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Notes from inside the migration.
Not a content programme. These are the arguments we end up making on the third call with a client, written down once so we can send a link instead. Every figure is a published list price with the date we checked it, or an infrastructure estimate with the assumptions written out.
- Sep 3, 20266 min readConseiltek engineering
What a Forward Deployed Engineer does in week one
No discovery phase, no ninety-page current-state document, no workshop with sticky notes. Here is what the first five days look like from the inside, and what should be true by Friday afternoon.
Forward deployedDeliveryHow we workRead → - Aug 27, 20266 min readConseiltek engineering
The parity trap: why feature-matching a SaaS product is the wrong goal
A pricing page is a list of every reason someone once said no. Building against it is how an eight-week replacement becomes an eighteen-month one. Measure what is used, not what is listed.
MethodScopingParityRead → - Aug 19, 20266 min readConseiltek engineering
Opsgenie is being switched off. Here is how to think about forced migrations.
Atlassian ended sale of Opsgenie on 4 June 2025 and ends support on 5 April 2027. Nobody standing on it chose to migrate. That is the entire lesson, and it is worth more than the migration guide.
Vendor riskOn-callOpsgeniePagerDutyRead → - Aug 11, 20266 min readConseiltek engineering
What a 400-seat Monday.com contract actually costs
The list price is the smallest number in the conversation. Here is the whole arithmetic on a 400-seat Work Management Pro contract, the viewer-seat trap that quietly doubles the real cost, what the replacement runs at, and the seat count below which you should not bother.
Cost modelWork managementMonday.comRead →
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Every one of these started as a client conversation.
If the arithmetic in these notes looks like your arithmetic, the two-week assessment is the version with your own numbers in it. Fixed price, and you keep the report whether or not you engage us.