Platform architecture
We design the shape of complex software platforms: domain boundaries, data ownership, integration contracts, resilience and the path to get there from what you run today.
When clients call us
- A new digital platform is funded, but nobody agrees on its boundaries.
- Every feature touches five teams and three databases.
- The cloud migration plan is a list of servers, not an architecture.
- Regulators are asking about data residency and you need a clear answer.
Our view
Most platform problems are boundary problems. When ownership of data and behaviour is unclear, every change becomes a negotiation between teams and every release a coordination exercise.
We start by mapping how the business actually works, then draw system boundaries around it. The result is an architecture your teams can build against independently, documented as decisions with reasons, so it survives changes in people and vendors.
What you get
- Target architecture
- Context, container and deployment views, with the decisions behind them written down as architecture decision records.
- Domain and data model
- Bounded contexts, system-of-record ownership and the events that move between them.
- Transition roadmap
- Sequenced increments that each deliver value, with the risk retired at every step made explicit.
- Guardrails
- Reference implementations, paved-road templates and fitness functions your teams can run in CI.
What changes
- Teams ship independently instead of queueing behind shared releases.
- Data residency and sovereignty requirements are designed in, not bolted on.
- Architecture decisions are traceable when auditors or new leaders ask why.
Ways to engage
Architecture sprint
4 to 6 weeks
A target architecture and roadmap for one platform or programme.
Embedded architects
3 months and up
Our architects work inside your delivery teams through the build.
Start with a two-week assessment
Tell us about the platform, integration or AI initiative on your desk. We will reply within one working day with how we would approach it.