Solutions architects · UK
We design the system before anyone writes the code.
Global SoLARK sits between your business goals and the technology that has to deliver them. We map the problem, choose the architecture, and build only what earns its place.
- Business, AI and IT consultancy
- Custom software and AI delivery
- One team, advice to hand-over
- UK registered company, no. 17373548
- Consultancy and delivery in one team
- Accessible by default, WCAG 2.1 AA
- Published Gender Equality Plan
What we do
Five practices, one architecture-led approach.
Most engagements start in one practice and pull in the others as the picture gets clearer. Advice and implementation come from the same people.
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Consultancy
Business Consultancy
Process mapping, operating-model review and a costed roadmap. We work out what is actually slowing the business down before proposing a system to fix it.
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Consultancy
AI Consultancy
Readiness assessment, use-case shortlisting and honest feasibility. We will tell you where AI pays for itself, and where a simple rule or a better form would do the same job for less.
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Consultancy
IT Consultancy
Architecture reviews, cloud and integration strategy, security and cost optimisation. Practical guidance on the estate you already run, not a rebuild for its own sake.
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Delivery
Software Solutions
Custom web applications, data platforms, APIs and internal tools. Specified, built, tested and handed over with documentation your own team can work from.
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Delivery
AI Software & Automation
Retrieval assistants, document and data extraction, matching and recommendation engines, and workflow automation wired into the systems you already use.
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Ongoing
Support & Enablement
Post-launch support, team workshops and governance so the solution keeps working after we leave. No lock-in by obscurity.
Featured work
STUDiPort: a student portal built for a UK university.
Academic records, automated degree classification, a skills framework and AI-assisted careers matching in one system, where before there were separate spreadsheets and hand calculation.
- 50+programmes in one store
- 90,000+records, queryable
- 40:60UK classification rule, automated
- FHEQ 4–7CATS credits, ESCO skills, O*NET roles
How we work
A short, predictable path from first conversation to production.
Four stages, each with an agreed output before the next one starts.
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Understand
We start with your process, your data and your constraints, not a product pitch.
Output: A written problem statement both sides agree on.
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Architect
Options, trade-offs and cost. You get an architecture you can question, including what we deliberately chose not to build.
Output: Target architecture and a delivery plan.
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Build
Short delivery cycles with something demonstrable at the end of each one. Tests and documentation are part of the work, not a later phase.
Output: Working software at the end of every cycle.
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Hand over
Deployment, runbooks, training and a support window. Your team owns the system; we stay reachable.
Output: Everything in your accounts, with runbooks.
Why a small practice
You work with the people who do the work.
The person who scoped your problem is the person who designs the solution, and is still on the call six months later.
- Architecture first.A weak foundation costs more than the build.
- Plain language.Decisions written down so non-technical stakeholders can challenge them.
- Right-sized technology.Boring and reliable beats novel and fragile.
- Working software early.Demonstrable progress, not status decks.
- No lock-in.Standard stacks, your repositories, your accounts.
Have a problem worth architecting?
Tell us what is not working. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and point you somewhere better.
Or email us directly: hello@globalsolark.co.uk