Solution
Digital Transformation.
Strategy-to-execution modernization programs that survive both the C-suite slide deck and the engineering reality. Sequenced waves, documented rollback, and the operating cadence that compounds value across phases: not a transformation theater.
- Time to first prod wave
- ≤ 6 mo
- Cutover discipline
- Wave-by-wave
- Cloud cost shape
- −25 to −50%
- Engineering velocity
- 2–4x
The condition
Most digital transformations end as a deck, a budget, and a stalled program.
The pattern across enterprise transformations is consistent: a board-level mandate; a strategy phase that produces frameworks rather than decisions; a technology selection process that runs longer than the build phase; an engineering organization that's been told 'transformation' for so long it's stopped believing it; and a quarterly steering committee that watches dashboards drift sideways for two years before the program is quietly rescoped. The problem isn't ambition or budget: it's the operating discipline between the vision and the cutover.
Prosigns ships digital transformation as a sequence of bounded, deliverable waves rather than as a multi-year theater. We design the modernization roadmap with explicit per-wave outcomes, document rollback for every cutover, and pair the strategy work with the engineering muscle to actually ship it. CORTEX, FORGE, NEXUS, and CITADEL move together; the strategy is engineered into delivery rather than handed off to it.
What success looks like
Outcomes you can track monthly.
Every digital transformation engagement publishes a metrics dashboard at kickoff and updates it monthly. No vanity metrics, no mystery ROI.
- Time to first prod wave
- ≤ 6 mo
- Cutover discipline
- Wave-by-wave
- Cloud cost shape
- −25 to −50%
- Engineering velocity
- 2–4x
Practice mix
4 practices, orchestrated against one outcome.
Solutions are not single-practice engagements. The roles below show how each practice contributes, the same way a delivery plan names owners and acceptance criteria.
- 01
FOUNDATION + SKYWAY
Platform & Cloud
Cloud architecture, DevOps, SRE, migrations, data engineering.
Role here
Owns the cloud architecture, IaC foundations, observability stack, and FinOps cadence the modernization rests on.
Open the practice - 02
FORGE
Custom Software
SaaS, enterprise applications, legacy modernization, integrations, and mobile.
Role here
Owns the application-level modernization: strangler-fig migration, integration redesign, and the operational tooling each wave produces.
Open the practice - 03
CORTEX
AI & Machine Learning
Generative AI, agents, computer vision, predictive analytics, and MLOps, engineered for production.
Role here
Layers AI use cases onto the modernized substrate as it stands up: fraud, decisioning, automation, customer-facing AI calibrated to the workload.
Open the practice - 04
GUARDIAN + CITADEL
Quality & Security
Test automation, performance, accessibility, application security, secure SDLC.
Role here
Owns the compliance frame: SOC 2 / ISO 27001 evidence pipelines, AppSec program build, and the audit-defensible posture procurement actually evaluates.
Open the practice
How we engage
4 phases, orchestrated across practices.
Each phase has named owners across the practices listed above, a shared deliverable, and an acceptance criterion at the program (not the squad) level.
- 01
Diagnose with delivery in mind
4–6 week assessment: workload inventory with disposition, regulatory frame, integration surface, organization capability, and the wave plan that sequences risk reduction. Output is the modernization roadmap: not a slide deck.
- 02
Wave 1: foundation + first workload
Architecture, IaC, identity, observability, and the first modernized workload ship together. Wave 1 proves the substrate works and produces an operating cadence the rest of the program inherits.
- 03
Waves 2–N: workload-by-workload migration
Each wave moves 5–15% of scope with documented rollback and dual-running windows where the data model warrants it. Wave acceptance gates on operational metrics, not just functional tests.
- 04
Operate and compound
Quarterly architectural review against the roadmap, monthly FinOps and posture review, and the operating cadence that turns modernization into recurring practice rather than a project.
Capabilities
What’s in scope.
Capabilities span all the practices contributing to this solution. Out-of-scope items are named in the SOW too.
- Modernization roadmap with workload-by-workload disposition
- Cloud foundation: multi-account topology, IaC, identity, observability
- Strangler-fig application migration with documented rollback per wave
- Integration redesign: APIs, event-driven architecture, iPaaS where appropriate
- Compliance frame: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS evidence pipeline
- AI use cases layered onto the modernized substrate as it stands up
- FinOps cadence and architectural review against the roadmap
- Engineering capability transfer to the customer's permanent team
Industries
Where digital transformation lands.
Most-frequent buyer industries. Each card opens the industry-scoped playbook with sector-specific compliance and operating constraints.
- 01
Financial Services
PCI-DSS, SOX, regional banking compliance built in.
- 02
Healthcare & Life Sciences
HIPAA, HITECH, FHIR-aligned engineering.
- 03
Manufacturing
OT/IT convergence, predictive maintenance, vision systems.
- 04
Retail & E-Commerce
PCI-DSS, consumer privacy, scale-tested architectures.
- 05
Energy & Utilities
NERC CIP-aware, grid analytics, demand forecasting.
- 06
Logistics & Supply Chain
Routing, ETA prediction, exception management.
Selected work
Quantified outcomes, not adjectives.
- 01Manufacturing
−38%
month-end close timeD365 F&O implementation across 7 plants for a global manufacturer.
Replaced two legacy ERPs with D365 F&O across North America and Europe. SOX-compliant financial close, multi-currency consolidation, and integrated EAM. Phased rollout under 14 months, zero unplanned downtime.
14 months
- 02Financial Services
−42%
cloud cost vs prior architectureMulti-account AWS modernization for a US regional bank.
Replaced a single-account hand-managed AWS estate with a multi-account, IaC-backed organization. Centralized identity, transit gateway network, observability stack, and SOC 2-aligned evidence collection.
11 months
Common questions
Asked before the first call.
- 01
Is this consulting or engineering?
Engineering, with consulting as a side-effect. We don't run a strategy phase that hands off to engineering: we run integrated strategy + engineering with the same senior team. The roadmap reflects what we'll actually ship, because we'll actually ship it.
- 02
How is this different from buying a transformation from a Big 4?
Different operating model. Big 4 transformations typically optimize for the hand-off to a delivery partner; we optimize for the substrate that compounds value over the next decade. We staff with senior engineers (G6+) end-to-end, not with a strategy-led team that hands off to lower-tier delivery.
- 03
Can we keep our existing engineering team employed?
Yes: and we recommend it. Most transformations succeed when our engineers are paired with the customer's existing engineers, with explicit knowledge transfer baked into every wave. The customer team owns operations of the modernized substrate at the end of the program.
- 04
What if we're already mid-transformation and stuck?
Common starting point. We do a 4–6 week assessment of where the program actually is (vs where the steering committee thinks it is), identify the architectural debt that's blocking progress, and propose the unstuck path. Sometimes the answer is 'restart wave 1 with a different substrate'; sometimes it's 'finish what's started but rescope waves 4–8'.
- 05
How long do these programs run?
12 months minimum for narrow scope (one major modernization workload, one cloud foundation). 24–36 months for enterprise-scale programs (multi-platform consolidation, regulatory frame migration, AI substrate). We design the cadence so visible value lands in months, not years.
- 06
What does a digital transformation engagement cost?
Diagnose phase: 4–8 weeks, $80K–$250K. Wave 1 (foundation + first workload): 4–9 months, $800K–$3M. Multi-wave enterprise programs: $3M–$15M+ over 18–36 months. Managed Services for ongoing operations: $100K–$500K monthly retainer. Brackets published honestly so visitors self-qualify before the first call.
Talk to us
Bring a digital transformation mandate. We’ll bring a senior engineer.
A senior engineer plus the practice leads who’d staff this program join the first call. No discovery gauntlet, no junior reps.