No-obligation · 30 minutes
Request a 30-min discovery briefing
A working session with a principal consultant from an enterprise systems engineering practice — not a salesperson, not a junior engineer on a discovery call. We pressure-test the architecture, surface the highest-cost gaps in your current operating model, and outline the engagement shape that fits your governance and procurement posture.
Reply within one business hour, IST. Or skip the form and message on WhatsApp — same practice lead reads both.
Ready to book?
You need three things — and one of them is “anything is fine.”
- 0110 minutes to brief the practice on what you are running
- 02A sense of what you would consider a successful outcome
- 03An open slot on your calendar in the next 7 business days
What kind of practice this is
Prefer to brief yourself first? Run the stack planner — answers to a few questions, no email required.
What you walk away with
Three concrete artefacts, delivered whether or not you engage us further. The deliverable is the same shape every time — we would rather lose the engagement than produce something less than this.
Architecture pressure-test
Three to four named gaps in your current operating model, each with a one-sentence 'what to do about it.' Not a generic audit — the same artefacts we produce in a paid engagement.
Engagement model recommendation
Fixed-scope build, T&M, or managed services — including when the answer is 'do nothing for 90 days' or 'this is an operating-model problem, not a software problem.'
Written brief, yours to keep
A 2–3 page document delivered within 48 hours, yours to share with the board or take to a different practice. No follow-up sequence, no marketing list, no chase.
The working session, in order
- 01
You brief the practice lead on what you are running
Whatever it is — SAP you have outgrown the budget for, a Tally-plus-spreadsheets estate, a Shopify storefront fighting your inventory, a multi-entity rollup that has outgrown its first ERP. No preparation required; we would rather see the operating reality than a tidied-up version of it.
- 02
We pressure-test the architecture
Where data is duplicated, where the month-end close is slow, where stock and finance disagree, where approvals live in WhatsApp, where licence commitments are about to renew against a platform you are quietly leaving. Usually three or four things — and usually you already suspect two of them.
- 03
We outline the engagement model that fits
Fixed-scope build, time-and-materials, or managed services — matched to your governance and procurement posture. Including when the answer is “do not replace this yet” or “that is an operating-model problem, not a software problem”. We would rather lose the engagement than sell a rollout that fails.
- 04
You receive a written brief
Documented and delivered to you, yours to keep, share with the board, or hand to a different practice. No follow-up sequence.
What it isn’t
- A slide deck
- A sales script or a qualifying interrogation
- A demo of capabilities you did not ask about
- A price quoted before anyone understands the scope
You keep the written brief either way
Whatever we find is documented and delivered to you. If you take it to a different practice, share it with the board, or decide to do nothing, that is a fine outcome — the briefing is how we find out whether there is a real engagement here, and sometimes there isn’t.
What came out of the last few
Rosemount International Schools · multi-school group
Rosemount — multi-school operations, one operating system.
Multi-campus · fee lifecycle · statutory reporting
Splendx · B2B commerce · multi-warehouse operator
Splendx — multi-warehouse B2B commerce, integrated end-to-end.
4 warehouses · dealer pricing live · ERP-bound
Three ways to engage
Ready to brief the practice?
A principal consultant reads every enquiry and replies within one business hour, IST. WhatsApp is fastest; the form is for the rest.
WhatsApp is fastest, usually a reply in minutes during business hours. Phone routes to the same principal consultant.
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