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Consultancy Services

An assessment written by the firm that would implement it is a sales document.

We do not implement what we recommend, on any engagement. You receive findings and a roadmap, and who executes it is your decision — including a competitor. That is the only arrangement under which the recommendation is worth anything.

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Advisory-only, permanentlyTOGAF®-based methodologyNo platform affiliation

An assessment produced by the firm that would implement it is a sales document. The recommendation may be correct; you have no way to test whether it is correct or merely profitable.

Consultancy Services exists to remove that doubt. A practicing Solution Architect assesses, advises and hands over a roadmap — and implements nothing, on any engagement.

Bought as a fixed fee scoped to the question, with a proposal within 24 hours of the scoping call. A single decision costs less to assess than an entire estate.

Consultancy Services — the third of three service lines. Recruitment gives you the people; Professional & Managed Services does the work for you; Consultancy decides what work should be done.

What that costs you

Decisions made on someone else's framing.

Multi-year commitments get made on a vendor's framing of the problem.
Migration timing is set by licence renewal dates rather than by architectural readiness.
Compliance is treated as a project rather than a standing obligation, and lapses between projects.
Automation platforms are bought before anyone establishes what should be automated first.

Why the usual answer fails

What the incentive structure produces.

	Vendor or reseller assessment	Lumensoft
Commercial incentive	Assessment leads to an implementation contract	No implementation is offered, on any engagement
Platform position	Recommends what they resell	No resale relationship with any platform
Who conducts it	Often a consultant or analyst	A practicing Solution Architect who has run this work in production
Deliverable	A proposal shaped as findings	Findings, a prioritized roadmap and TOGAF®-based artefacts
What follows	Conversion pressure	You execute wherever you want

How we work

Start from the decision, not the inventory.

Every assessment starts from what you are actually deciding, not from an inventory. The questions asked in the first hour usually determine whether the engagement is worth running at all.

What decision is this assessment supposed to unblock, and what happens if you defer it another quarter?
What has already been ruled out, and by whom?
Which constraint is real — budget, compliance, a renewal date, or an internal position someone has already taken?
If we tell you to do nothing, is that an acceptable outcome here?

That last question matters more than it sounds. Some engagements are commissioned to ratify a decision already made. We would rather establish that early than write a report nobody intends to act on.

The four specializations

Four questions worth answering independently.

Network & Telecom Architecture

Architecture review, on-premises versus cloud posture, and roadmap — assessed by someone who has run a 10,000+ user migration in a regulated environment.

Explore Network & Telecom Architecture

Enterprise Infrastructure & Compliance

Governance, standards, disaster-recovery readiness and GRC alignment, reviewed by someone who has built the infrastructure rather than only audited it.

Explore Enterprise Infrastructure & Compliance

Network Automation

What should be automated, in what order, and what should not be automated at all.

Explore Network Automation

IVR/Contact Center

Vendor-agnostic platform advisory grounded in a production deployment rather than a feature comparison.

Explore IVR/Contact Center

What you receive

The deliverable, and who owns it.

Findings against your actual environment, not a maturity-model template
A prioritized roadmap with sequencing and dependencies
TOGAF®-based artefacts — architecture diagrams, high-level and low-level design as scoped
A written position on the specific decision you are trying to make
Full ownership of the deliverable, including the right to tender it competitively

How it is bought

Fixed fee, scoped to the question.

A fixed-fee engagement scoped to the question. A single decision costs less to assess than an entire estate, which is why a scoped question is usually the better engagement. Confirmed in a proposal within 24 hours of the scoping call.

Who it's for

Enterprise IT

Independent validation before a major commitment.

Regulated organizations

Governance review ahead of an audit or certification cycle.

Organizations mid-migration

A second opinion from someone who has run one.

MSPs

Architecture bandwidth your team does not carry in-house.

Typical buyer situations

You are likely in scope if any of these is true:

A multi-year commitment is about to be made on a vendor's framing of the problem.
Migration timing is being set by a licence renewal date rather than by readiness.
You need a position you can take to your own budget process.
You want a deliverable you can tender competitively.

What happens next

1A scoping call defines the decision the assessment has to answer. A scoped question produces a sharper answer than an open survey of the estate, and costs less.
2Fixed fee, agreed before work starts.
3You receive findings, a prioritized roadmap and TOGAF®-based artefacts.

We implement none of what we recommend. The deliverable is yours — placing it with your own team, a third party, or tendering it competitively is a legitimate outcome and does not change the fee.

Common questions

Frequently asked questions.

Do you ever implement the recommendations?

Not under a consultancy engagement, ever. You may separately engage Lumensoft through Recruitment or Professional & Managed Services afterwards, but that is a new engagement scoped on its own merits and is never a condition of the assessment.

How is this different from Professional & Managed Services?

Consultancy is advisory-only — you receive findings and a roadmap. Professional & Managed Services means our team owns ongoing delivery under an SLA.

What framework do you use?

A TOGAF®-based methodology for the architecture and infrastructure governance specializations, producing architecture diagrams and high- and low-level design as scoped.

Who performs the work?

A practicing Solution Architect. Not delegated to a junior analyst.

Can we share the findings with other vendors?

Yes. The deliverable is yours, and using it to tender competitively is a legitimate and common outcome.

How is it priced?

Fixed fee against a defined question, confirmed within 24 hours of the scoping call.

What does a network architecture consultancy actually deliver?

Findings, a prioritized roadmap and TOGAF®-based artefacts — and in our case nothing else, because we implement none of what we recommend. The deliverable is yours to place with your own team, a third party, or us under a separately scoped engagement. Using it to tender competitively is a legitimate outcome.