3.5
Decide before building
Consultancy.
For institutions and companies deciding what to build, and whether to build it at all. Product, platform and AI strategy from a studio that ships its own, so the advice has been tested on the adviser.
What it covers
3.5.1
Build or buy
Whether the thing you want exists, what it would cost to make, and what it would cost not to.
3.5.2
AI readiness
Where agents and models help in your organisation, where they do not, and what has to be true first.
3.5.3
Digital audits
Your site, your tools and your data, assessed against what they are supposed to do.
3.5.4
Roadmaps and briefs
A plan a team can build from, or a brief another studio can quote against.
Why the studio
Advice from people who have to live with their own.
The studio builds and runs its own products, so the recommendations here are the ones it follows. If the right answer is not to build, that is the answer you get.
How it runs
01
Interviews and audit
Your team, your users, your systems. Two weeks of listening and looking.
02
Findings
What is working, what is not, and the options with costs beside them.
03
Plan
A written recommendation and, if useful, a brief and estimate to act on it.
- Length
- 2 to 4 weeks
- Format
- Fixed fee or day rate
- You get
- A decision you can defend
In the catalogue
Asked before
Is this a sales pitch for a build?
No. The consultancy is priced on its own and the recommendation is often to use something that exists.
Can you present to a board?
Yes. Findings come as a document and a 30 minute presentation with questions.
Do you sign NDAs?
Yes, a mutual one, before the first conversation.