Solutions Architecture
The right architecture now
prevents the rewrite later.
The wrong architecture choice at week two becomes the emergency at month eighteen. We map your current state, identify every integration point and risk, and give you a documented foundation before you write the code that’s hard to undo. What used to take a consultant three months to produce, we deliver in days.
Days
Not months
AI-augmented analysis condenses weeks of discovery into a tight engagement with no filler
100%
Documented output
Every architecture decision comes with documentation you own, diagrams, specs, runbooks, decision logs
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Decisions on gut feel
Every vendor choice, integration strategy, and infra decision is backed by analysis, not habit
Architecture & Discovery
The decisions most teams skip are the ones that cause the emergency six months later.
Most teams skip architecture review when they’re moving fast. The codebase grows, the team turns over, and nobody knows what the system was supposed to do or why it was built that way. We compress the discovery phase so there’s no reason to skip it — AI handles the analysis and documentation generation, our architects handle the decisions.
AI systems analysis
We run your existing systems, APIs, and integration points through AI analysis tools that surface patterns, risks, and dependencies faster than manual review, giving architects the full picture before any design begins.
Auto-generated documentation
Architecture diagrams, data flow docs, integration specs, and runbooks are generated from the analysis, not written manually from scratch. You receive complete, living documentation as part of every engagement.
Gap & risk identification
AI analysis doesn’t miss things. Every integration point, every undocumented dependency, every potential failure mode surfaces in the analysis phase, before it surfaces in production.
Vendor & stack decisions
AI-assisted vendor comparison across your specific requirements, cost, compliance, integration complexity, lock-in risk. Architecture recommendations backed by evidence, not vendor relationships.
What Good Architecture Actually Includes
The decisions most teams skip, until production forces the conversation.
Architecture isn’t the diagram on the whiteboard. It’s the decisions that determine whether you’re rebuilding in three years or scaling to 10× without rework.
Integration design
We design the contract between systems before any code gets written: data models, API schemas, error envelopes, retry strategies, and dead-letter handling. Sloppy integration design is the #1 source of production incidents in mid-market tech stacks.
- XML/JSON adapter specs with XSD validation
- EDI (X12/EDIFACT) adapter patterns for SPS/government use cases
- Exponential backoff + dead-letter queue design
- Credential management via Azure Key Vault
Security & access design
Role-based access control is an architecture decision, not a configuration afterthought. We scope permissions, define trust boundaries, and design audit trails as part of the initial architecture, not after an auditor asks for them.
- RBAC design, who can read, write, approve, admin
- User registration and SSO integration patterns
- Immutable audit log design
- Secrets management strategy (no plaintext credentials, anywhere)
Reliability engineering
We design for failure. Every system fails, what matters is how gracefully it recovers. Service contracts, circuit breakers, retry policies, health checks, and degraded-mode behavior are part of every architecture review.
- SLA/SLO definition for internal services
- Graceful degradation patterns
- Circuit breaker implementation guidance
- Incident runbook templates
Data architecture
Where your data lives, how it moves, and who can see it should be intentional decisions, not things that evolved over five years of ad-hoc additions. We design data layers that support both operational needs and reporting without brittle pipelines.
- Database selection (relational vs document vs time-series)
- ETL/ELT pipeline design
- Event sourcing and CQRS where appropriate
- Data residency and compliance mapping
Deliverables
You walk away owning everything.
No vendor lock-in, no tribal knowledge that leaves when the engagement ends. Every deliverable is yours to keep, hand off to your team, or hand to your next vendor.
Current-state systems map
Every system, integration, data source, and dependency documented, including the undocumented ones that only someone knows about.
Target-state architecture diagrams
What to build, what to replace, what to keep, with rationale for every decision at the component level.
Integration specs
API contracts, data models, error handling patterns, and retry strategies ready for developers to implement against.
Risk register
Every architectural risk identified, prioritized, and paired with a mitigation recommendation.
Decision log
Why each architecture choice was made, so future engineers understand the reasoning, not just the output.
Technologies we architect with
Azure
Azure Functions
Azure Key Vault
CosmosDB
SQL Server / PostgreSQL
REST APIs
GraphQL
EDI / X12
Event-Driven Architecture
Microservices
Node.js / TypeScript
.NET / C#
AWS
NetSuite
3PL WMS
Let’s Talk
Tell us what you’re trying to build, or what you’re trying to fix.
Most engagements start with a single conversation. Tell us what’s broken, what’s slowing you down, or what you’re trying to build. We’ll give you a straight answer, no pitch deck, no fluff. If we’re a fit, great. If not, we’ll tell you that too.