Get the Foundation Right
Every system is a set of choices for the user interface, the middle tier, databases and data access, legacy integrations, and reporting. We test each choice against your expected growth, the systems it has to connect to, and the skills of the team that will maintain it, so your software stays easy to change as you grow.
What You Walk Away With
Architecture work usually starts with a Discovery Workshop, where we hold working sessions with your key people. You leave with a blueprint to build from, including diagrams for each tier, the technology choices behind them, database design, a plan for connecting to your existing systems, and an estimate.
If the discovery doesn't provide value, you don't have to pay for it.
What Architecture & Strategy With Trailhead Delivers
Business Process Mapping
We start with how your business works, using techniques like event storming to map the processes your software has to support before anyone picks a technology.
Scalable Architecture
We size the design for the users and data you expect to have, with cloud architecture on Azure or AWS and multi-tenant designs when one platform serves many customers.
Choosing an Architecture Style
Microservices, a modular monolith, or vertical slices? We recommend the simplest structure that meets your needs, so you don't pay to maintain complexity you don't use.
Current Architecture Review
Already built? We review your current architecture, code, and documentation, then give you recommended changes in priority order.
Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
We record each major decision and the reasoning behind it in an architecture decision record (ADR), so your leadership and any developers who join later can see why each choice was made.
AI-Assisted Code & Design Analysis
Our architects use AI tools to read through your existing code and compare more design options. The one they recommend accounts for how your system works today and what each alternative gives up.
Who Does the Work
Senior engineers and architects do this work themselves. One of our founding partners is a longtime Microsoft MVP and a VP at the .NET Foundation. You own every diagram, document, and line of code.
You review the diagrams and decisions in drafts during the engagement, so you can push back while changes are still cheap.
What Happens After the Plan
Some clients have us build from the plan through Modernization or Feature Development. Others hand it to their own team, and we stay available to answer questions and review the work as it goes.
Tell us about the decision in front of you, and one of our senior engineers will get back to you.
