solutions architect · au, nz, uk, ie & fr

Bring me the problem.
Keep the system.

11am.prosolutions architect · sydneyscroll

Approach

[A]01 · build it · four things that run through everything
01
Own it, don’t rent it.

One system you keep, on your own data, in place of six subscriptions you can never leave.

02
Privacy & IP first.

Not a compliance checkbox on top. It’s how the thing is designed, and nothing walks out with a vendor.

03
AI in its place.

It goes in where it earns its place and stays out where it doesn’t. Often that means very little, or none.

04
Honest about what’s built.

I tell you plainly what’s done and tested versus what isn’t. A system you run your business on is no place for hopeful marketing.

Pricing

[P]05 · solve it · three ways to work. you pick what fits.

Transparent, fixed pricing, no lock-in, and you own the system at the end. Priced fairly for custom work, a fraction of agency cost.

solve it · solutions architect · australia, new zealand, uk, ireland & france

Your rented software charges you every month to do work you could own outright. For the first time, a business can build its own software around its own processes, on its own data, instead of bending how it works to fit someone else’s product. That was always the SaaS promise, and it never quite landed. With the right open-source tools and AI, it finally can. Most businesses pay per seat, per month, for six tools that barely talk to each other. I replace all of it with one system built for how you actually work, that no vendor can switch off or price up. Automation and architecture are the craft, and AI comes in only where it earns its place, often very little of it, or none.

Surfaces

[S]02 · own it · one method, many surfaces

Most companies are already sitting on tools that could solve half their problems, they just were never shown how to point them at their own work. That is most of what I do. I diagnose the real problem, design the system that fixes it, build it, and hand it over for your team to run, or stay on for support. No lock-in either way. What ties it together is that you keep what I build. It lands on whichever of these it needs to:

Business analysis[S]2.1
find the real problem before building anything
Internal operations[S]2.2
streamlined: the repeatable parts of a business, turned into tools
App & web[S]2.3
development: owned platforms, tools and interfaces
Data & reporting[S]2.4
one owned reporting layer, no rented licence
Executive systems[S]2.5
the repeatable parts of a founder’s week, systematised
Brand systems[S]2.6
& guidelines: considered systems, not one-off campaigns
Open-source refit[S]2.7
tools you already have access to, reworked to fit how you actually work

Readiness

[R]04 · keep it · curious what you could own? find out in two minutes.

Answer a few questions about the tools you pay for and the jobs they do. You get a straight read on where you are, what you could bring in-house, and roughly what that changes. No call required, no pitch you didn’t ask for. If it looks like there’s something worth building, I’ll come back with options.

Built to be genuinely useful whether or not we ever work together.

Contact

[C]06 · build it · bring me the problem. keep the system.

liam@11am.pro

A process held together by too many subscriptions, a report that takes half a day by hand, or a system you wish existed. That’s the conversation.