Independent technical review

IT suppliers’ proposals and delivered work, checked before You sign or pay

You are being asked to approve work You have no way of checking.

I am Lukas Babiedas. When an IT supplier sends You a proposal to sign, or tells You a milestone is finished, I check what sits underneath it: the scope, the system, the data, the test results. You get a written conclusion with my name on it.

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Scope, fee and deliverable are agreed at the outset.

Lukas Babiedas, seated, in a dark double-breasted suit, looking directly at the camera.

More than a decade: in data engineering, architecture and delivery.
Seven years: preparing scopes and estimates from the consultancy’s side of the table.
One person: No supplier commissions. I do not hold the build contract for work I review for You.

When this is worth buying

You have a specific decision: sign a proposal, accept a milestone, approve a release or decide whether to keep funding delivery.
A deadline, and a real cost to getting it wrong.
You can involve the person who approves the engagement and arrange access to the relevant documents, systems and people. Without that access I can read what the supplier has written about the work, which is a different thing from the work, and the conclusion has to be narrowed to say so.
You need an independent conclusion, including one that says the evidence is insufficient.

I do not evaluate individuals’ performance or provide legal opinion or security assurance. If the question needs someone else, I’ll say so.

Remote-first, with any on-site days named in the scope. Working across the Nordics, Europe and the Gulf.

Two ways to start

Before You sign

The Estimate Read

A two-day review of a supplier’s proposal before You sign it

2 working days · €4,900 excl. VAT

Find out what a supplier’s proposal commits Them to deliver, what it assumes You will provide, and which assumptions could change the price.

The two working days begin on the agreed start date, after clarification and receipt of the required documents.

You get: a written review of the proposal and scope, the unstated assumptions that matter, and draft acceptance criteria for each milestone.

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Before You accept

Independent Acceptance

A check that a finished milestone meets the criteria You agreed

Fixed fee, quoted by milestone value

A supplier says the milestone is complete. I examine the raw evidence, watch the tests and provide a signed opinion: pass, pass with named conditions, or not yet. If the evidence is insufficient, I say what is missing.

You get: the opinion, its supporting evidence and any conditions needed before I could recommend acceptance. You make the approval decision; the opinion’s contractual role must be established before the engagement.

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Fees exclude VAT. VAT is added where applicable; the treatment is confirmed in Your quote.

Delivery stalled, a build in progress, or ongoing oversight needed? The full list includes the Layer Test, Build Review, Embedded Delivery Assurance and Owner-Side Observer.

Compare all six engagements See an illustrative report excerpt

The data arrived. The measurements did not.

An energy technology company in the Gulf hired me to build an analytics layer and a competitive paper for its building-energy monitoring platform.

The pilot data showed 89.4% interval coverage. But all 6.3 million active and reactive energy readings were 0.000. A completeness check showed that data was arriving; it did not show that the data contained usable measurements.

I recommended building neither deliverable. Work stopped after validation, and I lost three of the four stages I had been engaged for.

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A conclusion You can act on

Acceptance review of an order-processing integration. This illustrates the report format; it is not a client engagement.

Conclusion

Acceptance is not yet supported. The agreed criterion, recovery without lost or duplicate orders, remains unproven.

Evidence

The supplier’s functional tests pass. Operational rehearsal logs show orders acknowledged before the destination confirms receipt. The evidence pack contains no reconciliation after restart, so passing tests do not establish end-to-end recovery.

Conditions for acceptance

Repeat the interruption-and-recovery test under a representative workload. Reconcile source and destination order IDs to demonstrate that every order arrives exactly once, and retain the raw results against the agreed criterion.

Limits

The available evidence does not establish whether any orders were lost or duplicated. This opinion covers the recovery criterion only; other acceptance criteria have not been assessed.

A report sets out the conclusion, the evidence, what could not be established and any conditions needed to change the conclusion. The evidence ledger lets a later reviewer retrace the work.

How the work runs

The acceptance decision stays Yours.

I provide a signed technical opinion on whether the milestone meets the agreed criteria.

If the contract gives the opinion no effect, I say so while we are still scoping.

How Independent Acceptance works

Independence is a matter of structure.

No build conflict. I do not hold the build contract for anything I judge for You.
No supplier commissions. No fee depends on whether I find a problem.
A conclusion needs evidence. Documents can establish what was promised; establishing how a system behaves requires primary evidence.
“Unable to conclude” is a real outcome. I name the missing evidence and what would be needed to reach a conclusion.
Your data stays in Your environment. Where AI is used on Your data, I use only models Your organization has approved. I check the evidence, speak to the people involved and sign the conclusion.
You receive the evidence ledger so the conclusion can be retraced. Any follow-up support is agreed in the engagement terms.

Read the evidence standard How the work runs

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Tell me what You need to decide, when You need to decide it and what is at stake. I’ll reply within two working days with whether I can help and what it would cost, or what I need to clarify before quoting.

A short summary is enough to start. Confidentiality terms are agreed in writing first, and we then agree how Your project documents will be made available.

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