Current State Assessment
A full, honest audit of what you’re running today, including the things nobody remembers approving and definitely nobody’s used since 2023.
TechChoice / Design
Design:Where the Thinking Happens, Before You’re Locked Into Anything
Strategy, vendor selection, and contracts that don’t turn into a hostage situation.
Independent thinking. Accountable execution.
Replace guesswork
with process.
Decisions used to be simple: a short list of trusted vendors was established and would handle all upgrades and changes moving forward, and if one didn’t work- you had their top competitor ready to go. These suppliers also led innovation efforts, bringing in lunch and telling you about the next big thing. Your team was experts in these solutions; they understood where the fat was and could deliver efficiently with their eyes closed. IT was a standalone entity, it wasn’t without challenges, but it was straightforward.
Now the list has to get rebuilt every week. It’s not just existing vendors evolving anymore, entire categories are invented overnight, and a new market leader can emerge from an idea that didn’t exist last quarter. You can’t build that list every week- and even if you can, your veteran teams will be rookies deploying it. You still have to innovate and are now tasked with providing clear measurable projections and results to the board on how you’re solving their problem, not causing a new one. The talent and experience gap is real, technology is now a key business strategy, and the rate of technology change is only accelerating-while budgets are scrutinized. How can you execute with confidence?
Design reduces the inherent risk in taking on a new challenge, by replacing the guesswork with process, experience and data. We start with a competitive analysis and an honest as-built assessment of where you stand today, then map the real, feasible path to where you want to be, built against everything actually available in the market right now and its true costs, not just what a few reps happened to pitch you. We research hundreds of suppliers against your specific requirements fast, cross-referenced against proprietary satisfaction scores, real project plans, go-to-market data, and backlog visibility most companies never get to see and build out an executable program for maximum efficiency. The result: you walk into the market with a solution already in hand, instead of letting the market decide one for you.
Here’s What Design Looks Like
Market Analysis
A real-time read on what's available across the marketplace right now, not a list of whoever happened to email your team last quarter. We benchmark options, pricing, and capability so you know where you stand before a single vendor conversation happens.
Stakeholder Discovery
We talk to the people who actually touch the technology, not just the ones who signed off on the budget line.
Gap Analysis
Where your technology is failing, mapped against real business objectives instead of vendor talking points.
Solution Design
We architect exactly what the end state should look like, including how it fits with the systems, workflows, and staff you already have, before we ever bring a vendor into the conversation.
Strategic Sourcing
We run the RFP, evaluate the entire market, and hand you a shortlist that’s actually worth your time, not a pre-decided outcome dressed up as a competitive process.
Contract Management
We know exactly where vendors hide the bad clauses, because we’ve read more of their paper than their own legal departments have. Auto-renewals, asymmetrical cure periods, unilateral pricing changes: we catch it before you sign, not after you’re stuck.
Strategic Roadmap
A clear, sequenced program for what gets fixed first, what waits, and what should’ve been killed two budget cycles ago.
Why this matters.
500+Supplier relationships
A bad Design phase costs you twice: once on a contract you shouldn’t have signed, and again unwinding it three years later. We’ve read the contracts other advisors let clients sign, and it is not pretty. But the cost isn’t just financial. A solution that looks great on paper can still fail if it doesn’t play well with the rest of your stack, if the integrations nobody thought to check turn into six months of support tickets, or if your team simply doesn’t have the bandwidth or expertise to run it once it’s live. We build all of that into the evaluation up front: compatibility, dependencies, and whether your staff actually has the knowledge and resources to support it, not just whether the demo looked good.
That’s also where our position in the ecosystem does the real work. We maintain live relationships with over 500 suppliers, which means we’re not just comparing spec sheets, we’re pulling real data on project backlog, implementation timelines, and what actually happens after the sale. That’s the kind of intelligence most technology leaders never get to see until they’ve already signed. Because we have it in near real time, we can evaluate hundreds of suppliers against your specific requirements and compress an evaluation that normally takes six months down to six days, without skipping the diligence that actually matters. Design exists so you never have to be the technology leader explaining to the board why you’re stuck in a deal nobody actually reviewed, or why the “perfect” solution can’t talk to anything else you own.