Digital transformation consulting firm

Compare digital transformation firms on what actually ships.

Anyone can write a roadmap. Fewer can build the data platform underneath it, industrialise the AI on top, and still be there running it two years later. Here is how Hoonartek measures up — and twelve questions to ask everyone else on your shortlist.

200+

Enterprise transformations

2010

Founded

4

Countries - US, UK, India, Malaysia

Databricks and Google

Premium Partner

Four questions that separate advisors from delivery partners

Every category below is the right answer for someone. The question is whether it is the right answer for the programme you are actually running.

The question

Strategy consultancy

Systems integrator / staff augmentation

Niche platform boutique

Hoonartek

1. Who writes the roadmap — and are they on the team that builds it?

Genuinely strong at framing the problem and carrying a board. The authors typically hand over at build.

You supply the architecture; they supply the hands. Scales fast, and scales whatever you specified.

Deep on their platform, and the architect is usually on the build. The roadmap stops at the platform edge.

The consultant who scopes it is on the team that ships it. Ask for the allocation as a contractual schedule.

2. Can they build the data foundation, or do they specify it and leave?

Specify. “We work with best-of-breed implementation partners” means the hardest risk transfers to you.

Build — to your design. If the estate was never modelled properly, that surfaces in quarter three.

Build, within one platform. Multi-platform estates and legacy cores are outside the scope.

Build. Fifteen years of Ab Initio and modern-stack delivery, including legacy core migrations under parallel run.

2. Can they build the data foundation, or do they specify it and leave?

Specify. “We work with best-of-breed implementation partners” means the hardest risk transfers to you.

Build — to your design. If the estate was never modelled properly, that surfaces in quarter three.

Build, within one platform. Multi-platform estates and legacy cores are outside the scope.

Build. Fifteen years of Ab Initio and modern-stack delivery, including legacy core migrations under parallel run.

4. Is governance designed in, or evidenced afterwards?

A governance framework. Excellent as a document; not a running system.

Whatever you asked for. Governance is a workstream, not a property of the build.

Native to the platform, which is real — and stops where the platform does.

ClearView™ carries lineage, inputs and approval chain on every automated decision. Ask us to trace one you pick, live.

And where we are not the answer

A table that makes every alternative look incompetent reads as marketing, and a shortlister discounts it entirely. So:

5. Where each is the right choice

A board that has not agreed what the problem is. Buy the framing.

A design you trust and a shortage of hands. Buy capacity.

A single-platform problem with a clear edge. Buy depth.

A programme where the thinking and the shipping cannot be separated, in an environment where a wrong number is a regulatory event.

6. Where each is the wrong choice

When the constraint is the data estate, not the strategy.

When you need someone to tell you the design is wrong.

When the estate spans four platforms and a mainframe.

We are not the low-cost option, and we will say so on the first call. If the work is a well-specified build with hands as the only gap, a staff-augmentation firm will do it for less, and we will tell you that.

The 12-question shortlist scorecard

A one-page evaluation grid we use with our own prospects. Score any four firms against the twelve questions that predict whether a transformation programme reaches production. Vendor-neutral. Yes, you can score us with it.

Q1 Which named individual from the pitch will be on the team in month nine?

Q2 What is your ratio of advisory hours to engineering hours on a typical programme?

Q3 Show me a lineage trace from a live production decision back to source. Not a slide — the system.

TRANSFORMATION PARTNER SCORECARD · 8PP

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Score sheet — four vendor columns

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Certifications, and what each one required

Snowflake

Premier Tier — certified engineers, audited delivery volume

Databricks

Partner — certified lakehouse delivery

Google Cloud

Service Partner

Microsoft

Partner

Ab Initio

World-class delivery partner

The objections we get at this stage

How do you compare on price to a Big Four transformation practice?

Lower on advisory — and the advisory does not sit separately from the build, which is where the compounding cost usually appears.

Do you subcontract delivery?

No. Delivery teams across the US, UK, India and Malaysia are ours.

What size enterprise do you work with?

Complex, high-volume environments — BFSI, telecom, manufacturing, healthcare — where governance and scale are non-negotiable.

Can we start with one workstream?

Yes. We start small and expand; that is the model.

Score us against them.

Get the scorecard

Twelve questions, a printable score sheet, four vendor columns. Use it on everyone.

Skip the reading

Bring the scorecard to a 30-minute session. We will answer all twelve, in order, on the call. If we score below 27, we will tell you who on your shortlist is likely to score higher.