Business Tech Platform
What tech decisions does a business need to make, and who makes them?
This is the consultant's toolkit for the Platform P — not engineering depth (that lives in Platform), but the business advisor's view of which tech decisions matter, what work chart activities a tech function performs, and how to evaluate readiness.
Workchart
Every business has tech activities — the question is who does them and how much is automated.
| Activity | Human Role | AI Role | AI % | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data footprint audit | Defines what matters | Scans schemas, counts entry points | 60% | ↑ |
| AI integration | Selects use cases, sets governance | Readiness scoring, pilot execution | 45% | ↑↑ |
| Crypto integration | Risk tolerance, compliance decisions | Payment processing, smart contracts | 35% | ↑ |
| Tech stack selection | Trade-off judgment | Benchmarking, compatibility analysis | 30% | ↑ |
| Security and compliance | Policy, accountability | Monitoring, anomaly detection | 55% | ↑ |
The consulting frame: When assessing a client's Platform P, these are the activities to audit. The AI Consulting playbook shows how to run the diagnostic. This section provides the checklists.
IT Systems Management
What decision flow is required to select the best toolkit for each job to be done?
- Buy or Build — sovereignty vs speed for every tool choice
- Prioritise plans
- Forecast benefits
- Limit technical debt
Context
- Platform — Engineering depth for each technology layer
- Buy or Build — Decision matrix: sovereignty × strategic value
- Horizontal SaaS — Best-of-breed tools per job
- Decisions — Decision flow for tech choices
- Data Engineering — How data pipelines, schemas, and repositories are built
- Data Footprint — Commissioning instrument: tables, APIs, UI entry points by maturity state
- AI Data Industry — Players and business models for data as a product
- Work Charts — The framework these activities map to
- AI Consulting — The playbook for selling tech advisory
- Tight Five — Platform is one of the five