Process
Five stages, five things you keep
Every engagement runs the same way, whatever the practice. A stage ends when you sign the gate, and you keep the artifact whether or not you continue with us.
Interactive timeline
- Discover
- Architect
- Build
- Secure
- Operate
Drag the marker, click a stage, or use the arrow keys.
Stage 1 of 5 · 1 to 2 weeks
Discover
We learn your estate, your constraints and the result you are measured on.
What you receive
- Stakeholder interviews
- Inventory of systems, data and dependencies
- Risk and constraint register
- Assessment report with a recommended first engagement
Decision gate
You sign off the problem statement and the success metrics.
Artifact: Assessment report
At a glance
Durations, deliverables and gates
Discover
1 to 2 weeks
You sign off the problem statement and the success metrics.
→ Assessment report
Architect
2 to 3 weeks
You approve the architecture decision record and the plan.
→ Architecture decision record
Build
4 to 16 weeks
You accept each sprint demo against the plan.
→ Sprint demo
Secure
1 to 2 weeks
You receive a written security sign-off with residual risks listed.
→ Security sign-off
Operate
Ongoing, under SLA
You decide: take the runbooks in-house or move to a managed tier.
→ Runbooks
Why it runs this way
Three rules we do not break
One senior team from architecture to on-call
The engineers who design your system are the ones who build it and answer the pager. No handoff to a junior bench.
Security built into every engagement, not sold separately
Threat modeling, identity design and detection are part of the plan from week one, whatever the practice.
Fixed-scope first engagements with a written decision record
Every engagement opens with a bounded assessment and ends with an architecture decision record you own, whether or not you continue with us.
Next step
Start at Discover
Discovery is one to two weeks, fixed scope, and ends with an assessment report you keep. Book the call and we will tell you what it would cover for your estate.
30-minute call, no slides. We reply within one business day.