Judgment
before the build.

It delivers a funded decision: what to build, on which platform, in what order and at what cost. From Assess you keep the findings report, the costed modernization map and the use-case shortlist. From the Blueprint phase you keep the governance model, the target architecture and the priced backlog with its written verdicts. All of it is yours whether or not we build together.

Assess typically takes two weeks, and the Blueprint phase that follows typically takes two to three weeks. Each phase is fixed price and fixed scope, priced up front, so the cost does not grow with what the work recommends. For a single agent use case, Butter gives a free first verdict in about two minutes, and the AI Readiness pass typically takes two weeks.

We recommend whichever platform wins on your workloads, and the platform you run today is one of the candidates. The governance rules are set first, platform-neutral, and the platform is then chosen against them on the few workloads that carry the decision. The result is a target architecture with its reasoning written down, not a preference carried in from the last project.

Every finding is measured on your estate, so it can be checked. A typical strategy deck holds a maturity score, a long list of initiatives and a platform recommendation with no workload behind it, and nothing in it can be proved wrong. Assess reads every workload as it runs and prices each move against the cost of standing still. Every candidate use case gets a written verdict, and walk away is recorded with the same care as build.

You need the estate you want to decide about and the use cases you are weighing; nothing has to be built or migrated first. Assess reads every workload as it runs, so the work starts from the estate itself rather than from its documentation. The first step is a 30-minute working session on your estate and your use cases, which ends in one shared shortlist.