For new systems, major expansions, multi-site rollouts, upgrades and SCADA/MES/ERP integration initiatives — a designed target architecture and a phased path to it, before development accelerates.
An Ignition architecture review is worth most at the beginning, when the decisions are still cheap. It is the right starting point when you are planning:
A designed, documented target architecture and a realistic path to it — written so your team, another integrator, or ours can execute against it.
Internal developers and AI tools are both far more productive against a structure that has already been decided. When tag conventions, application structure, interfaces, security model and deployment approach are settled and written down, the work people produce fits together — and stays fitting together as the system grows.
Without that, speed is the problem. A team moving quickly against an undefined structure builds a system that is fragile in proportion to how fast it was built, and the bill arrives later as rework, instability, and a system nobody wants to touch.
If the system already exists and is broadly working, but you want a senior read before expanding, that is an Ignition System Health Check. If it exists and is in trouble, start with a Project Rescue. Once the path is clear, we can build it or build it alongside your team.
Usually yes, and it is cheapest at exactly that point. Most of what a blueprint saves you is not the design itself — it is the six months of development done against a structure that turns out to be wrong for where the system ends up. If your plan is already sound, the blueprint confirms it and hands you the documentation.
No. It is a standalone fixed-fee engagement and the deliverables are yours. A blueprint is deliberately written so your own developers, or another integrator, can execute it.
Both work far better against a defined structure than against an open question. When tag conventions, application structure, interfaces and deployment approach are already decided and written down, developers and AI assistants alike produce work that fits together instead of work that has to be reconciled later.
Yes — upgrades and migrations are one of the most common reasons to run a blueprint, because they are a rare opportunity to fix structural decisions that are otherwise expensive to revisit. The blueprint covers current state, target state, and the sequencing to get between them without a long outage.
Fixed fee, quoted after a short fit call. Duration depends on the number of sites and systems in scope; we will give you a real schedule on that call rather than a placeholder.
Twenty minutes on the phone with an engineer. Tell us what you're planning to build, and we'll scope the blueprint around it.
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