Senior advisors across systems, networks, and software.
Senior Atlas advisors on demand for systems, networking, development, security, and strategy — architecture audits, fractional-CTO retainers, code reviews, cloud migration plans, and the kind of unblocking conversation that saves a quarter.
Atlas Advisory is senior-only consulting across systems, networking, software, security, cloud, data, observability, and strategy. Two-hour discovery blocks. Fixed-scope audits. Fractional CTO retainers. No partner-led, analyst-staffed pyramid. Built every product we recommend.
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Cross-stack reach without the gap between two consultants. Click any practice to see what we audit.
Monolith splits, capacity planning, multi-region.
From a single two-hour conversation to an embedded fractional CTO. Cancel any time. No annual lock.
A senior advisor walks your stack — repo, infrastructure, observability — and ships a written report that scores each layer (compute, network, data, security, dev workflow, observability) with severity-graded findings, remediation steps, and a rough effort estimate. You leave with a roadmap you can actually execute.
Six layers, eight findings per layer, severity-graded with remediation steps and effort estimates. A written report you can hand to the board, the team, or the next engineer who joins — with the actual stack we evaluate spelled out.
Postgres primary in us-east-1a with manual failover only. Last DR exercise measured 47-min RPO against a 5-min stated commitment.
Examples only — Atlas advisors are stack-agnostic and audit whatever you actually run, not just what's listed here.
Eight things on every Advisory engagement — senior leadership, cross-stack reach, continuity, optional Studio handoff, and a 24-hour response — bundled, not metered.
Staff-level engineers and named CTOs on every call from minute one. The advisor on the discovery call is the advisor on the closing call — no analyst layer, no junior shadowing.
Eight practice areas under one roof — systems, network, software, security, cloud, data, observability, and strategy. Cross-stack questions don't fall into the gap between two consultants.
The audit advisor stays on for the project. The project lead stays on for the retainer. Continuity by design — not a new face every quarter.
Audits roll into projects. Projects roll into managed care. Atlas Development engineers are the same people who ship Atlas products — no procurement cycle when strategy needs hands.
Fractional-CTO retainers and advisory hour-pools are month-to-month. Cancel any time, no annual minimum, no buyback fee on unused hours — they roll for 12 months.
A scoped two-hour discovery block is the smallest engagement we run. Bring the diagram and the question; leave with a written recommendation, or with us telling you you don't need consulting.
A senior advisor responds to every brief within 24 hours, including weekends. The discovery block is typically scheduled within the same week.
Atlas runs the hosting, the CDN, the VPN, the network suite, the analytics. When we recommend a pattern, we've shipped it at scale — not from a slide deck.
Two-hour senior-advisor call. Bring the diagram and the question. Leave with a written recommendation, or with us telling you you don't need consulting.
If the answer is bigger than a call: a fixed-scope audit with a written report scoring each layer of your stack, severity-graded findings, and a prioritized roadmap.
Optional. The advisor (or Atlas Development engineers) embed alongside your team for the project — code review, on the PRs, in the standup. Same cadence as Studio sprints.
Optional. A named senior on a fractional-CTO retainer or an advisory hour-pool. Cancel any time — no annual lock, no minimum monthly draw.
Staff-level engineers and named CTOs on the call from minute one — no analyst layer, no junior shadowing the partner. The advisor on the discovery call is the advisor on the closing call.
Atlas runs the hosting, the CDN, the VPN, the network suite, the analytics. When we recommend a pattern, we've shipped it at scale. No theoretical advice from a consulting deck.
Audits roll into projects. Projects roll into managed care. Atlas Development engineers are the same people who ship Atlas products — no procurement cycle in the middle when strategy needs hands.
Two hours, one senior advisor, your hardest open question. We'll either hand back a written recommendation or tell you honestly that you don't need consulting. From there: an audit, a project, a retainer, or radio silence — your call.
Real questions from buyers and integrators — straight answers.
Eight practice areas: systems architecture, networking and edge, software and code review, security, cloud and DevOps, data and database, observability and SRE, and tech strategy. Engagements range from one-off audits to embedded fractional-CTO retainers, and any of them can roll into an Atlas Development implementation if the recommendations need hands.
Software Development builds the thing; Technical Consulting tells you what to build, what to retire, what to audit, and where the wall is going to be. The two practices share staff, so a consulting engagement that needs implementation can hand off cleanly without a sales cycle in the middle.
A two-week engagement: a kickoff call, two days on-site or in your repo, a senior advisor walking your stack, and a written report scoring each layer (compute, network, data, security, observability, dev workflow). Each finding gets a severity, a remediation plan, and a rough effort estimate. You leave with a prioritized roadmap you can actually execute.
Yes — month-to-month, four to twenty hours per week, with a named senior advisor. Use it for hiring decisions, vendor reviews, board reporting, sprint planning, code review, and the kind of unblocking conversation that saves a quarter. Cancel any time; no annual lock-in.
Staff-level engineers and named CTOs as advisors, eight practice areas under one roof (systems, network, software, security, cloud, data, observability, strategy), continuity across engagements, optional handoff to Atlas Development when strategy needs hands, and a 24-hour response SLA. We've also built every product we recommend — patterns come from production, not from a slide deck.
Two-hour discovery block, no retainer commitment. From there: fixed-scope audits (1–2 weeks), short engagements (4–8 weeks), or month-to-month fractional retainers. We'll tell you which shape fits your problem on the discovery call — and if the answer is 'you don't need consulting,' we'll say that too.
