Technical consulting forIrish companies
Architecture reviews, code and performance audits, and sequenced modernisation plans — delivered as a written document you can forward, not a call that ends and leaves nothing behind.
Technical Consulting in Ireland
Technical consulting is what an Irish company buys when the decision matters more than the code: whether to rebuild or refactor, where a platform should be hosted, whether an AI feature is a product or a distraction, and what a supplier’s proposal is really committing you to. Blackbyrds Digital delivers architecture reviews, code and performance audits, and sequenced modernisation plans as a written document with a walkthrough call, quoted as a fixed price in euro.
Why here
Why this works for Ireland.
When senior hiring is the binding constraint, the person missing from the room is usually the one who would have asked the hard question before the build started. Plenty of Irish companies have a capable delivery team and no architect, so the decisions that are expensive to reverse get taken in a meeting nobody wrote up: the data model that assumes one country, the hosting region chosen because it was the default, the point-to-point integration built when there were two systems and there are now nine. A review does not take those decisions for you. It puts them on paper with the trade-offs attached, in an order you can act on, and it gives your team something to argue with.
In Ireland a review almost always has a second audience. A recommendation has to survive a group IT function in another country, a customer whose data protection officer reads architecture diagrams for a living, or a board that wants a technical case it can question without a translator. There is also more regulation touching software here than there was five years ago — the GDPR questions Irish buyers already ask well, accessibility obligations that now reach consumer-facing services under the European Accessibility Act, and the EU AI Act’s obligations phasing in for anything shipping with a model inside it. We are engineers, not your lawyers: what a review can do is set out what the system actually does, where the answers would have to come from, and what would have to change if your advisers say it must. A written read travels between all of those rooms. A call does not.
What you get
How the work runs.
A document you can forward
The deliverable is written: what we found, what is solid, what is risky, what we would change and in what order, with the reasoning attached rather than the conclusion alone. You can send it to your board, your group IT function, or your next supplier and have it hold up without us in the room to explain it.
Hosting, data, and retention looked at properly
Where the application runs, where the database and backups sit, what personal data the system genuinely needs, what is being logged, and how long any of it is kept. These are the questions an EU customer or a parent company asks first, and they are far easier to answer when someone has mapped them rather than assumed them.
A sequence, not a rewrite
Almost nothing needs to be rebuilt all at once, and a plan that requires it usually gets abandoned in month three. We write the order — what unblocks what, what can ship alongside the current system, what can wait. Sometimes the honest finding is that the architecture is sound and the constraint is the process, the data, or the roadmap, and we would rather write that than sell you a rebuild.
Consulting FAQ
Common questions.
What do we actually get from a review?
A written document and a walkthrough call, quoted as a fixed price in euro against a scoped question. Depending on what you ask, that covers the architecture, the state of the codebase, performance and delivery bottlenecks, the data and hosting picture, and a prioritised plan. The scope and the timeline are agreed before we start, so you know what lands and when.
Do we have to hire you to build afterwards?
No, and plenty of reviews end with a plan the internal team executes themselves. There is no retainer, and a consulting engagement can be the whole relationship. If the work that follows is not something we are the right studio for, we would rather tell you that in the document than take a build we cannot do well.
Can you advise us on GDPR or the EU AI Act?
We can tell you what your system does — where personal data flows, what is stored and logged, how long it is kept, what a model is being given — and what would have to change to meet a requirement your counsel or DPO sets. We cannot give a legal opinion and will not pretend to; we are engineers and hold no certification or regulatory status. The useful division is that your advisers decide what is required and we make the software match it.