Requirements definition
Workload profiles, latency and quality thresholds, residency, security and commercial constraints written down first.
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Discovery & Strategy
Vendor & Model Selection
Choose on evidence, and keep the option to change your mind.
- 3–4 wks
- To a signed recommendation
- Real data
- Benchmarks, not vendor decks
- Portable
- Abstraction from day one
The problem we solve
Model and platform choices quietly set your cost base, your residency posture and your switching cost for years. We run a transparent evaluation against your real workloads and design the architecture so the decision stays reversible.
What the work includes
Benchmarking on your data
Head-to-head evaluation using your prompts and documents, scored on quality, latency and cost per task.
Commercial review
Pricing structures, committed spend, egress, support terms and exit conditions compared like for like.
Portability architecture
Gateway, prompt registry and abstraction layer so a model swap is a configuration change.
How the engagement runs
A sequence you can plan a quarter around.
- 01
Define
Requirements, evaluation criteria and weighting agreed with stakeholders.
- 02
Test
Benchmark runs, security review and commercial comparison.
- 03
Decide
Recommendation, negotiation support and portability architecture.
Common questions
Before you commit.
- Are you tied to a vendor?
- No. We hold no reseller margin, and our evaluation weightings are agreed with you before testing begins.
- Can you include open-weight models?
- Yes — self-hosted options are evaluated on the same footing, including hosting and operations cost.
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