Technology strategy
Multi-year platform roadmaps, vendor evaluation and selection, build-vs-buy analysis, and legacy-stack assessment for operating companies navigating a generational systems upgrade.
Licorne Consulting LLC
Technology strategy and integration for mid-market operating companies and family offices.
Licorne is the technology function for companies that need senior technology judgment without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. The person doing the architecture is the person writing the code, evaluating the vendors, defending data-driven decisions in the C-suite, and answering the call when something breaks at 2 AM. Most consulting firms split strategy from execution. Licorne closes that gap.
What we do
Strategy and execution from one senior practitioner.
Integration architecture & vendor diligence
REST and webhook integrations, ETL design, schema modeling that survives vendor changes, and live vendor diligence — schema walkthroughs, latency assessment, hosting and security review — before signing infrastructure contracts.
Salesforce platform development
Custom objects, Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flow, named credentials, scheduled jobs, permission-set design, and deployment hygiene. Backed by real shipped systems, not slideware.
Financial modeling
Multi-year ROI models with named ranges and sensitivity analysis, vendor pricing analysis, peer benchmarking against industry IT-spend ratios, and investment-grade business cases for board or owner approval.
Who we work with
A specific kind of client.
Mid-market operating companies — typically $20M to $500M in revenue — where dedicated technology leadership is premature but ad-hoc IT is already a constraint.
Family offices managing operating-company portfolios where technology decisions cross principals, professional managers, and operating-company leadership.
Family-owned and founder-led businesses where decisions cross technical and personal lines.
Our work concentrates in operations-heavy industries — construction, manufacturing, field services, logistics, healthcare operations — where the value lives in fleet, field, and floor data that legacy systems were not built to surface.
How we engage
Four ways to work together.
01
Discovery and build-out
First 60–90 days at $125/hr while scope is being discovered and trust is being built. All categories of work — strategy, development, modeling, meetings — billed the same. No tier games.
02
Monthly retainer
Once core systems are live, a fixed monthly retainer covers ongoing strategy, light development, integration maintenance, and stakeholder support. Typical scale is 10 to 20 hours per month.
03
Project-based
Fixed-price engagements with written statements of work for defined deliverables — a specific integration, a CRM build, a financial model, an AI pilot.
04
Advisory-only
Short-form engagements of 5 to 15 hours for companies with internal dev capacity who need outside judgment on strategy, vendor selection, or architecture review.
How we're different
Four principles that shape the work.
Same person, both jobs
The strategist and the engineer are the same person. Decisions in one inform the other immediately, without the translation losses of a strategy-then-handoff model.
Senior-only
We move fast because we are small, but every recommendation is calibrated to total cost of ownership and the cost of being wrong over a five-year horizon.
Calibrated honesty
Clients see what we know, what we are still verifying, and where the model is sensitive. Uncertainty is named rather than smoothed.
Discreet by default
We do not list clients publicly, do not publish case studies without explicit permission, and treat NDAs as the start of the relationship, not a hurdle.
Contact
Most engagements begin with a single conversation.
If you are weighing whether outside technology leadership fits your situation, send a short note describing what you are trying to accomplish. We respond within two business days.