Post-acquisition integration
Consolidating two or more inherited network and cloud estates onto a single governed architecture.
Architecture & Consultancy
Architecture that survives contact with the business
Independent network, cloud and infrastructure architecture for organisations that need designs they can build, govern and operate — not a vendor recommendation dressed as a strategy.
The challenge
Design decisions are being made faster than they can be governed
Estates accumulate: acquisitions, regional exceptions, legacy MPLS, three cloud landing zones and a design authority that meets when there is time. The result is technical debt that only surfaces during an outage or an audit.
- No current-state documentation that anyone trusts, and no single owner of target-state architecture.
- Programmes committing to delivery dates before the design is stable or the dependencies are understood.
- In-house architecture capability stretched across BAU, projects and vendor management.
- Vendor-led designs that optimise for the vendor's portfolio rather than the organisation's roadmap.
Our solution
Architecture as a Service, with a named design authority
We provide senior architects on a retained or project basis. We baseline the current estate, define target-state architecture, produce HLD and LLD to a standard your delivery partners can build from, and hold design authority through implementation so decisions stay consistent after we hand over.
Core capabilities
What we deliver
Architecture as a Service
Retained senior architecture capacity aligned to your programme cadence and governance forums.
Network consultancy
WAN, LAN, data centre, cloud and edge network design for distributed enterprise estates.
Technical audits
Independent assessment of resilience, capacity, performance, contract exposure and single points of failure.
Architecture reviews
Review of proposed designs against business requirements, operability, cost and risk.
HLD & LLD
Documentation to a build-ready standard, including addressing, routing, security zoning and migration sequencing.
Design authority
Governance of design decisions across suppliers and workstreams for the life of the programme.
Business outcomes
What changes for the organisation
Single
Authoritative target-state architecture across network, cloud and communications.
Faster
Programme mobilisation, with dependencies identified before delivery contracts are signed.
Lower
Change failure rate through documented, reviewed and governed designs.
Independent
Vendor-neutral recommendations, procured on your commercial terms.
How it works
How an engagement runs
A structured path from discovery to governed delivery. Each stage produces an artefact your organisation owns.
- 01
Discovery
Stakeholder interviews, estate discovery, contract and topology baseline.
- 02
Assessment
Gap analysis against business requirements, resilience targets and cost envelope.
- 03
Target design
Target-state architecture, HLD/LLD, migration strategy and risk register.
- 04
Design authority
Ongoing governance through build, migration and transition into service.
Typical engagements
Where organisations engage us
Pre-procurement assurance
Independent design and requirements definition before a major connectivity or cloud tender.
Interim architecture capacity
Covering a vacant architecture function while a programme is in flight.
Next step
Start with a conversation, not a quote
Book a discovery workshop with a solutions consultant. We will review your current estate, target architecture and commercial constraints before recommending anything.