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# Consulting - Service Areas (detail, by client type)
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# The detailed services behind the thin overview, organized by the same four
# client types. Grounded in what Cedric has personally built and led (see the
# competency record).
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# Governed by ../LAWS.
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summary: >
  Detailed consulting services, organized by the same four client types as the
  overview. Each expands the short bullets there. What Cedric offers is grounded
  in the competency record, not a claim of specific past client outcomes.


by_client_type:
  - name: "Series B Tech"
    services:
      - name: "Team expansion, dev and product"
        detail: "Hire and structure engineering and product teams fast and efficiently, with onboarding and role design that add real capacity without slowing delivery."
      - name: "Knowledge dissemination"
        detail: "Spread institutional knowledge across a growing team so it is documented and shared rather than locked in a few people, reducing key-person risk."
      - name: "SDLC, project management, and ticketing"
        detail: "Adapt the SDLC, project management, and ticketing to a larger organization, including capex and opex tracking on engineering work."
      - name: "Infrastructure and security hardening"
        detail: "Harden infrastructure and security for scale: access control, reliability, and readiness for SOC-2 and PCI where relevant."
      - name: "Keep, refactor, or rebuild"
        detail: "Assess the codebase and architecture to decide what to keep, refactor, or rebuild, and sequence the work without eroding standards."
      - name: "AI, roadmap, architecture, and due diligence"
        detail: "Set an honest AI posture and a prioritized technical roadmap, own the architecture, and run technical due diligence when needed."

  - name: "Tech Merger and Acquisition"
    services:
      - name: "Pre-deal technical due diligence"
        detail: "Assess the target's codebase, data, architecture, team, and risks before the deal, with the highest-risk items surfaced first."
      - name: "Codebase and architecture Oracle"
        detail: "Capture the target's codebase, data model, and architecture into a structured, queryable Oracle, so the whole system is navigable rather than scattered across a data room, and the client keeps it after the deal."
      - name: "Code review, impact, and blast-radius analysis"
        detail: "Run code review and impact analysis on that Oracle to surface systemic risks and the blast radius of changes, for both due diligence and integration planning."
      - name: "Post-merger systems and data integration"
        detail: "Plan and sequence the integration of merged platforms and data, deciding what to merge, refactor, rebuild, or sunset."
      - name: "Team and organization integration"
        detail: "Assess the combined engineering and product org and propose a structure that places people where they do their best work."
      - name: "Tech-stack consolidation"
        detail: "Converge duplicated tools, services, and vendors across the merged companies without eroding standards."

  - name: "Hospitality Tech"
    services:
      - name: "Technical architecture and roadmap"
        detail: "Design the platform's technical architecture and the roadmap that gets it there, balancing near-term delivery against where the product needs to go."
      - name: "Engineering organization, staffing, and infrastructure"
        detail: "Build and structure the engineering organization, from team design and hiring to the technical infrastructure it runs on."
      - name: "AI and agentic commerce"
        detail: "Bring AI into the product and make its inventory bookable by agents, including MCP enablement and a path toward a GDS for experiences."
      - name: "Solution and feature fit for hospitality requirements"
        detail: "Whether the solution and its features actually meet real hospitality operator requirements."
      - name: "Enterprise hardening for hospitality"
        detail: "Harden the platform to enterprise and hospitality grade, covering security, access control, PCI and SOC-2 readiness, and reliability."
      - name: "Technical due diligence and assessment"
        detail: "An honest assessment of the technology, its architecture, and where it stands, for the company or an investor."

  - name: "Hospitality Group"
    services:
      - name: "Vendor and tech assessment"
        detail: "Assess vendors and technology options from the operator's side, with a clear, decision-ready comparison."
      - name: "Tech scouting and feasibility planning"
        detail: "Scout technology for a need, and plan what is feasible, in what order, and at what cost."
      - name: "Technology roadmap aligned with hospitality"
        detail: "Build a technology roadmap that fits the operator's goals and aligns with where the hospitality space is heading."
      - name: "Vendor onboarding"
        detail: "Onboard a chosen vendor and get the organization ready to adopt it."
      - name: "Solution design and third-party integrations"
        detail: "Design the solution and the third-party integrations it depends on."
      - name: "AI inclusion"
        detail: "Bring AI into the operation where it is a real multiplier."


cross_reference:
  competencies: { $ref: "https://zc8.com/competencies/overview" }


implicit:
  - "These expand the overview's client-type bullets; the overview stays thin and points here for detail."
  - "Client types are the common fits, not rigid boxes; a specific engagement is scoped individually."