The roadmap, the team and the budget, before a single engineer is hired.
A senior Solution Architect spends two to four weeks inside your business and returns with a 1–2 year IT roadmap, a full team structure, the technical approach and a locked budget. Execute it with Webist, or with your own hires.
Seven documents your board, your CFO and your engineers can all act on.
IT roadmap (1–2 years)
Quarter-by-quarter sequence of initiatives, dependencies and decision points, tied to the business goals gathered in discovery.
Team structure
Every role, its capability slot, its reporting line and the month it is needed. The org chart your recruitment is built from.
Architecture decisions
Target architecture, stack recommendation and the reasoning behind each choice, recorded as decision records that survive staff changes.
Milestone plan
Deliverables by milestone, with acceptance criteria and the KPIs the team will be managed to from week one.
Budget model
People, licences, cloud and one-off costs, month by month. Locked at sign-off so there are no surprises later.
Risk register
Technical, security, vendor and people risks, each with an owner and a mitigation already scheduled into the roadmap.
Security and compliance baseline
Where your industry's obligations bite (regulator technology policies, data residency, audit trails) and how the architecture satisfies them.
Inside your business, not in a slide deck.
The Solution Architect works alongside your leadership, your existing IT staff and your key vendors. Interviews are short and structured. Existing documentation is read rather than re-requested. Where systems are undocumented, we document them as we go, and that documentation stays with you.
Decisions are made with you in the room. By the end of week three you have seen every recommendation at least once, so the sign-off review in week four is a confirmation rather than a reveal.
- Who leadsA Webist Solution Architect with 10+ years in your sector, supported by a Cybersecurity Engineer and a DevOps Engineer for infrastructure and security baselines.
- Your timeRoughly six to eight hours of leadership time over four weeks, plus access to system owners.
- OwnershipAll documents are yours. Use them with Webist, with another vendor or with your own hires.
- Next stepApprove the roadmap and the engineering team is mobilized within 30 days.
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