Prismatica Hard problems. Honest answers.
Architecture reviews, technical strategy, and due diligence for teams at a crossroads. We tell you what's actually broken — and give you a clear path forward.
The internal team knows something is wrong. Nobody can agree on what.
The engineering team says the architecture needs a rebuild. The CTO thinks it can be refactored. The board wants a delivery timeline and nobody can give one. The startup is six months from a Series A and an investor just asked for a technical due diligence report.
These are high-stakes moments. The wrong decision — or the right decision made six months late — can cost more than the engagement that would have prevented it.
Most consultancies in this space will tell you what you want to hear, present a slide deck with strategic options, and move on. That isn't what we do. We do the technical work, form a genuine opinion, and give you the answer — including the one you might not want.
Technical clarity for complex situations.
Architecture Review
A deep assessment of your current system: scalability, maintainability, technical debt, and security posture. With a prioritised remediation plan and honest commentary on what's actually broken versus what's just imperfect.
Technical Due Diligence
For M&A, fundraising, or partnership evaluations. We assess the engineering quality, debt levels, team capability, and scalability of a software asset — and give you a risk-adjusted view, not a vendor report.
Technology Selection & Strategy
Evaluating a rebuild vs. refactor? Considering a new tech stack? Choosing between SaaS solutions and a custom build? We'll help you make the decision with full technical context and no hidden commercial interest.
Team & Process Assessment
Delivery process, engineering culture, team structure, and capability gaps. For investors, acquirers, or founders who need to understand the team behind the product.
CTO Advisory
For startups without a full-time CTO, or for engineering leaders who need a senior technical peer to think through strategic decisions. Ongoing advisory at the cadence you need.
Roadmap Prioritisation
Help making sense of a backlog that's grown faster than the team's capacity to execute. We'll help you cut, prioritise, and sequence the work that actually matters.
A real opinion. Not a managed consensus.
Technical depth, not just frameworks.
We don't produce strategic frameworks. We read the codebase, review the architecture, talk to the engineers, and form a view based on evidence. The findings are specific, not generic.
An opinion you can act on.
Every consulting engagement ends with a prioritised set of recommendations — with rationale, trade-offs, and a suggested sequencing. Not a list of observations for your team to interpret.
No conflict of interest.
We'll recommend the solution that's right for your situation — which may not involve Prismatica beyond the consulting engagement. We'd rather give honest advice and earn the trust than win a project with biased analysis.
Expertise across the stack.
Our consulting team has built and operated the systems we review — custom software, cloud infrastructure, AI, DevOps, data platforms. We know what good looks like because we've built it.
Understand. Investigate. Advise.
Scoping Call
We start by understanding your situation — the decision you're facing, the constraints you're working within, and what a successful engagement looks like. No template SOW until we understand the problem.
Technical Investigation
We do the actual work: codebase review, architecture assessment, interviews with your engineering team, infrastructure audit. The depth of investigation matches the stakes of the decision.
Analysis & Findings
We synthesise the findings into a clear picture: what's working, what's broken, what the risks are, and what the options are. Written so the CTO and the CEO can both read it and act on it.
Recommendations & Next Steps
We present our recommendations with rationale and trade-offs. If the next step is a build engagement with Prismatica, we'll propose it. If it's something else — hiring, a different vendor, an internal refactor — we'll say that too.
Where this engagement often leads.
Custom Software Development
When the consulting engagement identifies a build requirement, we can move directly to delivery under the same team.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Architecture reviews often surface cloud infrastructure problems. We can remediate them.
DevOps & Platform Engineering
Technical assessments frequently uncover platform and pipeline debt. We know how to fix it.
AI & Intelligent Automation
Many consulting engagements surface automation opportunities. We can evaluate and build them.
What's the decision you're trying to make?
Describe the situation — the crossroads, the pressure, or the question you can't answer internally. We'll tell you whether a consulting engagement is the right next step, and what it would look like.
The first conversation is free. No commitment, no proposal until you ask for one.