Reference architectures
How we build it
Three architectures we bring into new engagements, each written up in full — schema, code, failure modes, and the trade-offs we would argue about.
- AI systems
Contract intelligence platform
Hybrid retrieval over a high-volume document corpus, with citation-grounded generation and a review queue for anything under the confidence threshold.
- Retrieval
- Hybrid
- Grounding
- Cited
- Pilot
- 6–8 wks
- Cloud platform
Multi-region platform, staged
Four stages from single-AZ to active-active, each one removing a named failure mode. Most teams should stop at stage two, and we will say so.
- Stages
- Four
- IaC
- Terraform
- Pilot
- 8–12 wks
- Custom development
Multi-tenant SaaS foundation
Tenancy and isolation model, SSO with role-based access, metering hooks, and an audit log — the work that has to exist before feature delivery gets predictable.
- Isolation
- RLS
- Access
- SSO + RBAC
- MVP
- 12–16 wks
Start with the smallest useful thing
A two-week architecture review costs a fixed fee and ends in a document you own. If the answer is that you do not need us, that is in the document too.
What happens next
- A 45-minute call with the engineer who would lead the work
- A one-page scope and fixed price within the week
- No procurement theatre and no bench to keep busy