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IT consulting

Strategic guidance on architecture, security, and technology selection — vendor-agnostic.

Most consulting engagements fail for one simple reason: the consultant has a vendor relationship to protect. The advice is free, but the implementation pays the rent — and somehow the recommendation always points the same way. We work differently. You pay for the advice, not for margins on licenses or hardware. That single distinction changes everything that follows. For 17 years we have advised Danish companies on architecture, cloud, AI, and compliance — and produced assessments, decision records, and roadmaps you can hand to any implementer. When we get it right, you walk away with a decision basis a board can defend and a plan that survives the next CTO change. We do not sell the most expensive option. We deliver the right one.

17Years of independent IT advisory in Denmark

Is this a fit?

You are facing a build-vs-buy decision while vendors pull you in opposite directions
An aging core system must be replaced, and the wrong call will hurt for years
AI is on the agenda, but there is no roadmap and no realistic starting point
NIS2, ISO 27001, or a post-merger consolidation needs a decision basis an auditor will accept

What we cover

Architecture review and ADRs

We review your existing architecture — integrations, data flows, identity, failure domains — and deliver a diagnostic report plus formal Architecture Decision Records. Each choice carries context, alternatives, trade-offs, and a named owner. These are documents that outlive staff turnover and give any implementer a single source of truth. No abstract diagrams. Concrete drawings, decisions, and a risk profile the board can actually read.

Tech stack selection

We build a weighted scorecard from your actual requirements — not the vendor pitch deck. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, SAP, Dynamics: each is rated on five-year TCO, exit cost, Danish-language support quality, integration debt, and compliance fit. The output is a ranked recommendation with quantified reasoning, a build-vs-buy analysis, and a tender-ready brief. You can defend the choice to both the CFO and the auditor.

AI strategy and readiness

AI without data foundations is theatre. We map where your data actually lives, the quality it carries, and which processes have measurable payback. We rank 3–5 use cases on expected impact, data readiness, and GDPR exposure, then deliver a roadmap with pilot, scale, and kill-criteria built in. The hype gets cut. What remains is a plan where you know what is going to production — and what is not.

Cloud migration planning

We group workloads against the 6 R's — rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain — and compute true TCO including egress, identity, backup, and licence shifts. The output is a wave plan with dependencies, fallback strategy, and exit clauses so you do not end up locked into a single hyperscaler. We are not loyal to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud — we are loyal to your finance line and your uptime looking better than they do today.

Compliance roadmap

GDPR, NIS2, and ISO/IEC 27001 do not look the same in a 40-person SaaS company as in a 250-person manufacturer. We run a gap review against your real risk and obligations, prioritise controls by business impact, and deliver a multi-year roadmap with named owners, deadlines, and evidence requirements. Documentation follows ISAE 3402 practice so auditors and enterprise customers can rely on it without another round.

How we work

Discovery
A one- to two-week deep mapping. We interview leadership, IT, finance, and end users, read architecture documents and contracts, and compile a problem statement everyone recognises. Output: a discovery memo capturing scope, business goals, known risks, and the success criterion we will measure the engagement against. No recommendations yet — just a shared picture of what is actually at stake.
Diagnose
We go deep on the technical side: architecture, data quality, security, contractual obligations, and vendor dependencies. Each finding carries evidence and business consequence — not generic observations. The output is a diagnostic report with a risk matrix and a prioritised headline list. It is shared directly with stakeholders so no recommendation in later phases lands as a surprise from above.
Roadmap
Building on the diagnosis, we draw a multi-year roadmap: what happens now, what at six months, what at eighteen. Each track gets an owner, a budget range, dependencies, and exit criteria. We run workshops with leadership and technical leads so the plan is owned — not thrown over the fence. Output: roadmap document plus an executive deck the board can approve in thirty minutes.
Decision
Where a vendor, platform, or architecture pattern must be chosen, we write a formal Architecture Decision Record. Alternatives, scorecards, trade-offs, and the named decision owner are all documented. We facilitate the decision meeting, but we do not make the decision for you. Output: ADRs, a build-vs-buy analysis, and — where it makes sense — tender material vendors can respond to on equal terms.
Handoff
We hand off to whichever implementation partner you choose — whether that is us, your internal team, or a third party. Briefing, documentation, and open questions transfer formally. We typically offer a 90-day quality-assurance window where we review execution against the plan so drift is caught while it is small. Output: handoff pack, open Q&A log, and an agreed follow-up cadence.

What you walk away with

Diagnostic report with risk matrix and prioritised headline list
Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) with alternatives and trade-offs
Weighted vendor scorecard and tender-ready brief
Multi-year roadmap with named owners, budget ranges, and dependencies
Build-vs-buy analysis with quantified five-year TCO
Executive summary deck for board and leadership

Compliance & standards

ISO/IEC 27001
GDPR
NIS2
ISAE 3402

Common questions

How is this different from a typical reseller-consultant?

A reseller earns on licences, hardware, or implementation hours — so the advice follows the margin. We take a flat advisory fee and hold no resale agreements with Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, or anyone else. That means we can recommend keeping the system you already have, or going open source, if that is the right call. Your decision basis is built on TCO and business fit, not on our next quarterly bonus. That independence is the entire product — it is not negotiable.

Do you also implement, or only advise?

Both — but never on the same engagement. If we have advised on a vendor choice, someone else implements it. That is the only way the advice stays credible. Our operations team, AI team, and dev team are happy to take a separate implementation engagement afterwards, but it goes through a fresh tender where we compete on equal terms. It is deliberate friction — and it shields you from the worst trap in the industry.

Typical engagement length and cost structure?

Most advisory engagements run 6–14 weeks. A focused architecture review can be 3–4 weeks; an NIS2 readiness or multi-cloud strategy typically 10–14. We price with a flat fee based on scope, not hours — so you know the exact cost before we start. Standard structure is 50% at kickoff, 50% on delivery of roadmap and ADRs. If scope expands mid-flight, we agree it in writing before any work happens. No open meters.

Do you sign deliverables a board or auditor can rely on?

Yes. Our diagnostic reports, ADRs, and compliance roadmaps are signed by the responsible senior advisor and written to stand up in front of a board, an auditor, or an NIS2 regulator. Documentation follows ISAE 3402 conventions for evidence, and we will join board meetings or auditor reviews to defend assumptions if needed. What you get is a decision basis that holds under pressure — not a slide that cannot stand on its own.

AI strategy — what is actually in scope vs hype?

In scope: mapping your data, identifying 3–5 use cases with measurable payback, GDPR and NIS2 risk assessment, the choice between hosted models (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock) and self-hosted, and a roadmap with pilot and kill-criteria. Not in scope: promising generative-AI revenue, a chatbot that "transforms" your business, or an agent platform without data foundations. If a use case has no data, no ROI, and no owner, we send it back. That is not negativity — it is avoiding wasted millions.

Conflict of interest — do you take vendor kickbacks?

No. We accept no commissions, rebates, sponsorships, or referral fees from Microsoft, AWS, Google, Salesforce, SAP, or any other vendor on advisory engagements. It is written into our standard contract, and we are willing to let your auditor verify it. If we later win a separate implementation tender, it is in open competition — and that relationship is disclosed in writing up front. The only revenue from an advisory engagement is the fee you pay us.

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