Architecture Review
Where the system will break first, what it will cost to fix, and what can safely wait.
Assessment001
Service / Technical Consulting
A Second Opinion Worth Acting On
Architecture review, AI strategy, and due diligence from engineers who still write the code, delivered as a decision you can act on this quarter.
- Typical length
- 1 to 4 wks
- Every finding
- Written
- By impact
- Prioritised
- No vendor tie
- Independent
What is included
Inside Technical Consulting
The concrete pieces of work an engagement covers.
AI Strategy
Which problems justify a model at all, and which are better solved with ordinary software.
Direction002
Technical Diligence
Pre-investment or pre-acquisition review of a codebase, team, and delivery practice.
Diligence003
Cost Review
Where inference and infrastructure spend is going, and the changes that would move it.
Economics004
Team Enablement
Working sessions that leave your engineers able to continue without us.
Capability005
Vendor Selection
Build, buy, or adapt, argued from your constraints rather than a partner agreement.
Decision006
Unique approach
Advice From People Who Ship
The gap between a strategy deck and a working system is where most budgets disappear.
With DarCode
- Findings written by working engineers
- Recommendations costed and sequenced
- No commission on any tool we suggest
- Your team can act without hiring us
- Fixed scope, fixed fee, fixed date
- Code read directly, not described to us
Typical alternative
- Slides assembled by a strategy team
- A list of everything that could be better
- Advice shaped by partner agreements
- Findings that only the author can implement
- Open-ended discovery on a day rate
- Assessment based on interviews alone
How it runs
From Kickoff To Handover
The same sequence every time, compressed or extended to fit the engagement.
- 01
Brief
One call to agree the question and what a useful answer looks like.
- 02
Read
Code, schema, dashboards, and incident history, not just interviews.
- 03
Interview
Time with the engineers who carry the pager and know where it hurts.
- 04
Report
Findings ranked by impact against effort, each with a concrete next step.
- 05
Debrief
A working session with your team, and the document is yours to keep.
Tooling
What We Reach For
Defaults, not dogma. The stack follows the problem.
- GitHub
- Grafana
- Datadog
- Sentry
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL
- Python
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions we get asked about technical consulting.
Most run one to four weeks depending on system size. We agree the scope and the fee before starting.
Always, before any access to code or systems is granted.
Only if you ask. The report stands on its own and is written so another team could execute it.
Yes. Technical diligence for investors and acquirers is a regular engagement type for us.
Get started
Let's Build It, Together
Tell us what you are trying to ship. We will tell you the three shortest paths to it, and which one we would actually take.