Consulting Services

Consulting services for growing businesses.

We help companies of roughly 10–250 employees improve operations, fix broken workflows, choose the right technology, and prepare for practical AI — without enterprise overhead or vendor sales pressure.

Vendor-neutral advice Fixed-scope engagements St. Louis metro & remote nationwide
Recommended first step

Start with a Business Systems Assessment

Most engagements start here. One focused review of how your business actually runs — operations, workflows, technology, bottlenecks, and risks — ending in a prioritized roadmap so you have a plan before you spend on software or change.

All services

Scoped consulting, focused on outcomes you can measure.

Short, practical engagements — not open-ended retainers. Start with an assessment, or come in through the specific challenge you’re facing.

Business Systems Assessment

Our recommended first step — a structured review of operations, workflows, technology, and bottlenecks that ends in a prioritized roadmap.

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CRM Consulting

Choose, evaluate, and plan the rollout of a CRM your team will actually use — selection, implementation planning, and adoption.

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Business Process Improvement

Find where work stalls, gets re-done, or depends on tribal knowledge — and redesign it into repeatable processes.

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Workflow Optimization

Streamline how work moves between people and systems so handoffs stop breaking and nothing falls through the cracks.

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Technology Strategy

A practical plan for which systems to keep, replace, connect, or retire — sequenced so you fix the right things first.

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Operational Modernization

Replace manual, disconnected ways of working with modern systems and processes that scale as the business grows.

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AI Readiness

Cut through the hype. We identify where AI and automation create real leverage for your business — and where they don’t.

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Process Automation Strategy

Pinpoint the repetitive, error-prone work worth automating — and plan the practical steps to do it without disruption.

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Growth Through Technology

Align systems, data, and processes so technology supports your next stage of growth instead of holding it back.

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Fractional Solutions Architecture

Senior systems-and-technology guidance on a part-time basis — the architecture leadership you need without a full-time hire.

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How we work

A practical sequence from clarity to action.

No 80-page deck no one reads. Just a clear path and the decisions that move it forward.

1
Clarify the outcomeWhat does success look like, what’s in the way, and who owns the decisions.
2
Map how work really happensThe workflows, systems, data, and handoffs as they actually run — not the org-chart version.
3
Design the practical pathWhat to fix, automate, replace, connect, or leave alone — across people, process, and technology.
4
Hand you a prioritized planThe highest-impact moves in sequence, with clear next steps you can act on.
Who we serve

Owner-led and executive-led companies, roughly 10–250 people.

We work best with operationally mature businesses feeling the strain of growth — typically $1M–$50M in revenue with limited internal technology leadership.

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Why Applied Architecture Group

Senior-level thinking, scaled to a growing business.

Vendor-neutral

We don’t resell software or take platform commissions. Our only job is recommending what actually fits your business.

Business first, technology second

We start with how the business needs to run, then choose technology to support it — not the other way around.

Built for execution

Years of senior experience, applied at a practical scale. You get a plan you can actually act on, not a theory.

Let’s find the highest-impact place to start.

Tell us what’s slowing the business down. We’ll point you to the right first step — usually a Business Systems Assessment, sometimes a quick conversation.

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