Governed Foundation
A fixed fee and a fixed outcome: I interview your team, set out the options with the trade-offs in plain terms, and hand over a working, compliant foundation your engineers can build on. The first clients shape what the product becomes.
Don’t want to wait for the software? Governed Foundation is 10x delivered by a human. A fixed-fee engagement: I interview your team, write the options paper, and hand over a bootstrapped, compliant repo for your workload. The first clients get to shape what 10x becomes.
- An Organisation Context Pack: your approved modules, naming and tagging policy and existing ADRs, signed off before a single question is asked
- A Requirements Record, with every requirement traceable to a question and an answer, and gaps flagged rather than guessed
- An Architecture Options Paper: two or three candidate architectures, each with a diagram, cost estimate, controls satisfied, effort, operational burden and lock-in
- Draft ADRs with control traceability, for the option you choose
- A bootstrapped repo in GitHub or Azure DevOps: Terraform on approved modules, pipelines with plan, policy check and manual approval gates
- Policy-as-code and a compliance traceability matrix mapped to ISO 27001 and DORA
- Delivered as a pull request with branch protection set. Never applied.
- Two weeks of review support while your engineers take it forward
- UK and EU organisations in regulated or governance-heavy sectors – financial services, insurance, healthcare, public sector
- Platform, cloud or architecture teams of 3 to 20 people
- An existing Azure estate, with Terraform as the standard or the intended one
- Azure DevOps or GitHub as the delivery tool
- A design authority that catches problems too late, and a compliance function that asks for evidence after the fact
Start with a conversation.
Book thirty minutes. No deck, no discovery workshop, just a proper look at what you're trying to do.
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