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Thinking Machine d.o.o. · Boutique engineering advisory

Strategic engineering advisory for compliance-sensitive enterprises.

Fixed-scope engagements. Decision-grade deliverables. No six-month discovery phase.

Twenty-plus years across Healthcare ITTelecommunicationsGovernment R&DIndustrial IoTEnergyAviation
What we do

Three lanes. One engagement model. No surprises on the invoice.

01 · Cloud

Cloud cost & FinOps strategy

Board-grade cost assessments anchored on published frameworks. Triangulated baselines, multi-scenario reserved-instance modelling, vendor-side pricing playbooks. The document the decision-maker reads.

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02 · Cyber

Cyber resilience & NFR advisory

NIS2 readiness. Azure-native security architecture. Structured NFR responses for procurement and pre-contract due diligence. We close the gap between we'll figure it out and an auditable position.

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03 · AI

AI integration for established systems

MCP control layers. RAG over enterprise knowledge. On-prem LLM infra for data-residency-sensitive sectors. We connect modern frontier models to the systems you already have — no all-in transformation pitch.

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How we work

Time-boxed shapes you can actually approve.

Stage 1

Discovery Sprint

1–2 weeks · fixed fee

Scoped problem, structured deliverable, decision-ready output. Best when the question is concrete and the timeline is tight.

Stage 2

Rapid PoC

2–4 weeks · fixed fee

Working demonstration plus an evidence-based go/no-go. Best when should we even try this is the actual question.

Stage 3

Fractional advisory

Monthly retainer

Architectural sounding-board, RFP due diligence, second-opinion reviews. Best when the in-house team is strong but lacks one specific area of depth.

We take one to two new engagements per quarter. We decline work where the answer is not actually AI, cloud, or compliance. The first thirty minutes is always free.

Recent work

Anonymised case studies.

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40-hour fixed-scope advisory · Industrial software vendor · 2026

Cloud cost assessment for a multi-installation SaaS vendor

A vendor preparing to quote a cloud-managed SaaS deal to a tier-1 enterprise customer needed a defensible per-installation pricing model — without access to the incumbent's hosting baseline. We delivered a triangulated baseline, multi-scenario pricing playbook, and a customer-side cost calculator.

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Pre-contract due diligence — structured NFR response · Tier-1 European energy operator · 2026

NFR compliance response for a tier-1 European energy operator

A multi-domain NFR matrix from an enterprise procurement team — roughly fifty line items across security and data architecture — required a structured response that would survive procurement review. We produced the compliance register, a deep-dive sheet for the difficult items, and a source-verification log.

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"Most consulting engagements are designed to expand. Discovery becomes Phase 1; Phase 1 becomes Phase 2; the meter runs. We do not work that way."
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About

Bruno Božić

Founder of Thinking Machine d.o.o. and Head of IoT at Reos GmbH (Hamburg). Twenty-plus years of enterprise architecture across healthcare IT, telecommunications, government R&D, and industrial IoT. C#/.NET architect by training; integration architect by trade.

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If a fixed-scope outside read on a cloud cost decision, an NFR response, or an AI integration would be useful — the first thirty minutes is on us.