# Consulting — TSL Intelligence Lab Architecture and delivery leadership for programmes where getting it wrong is expensive. Every engagement ends with a team, a platform or a person that runs without us. ## Where we plug in ### Lead Architect on implementation Design authority and target-state architecture on implementation programmes, from platform selection through build. - Design authority: architecture decisions, standards and reviews held for the whole programme - Platform selection and estate design across composable and MACH, digital experience platforms, content management and marketing technology - Full-stack implementation when it matters: backend, middleware, frontend; web, desktop, mobile and IoT Shape: Fractional architect, 2–3 days a week, or embedded for a programme phase ### Presales and solution engineering Architecture for the pursuit: solution shaping, estimation, orals and proof-of-concept. - Solution shaping and estimation during the pursuit - Orals support and proof-of-concept builds - Architecture narrative that survives technical evaluation Shape: Pursuit support, scoped to the bid ### Post-sales architecture and engineering Rescue, performance and security hardening, migration, and handover to the client's own team. - Rescue of programmes in difficulty: realigning priorities and technical direction - Performance and security hardening; migration between platforms - Handover to the client's own team, including developing the successor architect Shape: Fixed-scope architecture assessment, or a defined recovery phase ### Partner and alliance enablement Solution architecture, joint pursuit support and technical enablement for platform vendors and their systems integrators. - Solution architecture and reference implementations for a platform vendor's partner ecosystem - Joint pursuit support with vendor architecture teams - Technical enablement of systems integrators: certification paths, delivery standards, review practice - Our founder's vendor advisory experience while at Accenture: several years on the Acquia Drupal Strategic Committee, and membership of the Contentstack Strategic Partner Group, contributing product feedback and direction. Shape: Retained, or per pursuit ### Mentorship and coaching One-to-one mentoring and coaching for architects, software engineers, IT managers, executives and founders, online, on a retainer or in a block of sessions. - Architects and engineers: developing the successor architect, certification paths, design-review practice, and the move from developer to architect to lead - IT managers and executives: what to see, ask and decide about agentic AI, responsible AI and AI-led delivery; how to hold an architecture team to account - Founders and early-career technologists: venture building, positioning and the first technical hires; a standing commitment to the Sierra Leone and West African technology community Shape: Retained monthly, or a block of sessions; individual or employer-sponsored ### Team enablement Hands-on 48-contact-hour intensives and standing architecture guilds for architects, software engineers, developers, IT professionals, IT managers and IT executives. Participants build and deploy a capstone, not just attend. - Six-day intensive team programmes, online, hybrid or residential - Standing architecture guilds and design-review practice - Agentic AI and AI-led delivery: the rules, hooks, commands and agent definitions that let a delivery team run an AI-led SDLC and AI-led DevSecOps with the guardrails, review gates and evidence trail an enterprise will accept - Mentoring and coaching continue after a cohort for participants and sponsors who want it Shape: 6-day intensive team programmes; institutional and executive pricing ## What we work on - Composable and MACH architecture; DXP, CMS and MarTech estate design and consolidation; vendor and platform selection - Contentful, Contentstack, Optimizely, Drupal, WordPress VIP, Strapi, Uniform, Acquia, Pantheon, Liferay and Amplience; digital asset management (Bynder) and MarTech stack capability assessment - Agentic AI and AI-led delivery: designing the rules, hooks, commands and agent definitions that let a delivery team run an AI-led SDLC and AI-led DevSecOps with the guardrails, review gates and evidence trail an enterprise will actually accept - Full-stack implementation: backend, middleware, frontend; web, desktop, mobile and IoT - Mentorship and coaching for architects, engineers, IT managers, executives and founders: developing the successor architect, certification paths, design-review practice, and what leaders must be able to see, ask and decide about agentic AI ## Engagement shapes - Fractional architect (2–3 days/week) - Fixed-scope architecture assessment - Pursuit support - 6-day intensive team programmes - Mentoring and coaching (retained monthly, or a block of sessions) ## Where we work ### United States — New York Our home. The company is incorporated in New York and is the contracting party for US and international clients. - Consulting corp-to-corp, with a W-9 and certificate of insurance on request - Bootcamp cohorts hosted in the United States - On the record: US federal and state government, life sciences, high tech, media and New York City public education ### United Kingdom — Remote, on UK hours We work on GMT, aligned to UK and EU working hours, for UK and European clients. - Consulting corp-to-corp for UK and EU clients - Bootcamp cohorts hosted in the United Kingdom, by arrangement - Partner enablement for platform vendors and their systems integrators ### Sierra Leone — Freetown Our founder is based between New York and Freetown, and much of the record is here: government, universities and development programmes. - Consulting for development partners, government and international clients, contracted through TSL Intelligence Labs, Inc. - Bootcamp cohorts hosted by TpISENT (SL) Limited - On the record: the Sierra Leone Learning Passport, the Sierra Leone Open Election Data Platform, Njala University and the University of Sierra Leone ### West Africa — Remote and by arrangement Digital public goods research, advisory and training across the region, from Freetown and online. - Served remotely on the record: Liberia, Guinea, The Gambia and Senegal - Cohorts in Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria and across the region by arrangement - Research on digital public goods for education in West Africa ## Platforms and tools we work in - **Digital experience and content platforms:** Contentful · Contentstack · Optimizely · Drupal · WordPress VIP · Strapi · Uniform · Acquia · Pantheon · Liferay · Amplience - **Learning and business platforms:** Moodle · Odoo · ERPNext - **Cloud and infrastructure:** Google Cloud Platform · Microsoft Azure · Amazon Web Services · DigitalOcean · Linode (Akamai Cloud) - **Languages and frameworks:** PHP · Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · React · Material UI · Laravel · Symfony · Twig · HTML · CSS · Tailwind CSS · Bootstrap - **Performance and edge delivery:** Cloudflare · Akamai · Fastly ## Industries on the record Versatile industry knowledge: the same architecture discipline applied across very different regulatory, commercial and cultural settings. - High tech - Engineering and design software - Life sciences and pharmaceuticals - Media and communications - US federal and state government - Nonprofits and international development - Education and universities - Consumer goods, retail, energy and insurance ## Terms Contracting corp-to-corp through TSL Intelligence Labs, Inc. (New York), formerly TpISENT, Inc. US, UK and EU clients; working on GMT, aligned to UK and EU working hours. W-9 and certificate of insurance on request. Engagements are led by our founder and Principal Consultant, Tamba Sheku Lamin: https://tslintelligence.com/principal-consultant ## Check the record - [Past performance](https://tslintelligence.com/past-performance) - [Work with Tamba](https://tambalamin.me/work-with-me): Engagement shapes, terms and mentorship - [Resume](https://tambalamin.me/resume): Two-page US-style resume - [Consultant CV, World Bank format (PDF)](https://tambalamin.me/cv/Tamba_Sheku_Lamin_CV.pdf): The full assignment record - [Past performance](https://tambalamin.me/past-performance): Engagements as procurement scores them - [Past performance (Markdown)](https://tambalamin.me/past-performance.md): The same record, machine-readable - [Credentials](https://tambalamin.me/credentials): Awards, certifications, education, public record - [Writing](https://tambalamin.me/writing): Agentic-First Architecture on Substack - [Speaking](https://tambalamin.me/speaking): Topics, past engagements and booking --- Canonical: https://tslintelligence.com/consulting · Contact: tamba@tambalamin.me