DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ROADMAP

A documented assessment and a prioritized roadmap.

Built using formal Business Analysis methodology — applied across defense, intelligence, and regulated private sector work.

Clever, tenacious, precise.

Deep Technical Expertise

Advanced capabilities in expert hands

Compliance Mastery

Forged by securing classified systems.

SEASONED EXPERT OWNERSHIP

Matched to your work – owns the results

SDVOSB CERTIFIED

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned

WHAT YOU END UP WITH

Documented findings and a prioritized roadmap.

The artifacts of a five-component Business Analysis — hardware, software, data, processes, and people — and the prioritized roadmap that ties them together.

Standards-based documentation across all five components

Hardware, software, data, processes, and people — each captured in the industry-standard notation that fits (BPMN, Ganes-Sarson DFD, etc.). Anyone fluent in the standards can read them; you're not locked into us.

A tooling and vendor audit

Every tool, every vendor, what it costs, what it does, what it's duplicating. The decisions get easy once you see it laid out.

A compliance and risk snapshot

Where you're exposed, where you're fine, and what the cost of closing each gap actually looks like.

A written roadmap

A prioritized roadmap of recommended actions. Yours to execute with S5T, your own team, or anyone else.

ENGAGEMENT SCOPE

A focused, finite engagement. Here’s what’s in it.

The roadmap is a focused advisory engagement that produces a plan you can use to inform real decisions about your operations. Below is what goes into producing it.

What's in scope

  • Leadership and operational stakeholder interviews
  • Current-state analysis working sessions across hardware, software, data, processes, and people
  • Working review of the current tooling and vendor landscape
  • Compliance, security, and risk posture review
  • Working session with leadership to review and prioritize recommendations
  • Complete industry-standard documentation package, packaged for handoff

What's not in scope

  • Automatic progression into any follow-on engagement — build, retainer, ongoing advisory, or otherwise. The roadmap ends at handoff; anything further is a separate conversation on your terms.
  • Active implementation inside the engagement — we don’t build, configure, or remediate as part of the roadmap. The engagement produces the plan; execution is a separate decision.
  • Vendor selections, tool purchases, or procurement decisions. We review the landscape and recommend directions; the actual selections are yours to make.

HOW WE DO THE WORK

Rigorous Business Analysis across hardware, software, data, processes, and people.

The engagement applies a structured Business Analysis methodology across the five components that make up your operation — hardware, software, data, processes, and people. Each is documented in industry-standard notation, which means the findings are legible to any engineer, architect, or auditor fluent in the standards.

The method

  • Five Component Business Analysis framework (hardware, software, data, processes, and people)
  • Structured stakeholder interviews
  • Industry-standard notation for each component
  • Pain-point identification and annotation
  • Prioritization framework (impact, effort, risk)
  • Risk register
Structured. Documented. Actionable.

HOW IT RUNS

The roadmap engagement, phase by phase.

Every engagement runs through the same five phases in the same order.

01

Discovery and scope

A discovery conversation tailors the engagement to your specific situation. You see what’s involved and roughly how long it will take before any work starts.

02

PI assignment and kickoff

A Principal Investigator is matched to your engagement based on domain expertise relevant to your industry and operation. Kickoff brings the PI, your stakeholders, and the engagement plan together. The PI runs the engagement from kickoff through handoff.

03

Business Analysis

Formal Business Analysis methods are applied to study your organization, broken down according to the Five Component Framework for Information Systems — hardware, software, data, processes, and people. The PI, Business Analysts, and technical specialists perform the analysis and document their findings.

04

Plan presentation and leadership review

The PI presents the plan to leadership: findings, recommended actions, and the prioritization sequence based on impact, effort, and risk from what the analysis revealed. Leadership reviews the analysis and provides their final feedback for incorporation.

05

Final documentation delivery

Leadership’s feedback is incorporated into the documentation, and the complete package is delivered: the standards-based documentation, the tooling and vendor audit, the compliance and risk snapshot, and the prioritized roadmap.

THE DEPTH

Named tools. Named standards. Named experience.

If you know this field, you will recognize these names. If you don’t, we’ll walk through it on the discovery call.

Analysis & modernization methods

  • Structured Business Analysis
  • Five Component Framework for Information Systems
  • 7 R's modernization framework
  • BPMN 2.0
  • UML
  • Gane-Sarson DFD
  • Lean Six Sigma

Compliance & cybersecurity frameworks

  • FedRAMP
  • CMMC
  • RMF
  • HIPAA
  • SOX
  • NIST 800-171
  • NIST 800-53
  • NIST 800-66

Enterprise systems audited

  • ERP
  • CRM
  • Identity & access (IAM/SSO)
  • Data platforms (warehouse, BI)
  • GIS systems
  • Distributed systems
  • Large cloud systems
  • TS-classified systems

Industry & sector experience

  • Government
  • Healthcare
  • Ecommerce
  • Construction
  • SaaS

PUBLISHED WORK

What the PI model looks like in practice.

Write-ups of actual engagements — what we were hired to do, what we actually did, and what changed. 

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Cybersecurity & Compliance
Digital Marketing
Digital Transformation
Web Development

Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Prime MD’s Journey Toward a Sophisticated Digital Enterprise

A premium med spa needed to escape vendor lock-in, rebuild their entire web presence in three weeks, and begin building toward HIPAA compliance. One PI owned every line of effort — from the emergency rewrite through the first compliance milestone.

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Cloud Engineering
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Enterprise Systems
Legacy Modernization

SaaS Modernization: Empowering Multi-Tenant Architecture Development at Alessa

S5T mapped the engineering gaps in Alessa’s aging cloud infrastructure, drove the multitenant modernization plan, and built the internal capability for Alessa engineers to own and operate the architecture going forward.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

What clients say after working with us.

QUESTIONS YOU'RE PROBABLY ASKING

The things buyers actually ask.

Who actually does the work?

Your Principal Investigator runs the engagement, supported by Business Analysts and technical specialists from our bench. The PI and Business Analysts conducts the stakeholder interviews, direct the Five Component analysis, and write the roadmap and supporting documentation.

Will S5T embed with our technical staff, or work under our technical project management?

We find that we work best with clients that are looking for a full-service provider who handles technical execution and technical project management for them, so that they can focus on their core business. Said more plainly, we do not embed our technical staff with our clients', or work under our clients' technical project management.

Who owns the work when it's done?

You do. All diagrams, all documentation, all analysis artifacts — delivered in standards-based notations (BPMN 2.0, UML, Gane-Sarson DFD) that any qualified firm can pick up and execute on. Not locked in a proprietary tool.

Can you execute the roadmap for us?

Yes — as a separate, scoped engagement. The roadmap itself is intentionally separable so you're not locked into using us for implementation. Our Custom Software Development, Cloud Engineering, Web Development, and Ecommerce Development practices each engage independently.

How long does the roadmap engagement take?

It varies with the size of the operation and the number of stakeholders. The discovery conversation gives you a specific timeline before any work starts.

Will the roadmap include vendor and tooling recommendations?

Yes. The deliverable includes a tooling and vendor audit covering the systems your operation depends on — ERP, CRM, ITSM, identity, data platforms, and the legacy systems you're modernizing. Recommendations are vendor-agnostic and based on fit.

Can you work inside a regulated environment that requires strict compliance?

Depends on the environment. For FedRAMP, CMMC, FIPS, RMF, and HIPAA environments specifically, our engineers have direct accreditation experience.

HOW WE STAFF IT

The person you meet is the person who runs it.

Most retainers put a seasoned name on the pitch and a junior hand on the work. We don’t. A Principal Investigator — a working expert matched to your situation — owns the engagement from kickoff to reporting.

They have the technical depth to do the work themselves, and they command a small network of specialists who come in when needed. They are not a project manager. They are not an account manager. They are the person whose name is on the work.

Your Principal Investigator

Who a PI is not:

  • — An account manager
  • — A project manager
  • — A junior learning on your project

WHO WE SERVE

Three kinds of clients.

If you see yourself below, a discovery conversation is worth your time.

THE GROWTH-STAGE OWNER

You built it. Then you outgrew it.

You run a successful small business in a regulated industry— a med spa group, a legal practice, a financial services firm. You’ve outgrown the patchwork of tools and part-time vendors that got you here. Now you want seasoned expertise. Someone that has built real systems and sophisticated marketing plans. Someone who will learn how your business operates and use holistic tech and marketing approaches to support your growth.  

THE COMPLIANCE-BOUND TECHNICAL BUYER

The spec is hard. The compliance floor is harder.

You’re a Director, VP, or CTO at a company whose software has to satisfy FedRAMP, CMMC, HIPAA, or some other complex regulation. You’ve been burned by vendors who claimed compliance fluency and couldn’t perform. You want a team whose founders actually shipped advanced accredited systems, and who can walk your auditors through the work and achieve favorable outcomes.

THE MISSION OWNER

Government PMs, directors, and COs.

You’re a program manager, contracting officer, or technical lead inside DoD, the IC, or other heavily compliance-bound agency. You need contractors who deliver on time, own their deliverables, and have a history of building and successfully accrediting advanced software and cloud systems. Our founders have done exactly that. Checkout our capabilities statement to learn more. 

Discovery calls are a conversation, not a sales pitch. 30 minutes, no obligation.

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