Business Objective
Confirm the goal, owner, constraints, timeline, approvals, and success criteria.
Services
Azure Architecture Services for Teams Moving Work Into Production.
Review architecture, cost, governance, security, ownership, and implementation scope before Azure and AI work expands.
An AI pilot is close to production and needs controls.
Azure spend needs owners, budgets, and cleanup rules.
Identity, networking, data, and security choices need agreement.
Implementation needs approved scope, QA gates, and handoff.
Assessment Scope
Start With the Azure Questions That Affect Approval.
The Assessment reviews the business goal, Azure current state, owners, risks, constraints, and actions your team can use over the next 90 days.
Azure Current State
Review cost, landing zone, identity, security, AI, data, and operations.
Risk and Owner Map
Name the material risks, owners, tradeoffs, and approvals still needed.
90 Day Action Plan
Create actions your team can fund, assign, build, govern, or defer.
Method
Microsoft Guidance, Applied to the Decision in Front of the Team.
RedDogSME reviews Azure and AI work as one production system: business goal, data, identity, network, cost, security, operations, ownership, and implementation scope.
For AI work, the review also checks whether the use case needs an agent, where data is grounded, what the system can do, and where a person must approve action.
Frame adoption, planning, governance, security, and management around the way the team will operate Azure.
Check subscription structure, policy, identity, networking, and shared services against the workload boundary.
Review reliability, security, cost, operational excellence, and performance tradeoffs before build work expands.
Record material decisions that affect cost, security, identity, hosting, AI, data, operations, or future scope.
Services
Choose the Service for the Current Stage.
Start with Assessment when risks, owners, scope, or approvals are unclear. Use Blueprint when architecture needs approval, Build when scope is ready, and Architecture Office or Governance when decisions need regular review.
Azure Architecture Assessment
Teams with rising Azure spend, unclear ownership, landing zone drift, AI readiness questions, security architecture concerns, or implementation work that needs approval.
$15K to $35K
2 to 3 weeks
Architecture Blueprint Sprint
Teams with an approved goal that still need architecture, integration, security, cost, and delivery scope before implementation begins.
$35K to $85K
3 to 6 weeks
Pilot to Production Build
Teams with approved scope that need infrastructure, pipelines, integrations, controls, monitoring, documentation, and handoff.
$75K to $250K
8 to 16 weeks
Architecture Office
Teams that need senior architecture guidance for recurring roadmap, vendor, platform, Azure, AI, and delivery decisions.
$12K to $35K per month
6 to 12 months
Managed AI and Cloud Governance
Teams running production AI or Azure work that needs recurring review of risk, cost, controls, architecture, and roadmap changes.
$8K to $50K per month
Annual retainer
Delivery
How the Work Moves From Assessment to Handoff.
Each engagement starts with the business goal and ends with assigned owners, approved scope, implementation handoff, or a recurring governance review.
- 01AssessClarify the business objective, owners, current state, risks, constraints, use cases, cost, and governance posture.
- 02PrioritizeRank opportunities by value, complexity, risk, cost, feasibility, and approval urgency.
- 03ArchitectDefine target state, security model, cost model, integration path, backlog, assumptions, and implementation scope.
- 04BuildImplement approved infrastructure, integrations, controls, testing, monitoring, documentation, and training.
- 05OperateHand off owners, runbooks, dashboards, governance review, reporting, and future approval decisions.
Start With Azure Architecture Assessment.
Bring the Azure or AI work, timeline, blockers, and approval need. The first call confirms whether Assessment or another service matches the work.