Can you recognize any situation?
How I categorize what I find
Four stages. No binary pass/fail. No 47-page matrix. Just enough resolution to see where you stand and what to do about it.
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BLIND SPOT
Don't know
You feel something's off but can't name it. No visibility. No data. Just gut feeling.
You can't steer what you can't see.
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FRAGILE
Bleeding
Duct tape and luck. Something breaks every week. Survival mode. Every fix creates two new problems.
If the cow is sick, you can't milk it.
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FUNCTIONAL
Stable but leaking
It works. Nobody panics. But you're leaving money on the table. Invisible waste, hidden potential, and things nobody touches because the risk feels too high.
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FORWARD
Building on strength
Solid foundation. Now find what's possible and optimize/speed-up what is already working. Now we are polishing the diamond.
Healthy cow. Time to add more cows.
Most companies think they are Functional. They’re actually Fragile or in a Blind spot. And they’ve never seen Forward because they’re too busy patching.
You hire a corporation to get a paper for ownership.
You hire me to get ownership over something that needs to be fixed or championed.
Skills without ownership = another consultant with a PDF.
Ownership without skills = a guy staying late with no idea what to do.
I bring both to every engagement. Same tools, different results.
The difference is 20 years of knowing what to look for.
What you walk away with
After the 2 hour consultation or Diagnostic day you walk away with concrete materials - not vague advice.
2+1 Consultation
Bring your hardest problem to that video call. I work on it live. You get a written report and video walk-through with findings, priorities and next steps.
Diagnostic Day
Nothing is scripted. I prepare specifically for your business - and you get a briefing so your team is ready. Not a single minute wasted.
What my work looks like
70+ server infrastructure
The requirement was to build a huge infrastructure based on Open Source products that would offer the best balance between performance, reliability and cost.
Today I've been building and maintaining infrastructure for 10+ years behind 5 European travel brands selling across 16 countries.
Business impact: problems anticipated and machines replaced without customers noticing. Built-in horizontal scalability for seasonality.
Complex contract management system
Contracts lived in spreadsheets, email threads and people's heads. Missed renewals. Wrong terms. Lost money. Constant stress.
Built a contract management system that gave them one source of truth. No more missed deadlines, no more guessing, no more lost revenue from overlooked clauses.
Business impact: no more lost revenue from overlooked contract terms and dozens of man-hours saved.
CTO/key lead left
Key technical person walks out. Nobody understands the systems. Decisions pile up. Every day without direction costs money.
Done this 5+ times. First win typically within a week. Operationally proficient in 2-3 weeks. Stabilize, document, hand over to permanent hire - or stay on retainer.
Business impact: operational continuity within 1 week instead of months of chaos.
Pricing tool
Bolt-on replacement of a tedious and low-visibility pricing tool that made offer building painstaking and time consuming.
Built a pricing tool exactly to specs + suggestions and cut building time by 70%. Faster response, more offers out.
Automated ordering system
Manual order processing during high season. People copy-pasting between systems, errors every day, overtime every week.
Built an ordering robot that replaced the entire manual flow. Saved 2 full-time positions during peak season. No manual errors. Still running.
Sales Commission System
Commissions were calculated manually. Wrong payouts every cycle. Disputes between sales and finance. Nobody trusted the numbers.
Built a commission engine with real-time sales observability. Errors dropped to zero. Saved 1 full-time position. Sales team could finally see their own pipeline and targets - and started hitting them.
Invoicing System - Compliance + new revenue
Invoicing worked but compliance was manual and painful. Adding new payment providers was impossible without rebuilding half the system.
Rebuilt the invoicing layer. Compliance became automatic. Saved 1 full-time position on manual processing. Opened the door to new PSPs - which meant new markets and new revenue streams that didn't exist before.
Capped capacity
Infrastructure was misconfigured across multiple layers. They were technically capable of selling much more but were running at 30-40% capacity with massive downtimes that left revenue on the table.
Found and fixed all bottlenecks. Full capacity unlocked within budgets. Downtimes are rare, moved into cloud.
WORKED WITH
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See me work
Free consultation, 2 hour consultation or 1 day diagnostic. You watch & judge.
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Go deeper
Prepaids for specific problems and on-going support. Better rate for commitment.
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Full partnership
Retainer. I execute alongside your team. Full ownership.