ARCHITECTURE ENGAGEMENT · PER DAY · €800 EXCL. VAT / DAY

Architecture engagement

This is no longer about verifying or protecting, but about deciding: which boundaries, which data, which dependencies, and who answers for what.

Who it is for

Founder or director committing several months of development to structural choices, and who would rather write them down beforehand than discover them afterwards.

Leading and building

A hands-on technical director: I make the decisions, and I build them. With your team when you have one, alone when the product has yet to grow one. There is nobody between the decision and the code, so nothing is lost in between.

Ce que je fais

I design the architecture and I answer for it — including for what the AI produced under my responsibility. I work in your tools, with your team where there is one. The decisions that cannot be undone are taken in the open, while they can still be undone.

What you receive

  • The decisions written down, with what they cost and what they close off
  • The code, where I write it
  • What it takes to carry on without me: the written decisions and — where there is a team — the fact that it watched them being taken

The scope

An architecture engagement comes with a mandate to decide: that is what distinguishes it from being made available by the day, and it is not negotiable. It also produces code — I build what I decide — and it ends with what someone else needs in order to take it over.

Après

The apparatus and the decisions belong to your team. A successful architecture engagement is one that ends.

The questions I get asked

Are you replacing a CTO?

I do a CTO’s architecture work — the structural decisions, the separations between parts of the system, what is verified by machine — alongside whoever holds the team day to day. Management, hiring and representation stay with you.

What is in the mandate, and what is outside it?

Inside the mandate: the structural decisions, the rules your system must guarantee, how they are made verifiable, and deciding what gets built before what. Outside the mandate: days of execution. An architecture engagement billed for doing a developer’s work is no longer an architecture engagement. The rhythm is set with you, over a duration agreed in advance; the rate is the same whatever the volume.

How is travel billed?

€800 per day, excluding VAT, billed per day worked. Travel expenses in addition where they are requested.