Architecture Consulting

The most expensive decisions in your product are the ones nobody wrote down.

A senior architect designs or reviews your system architecture and puts it on paper: the stack, the data model, the API surface, the security model, and what has to change at each stage of growth. Before those decisions get made by accident.
Price$3,000 to $5,000
Timeline1 to 2 weeks
FormatWritten design + live sessions
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When you need this

Before the build starts

You're about to commit months of budget to a system nobody has designed end to end. The architecture doc becomes the blueprint your team, or ours, builds against.

Growth is exposing cracks

What worked at a hundred users is straining at ten thousand. You need to know which parts survive the next stage and which need to change, in what order.

A big decision is pending

New platform, major integration, a move to multi-tenant, a compliance requirement. You want the decision reasoned and written down before it's irreversible.

What you walk away with

A design document your engineers can build from and your investors can read. Not slideware.

  • A recommended tech stack with the reasoning, including what we ruled out and why, so the reasoning survives when the team changes.
  • System architecture in diagrams and prose, services, boundaries, and how data moves through the product.
  • A data schema and API surface, concrete enough that an engineer can start from it on day one.
  • Security and scale assessment, where the system is exposed, and the specific triggers that force the next architectural change as you grow.
  • A build sequence, what to build first, what to defer, and where the risk concentrates.

How the engagement runs

Days 1 to 2

Deep context

Working sessions on your product, constraints, team, and growth expectations. If a codebase exists, we read it.

Week 1

Design

The architect produces the design: stack selection, system architecture, data model, API surface, security model, and the scaling picture.

Week 2

Review and handoff

You get the written design, then a live session where we defend every choice, adjust where your context demands it, and hand off a document your team owns.

You own the design outright. Build it with your own team, another firm, or with Bolder Apps. The document is written to be useful in all three cases.

Questions we get

Is this just a sales pitch for a build?
No. The design is the deliverable, priced and scoped on its own. Plenty of teams take it to their own engineers. If you do want us to build it, the design phase is already done and paid for.
We already have engineers. What do they get out of this?
A second senior opinion with no stake in past decisions, and a written baseline they can argue with. The best outcome of a review is often the argument it forces before the code gets written.
What decides the price within the range?
Scope. A greenfield design for a single product sits at the lower end. Reviewing an existing system, multiple integrations, or compliance constraints moves it up. You get a fixed number before we start, and it doesn't move after.
What if our situation changes right after?
The document states the assumptions it rests on and the triggers that would change the answer. When one of those triggers fires, the document already tells you what changes.
250+
projects delivered
80+
shipped apps
4.9
rating on Clutch
2019
founded in Miami

Get the architecture argument over with, on paper, in two weeks.

Tell us what you're building and what's keeping you up about it. A senior architect will reply with how they'd approach it and a fixed price.

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