Advisory
Fixed-scope assessments and advisory retainers for institutions whose records carry legal or public weight.
Robotiqa is a single-principal practice. Engagements are led and delivered by the principal throughout — there is no team of juniors behind the proposal, and no incentive to extend scope. That constrains volume, which is the intended trade: the work suits institutions that want a senior second opinion on a consequential architectural decision, not a staffing supplement. Each of the offers below derives from published research and comes with a defined deliverable.
Exit-Capability Assessment
The problem. A platform that only one supplier can operate is a sovereignty exposure, not merely a commercial dependency. Most organisations have never priced their exit, and discover the number during a renegotiation — at the worst possible moment, with no leverage.
Who this is for. CIOs, CTOs, procurement and technology risk functions facing a major renewal, a consolidation decision, or a regulator asking about concentration risk.
What you get. An exit-capability register covering the critical platform estate; a measured exit cost per platform rather than an assertion; identification of the dependencies that cannot currently be exited at all; and a remediation roadmap sequenced by exposure.
Agentic AI Governance Readiness
The problem. Agentic AI is arriving in institutions whose records have legal effect, and the governing instinct is either to prohibit it or to permit it informally. Both are failures. What is missing is the machinery that makes graduated adoption defensible to a regulator.
Who this is for. CIOs, CDOs, chief risk officers and regulator-facing governance functions in registries, banks, and public-sector bodies.
What you get. A threat model specific to your record estate; an autonomy ladder defining what a machine may decide at each level and what remains human-gated; a control-plane design; and a guardrail register written to survive audit.
Decision Custody & Records Integrity Review
The problem. Decisions made by automated systems outlive those systems. When the model is retired and the vendor replaced, the decisions remain binding — and frequently no one can reconstruct how they were reached, or confirm that the record still says what it originally said.
Who this is for. Land registries, banks, archives, and any body that is a custodian of authoritative records.
What you get. A decision-custody map identifying where accountability lapses when systems are decommissioned; an assessment of record drift exposure; a reference-standard design; and an isolation-ladder recommendation for the authoritative record.
Architecture Function Diagnostic
The problem. Enterprise architecture functions are easy to staff and hard to evaluate. The useful question is not whether the function produces artefacts, but whether it produces decisions that hold — and whether the rest of the organisation experiences it as an accelerant or a toll booth.
Who this is for. CIOs and technology executives who have an architecture function and are unsure what it is returning.
What you get. An anonymous stakeholder instrument administered across the function's internal customers; a maturity read against a defined model; a 90-day plan; and a repeatable baseline so the same measurement can be taken again in six months.
Engagement models
- Fixed-scope assessment
- A defined question, a defined deliverable, a defined end date.
- Advisory retainer
- A standing senior sounding board for an architecture or governance programme, typically a small number of days per month.
- Board and executive briefing
- A single session on sovereignty, exit-capability, or AI accountability, prepared against your own estate rather than delivered generically.
Fees
Fees are quoted per engagement following an initial conversation, and depend on scope and access rather than headcount.
Not sure which of these fits?
Most engagements begin as an unstructured conversation about a decision that is already on the table. That conversation is free and carries no obligation.