What it is
Most technology advice comes from someone with something to sell: a vendor defending a roadmap, a consultancy with a bench to keep busy, an analyst firm reselling the same quadrant. What's rare is a senior architect who will read the contract, look at the system, and tell you the truth — because the truth is the entire deliverable.
Guided Logic advisory is exactly that. We have no junior bench, so our advice never arrives with a staffing recommendation attached. Engagements range from a one-time review of a vendor proposal to a standing fractional-chief-architect arrangement where we sit on your side of the table for every significant technology decision.
What you get
- Architecture assessment Current-state review of systems, data, and integration debt — with risks ranked, decision records written, and a defensible modernization sequence.
- Vendor and proposal evaluation Line-by-line reads of bids, SOWs, and contracts: what's padded, what's missing, what the T&M language will cost you in year two.
- Rescue review For projects that have stalled or tripled: what's actually broken, what's salvageable, and the shortest defensible path out — even if that path doesn't involve us.
- Standing counsel Retainer access to an architect for the decisions between the big decisions — the weekly calls where scope quietly grows and nobody senior is watching.
Architect + AI, applied here
Advisory work drowns in reading: contracts, statements of work, architecture documents, ticket histories, meeting notes. Our architects put AI on the reading — surfacing every commitment, every exclusion, every inconsistency across a thousand pages — and spend their own hours on what the reading means. You get the thoroughness of a diligence team and the judgment of one accountable senior, at the cost of neither.