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Engineering Counsel

Short, fixed-price written answers from experienced engineers: an error diagnosed, a quote assessed, a repository reviewed. For the days you need a verdict rather than a project.

₹100 – ₹3,299GST included

Services in this practice

One error message or stack trace, explained in writing by a senior engineer: what it means and where to look first.

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You receive

  • Plain-language writing on what the error is telling you
  • Two or three suspects, listed commonest first
  • The opening diagnostic step, spelled out so it can be pasted straight in
  • A view on whether this is a symptom of something bigger

One technical question, answered plainly in writing by a senior engineer, ordinarily within a couple of working days.

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You receive

  • Between 300 and 600 words of written answer, signed by a senior engineer
  • The thinking laid out, so it transfers to comparable decisions
  • Whatever we assumed, stated openly
  • Two or three pointers to references or tools, where those help

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Send a development proposal across and get a written opinion on whether the price fits the scope, and on what the scope omits.

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You receive

  • A written verdict: low, fair or high for the scope as described
  • What the scope leaves out that tends to reappear as an extra invoice
  • Three to five pointed questions to put back to the supplier
  • A flag against any commercial term worth resisting, ownership or hosting lock-in among them

Set out the options in front of you and we will state in writing which one suits your circumstances, and the reasoning for it.

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You receive

  • A pick, named outright instead of hedged
  • The three or four considerations that settled it in your case
  • The best honest case for the option we passed over
  • What would have to change for the answer to change, so it can be revisited

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Up to 400 changed lines read closely by a senior engineer, returned as written comments your developer can act on.

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You receive

  • Line-by-line comments across a single pull request, 400 changed lines at most
  • A closing verdict: merge, merge once changed, or hold
  • Each comment labelled blocking, worth doing, or personal preference
  • The failure cases we think this change does not cover

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Hand over a single month of cloud billing and we will name what looks wrong, with a rough figure for putting it right.

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You receive

  • One month of billing data from your provider, read through
  • The 5 entries we find most doubtful, each with our argument
  • An estimated monthly saving against every one of them
  • A judgement on whether your spend is ordinary for a workload like yours

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An outside reading of your engineering advertisement and interview loop, explaining why capable applicants fall away before the offer.

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You receive

  • The advertisement rewritten to be specific and honest rather than aspirational
  • Which stated requirements are real and which deter good applicants
  • A review of the interview process, with a shorter loop recommended
  • A technical exercise proposed at 2 hours, not a weekend

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Half a day of a senior engineer's attention inside your repository, returned as a plain report on its condition and its main risks.

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You receive

  • A report of 3 to 4 pages, without filler
  • A maintainability rating, with the argument for it
  • The 3 leading technical risks, their likely cost and rough remediation effort
  • What we saw of test coverage and of dependency currency

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An hour of senior engineering attention on your architecture, with the reading done in advance and notes written afterwards.

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You receive

  • Sixty minutes of video call alongside a senior engineer, recorded for you to keep
  • Time spent beforehand going through the material you sent
  • Notes carrying a recommendation and the argument supporting it
  • Each option we weighed, with its trade-off stated

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Applied Software Systems 5 Platform Infrastructure 5 Data and Inference 5 Interaction Research 5 Systems Interchange 5 Security Assurance 5 Verification Engineering 5 Operational Continuity 5

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