Architecture Review And 90-day Remediation Plan

EU-based Team

For CTOs and VPs of Engineering who suspect the platform is the bottleneck and need a defensible, written second opinion before committing a multi-quarter remediation budget. Fixed-scope, fixed-price, and the deliverable reads well to a board.

Lean in if any of these sound familiar:

• The architecture decision is two quarters away and you want a written second opinion before committing the budget.

• Your team has hypotheses about the bottleneck — database, deploy cadence, integration sprawl, multi-tenant isolation — but no one has time to validate them and write it up.

• Legacy modernization is on the roadmap, but scope and sequencing are unclear and the roadmap keeps winning.

• You're choosing between rewrite, decompose, and rearchitect-in-place and need a defensible recommendation, not a vendor's preference.

• The board wants a plan with timelines and engineer-weeks, not adjectives.

Not the right fit if:

• You're cost-comparing against €25/hr offshore. We don't compete there.

• You want a free workshop. Discovery is paid because the deliverable has to be honest.

• Your stack is outside .NET, Azure, React, Angular, or Flutter.

What you get

A senior engineer reviews your architecture over 10–30 hours, runs interviews and working sessions, and delivers a written remediation plan. Fixed scope, fixed price.

The plan contains:

• Current architecture summary. What's actually in production, where the boundaries are, and where the documentation diverges from reality.

• 3–5 named bottlenecks with evidence. Each is named, located in the system, and supported by what we observed — not pattern-matched from generic advice.

• Recommended remediation sequence. What to do first and next, with rough engineer-weeks per item so the budget conversation is grounded in numbers.

• Risk register. What could go wrong during remediation — production-traffic, data-migration, team-capacity — and which risks the sequence retires first.

Not included

• Implementation work. This is diagnosis, not remediation. Implementation kicks off as a separate engagement.

• Vendor selection or RFP support. Cloud accounts, observability vendors, message brokers — you own those decisions.

• Legal or compliance audit. SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI scope assessments belong with auditors, not us.

• Reorganization of your internal team. Org structure, hiring plans, role design — not in scope.

Pricing & commercial terms

Fixed-scope discovery — €50/hr per engineer, 10–30 hours. One senior engineer, capped at the discovery scope. Total ranges €500–€1,200 depending on system complexity and the number of bottlenecks the review surfaces. Scope and price are agreed in writing before the engagement starts.

If the engagement converts to implementation, the rate is EUR per developer per hour:

• Single Engineer — €70/hr, 160 hrs/month, 1-month minimum. One embedded developer for the shortest commitment.

• Single Engineer — €50/hr, 160 hrs/month, 3-month minimum. The same engineer at a lower rate once the commitment is long enough to be worth it for both sides.

• Full Team — €50/engineer/hr blended, 4-month minimum. Senior, mid, junior, and design/QA as needed, with delivery ownership, at the blended rate.

• Team Long Term — custom, 12-month minimum. The tier where the rate comes down. A year-long commitment lets us tailor the team to your needs at a price you stay comfortable with over the engagement.

• One flat rate. No hidden fees. EU-based, CET timezone, English fluent across the team.

FAQ

Why is the discovery paid?

Because the deliverable has to be honest. A free discovery is a sales call dressed up as a deliverable — the recommendation always lands on "engage us." Charging filters in buyers who want a written plan and lets the engineer write what's true, not what wins the next meeting.

What if the recommendation is "don't engage Symmetria"?

That's a valid outcome. About 60% of our qualification meetings end without a follow-up; the same honesty applies inside the discovery. If the right next step is internal hiring, a different vendor, or no remediation at all, the plan says so.

You're more expensive than offshore.

We don't compete with €25/hr offshore. If that's your benchmark, we're not a fit. The buyers we work with have usually spent a cycle on offshore vendors before they come to us.