Decisions made and recorded
Architecture calls answered in days, not at the next steering group — each one written up as a decision record with the alternatives and the reasoning, so the choice survives the person who made it.
Discipline 03 · Ongoing Advisory
An architect in the room, without the headcount.
The continuity a project engagement cannot give you: someone your engineers escalate to, who holds the design decisions and keeps the governance alive between builds.
What retained looks like.
Reviews attended
Design reviews, vendor evaluations, risk forums and board sessions — with someone present who can say no to a supplier and explain the reason to a non-technical audience.
Governance kept running
Registers reviewed, gates enforced, new obligations tracked as regulation moves. The operating model stays alive instead of quietly lapsing after the launch.
We do not bid for the build we just specified.
Reselling a platform we recommended
Taking commission from a vendor
A written decision at the end
Handover your team can run
One engagement.
Every engagement is fixed in scope before it starts, and what it costs is agreed in the scoping call and confirmed in writing. Set that against the build it protects — and against paying for that build a second time. The comparison is the whole argument for hiring an architect.
Ongoing Advisory · Engagement 07
Fractional AI Architect
Senior architecture authority, without a permanent hire.
Retained days each month: design decisions made and recorded, reviews attended, governance kept running, and your engineers given someone to escalate to. The continuity a project engagement cannot provide.
- Architecture decisions made, recorded and defended
- Design review of in-flight work
- Architecture and governance forum attendance
- Risk assessments as new use cases arrive
- Vendor and model evaluation support
- Engineering escalation route and mentoring
- Roadmap and prioritisation input
- Agreed monthly days with named availability
- Running architecture decision record
- Standing review and forum attendance
- Quarterly architecture and risk position update
Ongoing Advisory
Keep the authority. Skip the hire.
The decisions keep coming, and nobody senior has time to make them.