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Whether to leave the cloud — including the answer “don’t”.

What could move out of the cloud, what moving would cost, what it would save, and whether to do it at all. The last question is the one most assessments skip.

Duration2–3 weeksPrice$20,000–25,000CommercialsFixed feeCode & IPYours, on payment

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What you should know before you buy this

We have not yet delivered an on-prem migration. This assessment is advisory by design, and we would rather you read that here than discover it later.

That shapes the product rather than weakening it: the deliverable is analysis, not endorsement. On honest numbers, roughly two-thirds of these assessments should conclude stay and optimise — and an assessment that cannot reach that conclusion is a sales document, not an assessment.

Where the answer is move, we refer execution to a partner with a named, referenceable migration record. You contract them directly, we say so in writing, and we never describe their delivery as our track record.

Recommendations are conditional and state their assumptions and confidence. The scope of reliance is limited in writing, because advice is worth less when nobody will say what it does not cover.

The boundary

What this buys, and what it does not.

Published together, because a promise without its limit is marketing. If your situation is in the right-hand column, we would rather tell you now than in week three.

✓ What this includes

What can move, what cannot, and why — workload by workload
The cost of moving, and the run cost afterwards, both with assumptions stated
The recommendation, including whether to stay
Where the answer is move: a named partner, disclosed to you

✕ What it does not — so we will not promise it

Executing the migration
An endorsement of a decision you have already made
A figure presented without the assumptions that produced it

What you end up with

The deliverables.

A written assessment with assumptions and confidence stated per finding
The recommendation, conditional and reasoned
A modelled cost and saving range — never a single number pretending to certainty

Best fit: Organisations with a cloud bill large enough that the question is being asked in board meetings.

Commercials

What it costs.

Price: $20,000–25,000fixed fee
Agreed: In writingbefore we start
Hourly drift: None

The price is published, and it is the same number whoever is asking — it does not depend on how much we think you will pay. What changes it is you changing the scope, and then we requote before doing the work rather than after.

Not sure this is the right one?

The teardown ranks your own stack and tells you which engagement fits — including telling you to do nothing, where that is the honest answer.

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