Why Cargill Consulting exists.
The enterprise practice is the formal home for the work I've been doing for two decades — identity, infrastructure, cloud, platform engineering — delivered as an independent specialist rather than as a cog in a bodyshop.
The shape of the practice.
Enterprise IT orgs increasingly want specialist depth without the full-time headcount. A Fortune 1000 insurer doesn't need a "DevOps team" — it needs an Okta SME for six months, an infrastructure architect to chair a UCS modernization, a cloud platform specialist to write the OpenShift landing zone. Cargill Consulting is packaged to drop into exactly those spots.
What you get that you don't get from a bodyshop.
- One architect, not a rotating bench. You talk to me for the whole engagement.
- Hands on the keyboard. I write the runbook. I run the RVTools pull. I build the Terraform module. Architecture without execution is a slide deck.
- Documentation as a first-class deliverable. Most architecture work dies because the knowledge leaves with the consultant. The written artifacts are the point.
- Honest scope. If your problem is smaller than you think, the engagement is smaller. If it's bigger, I'll tell you up front.
Engagement shapes.
Architecture assessment
Two to four weeks. Fixed fee. One deliverable: a written architecture report with prioritized findings and a remediation roadmap.
SME-on-retainer
Standing hours per month. Design review, escalations, working sessions with your team. I sit next to your engineers without the headcount.
Fixed-scope design
A specific deliverable — Okta tenant design, UCS topology, migration runbook. Scoped up front, priced before we start.