NOW BOOKING  ·  Q3 2026 - Q1 2027  ·  LAS VEGAS + NATIONWIDE

Make the right call on your next $1M+ network or AI infrastructure decision — before you sign.

Independent advisory for the architecture, vendor, and capex calls that lock in your infrastructure for the next five years. Based in Las Vegas — serving gaming, hospitality, healthcare, education, and banking clients across the western U.S.

Single principal · Zero vendor revenue · Fixed fee · Proposal in 3 business days.
PRINCIPAL EXPERIENCE
30 YRS
SCOPE
2–12 WKS
RETAINER
OPTIONAL
BASED
LAS VEGAS, NV

— Alan Sukiennik, Founder

NEW ENGAGEMENTS• Q3 2026 - Q1 2027
Engagement modelIndependent · Vendor-neutral
Time to proposal≤ 3 business days
Average engagement6–10 weeks
Retainer requiredNo
Active practiceAI · DC · Enterprise

Vendor and platform experience

Direct experience across the platforms most often on the table for AI infrastructure, data center, and enterprise networking decisions.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Tech and infrastructure leaders at $250M+ companies facing a $1M+ decision on network architecture, data-center build, AI infrastructure, or multi-year vendor commitments — where the wrong call shows up in capex, downtime, or talent loss for years.

WHO THIS ISN’T FOR

Implementation services, managed services, residential or SMB, single-product RFPs under $500K, or anyone looking for a reseller relationship. We don’t sell products. We don’t do staff augmentation.

§ 01 — PRACTICE / SCOPE

Where leaders bring us in

Most infrastructure failures are decided long before any cable gets run. We help technology leaders pressure-test the architecture, vendor, and cost calls before they're committed — with no reseller incentive, no platform agenda, and no template answers.

01 / 04ASSESSMENT

Infrastructure Assessment

We audit your existing network against current and projected requirements — identifying risk, gaps, and vendor dependencies before they become budget emergencies. Delivered as a board-ready finding with prioritized actions.

02 / 04ARCHITECTURE

Architecture Design

Architectures that work on slide decks fail in production. We design and validate network and AI-ready fabric architectures against scale, recovery, operability, and your team’s real capabilities.

03 / 04ADVISORY

Vendor Advisory

Procurement is where the wrong architecture gets locked in for five years. We design RFPs that surface real differences, score evaluations against your requirements — not the vendor’s — and protect your leverage through commercial close.

04 / 04AI INFRA

AI Infrastructure Readiness

GPU clusters, lossless fabrics, and east-west traffic patterns expose every weak spot in an enterprise network. We assess whether your fabric, storage, and operating model can actually carry AI workloads — before the capital gets committed.

§ 02 — DIAGNOSTIC / PATTERNS

How high-stakes decisions go wrong

Common failure modes we see in late-stage infrastructure planning. Each is recoverable — but only if surfaced before commitment.

ARCHITECTURE

Vendor whitepapers as design

The proposed architecture is a vendor reference design lightly customized. Operability gaps and integration cost get discovered post-procurement, when the leverage is gone.

PROCUREMENT

RFPs that pre-pick the answer

Requirements written from a single vendor’s product datasheet. Real differences between alternatives never surface; the evaluation rubber-stamps a decision already made.

OPERATIONS

Network ready, team isn’t

The new fabric ships before the operating model. Engineers maintain it the old way; the architecture’s promise quietly disappears into manual runbooks.

GOVERNANCE

Decisions without owners

Multi-vendor commitments approved without a single accountable executive. The first hard trade-off has no decider, and the program drifts to the loudest vendor.

§ 03 — DOCTRINE / POV

Where we stand

Three things we'll say publicly. We'll defend them in print, in client engagements, and on a call with your board.

ON VENDORS
Independent counsel is structurally cheaper than a free vendor briefing — once the implementation invoice arrives.
ON AI INFRASTRUCTURE
Most enterprise networks aren’t ready for AI workloads. Bandwidth isn’t the issue; topology, lossless behavior, and east-west fabric are.
ON DECISION-MAKING
Boards and executive sponsors approve infrastructure plans they cannot fully evaluate. That gap is where the cost of a wrong decision lives.
§ 04 — ENGAGEMENT / MODEL

How engagements work

Discovery is free. Defined scope. Fixed fee. Phased advisory. Each phase ends in a written deliverable you can act on without us.

PHASE I
Discovery
Decision framing · Free
PHASE II
Engagement
Architecture / vendor / commercial review
PHASE III
Decision support
Executive briefing · Risk-ranked recommendations
PHASE IV
Standby
Optional advisory through procurement & implementation
§ 05 — WRITING / FIELD-NOTES

Field notes

Long-form takes on the technical decisions that keep landing on infrastructure leaders' desks. Updated as engagements warrant.

Make the call before the capex.

Initial conversations are no-obligation, and they reach the principal directly. Fixed fee · ≤ 3 business days to proposal.

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