Integration Architecture & AI Advisory · mid-market and enterprise

AI is only as good as what it can reach. Most systems aren’t ready.

Many organisations don’t need a new integration strategy. They need the one they already have re-tested against a world that changed.

So there are two paid tiers — direction, then execution — entered through a free front door, with an ongoing retainer available at the end of either path. Which path is yours is settled in the free scoping session, and you take one route through — not all of them.

Built for estates of roughly 10+ systems. Smaller than that and the right shape is usually AI Enablement for SMEs instead.

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Integration architecture

Independent design authority for how your systems connect, from a one-off review to an architect working alongside your team every month.

Book a free 45-minute scoping session

Integration Strategy

A vendor-neutral integration strategy for the AI era: the plan you already have re-tested, or a lean strategy set from scratch.

Fractional Integration Architect

Design authority on retainer, from NZ$3,500 a month.

Tooling & Platform Selection

A vendor-neutral choice with a total-cost comparison: a decision, or a defensible shortlist into your procurement process.

Agent-ready integration design

How AI agents should reach your systems: MCP interfaces, a target-state blueprint and a working pilot.

Integration architecture for delivery programmes

Solution and target-state architecture for programmes and delivery partners, on a day-rate or fixed-outcome basis.

One front door, then one path through.

free front door → which path → direction → execution → retainer

All prices are in NZD, and exclude GST.

FREE FRONT DOOR

Readiness Scorecard

Self-serve · instant result

→

45-minute scoping session

Produces scope, price and SoW

WHICH PATH

A plan exists → refreshNo written plan → greenfielddecided free, in the session

DIAGNOSTIC
+ DIRECTION

Assessment → AI-Era Strategy Refresh

From NZ$21k · two purchases

Lean Integration Strategy

Assessment bundled in · from NZ$23k · one purchase

EXECUTION

Tooling & Platform Selection

From NZ$13k · 3–5 weeks elapsed

Agent- & Post-Platform Integration

From NZ$15k · 3–5 weeks elapsed

RETAINER

Fractional Integration Architect

From NZ$3.5k/month · ongoing

Two paths available at similar cost

Choose on fit — we’ll support you with the appropriate path.

Refresh

The usual route

Trigger: a plan exists, its fitness is in question.
Sequence: scoping session → Assessment → AI-Era Strategy Refresh.

From NZ$21k · two purchases · NZD excl. GST

Greenfield

Starting from a blank page

Trigger: no written integration plan.
Sequence: scoping session → Lean Integration Strategy, Readiness Assessment bundled in.

From NZ$23k · one purchase · NZD excl. GST

How the price gets set — once, in the session

Four factors, weighed together in the free scoping session. The band you land in sets the fee, and is inherited by every downstream engagement — so you are sized once and never re-argued. You see which band you’re in, and why, before there is anything to sign.

Systems

in the landscape

Integration points

distinct, provider-side

Mechanism diversity

REST, SOAP, queues, files…

Transaction & orchestration

where the business rules live

BAND A · SMALLER ESTATE

2 weeks elapsed

Up to 6 participants · 2 deep-dives

BAND B · TYPICAL

3 weeks elapsed

Up to 10 participants · 3 deep-dives

BAND C · COMPLEX ESTATE

3–4 weeks elapsed

Up to 16 participants · 4 deep-dives

This example relates to the Integration & AI-Readiness Assessment durations.

Re-banding works both ways. If the estate turns out smaller than scored, the band moves down — and the fee with it.

The catalogue

Your band is set free, in the session · Durations are elapsed, not effort · All prices are in NZD, and exclude GST

Every engagement is quoted as a fixed outcome or a set duration. Every one of them ends at the same next step: the free scoping session.

Front door · free

Integration & AI-Readiness Scorecard

A self-serve score across the eight dimensions, with your weakest one named. No cost, no commitment, and no obligation to talk to anyone.

Instant on-screen scorecard you keep.

Fixed fee from

Free

Elapsed

Self-serve, ~5 min

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Front door · free

45-minute scoping session

A fixed 45 minutes to understand your situation and scope the work, then route it to the right engagement. The session diagnoses — it never advises, and it carries no opinions on named products.

A one-page scoping note within one to two working days, with scope, price and an SoW.

Fixed fee from

Free

Elapsed

45 minutes

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Diagnostic

Integration & AI-Readiness Assessment

A current-state assessment across four lenses — landscape, maturity, your stated target, and immediate pain — scored at system level and converted into a defensible starting plan. Survey wide, dig narrow: depth is spent on the two to four gaps that reach the plan.

Maturity scorecard (client copy) · sequenced 90-day plan · findings pack presented at a findings session.

Fixed fee from

NZ$11k

Elapsed

2–4 weeks

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Direction

AI-Era Strategy Refresh

Bolts onto the integration plan you already have and re-tests it against agents, MCP, the speed at which new applications now appear — and continued fit for how your organisation actually works now. It can conclude that the plan needs rewriting, not refreshing.

A single amendment to your existing strategy: owned target state, what to stop investing in, buy/build/compose posture, legacy platform verdicts, migration approach, model routing and agentic access posture, roadmap.

Fixed fee from

NZ$10k

Elapsed

2–3 weeks

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Direction

Lean Integration Strategy for the AI Era

For organisations with no plan at all. Sets direction from scratch with the Readiness Assessment bundled in and delivered inside the engagement — one purchase.

Maturity scorecard (client copy) · the Lean Strategy Presentation — current state, maturity, SSCC, future state and roadmap.

Fixed fee from

NZ$23k

Elapsed

4–7 weeks

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Execution

Tooling & Platform Selection

A defensible platform decision — or a shortlist for a closed RFx — from someone who does not resell any of the candidates. Vendor-neutral across iPaaS, API management, event brokers and the AI-integration layer, with demos that are comparable rather than vendor-driven theatre.

Requirements-weighted evaluation model you keep · shortlist evaluation pack with honest trade-offs · recommendation report.

Fixed fee from

NZ$13k

Elapsed

3–5 weeks

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Execution

Agent- & Post-Platform Integration

MCP surface design, a target-state blueprint, iPaaS right-sizing, and a working pilot that proves the design rather than asserting it.

Target-state integration blueprint · MCP surface design · working pilot proof · platform right-sizing verdict.

Fixed fee from

NZ$15k

Elapsed

3–5 weeks

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Execution

Integration architecture for delivery programmes

Solution and target-state architecture for programmes and delivery partners, provided alongside the delivery team rather than as a separate phase.

Solution architecture · target-state design · design authority through delivery.

Basis

Day rate or fixed outcome

Elapsed

Scoped to the programme

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Retainer

Fractional Integration Architect

Senior architectural judgment on tap without a permanent hire — and continuity, because the person who set the direction stays accountable for it. Ongoing custody of the target state.

Monthly design authority · target-state custody · a re-run of the maturity scorecard that overlays the first.

From

NZ$3.5k/month

Elapsed

Ongoing

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Not sure which path is yours?

Take the free scorecard first. The scoping session decides which path is yours — and it costs nothing either way.

Take the self-assessment