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Technical Consulting & Audits
Clear technical answers before you spend on building.
The most expensive software mistakes happen before any code is written: choosing the wrong approach, trusting the wrong estimate, or continuing to fund a project that needs rescue. Independent technical assessment prevents that.
DS Digital offers scoped consulting — audits, feasibility studies, architecture reviews and rescue plans — with written findings you can act on whether or not we do the follow-on work.
Problems we solve
Sound familiar? We can help.
Project gone quiet or sideways
A developer or vendor relationship that stopped delivering.
Big quote, no confidence
A proposal you can't evaluate and a decision you can't defer.
Build vs buy paralysis
Genuine uncertainty about the right technical direction.
Unknown system risks
Nobody can tell you what state your software is really in.
Process
How delivery works.
Brief
Define the question to answer and access available.
Investigate
Code, data, infrastructure and vendor review.
Report
Written findings, options and costs.
Decide
Walkthrough and next-step planning.
Deliverables
What you receive.
Written audit or assessment report
Risk register with severity and cost-to-fix
Architecture and code-quality findings
Build-vs-buy recommendation with reasoning
Prioritised roadmap with estimates
Vendor coordination where agreed
Honest scope limits
- · Consulting answers questions; implementation is quoted separately
- · Findings depend on access provided — limited access means qualified findings
- · We don't do hardware repair, ISP or onsite desktop support
FAQs
Consulting — questions.
Yes — that's a core use case. We assess quality, completeness and risk, and give you a written position you can use in discussions or disputes.
Next step
Need consulting? Let's scope it properly.
Tell us about your situation in plain language. We'll respond with honest next steps and clear pricing.
dsdigitalia@gmail.com · +27 68 624 1493