WE SPECIALIZE IN:

  • Technical Due Diligence
    Make sure that you know what you are buying before you invest! We review your investment objectives, perform due diligence on your behalf and create a technical, organizational and product SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) for your review. Should you decide to invest, we can help with the technical strategy development to meet your investment objectives.

  • Advisory Boards
    Need a mentor to your chief technology or product executive? Want to receive on-demand advice for key product or technology decisions? Want quarterly reviews of major product or technology initiatives? Many of our customers retain us to be available when and if they need us.

  • Restructuring Assessment
    Is your technology, operations or business cost structure too high for the current market? Need to find ways to reduce capital expenditures, burn rates or net income impact? Our restructuring assessment will help find efficiencies to reduce cost without significant impact to your availability or throughput or to increase engineering throughput and availability at your current cost structure. We will look at your budgets, past expenses, headcount, processes, current architecture and product roadmap to help you identify how you can do more with less in these difficult times.

  • Board of Directors
    AKF's partners serve on the boards and advisory boards of both private and public companies, providing a wealth of technical, operational, product, positioning, corporate governance, strategy and deal-making experience. Oftentimes, BOD or advisory board membership is the best way for us to provide some of the other services described on this page on an on-going basis.

  • Architecture Evaluation
    Are you worried about a big project or redesign? Is your current architecture giving you significant availability or scalability problems? We will evaluate your high level architecture and suggest appropriate changes to help increase your availability and increase your future scalability. We can be retained for future services and reviews as part of your architecture review process.

  • Technical SWOT Analysis
    Need an outside assessment of your systems ability to scale, its future reliability and its likely future availability? Our SWOT analysis produces a high level report on the likely failure points within your architecture, organization and processes. Shorter than our Strategy Development offering, this is a “3d party view” of your technical strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats without the accompanying forward looking corrective strategy.

  • Strategy Development
    We review your business objectives, analyze your current technology and help create a high level technical strategy focused on shoring up weaknesses and threats in your current platform. The focus is on aligning your technology strategy with your business strategy to meet your high growth needs.

  • Venture Services
    We provide executive advisory services in all areas of business and corporate development, including early-stage financing, market assessment, corporate strategy, key partnerships, revenue initiatives, and executive team-building. Our services range from high-level strategic advice to hands-on assistance, up to and including deal-making and negotiations.