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Architecture review, modernization roadmaps, cloud migration planning, and a straight read on where AI earns its keep and where it does not.
architecture · roadmaps · azure · ai strategy
We build and replace the systems a business runs on. AI changed how much ground one senior team can cover in a week. It did not change who signs off, and the panel on the right is the whole claim.
Three of the four stages are a person's name on a document. The agents work in the one stage where breadth is the bottleneck.
Under the same name, from the Pacific Northwest, since 2007.
Microsoft, FedEx Kinko’s, Match.com, Lamb Weston, Samaritan Healthcare and others.
Retail layouts served by one Azure asset pipeline processing millions of images.
Healthcare, retail, energy, insurance, education and non-profit.
Four habits carry almost all of the difference. None of them is a model choice, and none of them takes a person out of the loop.
Every change starts as a written spec with its acceptance criteria in it. A person and an agent work from the same document, and it is also what the reviewer reads.
Codebase-wide refactors, test scaffolding, migration sweeps, the second and third integration that look like the first. Wide, shallow, verifiable work.
Nothing merges without a named engineer on it. The speed comes from the preparation, not from skipping the check, and we will put that in the contract.
Tooling is wired into your tracker, your data and your build over MCP, inside your tenant. When the engagement ends the pipeline is yours and it still runs.
Architecture review, modernization roadmaps, cloud migration planning, and a straight read on where AI earns its keep and where it does not.
architecture · roadmaps · azure · ai strategy
Line-of-business platforms built to be maintained by whoever comes next: rating engines, document pipelines, EDI integrations, back-office systems.
.net · azure · service bus · sql server
Apps for people working away from a desk, built against the same APIs as your web surfaces so field data and office data never disagree.
ios · android · offline-first
Marketing sites and customer portals, fast on a phone on a bad connection, handed over with the design system that produced them.
vue · design systems · wcag · entra id
| Period | Engagement | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| 2013–2016 | Microsoft Retail — video wall delivery | A socket-based platform bridging cloud services to physical video walls across US stores, with WPF clients, live monitoring and sub-second content delivery. |
| 2013–2016 | Unity 3D virtual stores | A virtual store where cloud-uploaded content appeared in place, so a layout could be checked without travelling to a physical location. |
| 2010–2012 | Samaritan Healthcare — claims and EDI | A HIPAA-compliant claims platform with BizTalk X12 document orchestrations, maps and custom pipelines. |
| 2007–2009 | Act Six — scholarship platform | A scholarship application system for a non-profit, with a dynamic reports engine and per-affiliate configuration across regions. |
A CRM you host yourself. The database is yours, the API is documented, and the price does not go up because you hired someone.
Or what you are being asked to replace. We will tell you whether we are the right people for it. Sometimes the answer is no, and that is useful too.
brenton.unger@live.com