Frameworks you can use without hiring us
The checklists and decision frameworks we use during discovery, published so you can apply them yourself. If they lead you to conclude you do not need us, that is a legitimate outcome.
Practical tools for common decisions
Automation ROI framework
Measure cycle time, touch time and error rate before automating anything. The gap between cycle time and touch time tells you whether the cost sits in waiting or in working — and therefore which of two very different interventions you need.
Read the frameworkSpreadsheet replacement threshold
Five signals that a business-critical spreadsheet has become a liability, plus the arithmetic for deciding whether replacement is justified and the sequence for replacing one without losing the knowledge inside it.
Read the frameworkCybersecurity control checklist
Twelve controls ordered by risk reduction per dollar spent. Most breaches at mid-market companies exploit the absence of items one through five, which cost almost nothing but discipline.
Read the frameworkSaaS MVP scope discipline
What cannot be minimum in an MVP (multi-tenancy, auth, billing, instrumentation) and what should be. Includes the pricing-before-architecture rule and realistic timelines.
Read the frameworkCloud migration cost model
Eight questions to answer before anything moves, including the per-workload strategy decision and how to compare cloud run-rate honestly against total current cost.
Read the frameworkB2B redesign migration checklist
Ten checkpoints for redesigning a website without losing search traffic — most of which happen before any design work begins.
Read the frameworkRecent writing
When custom software beats the spreadsheet — and when it does not
What actually belongs in a SaaS MVP
A cybersecurity checklist for growing companies
CRM or ERP: which problem are you actually solving?
Why your dashboards are not being used
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