SERVICE 03 / TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY

Direction before decisions get expensive to undo.

Some of the most useful work happens before anything is built: choosing the right platform, judging whether a rebuild is warranted, or reviewing a plan while changing it is still cheap.

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Overview

Overview

Technical decisions get costly to reverse quickly. We give an honest, independent read on the choice in front of you — which platform fits, whether existing code is worth keeping, why a site is slow, or how a migration should be sequenced — so the decision is made with evidence rather than by whoever is loudest in the room.

Typical problems

When people usually get in touch.

  • A platform decision (WordPress, Shopify, Astro or custom) needs an impartial view.
  • A site is slow or fragile and the cause isn't clear.
  • A proposed solution needs review before money is committed.
  • An inherited codebase is hard to read and risky to change.
  • A migration needs planning so nothing important is lost.

What's included

What the work covers.

Architecture & platform reviews

A clear recommendation on the right approach, with the trade-offs written down rather than assumed.

Performance audits

Finding what actually makes a site slow — and a prioritised list of fixes ranked by effort and impact.

Codebase assessments

An honest read on an inherited or ageing codebase: what's sound, what's risky, and what to do first.

Migration planning

Sequencing a platform or CMS move so content, URLs and integrations survive the transition.

UX & conversion reviews

Practical, specific observations on where a journey loses people, grounded in how the interface behaves.

  • Architecture reviews
  • Platform recommendations
  • Technical discovery
  • Performance audits
  • Codebase assessments
  • Migration planning
  • UX & conversion reviews

Process

How the work runs.

  1. 01

    Scope

    Agree the question that actually needs answering and what a useful outcome looks like.

  2. 02

    Investigate

    Review the site, code, analytics or plan directly, rather than working from assumptions.

  3. 03

    Report

    Deliver clear findings and a prioritised recommendation you can act on with or without us.

  4. 04

    Support

    Stay available to help implement, or to sanity-check the work as it proceeds.

Suitable technologies

  • Astro
  • WordPress
  • Shopify
  • TypeScript
  • PHP
  • REST API
  • Figma

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Have a technical consultancy problem to solve?

Tell us what's happening and what you're trying to achieve. If it isn't the right fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.

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