Stratgik — technology strategy and business systems engineering.
Delivery across the USA, UK, UAE and India.
How we engageFour stages, each one optional
Most technology budgets are lost before a line of code is written, by committing to a build nobody costed. Our work runs in four stages. Each stands on its own, leaves you with something you keep, and ends in a decision. You can stop after any of them.
Code, data and accounts are in your name from day one.
The rules we work by
They are not slogans. Each one changes what we quote, what we deliver and when you pay.
We do not quote a build for a problem nobody has costed. If you arrive with a decision already made, we review it rather than repeat it.
What it saves you: the project that ships on time and solves the wrong problem.
A blueprint, a proven prototype, a running system, a month of operations. Each is useful on its own, even if you never speak to us again.
What it saves you: paying for progress you can only use by staying with one supplier.
Repositories, cloud accounts and tooling sit in your organisation from the first day. Leaving costs you a conversation, not a migration.
What it saves you: the lock-in that makes a mediocre supplier hard to replace.
The four stages
Stage 01 · Strategize
Right for you whenSomething is costing you time or money and nobody can say with confidence whether to build, buy, fix or leave it alone.
See the Decision SprintWhat you get
At the gateYou hold a blueprint you own outright. Take it to us, to another firm, or to your own team.
Stage 02 · Prove
Right for you whenThe direction is set, but one part carries most of the risk: messy data, an accuracy threshold, a system nobody has integrated before.
Pressure-test build vs buy firstWhat you get
At the gateYou spend a few weeks, not a full budget, finding out whether the hard part works.
Stage 03 · Build
Right for you whenThe decision is made and the risky part is proven. Now it has to run every day without someone watching it.
How we build and hand overWhat you get
At the gateYour team runs it, we run it for you, or a third party does. Nothing stops you choosing.
Stage 04 · Run
Right for you whenSomething important is live, and you want a named owner for it instead of a shared inbox.
See how we run systemsWhat you get
At the gateEvery month is a decision. If we stop being worth it, you cancel and keep everything.
Specialist entry point
Right for you whenYou suspect AI could remove real work somewhere in the business, but you do not want to buy a platform to find out where.
Try the free opportunity scannerWhat you get
At the gateYou know where AI pays back in your business, and where it would not.
Where should you start?
Not everyone starts at stage 01. Starting in the right place is the first thing that saves money.
Start with
01Technology Decision Sprint
Spending on a build before the problem is costed is how projects run over. A bounded sprint costs a fraction of a build and tells you whether one is needed at all.
Start with
AIAI Opportunity Audit
The audit ranks your workflows by recoverable hours and risk, so the first AI project is chosen on evidence rather than on what a vendor demoed well.
Start with
02Build or Automation Sprint
Prove the riskiest part on your real data first. If it does not work, you find out in weeks, not after the full budget is committed.
Start with
03Production Implementation
Skip the earlier stages. We review your existing decision and design, flag anything that would hurt in production, and start building.
Start with
04Managed Technology
Start with a named owner, monitoring and tested restores. Most of the value is in the first month: finding out what would have failed quietly.
Side by side
What you commit to, what you pay against, and what happens when you want to stop.
Already have an in-house team? Every stage can run alongside your engineers instead of replacing them.
What decides the number
Two projects with the same name can differ in cost by several times. A published price would either overcharge the simple ones or hide the real cost of the hard ones until after you signed.
So we quote against the four things that actually move the number, and tell you which of them is driving yours.
How many systems the work has to reach, whether they have usable APIs, and how quickly credentials arrive. This is usually the longest pole.
The number of workflows, users, screens and exception paths. One clean path is cheap; the eleven exceptions around it are not.
Approval gates, audit trails, data residency and review cycles. Regulated work takes more of these, and they are worth doing properly.
Cloud, model usage and tooling run through your own accounts, so you see the real bill. We do not add a margin to it.
In every engagement
The people scoping the work are the people who understand how it gets built.
Repositories, cloud accounts, domains and tooling belong to your organisation from day one.
Each gate ends with a written recommendation you can forward to your board without translating.
Running costs sit in your accounts at cost, so the true bill is never hidden inside a fee.
We can lead, pair with your developers, or sit behind them. Your existing team is not a problem to route around.
Documentation and handover are part of the work, not an exit fee. Leaving should be easy, even if we hope you won't.
Questions
Something not covered here? Ask an engineer directly.
Ask a questionBecause two projects with the same name can differ in cost several times over, mostly because of how many systems they touch and how easy those systems are to reach. A rate card would overcharge simple work or hide the cost of hard work until after signature. We quote against your actual scope and tell you what is driving the number.
Yes. Stage 01 and the AI Opportunity Audit are both bounded and fixed-fee, and designed to be the smallest useful commitment. If you already know what you want, a short stage 02 sprint on the riskiest part is also a small start.
Then that is the recommendation, and it is often the most valuable one we give. You keep the cost model and blueprint, and you have avoided funding a project that would not have paid back. There is no pressure to continue to a later stage.
No. AI is one option we compare, alongside buying software, configuring what you already own, integrating systems, plain automation, or retiring a process altogether. We recommend AI only when it beats those.
Yes, if the decision has already been made. We review your existing decision and design first, flag anything that would cause problems in production, and then build.
You do, from day one. Repositories, cloud accounts, domains and tooling are created in your organisation, and running costs are billed at cost through your own accounts.
Yes. We can lead the work, pair with your developers, or stay behind them on the hard parts. Handover to your team is planned from the start, not left to the end.
A few sentences is enough. An engineer reads it and tells you which stage, if any, makes sense to start with.
The Stratgik model
Four stages, in order. Most businesses need them one at a time.
