You didn’t land here because everything’s going smoothly.
You’re probably knee-deep in outdated tech, redundant workflows, and conflicting priorities between IT and leadership. Maybe your CTO’s exhausted. Maybe you’re scaling fast and your systems are wheezing. Or maybe your digital development has been “in progress” for two years with nothing to show.
Pearl Lemon Consulting doesn’t offer you slick taglines or fancy slides. We bring hard technical clarity to technology strategy consulting. No gloss. No nonsense. Just functional decisions, real system performance, and tech choices that serve your business, not slow it down.
Book a quick consult and let’s get into the guts of what’s going wrong.
Our Services
We don’t hand over some polished theory that dies the second you hand it to operations. We stay in the trenches until the problems are solved and the stack performs.
Here’s what we act on and how it fixes what’s broken:
Enterprise Architecture Rebuilds
Your current system might be fast—bu, but it’s a house of cards. If your tech stack has grown without a plan, chances are your microservices are bloated, APIs are overlapping, and your data warehouse is a dumping ground.
We diagnose and restructure enterprise architecture to remove bottlenecks, clean up integration messes, and create an IT backbone that’s modular, scalable, and traceable. Whether you’re running hybrid cloud, on-prem, or SaaS-heavy infrastructure, we untangle the mess.
Result: Clients have reduced service latency by up to 46% and trimmed infrastructure costs by 27% within 6–8 months.
Technology Operating Model Alignment
When tech and business units don’t talk—or worse, talk in different languages—you pay the price. In slow rollouts, rework, and missed revenue.
We align the tech operating model to the business rhythm. That means clarifying product ownership, scrapping outdated delivery cycles, and removing unnecessary approvals. We implement modern delivery frameworks (Agile, DevSecOps, SAFe) that make your team faster and accountable.
Result: A SaaS firm slashed feature time-to-market from 9 weeks to 3.
Software & Platform Rationalisation
Chances are you’re bleeding cash on overlapping SaaS tools, unused licenses, and vanity platforms. And you know it.
We audit your entire stack—license usage, shadow IT, platform redundancy—and rebuild from the ground up. We’ll recommend what to keep, kill, or merge based on usage data, user behavior, and cost-to-value ratios.
Result: We helped one logistics client consolidate 42 tools into 13. Their ops team finally stopped duct-taping five dashboards just to track daily shipments.
Tech Spend & ROI Analysis
You need to stop thinking in “capex vs opex” and start thinking in cost-per-outcome.
We bring forensic accounting to your tech investments—TCO (total cost of ownership), payback periods, ROI tracking by initiative, vendor value contribution. We build dashboards that your CFO and CIO both trust.
Result: Mid-sized retail group reallocated 33% of its IT budget within 60 days of engagement. Revenue per tech dollar increased by 2.3x.
Legacy Modernisation Planning
Old systems aren’t just inefficient—they’re dangerous. Lack of support, integration headaches, manual workarounds, and compliance risk.
We create phased, zero-downtime migration plans using containerisation, cloud-native services, and API-first architecture to replace monoliths with lean, scalable services.
Result: We helped a financial services firm shift 14 core services to AWS Lambda without interrupting customer service.
Cloud Strategy & Cost Control
Cloud isn’t the solution. A smart cloud plan is.
Whether you’re Azure-heavy, AWS-native, or on some Frankenstein hybrid cloud stack, we’ll redesign your deployment model. That means tagging policies, reserved instance strategies, Kubernetes cost control, and eliminating idle compute.
Result: One client reduced their cloud bill by 40% in 4 months without touching performance.
Data Governance and Architecture
If your data’s scattered across 7 departments and no one agrees on the definition of “customer,” your decisions are trash.
We set up governed data lakes, metadata tagging standards, ETL pipelines, and lineage tracking so your data is clean, usable, and trusted.
Result: E-commerce brands saw a 60% increase in decision speed once we unified their data warehouse and cleaned the taxonomy.
Technology Due Diligence for M&A
Buying or merging with a company and haven’t reviewed their tech stack yet? You’re gambling with millions.
We audit their systems for scalability, maintainability, vendor lock-in, and compliance. You’ll know what tech debt you’re inheriting—and what it’ll cost to clean it.
Result: We saved one investment group £1.1M by stopping a deal with a ticking time-bomb codebase.
Why Choose Us?
We write code. We don’t just review slides.
Every member of our team has shipped production systems. We don’t advise from an ivory tower.
We don’t resell platforms.
Our advice isn’t tied to a product quota or partner commission. If we tell you to use it, it’s because it works for you.
We measure everything.
From latency to feature velocity to staff satisfaction. You’ll get the metrics that matter, not the ones that look good in meetings.
You won’t need to hire a second team to understand our work.
Our deliverables are built to execute. Not to impress.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. We specialise in API wrappers and service abstraction layers that make monoliths interoperable without rebuilding from scratch.
Yes. Many clients are in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, defence) where full cloud migration isn’t viable. We work with what you’ve got.
We evaluate workload portability, failover risks, interconnect latency, and vendor SLA terms before recommending any approach.
Yes. We’ll audit your SDLC, ticket cycles, release cadence, and team structures. Then we fix the choke points.
We model current TCO, quantify opportunity costs of existing downtime or manual workflows, and forecast post-upgrade ROI using probabilistic scenarios.
Absolutely. Every engagement includes risk scoring, threat modeling, and compliance mapping (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
Small projects can wrap in 4–6 weeks. Larger strategic reworks may take 3–6 months. We’ll give you a timeline based on scope—no sugar-coating.
Tired of wrestling with broken systems? Let’s Fix What’s Slowing You Down
Book a no-pressure consult, and we’ll walk you through how we’ll make your operation leaner, faster, and actually profitable.
We’re not here to impress you with theory. We’re here to fix the mess.
