Tech Strategy Consulting. Sorted.

Scrums.com provides AI strategy consulting and tech advisory: digital transformation roadmaps, IT strategy, technical due diligence, DevOps health checks and software audits, by engineers who also build and run the software.

Through the Software Factory Delivery Plan, you get one team, one predictable monthly price and one prioritised backlog. When the advice is done, the same team can start on the roadmap it wrote: custom software, AI, data, QA or DevOps and cloud work.

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48 hours to first workDelivering since 2012Thousands of companies served
“The Scrums.com team often pre-empted and identified solutions and enhancements to our project.”
— CX Expert, Volkswagen

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One plan. Advice, then the build.
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Digital transformation consulting

Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is the planned move from the systems you have to the systems you need. We start with discovery and an honest readiness check, then write a sequenced roadmap with a target architecture and a risk and cost model, before any migration work starts.

  • Align stakeholders on goals and a product roadmap.
  • Check applications and infrastructure before a cloud migration.
  • Plan legacy re-platforming in phases, each with its own value.
  • Find the AI use cases that are worth building first.
IT strategy consulting

IT Strategy Consulting

IT strategy consulting gives you a defensible answer to large technology decisions: what to build, what to buy, what to retire and what to fix first. Each answer comes with trade-offs, costs and a roadmap your team can deliver.

  • Map code, architecture, delivery and team into a costed roadmap.
  • Compare build, SaaS, open-source and platform options on TCO and risk.
  • Get a build or no-build verdict before a full build begins.
Tech advisory services

Tech Advisory

Tech advisory gives investors, boards and engineering leaders an independent, evidence-based view of a software business or platform. Senior engineers combine AI-powered code analysis with expert review, and every finding links to the evidence behind it.

  • Technical due diligence for acquisitions and investments.
  • Health checks on delivery, DevOps and reliability.
  • Independent software quality and cloud security audits.
Featured services

Technical Due Diligence and DevOps Health Checks

Two advisory services that investors and engineering leaders ask for most. Both run as fixed scopes on your Delivery Plan.

Technical due diligence

Technical Due Diligence

Investor-grade technical due diligence on a target codebase and team: AI-powered code analysis plus expert review of architecture, security, scalability and engineering process, delivered as an investor-ready report on deal timelines.

DevOps health checks

DevOps Health Checks

A review of how your teams build, test, release and run software: architecture, CI/CD, QA and observability, plus your incident history, scored against DORA benchmarks and turned into a phased remediation plan.

Case study · Buy-side advisory

LekkeSlaap: buy-side advisory on a South African travel tech acquisition

In October 2026, a South African investor consortium acquired LekkeSlaap, the South African travel tech platform. Scrums.com was one of the advisers to the acquiring consortium.

The deal
A South African investor consortium acquired LekkeSlaap. The founders exited.
The buyers
A consortium co-led by Bellair Road Investment Partners and Janic Capital, alongside the Ferreira Family Office, the Moolman Family Office and Investec.
Buy-side advisers
Werksmans, Deloitte and Scrums.com advised the acquiring consortium.
Sell-side advisers
PSG Capital and ENS advised the sellers.
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How your Software Factory Delivery Plan works

How AI strategy consulting works

  1. 01SubscribeCheck out and onboarding starts immediately.
  2. 02Queue your advisory workPick an assessment scope or describe your question.
  3. 03We start in 48 hoursAccess to your repos, cloud, data room and people.
  4. 04Review, report, actTrack every finding on the Scrums.com Platform.
The Software Factory

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Scrums.com Platform

Track every assessment, finding and recommendation on the Scrums.com Platform

We turn your question into a clear set of reviews and agree the report format before work starts. Follow each review from evidence collection to the final recommendation, with every finding visible. When the advice is done, the roadmap becomes the next items on your backlog.

Scrums.com Platform / delivery board
Requirement6
ARC-021est 24hrs
Scalability review of the booking engine
Architecture3 pts
SEC-014est 24hrs
Cloud security posture review
Security3 pts
OPS-033est 16hrs
DORA metrics from 12 months of deploys
DevOps2 pts
QA-018est 16hrs
Test coverage and release gate review
QA2 pts
Delivering1
STR-007day 3/6
AI-powered code analysis of the core repositoriesStrategy
  • Evidence collected
  • Findings reviewed
  • Report section approved
  • Shared with the deal team
Strategy · advisoryPR #212
Gate
Live38
STR-006✓ live
Team and engineering process interviews
Strategy · just now
ARC-020✓ live
Architecture map of the platform
Architecture · 2d ago
SEC-013✓ live
Dependency and licence scan
Security · 4d ago
STR-005✓ live
Data room access and scope confirmed
Strategy · 6d ago
Illustrative demo with sample data. On the Scrums.com Platform, the board shows your own goals, reviews and reports.
Scope and capacity

What one workstream delivers, for advisory or any software work

Your backlog can hold any number of requests, but the team delivers them one workstream at a time. A workstream is one managed team working on your highest-priority request until it is done, then starting the next. More requests mean more months, not faster delivery. Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity. The same plan covers the build work that the advice recommends, so the roadmap and the delivery share one backlog.

Active at once
One request
Product Discovery Sprint
From 1 week
AI Ideation Workshop
2 weeks
Reports and IP owned by
You

Example: an AI strategy engagement on one workstream

Illustrative
  1. Weeks 1 to 2An AI Ideation Workshop: stakeholders aligned, goals defined and an actionable design and development strategy agreed.
  2. Weeks 3 to 6An Engineering Discovery and Architecture Audit: code, architecture, delivery and team mapped into a prioritised, costed roadmap.
  3. Month 2 onwardsThe roadmap becomes the backlog. The first item, for example a GenAI pilot or a modernization step, starts on the same plan.

A sample advisory programme built from three published scopes. Onboarding starts immediately after checkout, and your delivery owner scopes your own plan with you.

What affects the length of an engagement

  • The questionA build-or-buy decision takes less time than a full transformation roadmap or an investor-grade due diligence report.
  • Systems in scopeEach codebase, platform and cloud account adds review work.
  • Access to evidenceHow quickly we get repositories, cloud consoles, incident history and the people who run them.
  • Deal or board deadlineDue diligence runs on deal time, so the report format and dates are agreed at kickoff.
  • Depth of reviewAI-powered code analysis covers breadth; expert review goes deep where the risk is.
  • Review and approvalsHow quickly your team agrees the findings and signs off each report section.
See the scopes you can queue →
Capabilities

AI strategy consulting services: AI strategy, transformation, IT strategy, due diligence, health checks and audits.

AI strategy and use-case selection

Workshops · use-case audit · data audit · pilots

Find the AI use cases that are worth building, then prove one in production. Facilitated workshops align stakeholders and goals, a use-case and data audit checks what is feasible, and a pilot runs against real usage before you commit to a full build.

When it fitsYou have many AI ideas and need to pick the ones with real value.
Trade-offsA workshop gives direction fast. A pilot costs more but gives evidence from real usage.
How the plan covers it
AI Ideation Workshop
Use-case and data audit
Model selection
GenAI Pilot Build
View the AI Ideation Workshop →
What's included in strategy consulting

Assessments, reports, roadmaps and the build. Managed together.

Every Delivery Plan · Core comes with senior engineering advisers and the tooling around them: AI-powered code analysis, architecture, security and delivery reviews, and reports your board and investors can use, run by one delivery owner.

A team meets around an office table
Delivery managementOne accountable delivery owner.Report format and milestones agreed before work begins.
01AI strategyUse-case selection, data audits and pilots that prove value before a full build
02Transformation roadmapsTarget architecture, phased migration and a risk and cost model
03IT strategyBuild-vs-buy, feasibility and platform decisions with TCO and risk trade-offs
04Technical due diligenceAI-powered code analysis plus expert review, as an investor-ready report
05Health checksDelivery and DevOps health scored against benchmarks, with a remediation plan
06AuditsISO/IEC 25010 software quality, cloud security and UX audits
07EvidenceEvery finding linked to the code, configuration or incident behind it
08Delivery after adviceThe roadmap becomes your backlog, on the same plan
10Report and IP ownershipAll reports, roadmaps, models and any code are yours from day one.
100%

A report is not the finish line.

RemediationThe findings become scoped items on your backlog.
100-day plansAfter a deal, the same team can run the first technology priorities.
Re-assessmentHealth checks repeated to show the change in delivery metrics.
Quarterly reviewsRoadmap reviews every quarter, with knowledge transfer to your team.
Runs on the Scrums.com platform

Every Delivery Plan runs on the Enterprise AI Platform for software engineering.

Your advisers, their AI agents and your delivery data sit on one governed platform. That is what powers your delivery board, the code-analysis agents, and the talent bench behind your plan.

What your advisory team draws on, already part of your planBrowse the full AI catalog →
Engineering talentTalent

Architects, analysts and engineering leads

Solutions architects, business analysts and senior engineers from the Scrums.com bench, matched to your domain.

AI Catalog304 items

Agents, MCPs and models for your review

The code-analysis and review agents that run alongside your advisers, plus the MCP servers they use.

Delivery metricsPlatform

DORA metrics and delivery observability

The delivery data that health checks score against, measured on the Scrums.com Platform from the first sprint.

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A strategy firm writes the report. The plan writes it and builds it.

Technology advice needs architects, security reviewers, DevOps engineers and the people who will act on the findings. Hiring covers them one role at a time. The Delivery Plan covers them in one monthly price.

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RecommendedScrums.com Delivery Plan · Core
In-house strategy hire
Traditional consultancy
Roles covered
Architecture, security, DevOps, QA and delivery
One role per hire
Advisers, often without engineers
Time to start
48 hours to first work
A hiring cycle first
Proposal and contract cycle first
How you pay
Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000 / month, one plan price
Salary, benefits and recruiting fees
Day rates and change requests
After the report
The roadmap moves onto the same backlog
You staff the delivery
A new contract for delivery
Visibility
Every review and finding on the Scrums.com Platform
Your own tooling
Status reports by email
Basis: the figure that the current Scrums.com custom software development page states against US and UK agencies. Advisory work runs on the same plan. It is not a quote for your scope.
What you get

Why companies choose Scrums.com for AI strategy consulting

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Advice from builders

The advisers are engineers who build and run software, so the roadmap is one a team can deliver.

02

Evidence, not opinion

AI-powered code analysis and delivery data back each finding.

03

One monthly price

One plan price for the assessment and the build that follows. Your scope sets the number of months.

04

On deal time

Due diligence reports are agreed in format and date at kickoff, so they fit the deal timeline.

05

Trusted on transactions

Scrums.com advised the acquiring consortium on the LekkeSlaap acquisition in October 2026.

06

Delivering since 2012

Thousands of companies have bought engineering services from Scrums.com.

Customers

Strategy, health check and advisory case studies

Teams are matched to your domain and your question, from payments platforms to transactions.

Engineering and DevOps Health Check for Network International payment platforms, delivered by Scrums.com
Featured health check case study

Network International: a reliability roadmap for four payment platforms

Challenge
A payments group ran four platforms with recurring production incidents, high change failure rates, extended MTTR and fragmented observability.
Platforms and technologies
PayFast, PayGate, SID and DPO payment platforms in South Africa and Kenya, benchmarked on SEOP against DORA and SPACE indicators.
Work delivered
An Engineering and DevOps Health Check: architecture, CI/CD, QA and observability reviews, 12 to 24 months of incidents analysed, and on-site deep-dives in three cities.
Result
One view across four platforms, root causes identified, maturity benchmarks per platform and a phased path toward 99.99% uptime.
Read the Network International case study →
Scopes

Advisory and assessment scopes you can queue

One Delivery Plan · Core covers your development priorities across services. Start with an assessment, then queue the build work it recommends on the same backlog, or describe your own question.

Advisory scopes
0 scopes on your backlog · one active workstream at a timeStart your plan with this backlog →
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AI Ideation Workshop

Facilitated 2-week workshops that align stakeholders, define goals, and produce an actionable design & development strategy.

Advisory ScopeView scope
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Build-vs-Buy Technology Assessment

Compare custom build, SaaS, open-source, and platform options with TCO, risk, and implementation trade-offs. Ends with a defensible recommendation.

Advisory ScopeView scope
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Modernization Roadmap Sprint

A fixed-scope assessment of one legacy system that ends in a sequenced re-platform plan: audited codebase, target architecture, phased migration roadmap, and a risk and cost model.

Advisory ScopeView scope
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Acquisition Tech Diligence

Investor-grade technical due diligence on a target codebase and team: AI-powered code analysis plus expert review of architecture, security, scalability, and engineering process.

Advisory ScopeView scope
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Delivery Health Assessment

Fixed-scope sprint scoring engineering delivery health against world-class benchmarks with a remediation plan.

Advisory ScopeView scope
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Cloud Readiness Assessment

Evaluate applications, infrastructure, dependencies, and operating constraints before a cloud migration. Ends with a readiness verdict and migration roadmap.

Advisory ScopeView scope
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Engineering Discovery & Architecture Audit

Fixed-scope sprint mapping code, architecture, delivery and team into a prioritised, costed roadmap.

Advisory ScopeView scope
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Full-Stack Software Audit

Independent ISO/IEC 25010 assessment of your software's quality, delivered as a formal audit report with prioritised recommendations.

Advisory ScopeView scope
The plan in full

AI strategy consulting pricing

Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000/month for one active workstream. Your question and the systems in scope determine the schedule and total cost. You can use the same subscription for the build work that follows.

Best for companies that need technology advice they can act on: AI strategy, transformation roadmaps, due diligence, health checks and audits.

Delivery Plan · Factory

One plan for your software backlog.

Now $4,500£3,750R79,000/ monthWas $8,000£6,700R140,000
One active workstream. Managed delivery.
Coverage
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Billed monthly · excl. VAT/sales tax · onboarding starts immediately after checkout
Included every month
Delivery owner. One accountable owner runs your advisers, architects and engineers.
One backlog across your development priorities. You set the order; requests are scoped and delivered one workstream at a time.
Visibility. Report format and milestones agreed up front. Reviews and findings live on the Scrums.com Platform.
Ownership. Reports, roadmaps, models and code are yours from day one, with handover included.

Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.

First-month benefits
14DAYS
First-delivery guaranteeThe team builds your first agreed deliverable within 14 days of scope and access being confirmed, or your first month is free.
$500 in AI infrastructure catalog creditsMONTH 1
Annual-plan benefits$10,000 in specialist services
Technical Assessment & Delivery RoadmapWe review your systems, rank your priorities and agree the first deliverable.
CI/CD & Quality Pipeline SetupYour pipelines, environments and quality checks, set up and handed over to you.
You buy monthly delivery capacity, not a fixed project price. Travel for on-site work and other third-party services are billed separately. Full Delivery Plan coverage and terms →
Need more workstreams or a deal-deadline engagement? Talk to Sales →
Day 0Scope and access confirmedOnboarding starts at checkout. You confirm the question and share repos, cloud access and documents.
Within 48 hoursWork startsThe team starts the first review.
Within 14 daysFirst deliverable builtFor example the first report section, agreed in writing.
If it does not shipYour first month is freeYou do not pay for month one.
The first deliverable is agreed in writing before the clock starts. The clock starts when scope and access are confirmed. Applies to the first deliverable on a new plan.Read the full Delivery Plan terms →
FAQ

AI strategy consulting questions, answered

Still deciding? Talk to sales and get a scoped answer for your question.

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