Software Architecture Design

Service Overview

Good architecture is what lets a product keep shipping features quickly a year in, not just at launch. We work with your engineering team to design system structures, define clear component boundaries, and document the decisions so future development stays consistent and maintainable.

What's Included

  • Current-State Architecture Audit:
    Review of your existing system structure, dependencies, and pain points before any redesign work starts (skipped for greenfield engagements).

  • Component & Boundary Design:
    Service/module boundaries, data flow, and integration points defined before a line of code is written.

  • Scalability & Load Planning:
    Architectures designed for your actual expected growth in users, data volume, and feature complexity - not hypothetical scale.

  • Technology & Framework Selection:
    Pragmatic recommendations on frameworks, infrastructure, and tooling based on your team's constraints.

  • Architecture Decision Records:
    Documented rationale for key decisions, so future development stays consistent instead of drifting.

  • Risk & Trade-off Analysis:
    Explicit call-out of the trade-offs and risks in the proposed design, not just a diagram.

  • Team Enablement Workshop:
    A walkthrough session so your engineering team can build directly against the architecture, not just read about it.

The Challenge

Poor early architecture decisions compound over time into expensive rewrites. We help teams get the foundational structure right, whether starting a new system or replatforming an existing one.

Transparent, Per-Application
Pricing

Pick the tier that matches your application's complexity

Small

Single system or service, greenfield design

  • Current-state architecture audit
  • Component & boundary design
  • Scalability & load planning
  • Technology & framework selection
  • Architecture decision records
  • Risk & trade-off analysis
  • Team enablement workshop
Price: 6,000 €Get a Quote

Standard

Multi-service architecture review or platform-wide redesign

  • Current-state architecture audit
  • Component & boundary design
  • Scalability & load planning
  • Technology & framework selection
  • Architecture decision records
  • Risk & trade-off analysis
  • Team enablement workshop
Price: 12,000 €Get a Quote

Complex

Enterprise-scale replatforming or multi-team architecture program

  • Current-state architecture audit
  • Component & boundary design
  • Scalability & load planning
  • Technology & framework selection
  • Architecture decision records
  • Risk & trade-off analysis
  • Team enablement workshop
Price: From 20,000 €Get a Quote

Support

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers to what teams ask before we start working together.

Both - we regularly audit existing architectures and recommend concrete, prioritized changes.

We design for your actual expected load, not hypothetical scale, and document the points where the system will need to evolve.

Clear architecture documentation and diagrams your team can build against, not just a one-off presentation.

Pricing depends on system scope and whether we're auditing an existing architecture or designing greenfield, in three tiers - see the Pricing section below for exact figures.