Consulting Services

Every service is priced before work starts, so you never get an open-ended hourly bill. The Rapid Insight Workshop is a fixed $9,000 + GST. A scoping engagement, advisory review or transformation plan is quoted once we understand the question you need answered. Part-time CTO support and longer advisory work run as a monthly arrangement, and if the advice is to spend nothing, you only pay for the advice.

Our two-session workshop runs with your key people, with the deliverables in your hands around three weeks later. Scoping and advisory reviews usually take a few weeks, depending on how many systems and people are involved. The first conversation costs nothing and usually happens within days. If a decision is due, such as a contract renewal or a board meeting, tell us the date and we will say plainly whether we can meet it.

You get a written recommendation you can act on, not a hundred-page report. It sets out the options, the cost and risk of each, the options we ruled out and why, and what we would do first. After our workshop that means a transformation strategy, a business case and a product specification. It is yours to take to your board, your own team or another developer.

You decide, and you can stop after any step without losing what you paid for. Some clients run the plan with their own team or an existing vendor. Others move to a scoping engagement and a fixed-price Ignite or Amplify build, or to Apex, our monthly partnership for ongoing work. A part-time CTO can sit alongside any of these if you need someone senior to own the decisions in between.

We take no referral fees, commissions or partner margins from any vendor or platform, so the only thing we sell is our own time. That means we will tell you when an off-the-shelf product or your current system is the better answer, even though we then build nothing. When building is the right call, the recommendation shows the options we ruled out and why, so your board or finance lead can check the reasoning.

Yes, technical due diligence and vendor assessment are some of our most common engagements. We read it line by line, talk to the people who use it, and work out what the current setup costs you. Often the answer is to connect what already works and replace one piece. You get an independent view before you sign.