"We desperately need dedicated enterprise architects to guide our technology decisions, but we can't justify the cost of hiring full-time senior architects when our current project pipeline is unpredictable. We need that level of expertise, but on a flexible basis that matches our actual requirements and budget cycles."
CEO, Mid-Market Manufacturing
"Every project starts with good architectural intentions, but by the time we're in delivery mode, those decisions get buried in project documentation that no body ever looks at again. We have no consistent way of capturing, documenting, or enforcing architectural standards across projects. Each team reinvents the wheel every time."
CTO, Professional Services Firm
"We're constantly in reactive mode - fixing integration issues, patching security gaps, dealing with performance problems. Our development teams spend 80% of their time fire-fighting instead of building new capabilities. We need strategic architectural guidance to break this cycle and actually enable innovation rather than just keeping the lights on."
Chief Digital Officer, Healthcare Organisation
"Our technology roadmaps are created once a year in PowerPoint, then sit in Share Point gathering dust. We have no living architecture governance, no reusable patterns, and no way to ensure new projects actually follow our supposed standards. By the time we review progress, we've already built three different solutions to the same problem."
Head of IT, Financial Institution
"We have detailed metrics on everything else - sales performance, operational efficiency, customer satisfaction - but we have absolutely no visibility in to the health of our architecture or how well our IT investments align with business objectives. We're flying blind when it comes to architectural decision-making and can't demonstrate value to the board."
Chief Risk Officer, Insurance Company
"Our architecture reviews happen quarterly at best, usually when something's already gone wrong. By the time we catch architectural issues, they've already been built into production systems and cost tens of thousands to fix. We need continuous architectural oversight, not periodic fire-fighting sessions."
COO, Technology Scale-up
On-demand Enterprise Architects working as part of your team.
Continuously updated capability maps, reference models, and policy docs.
Standing architecture board, design-review workflows, and exception handling.
Ongoing prototyping of new technologies and integration patterns.
Dashboards tracking compliance, technical debt, and alignment KPIs.
Kick-off workshops, stakeholder alignment, tooling setup
Create initial capability map and current-state architecture inventory
Run weekly design-review clinics and monthly Architecture Board meetings
Enforce standards via automated policy gates in CI/CD pipelines
Prototype new patterns(e.g., microservices, event meshes, API platforms)
Diagnose and remediate architecture debt through roadmap injections
Publish monthly EA health reports (compliance, performance, value metrics)
Facilitate quarterly strategy reviews to re-prioritize the roadmap