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Engineering AdvisoryHealthcare scale-up · Platform rebuild

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.

48 hrs
3 mo
Decision time
ADR + runbook
RFC PR
Doc deliverable
None
Likely
Re-architecture
Payback · 1 month

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.

Head of Platform, healthcare scale-up

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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.