IT strategy consulting that ends in a 12-month roadmap

When is a strategy consultation worth paying for?

Usually just before a large spend. You are about to commission an ERP, a CRM or a custom app, or you already run several tools that don’t talk to each other and someone has proposed one more. At that point the questions are which problem to solve first, whether to buy software or build it, and what the whole plan will cost over a year.

The consultation is built around that decision. Two sessions map what you run today, test the options against your budget and your team, and leave you with a written plan that an owner, a partner or a vendor can read. If the honest answer is to buy an existing product rather than build one, the recommendation says so.

What do you walk away with?

The current-state audit comes first: which systems you run, which one holds the record for customers, stock or money, and where the same data is typed twice. From that, each need gets a build-or-buy recommendation with the reasoning written down, and the target architecture diagram shows how the pieces should fit together once the work is done.

The 12-month roadmap puts that work in order, because order matters: a CRM rolled out before the customer data is cleaned carries the mess into the new system. Alongside it sit a budget and team shape — what the plan is likely to cost and which roles it needs, in-house or outside — and a risk register that pairs each risk with a mitigation.

What is not included?

The consultation produces a plan, not software. Nothing is built, configured or migrated in the two sessions, and the budget in the roadmap is a planning figure rather than a quote: any build that follows is priced separately, in its own fixed written proposal. It is also not a code review. The current-state audit looks at your systems and how they connect, not at the quality of the code inside them.

If you are buying a company or inheriting a codebase and need the code itself examined, Technical Due Diligence (₹23,000, up to 7 days) is the package for it, covering architecture, code quality, tests and security red flags. If your problem is numbers that already disagree between systems, the Drift Audit (₹49,000, 2–3 weeks) traces where your records stop matching.

How is this different from Managed Support & Growth?

Strategy is a one-off engagement that looks forward: two sessions, a written plan, and then you decide what happens next. Managed Support & Growth (from ₹14,000) has the opposite shape — the founder on retained, agreed hours, fixing, patching and improving something already live, with a roadmap review and demo every month. If you already know what needs doing and want hands on an existing system, start there instead.