Independent technology second opinion
About to sign a technology project worth over €200K? First, have it read by someone who gains nothing if you sign.
In five business days we tell you what the proposal leaves out, what it will cost that is not in the budget, and whether to sign: go, go with conditions, or no.
Illustrative. In on Monday, out on Friday.
Go, go with conditions, or no The recommendation is ours. The decision is always yours.
Three moments when a second opinion changes the outcome.
A bad technology investment eats a year of margin. And the moment to avoid it is before you sign, not on the third invoice.
Every vendor recommends its own product. What is missing at the table is an independent opinion, with no vendor behind it.
Your board asks about AI, cybersecurity or cloud, and expects a clear position, with numbers, that can be defended.
If any of these sounds like you, start here.
Get a second opinionNot just an advisor. Three proprietary systems and a senior advisor who signs.
That is why a review that takes weeks at a consultancy is delivered in five business days. We sell the timeline, not the effort.
MCouncil
18+ disciplines (finance, operations, risk, people, legal) read the same decision in minutes. Your identity never reaches the model.
ServiceIQ
It sizes the project or service according to best practice, adapted to your case (scope, phases and service model), and compares it with what you have been offered: which profiles the team is missing or does not need, and whether the rates are at market. €1,400 a day for a senior architect in Madrid? Market price, aggressive discount or inflated margin.
SLVD, when the decision touches SAP
Without going into your system, it assesses whether you are using the SAP functionality you already have and identifies quick wins that make economic or strategic sense, before approving more licences or modules.
The instruments do not decide, and neither do we: the advisor calibrates the output against your reality and signs a recommendation. The decision is always yours.
Four answers the vendor will not give you.
A 6 to 10 page position paper written for the person who signs, and a 45-minute meeting to walk through it and prepare the conversation with the board or the vendor.
Day 1: 60-minute kickoff with the people involved. Days 2 to 4: analysis with the instruments. Day 5: paper and recommendation.
What the proposal leaves out
You sign knowing what the vendor has not told you.
What it will cost that is not in the budget
You know the total cost before approving it, not on the third invoice.
The three questions for the vendor
You walk into the negotiation with the initiative, not on the back foot.
The recommendation
Go, go with conditions, or no, with its reasoning.
Independence
Yes, we also build AI systems. That is why what we review for you, we never build ourselves.The firewall rule
No agreements or commissions with vendors, integrators or cloud providers. There are excellent integrators out there; the problem is not their quality, it is that they recommend what they implement. How the firewall works.
What a Second Opinion costs.
The proposals we review run from €200K to €2M. A single badly bounded assumption is worth more than the review.
Who it is for. And who it is not for.
We would rather say no in the 30-minute call than deliver something you do not need.
It is for you if
You have a proposal, a budget or a contract on the table and a signing date. The amount sits between €200K and €2M. You are the person who signs, or the one who has to defend the signature to the board, a partner or the CFO. And you suspect the vendor is telling you half the story.
It is not for you if
You are looking for someone to deliver the project we review: what we review, we never implement. You do not have a concrete decision yet, just a general concern about technology: that is what strategic advisory is for. Or you want someone to sign for you: the recommendation is ours, the decision is always yours.
One technology decision a week, and how to evaluate it.
Every week, a decision a leadership team has on the table (an ERP, an AI pilot, a cybersecurity contract) and the questions worth asking before signing it. Three minutes to read.
Two pillars. Never mixed.
If what you need is not one concrete decision but something broader, we work in six other ways.
Independent advisory
No agreements with any vendor. To decide what to do with technology and defend it in front of the board.
AI implementation
AI systems and agents designed, deployed and operated by us, with the business case closed before we build and a fixed price per project.
And our own software: NeuralPitch and SmartHunt by subscription, JCA Studio in early access. See the products · See the seven services
Strategic ideas, written for SMB leaders.
Short reads. Sharp angles. Zero filler. Written for the people who decide.