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.
“The Scrums.com team often pre-empted and identified solutions and enhancements to our project.”
Use your plan for strategy and advisory work.
Trusted engineering partner to
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.
- Product Discovery Sprint Structured workshops that align stakeholders, define goals and create a clear product roadmap in as little as 1 week.
- Cloud Readiness Assessment A readiness verdict and migration roadmap before a cloud migration.
- Modernization Roadmap Sprint A sequenced re-platform plan for one legacy system, with a risk and cost model.
- AI Ideation Workshop Facilitated 2-week workshops that produce an actionable design and development strategy.
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.
- Engineering Discovery & Architecture Audit Code, architecture, delivery and team mapped into a prioritised, costed roadmap.
- Build-vs-Buy Technology Assessment TCO, risk and implementation trade-offs, ending with a defensible recommendation.
- Technical Feasibility Assessment A build or no-build verdict backed by evidence.
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.
- Acquisition Tech Diligence Investor-grade technical due diligence on a target codebase and team, as an investor-ready report.
- Delivery Health Assessment Engineering delivery health scored against benchmarks, with a remediation plan.
- Full-Stack Software Audit An independent ISO/IEC 25010 assessment with prioritised recommendations.
- Cloud Security Assessment Risky configurations, exposed assets and control gaps, ranked by exploitability.
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
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
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.
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.
- LekkeSlaap acquired by South African investor consortium in landmark local travel tech deal
- LekkeSlaap founders exit as local investors take over
- South African Travel Tech Platform LekkeSlaap Acquired by Investor Consortium as Founders Exit
The facts above come from the linked articles. The articles open in a new tab.
How your Software Factory Delivery Plan works
How AI strategy consulting works
- 01SubscribeCheck out and onboarding starts immediately.
- 02Queue your advisory workPick an assessment scope or describe your question.
- 03We start in 48 hoursAccess to your repos, cloud, data room and people.
- 04Review, report, actTrack every finding on the Scrums.com Platform.
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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.
- Evidence collected
- Findings reviewed
- Report section approved
- Shared with the deal team
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- Weeks 1 to 2An AI Ideation Workshop: stakeholders aligned, goals defined and an actionable design and development strategy agreed.
- Weeks 3 to 6An Engineering Discovery and Architecture Audit: code, architecture, delivery and team mapped into a prioritised, costed roadmap.
- 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.
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 · pilotsFind 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.
Digital transformation roadmaps
Discovery · cloud readiness · modernizationA sequenced plan to move from the systems you have to the systems you need: product discovery, cloud readiness, and modernization roadmaps with a target architecture, phased migration, and a risk and cost model, before any migration work starts.
IT strategy and architecture
Architecture audit · build vs buy · feasibilityDecisions on what to build, buy or retire. Architecture audits map code, delivery and team into a costed roadmap; build-vs-buy assessments compare custom build, SaaS, open-source and platform options on TCO and risk; feasibility assessments give a build or no-build verdict backed by evidence.
Technical due diligence
AI code analysis · architecture · security · processInvestor-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 and delivery health checks
DORA · CI/CD · observability · incidentsScore engineering delivery against benchmarks and get a remediation plan. For Network International, a Scrums.com Engineering and DevOps Health Check reviewed architecture, CI/CD, QA and observability across four payment platforms and analysed 12 to 24 months of incidents.
Software and security audits
ISO/IEC 25010 · cloud security · UXIndependent audits with formal reports: an ISO/IEC 25010 assessment of software quality with prioritised recommendations, a cloud security assessment ranked by exploitability, and a UX audit with a prioritised remediation list.
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 report is not the finish line.
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.
Architects, analysts and engineering leads
Solutions architects, business analysts and senior engineers from the Scrums.com bench, matched to your domain.
Agents, MCPs and models for your review
The code-analysis and review agents that run alongside your advisers, plus the MCP servers they use.
DORA metrics and delivery observability
The delivery data that health checks score against, measured on the Scrums.com Platform from the first sprint.
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.
Why companies choose Scrums.com for AI strategy consulting
Advice from builders
The advisers are engineers who build and run software, so the roadmap is one a team can deliver.
Evidence, not opinion
AI-powered code analysis and delivery data back each finding.
One monthly price
One plan price for the assessment and the build that follows. Your scope sets the number of months.
On deal time
Due diligence reports are agreed in format and date at kickoff, so they fit the deal timeline.
Trusted on transactions
Scrums.com advised the acquiring consortium on the LekkeSlaap acquisition in October 2026.
Delivering since 2012
Thousands of companies have bought engineering services from Scrums.com.
Strategy, health check and advisory case studies
Teams are matched to your domain and your question, from payments platforms to transactions.

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.
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.
AI Ideation Workshop
Facilitated 2-week workshops that align stakeholders, define goals, and produce an actionable design & development strategy.
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.
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.
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.
Delivery Health Assessment
Fixed-scope sprint scoring engineering delivery health against world-class benchmarks with a remediation plan.
Cloud Readiness Assessment
Evaluate applications, infrastructure, dependencies, and operating constraints before a cloud migration. Ends with a readiness verdict and migration roadmap.
Engineering Discovery & Architecture Audit
Fixed-scope sprint mapping code, architecture, delivery and team into a prioritised, costed roadmap.
Full-Stack Software Audit
Independent ISO/IEC 25010 assessment of your software's quality, delivered as a formal audit report with prioritised recommendations.
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.
One plan for your software backlog.
Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.
AI strategy consulting questions, answered
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Delivery Plan · Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000 a month, excluding VAT or sales tax. That buys one active workstream with a managed advisory team. It is monthly delivery capacity, not a fixed price for a report, so your question and the systems in scope set the number of weeks or months. Travel for on-site work is billed separately.
Evidence: Pricing
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AI strategy consulting helps you decide where AI and software can change your business, and in what order. At Scrums.com it covers AI use-case selection, digital transformation roadmaps, IT strategy decisions such as build or buy, and independent reviews such as technical due diligence, DevOps health checks and software audits. Each engagement ends with a recommendation and a roadmap that a team can deliver.
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The Acquisition Tech Diligence scope is investor-grade technical due diligence on a target codebase and team. It combines AI-powered code analysis with expert review of architecture, security, scalability and engineering process, and it is delivered as an investor-ready report on deal timelines.
Evidence: Security & compliance
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A DevOps health check scores how well a team builds, tests, releases and runs software, and gives a remediation plan. For Network International, the Scrums.com Engineering and DevOps Health Check reviewed architecture, CI/CD, QA and observability across four payment platforms, analysed 12 to 24 months of incidents and set out a phased path toward 99.99% uptime. The Delivery Health Assessment scope scores delivery health against benchmarks.
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IT strategy decides what technology to use, build, buy or retire. Digital transformation is the sequenced change from the systems you have to the systems you need, for example a cloud migration or a legacy re-platform. Scrums.com runs both as scopes on one backlog, so the strategy and the transformation steps share one plan.
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Yes. Delivery Plan · Core covers custom software, AI, data, QA, modernization and DevOps work as well as advisory work. The roadmap becomes items on the same backlog, delivered within your plan’s capacity, one active workstream at a time.
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You do. All reports, roadmaps, models and any code are yours from day one, with handover included.
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The clock starts when you confirm the scope and give access to your repositories, cloud accounts and documents. Within 48 hours the team starts the first review. Within 14 days the team builds your first agreed deliverable, for example the first report section. If it does not, your first month is free.
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48 hours to first work means the team starts within 48 hours of the day scope and access are confirmed. 14 days means the team builds the deliverable named at kickoff within 14 days of that date, or your first month is free. “Thousands of companies” counts organisations that have bought engineering services from Scrums.com since 2012. Scope durations come from the published scope pages. The Network International figures come from its published case study. The LekkeSlaap facts come from the press coverage linked on this page. 40-60% lower cost is the figure that the custom software development page states against US and UK agencies; it is not a quote for your scope.
Evidence: Pricing · Implementation
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