The methodology is designed to produce decisions that engineering, finance and leadership teams can defend and execute.
Clarify the business question, technical scope, stakeholders, constraints and required outcome. The engagement must begin with a decision to support, not a generic request to review the platform.
Typical questions include: Why is observability spend increasing? What can be optimized before renewal? Is the platform correctly sized? Why is search latency unstable? Should selected workloads be migrated? Is the RAG system ready for production?
Collect the evidence required to understand the current state. Evidence may include:
Separate symptoms from root causes across cost, workload behaviour, configuration, architecture, process and ownership.
Evaluate options such as optimizing the current platform, improving governance, changing commitments, introducing a telemetry layer, adopting a hybrid model or preparing a controlled migration.
Compare each option against:
Translate findings into actions ordered by impact, effort, risk and dependency.
Deliverables may include:
Where required, SAB Consulting works with client teams to implement the selected changes, measure the result and transfer the operating model.
The access model is agreed with the client. Read-only access, controlled exports and architecture documentation are used wherever possible. Sensitive production data should not be copied unless it is necessary, approved and protected by the project's security requirements.
Share the platform, cost or reliability problem you are trying to solve. SAB Consulting will help define the right assessment, the evidence required and the practical next step.