Technology consulting · Est. 2014

The systems your business runs on, rebuilt to hold.

Northbeam Systems is an engineering-led consultancy for mid-market operators. We untangle aging platforms, connect the data trapped inside them, and hand back architecture your own team can run — documented, tested, and yours.

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Engagements delivered
140+
Avg. client tenure
4.6 yrs
Engineers on staff
62
Consultants reviewing system diagrams together in a bright glass-walled office atrium
Practice Boston · Chicago · Rotterdam

98%

of engagements renewed or expanded in the following year

Trusted by operators in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and financial services

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01Services

Six practices, one delivery model

Every engagement starts with a fixed-scope assessment and ends with a written handover. No open-ended staffing, no black boxes.

  • Systems Architecture

    Target-state design for platforms that have outgrown their original shape — with a sequenced path from where you actually are today.

    • Current-state assessment
    • Reference architecture
    • Build-vs-buy analysis

  • Data & Integration

    Pipelines, contracts and canonical models that let finance, ops and the warehouse floor finally agree on one number.

    • Event and API design
    • Warehouse modernization
    • Master data governance

  • Cloud Migration

    Staged moves off end-of-life infrastructure, planned around your maintenance windows rather than ours.

    • Landing zone build-out
    • Workload rehost & refactor
    • Cost and capacity modeling

  • Security & Compliance

    Controls designed to survive an audit and a Tuesday afternoon — mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA where they apply.

    • Threat and gap review
    • Identity & access redesign
    • Evidence automation

  • Applied Automation

    Machine learning and workflow automation applied to the three or four processes where the payback is measurable, and nowhere else.

    • Opportunity sizing
    • Model & workflow delivery
    • Monitoring and drift review

  • Managed Engineering

    A named, stable pod that keeps the platform healthy after go-live — with a standing exit plan from day one.

    • Named senior engineers
    • Defined SLOs and on-call
    • Quarterly architecture review

02Approach

Why teams bring us in — and why they keep us

Engineers mapping a system architecture on a whiteboard during a planning workshop
Discovery workshop, week one of a platform assessment

Engineering-led, not staffed-out

The people who scope the work are the people who build it

No partner-and-pyramid handoff. The principal who runs your assessment stays on the engagement through delivery, and every recommendation is written by someone who will have to implement it.

  • Median 12 years of engineering experience across delivery staff
  • Two-week fixed-scope assessment before any long-term commitment
  • Written architecture decision records for every material choice
Operations team monitoring live system dashboards on wall-mounted displays
Cutover control room during a staged migration weekend

Built for handover

We are designing our own exit from the first week

Dependency on a consultancy is a defect, not a business model. Runbooks, test suites and infrastructure-as-code are deliverables with acceptance criteria — not artifacts we promise to write later.

  • Runbooks and IaC delivered as gated milestones
  • Pair rotation with your engineers throughout build
  • Thirty-day shadow period at reduced rate before rollover

03Results

Measured at the end of the engagement, not the start

Documented annual savings, 2021–2025
$48M
Platform migrations completed
63
Go-lives delivered inside the planned window
97%
Median payback period, months
9

They spent the first fortnight telling us which half of our roadmap to cancel. That advice was worth more than the build that followed — and the build went in on the weekend they said it would.

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04The firm

Sixty-two engineers, three offices, one standard of work

Northbeam was founded in 2014 by four platform engineers who had spent a decade cleaning up after other people's migrations. The firm is employee-owned, deliberately mid-sized, and takes on roughly twenty engagements a year — a limit we hold to on purpose.

  • Portrait of Astrid Halvorsen, managing principal

    Astrid Halvorsen

    Managing Principal

    Leads architecture practice. Previously platform lead for a Nordic industrial group's ERP consolidation.

  • Portrait of Marcus Reyes, principal for data and integration

    Marcus Reyes

    Principal, Data & Integration

    Builds the canonical data models behind our warehouse and integration engagements.

  • Portrait of Priya Nandakumar, director of security and compliance

    Priya Nandakumar

    Director, Security & Compliance

    Runs control design and audit readiness. Former assessor across SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs.

05Contact

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