Service
A senior architect on call, paid for by the day.
The discipline of enterprise architecture without the overhead of an in-house practice. We partner with your CTO and engineering leadership to translate business intent into systems that hold their shape under pressure.
What you get
Ideal for
CTOs, CIOs and heads of engineering modernising legacy estates or scaling new platforms.
The engagement
Enterprise architecture is the work of making an organisation's systems follow from its intent. Done well, it is invisible: capabilities arrive on schedule, systems that must exchange data do so without a project to make them, and a change of direction costs what it should. Done badly or not at all, the symptoms are familiar — three systems of record for the same entity, an integration layer nobody will modify, a cloud migration that reduced nothing, and a vendor relationship that has become structural.
Most organisations that need the discipline cannot justify the department. A permanent enterprise architecture practice costs several senior salaries, a tooling licence, and two or three years before its output carries enough authority to change a decision. Enterprise Architecture as a Service supplies the same discipline by the day: a senior architect who works alongside your CTO and engineering leadership, produces written architecture, and leaves your organisation with the decisions recorded rather than with a dependency on us.
We are engineers before we are architects. Every architecture we produce is one we could implement, and much of the time we do — through Kubernetes consulting, development or a managed platform. That constraint is deliberate. An architecture produced by people who will never be asked to build it tends to be an architecture that cannot be built.
Deliverables
A description of the estate the organisation is trying to reach, across applications, data, integration and infrastructure — expressed at a level a board can approve and an engineering team can build from. It states what each system is responsible for, which system owns each entity, and how they exchange information. A target state that does not settle ownership has settled nothing.
The sequence from here to there, in increments that each deliver something and each leave the estate in a coherent state. Every intermediate step is described, because the steps are where organisations live for years. A roadmap whose only coherent point is the end is a roadmap that will be abandoned partway and leave the estate worse than it found it.
Which workloads belong in a public cloud, which must remain on premises, and what governs the boundary. In the GCC that boundary is frequently set by regulation rather than economics, and a strategy that treats residency as a late constraint tends to be rewritten. Multi-region and disaster-recovery positions are decided here, with their real costs stated.
An evaluation grounded in total cost over the contract term, the operational burden each option transfers to your team, and the exit path from each. We hold no reseller agreements and take no referral commission, which is why we can recommend a product we do not sell — and, where it is warranted, one we do.
A decision record practice, a review forum with a defined remit, and the small set of principles a team can actually apply without consulting anyone. The aim is fewer decisions escalated, not more: governance that requires a meeting for every change becomes a queue, and a queue becomes a set of decisions taken without it.
An independent assessment of a programme in flight, a platform under evaluation, or a technology estate being acquired. It states what is actually there, what it will cost to hold, and what the trajectory is if nothing changes. Written to be read by people who were not in the original decision.
Engagement shapes
Three to five days
Fifteen to thirty days
Two to four days a month
Independence
An architecture practice that earns margin on the products it recommends is not producing an evaluation. We hold no reseller agreements and accept no referral fees, so a recommendation on this page costs us nothing to make and nothing to withhold.
We do build and license our own software, and where it is the right answer we will say so and declare the interest plainly in the written evaluation. Where it is not, the evaluation says that instead. Both outcomes occur.
Region
We work across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman. Data residency, the location of control functions, and the jurisdiction of a support arrangement are constraints in this region rather than considerations, and an architecture that treats them as an appendix is an architecture that will be returned by a regulator.
We design against those constraints because we operate under them. The platform we run for ourselves and the ones we run for clients are subject to the same rules.
Questions
The rest of the practice
The same engineers deliver all five. Most engagements begin as one of them and become another once the estate is understood.
Strategy, architecture and platform design for Kubernetes done properly.
Read the engagement model →Custom operators, charts, controllers and the long maintenance tail.
Read the engagement model →A Kubernetes support contract with named engineers and a defined response time.
Read the engagement model →A fully managed Kubernetes practice running inside your own data centre, on BKE.
Read the engagement model →Small teams. Plain contracts. Real architects.