01 What this is
The short version.
Choose and prove the technology the next stage actually requires — evaluated against your operations, not a vendor's roadmap.
Technology decisions are expensive in a way that is easy to miss: not the licence, but the year of work that follows a wrong one. We assess the current estate, the operational reality around it, and what the venture will genuinely need once volume arrives.
Where a decision is not obvious, we prove it. A narrow technical proof of concept, run against your data and your workflow, settles more arguments than another vendor demo. Fire Quark, our software company, builds those proofs — which means the people evaluating the choice are the people who would live with it.
- Typical engagement
- Assessment, selection support, or PoC build
- Usual duration
- 3 weeks to 6 months
- Built with
- Fire Quark
- Delivered from
- Utah, USA — remote and on-site
02 Scope
What sits inside the engagement.
The list below is the full working scope. Not every engagement uses all of it — the framing session decides which parts matter.
- Technology assessment — What you run today, what it costs to keep, and where it will break under load.
- Platform and vendor selection — Scored against your operations and your team's real capacity, not a feature grid.
- Cloud architecture — Right-sized infrastructure with a cost model you can forecast.
- Technical proof of concept — A narrow, honest test against your data before anyone signs a multi-year contract.
- Integration design — How the systems talk, who owns each hand-off, and what happens when one is down.
- Service and support model — Who runs it after go-live, and what that costs in people and hours.
03 How it runs
From brief to handover.
A repeatable sequence, so you always know which decision is next and who owns it.
Estate review
Systems, contracts, costs and the operational habits built around them.
Requirement shaping
What the venture must be able to do in twelve months, stated in terms a vendor can answer.
Proof of concept
Built narrow and thrown away if it fails — the point is the answer, not the artefact.
Decision and rollout plan
A recommendation with costs, risks and a migration sequence.
04 Delivered by
Fire Quark
Custom software and digital-product development spanning web, mobile, APIs, DevOps, AI/ML and industrial systems.
The company that builds the software — and is still there when it needs to run at three in the morning.
Fire Quark develops custom software and digital products across web and mobile applications, APIs and integrations, DevOps and cloud infrastructure, AI and machine-learning work, and industrial systems.
- Web applications
- Mobile applications
- APIs and integrations
- DevOps and cloud infrastructure
- AI and machine learning
- Industrial systems
05 Pairs well with
Rarely bought alone.
The capabilities most often sequenced alongside this one.
Build
Software Development
Custom software and digital products, from internal automation to customer-facing platforms.
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Business Consulting
Address critical business issues, clarify the opportunity, and connect strategy with the realities of execution.
ExploreProduct
Engineering Design
Product-development engineering that advances a concept to something a factory can actually make.
ExploreThe next conversation
What does the venture
need next?
Bring us the ambition, the constraint, and the stage you are navigating. If the foundry is the right shape for it, we'll say so — and if it isn't, we'll tell you that too.
Field view
The work behind
Technology Consulting.
Strategy earns trust when it stays connected to real people, visible work and accountable execution.
