Strategic Consultancy
Align your technology decisions with your business reality.
Bad technology decisions are expensive, not just the upfront cost, but the years of maintenance, the team you need to support the choice, and the opportunity cost of being locked into the wrong platform. We provide clear-headed technology strategy for African businesses: helping you decide what to build, what to buy, what to integrate, and what to avoid. Our advice is grounded in what actually works in the African market, not what looks impressive in a vendor's pitch deck.
What's Included
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Technology Strategy & Roadmapping
We help you develop a multi-year technology roadmap that maps to your business objectives,...
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Build vs. Buy Analysis
Should you build custom software or buy an off-the-shelf product? We analyse the total cos...
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Vendor & Technology Evaluation
We run structured evaluation processes for software vendors: defining requirements, runnin...
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Digital Transformation Planning
For organisations moving from manual or legacy processes to digital workflows, we design t...
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Technical Due Diligence
Acquiring a company or investing in a startup? We conduct technical due diligence on the t...
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What We Do
Everything included in our Strategic Consultancy service.
Technology Strategy & Roadmapping
We help you develop a multi-year technology roadmap that maps to your business objectives, identifying which systems to invest in, which to retire, and which to leave alone. This is the document that stops your team making expensive ad-hoc decisions.
Build vs. Buy Analysis
Should you build custom software or buy an off-the-shelf product? We analyse the total cost of ownership, the fit to your specific requirements, and the strategic risk of each option, giving you a reasoned recommendation, not a default answer.
Vendor & Technology Evaluation
We run structured evaluation processes for software vendors: defining requirements, running RFPs, scoring responses, conducting technical due diligence, and protecting you from common vendor lock-in traps. This applies to ERPs, CRMs, cloud providers, and specialised SaaS tools.
Digital Transformation Planning
For organisations moving from manual or legacy processes to digital workflows, we design transformation programmes that are achievable rather than aspirational, with clear phases, measurable milestones, and realistic budgets.
Technical Due Diligence
Acquiring a company or investing in a startup? We conduct technical due diligence on the target's codebase, infrastructure, security posture, and technical debt. We give investors and acquirers an honest picture of what they're buying.
Team & Process Assessment
We assess your existing engineering team's capabilities, processes, and culture, identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and risks. We recommend specific interventions: training, new tooling, process changes, or additional hires.
Why Afriq Silicon
What makes our Strategic Consultancy service different.
We operate in the same market you do
Our strategic advice is shaped by real experience building and operating software in Kenya and across Africa. We know which cloud regions have acceptable latency, which payment gateways are reliable, and which technology choices will leave you stranded when you need local support.
We have no platform agenda
Unlike consultancies affiliated with specific vendors or cloud providers, we have no incentive to recommend one platform over another. Our only interest is giving you advice that leads to good outcomes for your organisation.
We deliver recommendations you can act on
We don't produce 200-page strategy reports that sit unread. Our deliverables are concise, specific, and directly connected to decisions your team needs to make. Every engagement ends with clear next steps and a realistic implementation plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about our Strategic Consultancy service.
We have an internal IT team. Do we still need external consultancy?
How do you charge for consultancy engagements?
Can you help us write a technology RFP?
Do you implement the strategies you recommend?
Related Projects
Real work we have done in this service area.
Further Reading
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