a useful decision before implementation
A Stackporch assessment turns uncertainty into a bounded business and technical decision. You receive an evidence-backed artifact you can keep, use, and judge before committing to implementation.
For recurring work that is slow, manual, duplicated, opaque, or constrained by packaged software.
What should change, is software justified, and what smallest phase can prove the financial result?
For a focused operational application, portal, decision system, or new software product.
What should be built, how should it operate, and what boundaries make delivery responsible?
For stalled, abandoned, insecure, unowned, or unmaintainable software.
Should the system be finished, rebuilt, replaced, or retired—and what protects the remaining investment?
Pricing is built transparently from the documented scope and Stackporch’s $200/hour rate card. Fixed scope and fixed price are written before work begins; any job-specific discount remains visible rather than lowering the rate.
inside the decision package
specialist depth
Architecture, source control, pipelines, deployment, observability, recovery, operability, and ownership.
Contracts, mapping, reconciliation, data quality, dimensional models, governed metrics, and row security.
Identity, Microsoft 365, cloud architecture, infrastructure, reliability, cost, and security baselines.
Authorization, secrets, dependencies, data flow, retention, evaluations, human authority, UX, and accessibility.
If the assessment cannot identify a bounded path with credible value, ownership, adoption, and acceptable risk, Stackporch will recommend no build or a different intervention. The assessment fee buys that answer too.
Describe what should work better, what happens today, and why the answer matters. I’ll recommend the smallest assessment capable of resolving it.