Technical consulting for decisions that are expensive to reverse
Expert tech consulting to align your systems with business goals, boosting performance and scalability.
What we deliver
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Architecture review
An honest look at how your system is built and what will hold it back as it grows.
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Performance audit
Measured bottlenecks in code, database and infrastructure, ranked by what to fix first.
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Stack selection
The right languages, frameworks and platforms for your product, team and budget.
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Scalability plan
What has to change at your next stage of growth, and when it needs to happen.
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Code quality
A review of your codebase for bugs, security risks and inconsistencies.
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Roadmap
A prioritised plan that your own team or ours can act on.
Sound familiar?
- “Our developers want a rewrite, and we can’t tell if they’re right.”
- “The system gets slower with every new customer.”
- “We’re about to sign a big software contract and want a second opinion.”
Advice from people who build
Consulting at Opream is done by working engineers who design, build and run software every day. That matters because technical advice is only useful if it can be carried out on your budget, with your team, in the time you have.
What a review looks like
We start with what the business needs from the system over the next stage of its growth, then look at the architecture, code, data model and infrastructure against that. You get written findings ranked by impact and effort, so it is clear what to fix now, what can wait and what isn’t a problem at all.
Before you build, and before you rewrite
The best time to ask is before the decision is made. Choosing a stack, deciding between custom and ready-made software or planning a rewrite all commit you to years of cost. A focused review at that point costs far less than reversing the decision later.
When the review is done, you decide what happens next. Your own team can carry out the plan, another vendor can, or we can do it through our development and DevOps services.
How a project runs
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Brief
You tell us the decision you are facing and what the business needs from the system.
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Access
We get read access to the code, infrastructure and any data the review depends on.
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Review
Engineers go through the architecture, code, data model and infrastructure.
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Measure
Where performance is the question, we measure it instead of guessing.
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Report
Written findings ranked by impact and effort, with a recommended next step for each.
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Follow up
We walk your team through it and help whoever carries out the plan.
Common questions
What do we get at the end?
A written report with findings, priorities and recommended next steps, and a session to walk your team through it.
Do we have to build with you afterwards?
No. The recommendations are yours to use with your own team or another vendor.
Can you review code written by another company?
Yes. Most reviews are of systems we did not build.
What do you need from us to start?
Read access to the code or system you want reviewed, and a conversation with whoever knows it best.