A clear technical plan, in plain terms.
Technical direction from a Kathmandu studio for businesses deciding what to build, in what order, and with what tools — or unpicking something that already is not working.
Architecture · AdvisoryA lot of money is lost in Nepal between the idea and the build, to decisions made for the wrong reasons. A founder is sold a framework because the vendor knew it; a company buys software it could have rented, or rents software it should have built; a project starts at the hard end and runs out of budget before the part that mattered. IT consultancy, the way we do it, is the conversation that happens before any of that — scoping the actual problem and telling you, in plain terms, what it will take to solve and what it should not cost.
We are useful in two situations. The first is starting from scratch: you know the outcome you want but not the architecture, the stack, or the order of work, and you need someone to lay that out as a plan you can budget against and hand to whoever builds it. The second is the rescue — a project that stalled, a codebase no one can safely change, a vendor whose invoices keep climbing while progress does not. We read the code, audit the setup, and tell you honestly whether it is worth saving, rebuilding, or replacing.
The advice is grounded in work we do ourselves, not slides. We provide ongoing software engineering and technical direction for Ayriva — architecture, build, and the decisions that keep a system maintainable as it grows — so the recommendations we give are the ones we live with day to day. Because we also build, host and run software, our build-versus-buy advice carries the weight of having to maintain whatever we recommend; it is easy to suggest the clever option when someone else has to keep it running.
A consulting engagement produces something you can act on without us: a written audit, an architecture and stack recommendation with the reasoning shown, scopes and estimates you can take to any builder, and a review of the code or vendor in front of you. You are not buying a dependency on Lattice. If the right answer is that you do not need us to build it, that is the answer we will give you — which is exactly why the advice is worth having.
The deliverables
- Technical audits
- Build-vs-buy decisions
- Architecture and stack selection
- Scoping and estimates
- Code and vendor review
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The scope and the price come back in plain writing — no call booked before there is something to discuss.
What clients ask
- When should I hire an IT consultant before building?
- When you know the outcome you want but not the architecture, stack, or order of work — or when a project has stalled and you need an honest read on whether to fix, rebuild or replace it. A short engagement up front routinely saves far more than it costs by preventing the wrong build.
- Can you review work another vendor built?
- Yes. We do code and vendor reviews: we read the codebase, audit the infrastructure, and tell you plainly whether it is sound, salvageable, or better replaced — with the reasoning shown, so you can act on it whoever does the work next.
- Will you push me to let you build it?
- No. The deliverable is a plan you can take to any builder, including ourselves. If the honest answer is that you do not need us — or do not need to build at all — that is what we will tell you. That independence is the point of the advice.
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Talk to us about it consultancy.
Write a few lines about the work — what you want built and the deadline you care about. We'll come back with a plain scope and a price, no sales call before there's something to talk about.