Technology Assessment

A complete picture of your technology stack in 21 days.

Every system, every vendor, every contract, and every dollar of technology spend — assessed against your business requirements and prioritized by impact.

21
Days from kickoff
to final readout
6
Areas examined: systems,
vendors, debt, team, spend
3
Deliverables including
board-ready executive summary
Fixed
Price agreed at engagement
start, no hourly billing
How it starts

What the kickoff conversation looks like.

A structured 90-minute call with the right people and a clear pre-work request. By the end, we have what we need to run the full assessment without disrupting your team.

The kickoff brings together your IT lead, one operations stakeholder, and a senior leadership sponsor. Forty-eight hours before, we send a pre-work packet: a system inventory template and a vendor and contract summary request.

The call covers your current state narrative, the top pain points leadership is living with, what has been tried before and why it stalled, and any fixed constraints on timeline or budget.

By the end, we have enough to run the three-week assessment independently. There are typically two to three follow-up interviews in week one, but after that your team’s time commitment drops to near zero until the readout.

Who should be in the kickoff

  • IT director, CTO, or the person who manages vendor relationships
  • An operations or finance lead who feels the day-to-day technology pain
  • A senior leader who owns the budget conversation
What we examine

Six areas, every one assessed.

The Technology Assessment covers the full stack — not just the systems causing problems today, but the ones that will cause problems tomorrow.

01

Systems inventory

Every tool, platform, and integration — named, documented, and assessed against what the business actually needs it to do.

  • Full system inventory by category
  • Integration map: what talks to what
  • Usage vs. licensed capacity
  • Systems approaching end-of-life
02

Vendor & contract risk

Contract terms, renewal windows, and where you have leverage and where you have already lost it. Most organizations find at least one exposed renewal.

  • Contract term and renewal date inventory
  • Pricing benchmarked against market
  • Lock-in risk and exit clause review
  • Vendor concentration and dependency
03

Integration architecture

What breaks when something changes. Manual workarounds, undocumented dependencies, and single points of failure.

  • Integration inventory and health
  • Manual workaround identification
  • Single-point-of-failure mapping
  • API and data flow documentation
04

Technical debt

End-of-life systems, unsupported versions, deferred upgrades, and security exposure. Prioritized by business risk, not IT preference.

  • End-of-life and approaching-EOL systems
  • Unsupported versions and patches
  • Deferred upgrade backlog
  • Security exposure assessment
05

Team capability

Who maintains what, who knows things nobody else knows, and where you are one departure away from a crisis.

  • System ownership by staff member
  • Key-person dependency mapping
  • Documentation quality assessment
  • External vendor dependency review
06

Spend analysis

Total cost of ownership per system, redundancy between tools, and where budget is going without measurable return.

  • TCO per system including staff time
  • Redundant tool identification
  • Spend vs. utilization analysis
  • Consolidation opportunity sizing
How it runs

Three weeks, no disruption.

The assessment runs in parallel to your operations. No systems accessed, no work disrupted.

Week 1

Discovery

Kickoff call, stakeholder interviews, system documentation, vendor contract scan, integration walkthrough.

  • Kickoff call (90 min)
  • 2–3 stakeholder interviews (30 min each)
  • System and vendor inventory review
  • Contract and spend data collection
  • Integration architecture review
Week 2

Analysis

Every system, vendor relationship, and technical debt item scored against business requirements and prioritized by impact, effort, and cost.

  • System-by-system scoring
  • Technical debt risk mapping
  • Spend analysis and redundancy flagging
  • Team capability and key-person risk
  • Roadmap sequencing
Week 3

Readout

Three documents and a 90-minute readout. The executive summary is board-ready from the moment you receive it.

  • All three deliverables delivered
  • Readout call with leadership (90 min)
  • Q&A and next-step discussion
  • 30-day follow-up window included
What you get

Three deliverables, built for how decisions get made.

Not a slide deck. Three working documents, each written for a specific audience and purpose.

01

Executive Summary

Two to four pages, board-ready from delivery. Headline risks, top three recommendations, estimated investment to address them.

  • Top 3 technology risks in plain language
  • Headline recommendations and sequencing
  • Investment range for next steps
  • Suitable for board presentation
02

Technology Findings Report

Full picture for IT and operations leadership. Every system assessed, every vendor evaluated, technical debt mapped by severity and business impact.

  • System-by-system assessment and scoring
  • Vendor and contract risk inventory
  • Integration architecture gaps
  • Technical debt by business risk
  • Spend analysis with redundancy flagged
03

Prioritized Technology Roadmap

Sequenced action plan ordered by impact, effort, and cost. Quick wins in 90 days, 12-month priorities, 3-year horizon items.

  • Actions ranked by impact and effort
  • Quick wins callable in first 90 days
  • 12-month investment priorities
  • Estimated cost range per action
What typically comes up

What organizations discover.

Most organizations recognize at least three of these before the readout call ends.

Systems approaching end-of-life leadership didn’t know about.Two to four systems per assessment are typically within 18 months of vendor end-of-life. The renewal timeline is usually already tighter than comfortable.
At least one vendor renewal where leverage has already been lost.Auto-renewal clauses, missed notice windows, or multi-year lock-ins that happened without leadership awareness. Surfacing these early is the difference between renegotiating and absorbing.
Meaningful technology spend going to tools that duplicate each other.Most organizations have three to five tools in the same functional category, acquired at different times. The redundancy is rarely visible until someone maps the full landscape.
A critical manual process that exists because two systems don’t talk.Usually a spreadsheet, usually maintained by one person, usually critical to operations. These are the integrations that never got built — and the risk nobody is measuring.
Common questions

What organizations ask before starting.

How disruptive is this to our operations? +
Not at all. The assessment runs in parallel. No systems are accessed, no staff seconded. Your team commits roughly two to three hours in week one for interviews, then near zero until the readout.
Do you need credentials or system access? +
No. We work from documentation, system inventories, vendor contracts, and structured stakeholder interviews. No credentials required, no systems accessed directly, no security exposure.
What if we’re mid-implementation right now? +
A mid-implementation assessment is often more valuable. We can validate the plan, identify scope creep early, and give leadership an objective read while there is still time to change course.
How is this different from an IT audit? +
An IT audit is backward-looking and compliance-focused. This assessment is forward-looking: what should you fix, in what order, and what will it cost. Output is a prioritized roadmap, not a compliance report.
Are we expected to hire ARYS for the next phase? +
No. You own the findings. If an ARYS engagement is the logical next step, we say so with scope and price. If your team can handle it internally, we say that too. The assessment stands on its own.

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