · AI assistant
An internal service assistant answers employee policy questions from approved documents.
- Design
- Use permission-filtered retrieval before generation so access and source freshness can be managed explicitly.
- Access boundary
- The model does not decide which documents the employee may read.
- Evidence test
- Missing or conflicting supporting passages trigger abstention or escalation.
Two ways to start
Start with one decision, or with the whole product.
Both are fixed-fee assessments led by a named senior architect. Each one stands alone.
One decision
Architecture Peer Review
Get a second opinion before you commit.
A senior architect checks one software or AI architecture decision before you commit: a design, a vendor proposal, a platform or a technical direction. You get the risks that matter, the alternatives, and what must be true before you go ahead.
Fixed fee. After the call: the scope of the engagement and the fee, in writing, within a week once we have what we need to scope it.
Scope and deliverablesA product's next stage
Production Readiness Assessment
Check your product is ready for what comes next.
For a system that already works and is about to carry more: bigger or enterprise customers, more users, regulated use, a funding round or a critical process. You get what to fix now, what can wait and what to keep.
Three assessment depths, from a focused screen to an integrated review. We suggest one on the call. Fixed fee for each depth.
Scope and deliverablesWhat you receive
A short report,
not a pile of findings.
Every Peer Review and Production Readiness report has the same structure, so you can act on it and compare one decision with the next.
The answer first. What we found underneath.
Every report starts with one of four answers: Go ahead · Go ahead, with conditions · Not yet (not ready, or not enough evidence) · Stop. It is our recommendation, not a certificate or a guarantee. Then come the risks that matter, the gates for your next stage, what to do in three groups, and what we didn't examine.
Every finding says how we know it: verified, inferred, reported by your team or still open. A named senior architect leads each engagement and stands behind the report. You keep the business, investment and acceptance decisions. Your teams and delivery partners build and run the system.
See how each finding is recorded
- Evidence
- Where we found it: code, configuration, tests, documents or a conversation with the people who know the system.
- How we know
- A senior architect works through the code, configuration, tests and documents, and uses AI to go deeper into the system than a manual review could. Each finding is marked verified, inferred, reported by your team or still open, plus what we didn't examine.
- Consequence
- What it means for your decision, and the cost of waiting.
How the recommendations are organised.
- Fix now
- Risks that already matter for how the system is used today.
- Fix before the next stage
- What must change before bigger customers, more users, a funding round or a critical process rely on it.
- Fix later
- Improvements that can wait, and what you can safely keep.
Our standard format. The scope depends on the selected depth.
Four service areas
Choose the architecturecontribution you need.
Each area offers standalone engagements with an agreed result, deliverables and scope.
Explore services
Assess
Understand and evaluate
What is actually there, what are the risks, and what matters for the decision?
The result A defensible understanding of the situation and our recommendation on what should happen next.
Architect
Define and design the response
What should we change, how should it be designed, and in what order?
The result A coherent architecture direction, selected designs and transition that your delivery team can use for planning and implementation.
Govern
Preserve architecture integrity during delivery
Who challenges significant technical decisions while teams and suppliers build?
The result Continuing architecture authority and a usable record of significant decisions, exceptions and actions within the contracted capacity.
Assure
Evaluate evidence for the next commitment
Do the evidence and agreed criteria support this milestone, release or acceptance?
The result A scoped technical conclusion against agreed criteria, showing what supports the commitment and which conditions remain.
Other decisions we help with
What needs to
become clearer?
A legacy estate, a proposed software or AI solution, a handover or a transaction. Each is a defined service with an agreed scope.
We don't fully know what this system does.
Technical Discovery & System Understanding
Assess · Technical Discovery & System Understanding
A validated account of the scoped business functions, system relationships and knowledge gaps needed for handover or change.
We know what must change. We need the target design and the transition.
Solution & Transition Architecture
Architect · Solution & Transition Architecture
A coherent software or AI solution design and transition that your delivery team can use for implementation planning.
Keep it, fix it, modernise it or replace it?
Modernisation Assessment
Assess · Modernisation Assessment
A justified choice between retaining, hardening, refactoring or replacing, based on what the system does today, with the sequence and conditions for the chosen path.
A supplier is about to hand over.
Delivery Readiness / Technical Acceptance
Assure · Delivery Readiness / Technical Acceptance
A technical conclusion against the agreed gate criteria, with supported evidence, remaining risks and conditions for the responsible owner.
We need architecture authority on our side while we build.
Architecture Governance
Govern · Architecture Governance
Continuing architecture authority, reviews of significant decisions and a usable exception and risk record within agreed capacity.
We're buying a company, or preparing to be bought.
Software & AI Technical Due Diligence
Assess · Software & AI Technical Due Diligence
A scoped view of software and AI architecture risk, its transaction implications and the evidence supporting the diligence workstream.
A software or AI programme is stuck.
AI Project Rescue Assessment
Assess · AI Project Rescue Assessment
An evidence-backed recommendation to recover, redirect or stop, with explicit conditions and accountable next actions.
How we work
We check the system,
not only the documents.
Our Architecture Fabric, the method and AI tools we use to investigate a system, is built to let a senior architect examine far more of it than a manual review allows: code, configuration, tests, documents and operating evidence. A senior architect then assesses what it means for your business. We don't sell implementation work, so we have no reason to make the problem look bigger.
TALENT × SOFTWARE × METHODOLOGY
Check the real system
We trace business flows, data, dependencies and failure paths across the evidence available, and ask the people who know the system.
Check what the evidence means
A senior architect checks the findings that matter against their sources and your business context. Specialists in security, data, integration, platforms or AI governance join when the work needs them. Every finding says how we know it: verified, inferred, reported by your team or still open.
Deliver the agreed result
You get one coherent result, not a stack of separate reports: a recommendation, a design, governance or a conclusion against agreed criteria. Priorities, trade-offs and conditions are stated, with a named senior architect behind it.
For consultancies, agencies, systems integrators and specialist firms
The senior architecture layer.
Without competing for your delivery.
Bring us in for one client problem: a difficult discovery, the architecture behind a proposal, an independent assessment, a readiness check, a handover check, or oversight while your team builds. You keep the build and the client.
Subcontracted
We work for you, and you face the client.
Under your brand
We work as part of your team. We won't present the result to your client as an independent opinion.
Jointly
We're named alongside you, with roles agreed with the client.
In every model, the report says who asked for it and who paid. A named senior architect leads every engagement and brings in specialists when the work needs them. We won't bid for delivery work at a client you introduced. A good first step: Peer Review for your proposal, a paid, time-boxed written view of the client's system or your proposed design, under your brand or jointly.
Who stands behind the work
Senior architecture expertise.
Alongside your team.
Every engagement is led by a named senior architect who owns the recommendation. Dimitar Stoyanov, our founder and principal architect, brings more than 15 years across over 60 projects, on the client side and the vendor side, including Global VP of AI at a listed European digital services firm.
We don't sell implementation work: your teams and delivery partners build and run the system, and you keep the business, investment and acceptance decisions.
Know what you're building on before you commit.
Tell us about the system, what is changing and what you need to decide. 25 minutes on Teams, no preparation needed. We will agree the scope that fits, or tell you if we are not the right fit.