Technical architecture

Service offerings

Use the links below to compare typical scope across our service areas, then contact us when you want to go deeper.

What we cover

We help you see the whole system: how catalogues, bidding, payments, search, and operations hang together, where coupling hurts velocity, and what to change first for the risk you can accept.

Engagements typically blend discovery (current state, constraints, and hotspots), target architecture (services, data, integrations, hosting), and delivery sequencing so product and engineering stay aligned. We are comfortable across common stacks and cloud providers and have deep context in high-traffic auction and ecommerce journeys.

Whether you are extending an existing platform, absorbing an acquisition, or planning a phased move from a monolith toward services, we focus on decisions that reduce operational surprise and protect revenue paths.

Consultancy offerings

Typical ways we engage on architecture: informed by long-term auction, marketplace, and platform work, including how B2B and B2C flows differ and how buyer-side and seller-side marketplace capabilities have to stay coherent: always scoped to your outcomes rather than a generic blueprint.

• Multi-marketplace and consolidation architecture. Stress-test integration patterns, regional and multi-stack reality, and a consolidation roadmap your product and engineering leads can own: guided by what works when many marketplaces and territories have to move together.
• 24/7 ecommerce and marketplace evolution. Advise on phased moves from monolith toward services without freezing the business: scale, security, release cadence, and decomposition boundaries that match your risk appetite: with explicit attention to how buyer journeys (discovery, trust, bidding or cart, checkout) and seller or operator journeys (catalogue, inventory, fulfilment, payouts, support tooling) share or split data and services.
• B2B, B2C, buyer, and seller surfaces. Help you draw the right boundaries when B2B paths (accounts, approvals, contracted pricing, invoicing) diverge from B2C self-serve volume: so identity, catalogue, checkout, and post-sale flows stay consistent for buyers while seller tools and integrations remain maintainable.
• Growth, performance, and reliability. Partner on architecture choices when traffic and revenue are climbing: performance, availability, cloud layout, and clear ownership so teams can ship safely.
• Data platforms and commercial APIs. Help shape data-platform direction and API surface design so internal teams and external consumers stay on supported, evolvable contracts.

Who you will work with

You will work with Antony Kelly together with experienced architects in the domains your engagement requires: Chief Architect and lead-architect depth across auction marketplaces and ecommerce at scale. For more background and recent focus areas, see Antony on LinkedIn.