Platform cutover plan in 48 hours
Murmuration Niche Advisory engagement. Two sessions, written architecture doc with Actor/Critic-validated tradeoffs, executable cutover runbook. Cut six weeks of internal RFC-thrash to one written deliverable.
Saved the team from a wasted bare-metal investment they had already partially spec'd.
A healthcare scale-up was three months into an internal RFC trying to decide between a managed K8s platform and a custom build on top of bare metal. The team was deadlocked; deadlines were slipping.
Murmuration Niche Advisory ran a 90-minute Actor session followed by a 60-minute Critic session two days later. Outputs: a written architecture decision record naming the recommended approach (managed K8s with a thin orchestration layer), a tradeoff matrix the team could defend internally, and a runbook for the cutover sequenced by blast radius.
Six weeks of meetings collapsed into a 24-hour written deliverable plus 48 hours of revisions. The team executed against the runbook over the following month with zero re-architecture.
We had been arguing for three months. The Actor/Critic write-up gave us a defensible answer in two days.
Could this be your team?
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute scoping call. We'll walk through the data shape, blast-radius constraints, and which tier of advisory or product fits.