End-of-life calls, in the right order.
What to retire, when, and how to carry the value forward — without breaking the customers still on it.
What this is for.
Retirement is the least glamorous work in the portfolio and often the most valuable. Legacy products and platforms rarely die of natural causes; they persist because the dependency map is unclear, the migration is unowned, and no one wants to be the person who broke something.
Sequence is everything. Retire in the wrong order and you strand customers, orphan revenue, or find that the thing you switched off was quietly holding up three others.
The signs you’d recognise.
How it runs.
Built with your team throughout — never delivered to them, never taking the thinking off their hands.
Two ways through the door.
A coffee catch-up.
An unhurried conversation — in person in Auckland, or over a call. We talk through the decision you’re weighing, how we’d work together, and whether there’s a fit. No scope to sign, no slides to sit through.
The Alignment Discovery.
A two-week joint undertaking, built around the specific decision you’re weighing. No pre-packaged verdict, no off-the-shelf framework — we work the problem with your leadership team, map the dependencies, name the standoffs, and sequence the path forward.
Where it connects.
Rationalise clears the ground that Strategise made a call on, and frees the capacity Optimise is trying to protect.
None of these run in isolation — the work that matters usually sits in the coupling between them.
Engagements start with a coffee, not a contract.
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