Business Consulting

Sphere 10 turns business processes into an implementable platform, integration and delivery plan. We assess workflows across Microsoft 365, Notion, Dynamics 365 Business Central, Xero and existing line-of-business systems, then identify where configuration, Power Automate, reporting or a focused .NET application best serves the requirement. Decisions cover record ownership, API boundaries, operating responsibility, measurable outcomes and the commercial phases needed to commission the work.

Our consulting connects business design to implementation. We map workflows, ownership, data and integrations, then develop a prioritised package that a delivery team can act on. Our software engineering background keeps operational and technical consequences visible while options are still being considered. You receive decisions with reasons, acceptance criteria and an operating model alongside the roadmap. The work can progress into a defined Sphere 10 build, or close with a usable plan and handover for your chosen implementation team.

💡 Begin With a Measurable Outcome — Identify the decision or business result that should improve, who owns it and which evidence will show that the change is useful.

Understand the Work Before Selecting the Tool

We map a representative process using explicit actors, records, decisions and exception paths, with BPMN where a formal workflow model is useful. An order-to-invoice journey identifies which system owns the customer, price, stock movement and accounting record. Existing Notion or Microsoft 365 forms, spreadsheets and approvals are inspected against that flow. The output names the decision rules and information required at each hand-off, together with the evidence used to measure improvement.

Map the current process, responsible roles and material exception paths.
Identify duplicated entry, waiting time and decisions lacking reliable information.
Record the data sources and controls needed to explain the outcome.
Agree useful success measures and the business owner who will accept the change.

Compare Options With Their Operating Consequences

Options are compared using the same workflow: configure the current ERP/CRM, connect APIs with Power Automate, build a Power BI model, or implement the required .NET service and interface. Business Central or Xero integration is assessed through its actual entities, authorization and update contract. We include licence/operating requirements, data migration, failure handling and support ownership in the comparison. Framework and Local Notion experience informs the application and content-ownership decisions.

Compare options using common functional, commercial and operational criteria.
Make assumptions, dependencies and important implementation risks explicit.
Evaluate access, data stewardship and ongoing support alongside initial cost.
Record the decision, alternatives considered and triggers for later review.

Create a Roadmap With Testable Business Outcomes

Project Design produces the process model, field and integration definitions, prototype evidence and a delivery scope with observable acceptance. Project Delivery is organised around a complete business slice and its data migration, operator workflow and handover. Project Execution defines who owns the installed result, monitoring and subsequent changes. The roadmap states dependencies, integration proofs and training needs so each commissioned phase has a concrete output and acceptance decision.

Define phase outcomes, dependencies and the evidence required for acceptance.
Specify process, data and integration changes in implementable terms.
Assign adoption, training, support and operational decision responsibilities.
Prioritise work by business value, delivery constraints and risk reduction.

Agree the Commercial Phases and Handover

Project Design begins with paid time-and-materials discovery and requirements work. Once the implementation is sufficiently defined, Project Delivery can proceed as fixed-price RAD work with an initial deposit, one client review-and-change round and an acceptance payment. QA is agreed separately as time and materials or fixed price according to its extent. Project Execution establishes the ongoing SLA for the activities and systems we operate. The consulting handover retains the reviewed decisions and working material so the organisation can act on the advice.

Deliver process maps, requirements, option assessments and the decision record.
Agree delivery scope, review points and separately defined QA responsibilities.
Provide an implementation backlog with practical acceptance examples.
Hand over operating roles, adoption needs and the basis for ongoing service.

Technologies & Integration

BPMN2.0 — Model actors, decisions, hand-offs and exception paths in an explicit business-process specification.
Power Automate — Evaluate configured approval and integration flows together with connector permissions, failure handling and ownership.
Dynamics365 Business Central APIs — Define ERP record ownership and the entity/API boundaries of a proposed business integration.
Xero Accounting API — Map the accounting records and authorization required for the agreed invoicing or reconciliation workflow.
Power BI modelling — Define source grain, relationships and measures behind a useful decision or operational report.

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Notion Consulting

Sphere 10 designs Notion databases, data sources, relations, rollups, formulas, templates and purpose-built views around the work your team performs. We create coherent project, customer, delivery and content models, then connect business systems through the Notion API and controlled automation. Our Local Notion .NET platform supplies a concrete publishing and local-retention implementation, with Page/block identity, media, source refresh and website output checked at their actual boundaries.

Our service combines workspace design with software engineering. We model the databases and user journeys first, then connect external applications or publication workflows through explicit integration boundaries. Our Local Notion platform provides a concrete reference for retaining Notion data on your own storage and generating HTML, offline publications and websites. You receive an organised workspace, repeatable operating conventions and tested integrations, with a handover that explains how records, permissions and synchronisation are maintained as the team and its processes evolve.

💡 Model the Record Before the Dashboard — Define what the record represents, who owns it and which properties describe its lifecycle. Views then present that model for a particular task.

Build a Coherent Record and Relationship Model

We distinguish the Notion database container, its data-source schema and the Pages holding records. Customers, projects, deliverables and decisions receive stable identities, typed properties and explicit relations. Status values describe a real transition and owner; formulas and rollups expose useful derived context. Templates establish consistent capture while linked views present the same underlying records for delivery, review or publication. The model is tested with actual exceptions and completed work.

Define record types, stable identities and the owner of each information set.
Create relationships that avoid duplicate customer, project or content records.
Specify lifecycle states, required information and useful template defaults.
Validate the model with complete examples from the team’s current workflow.

Create Views and Permissions for Real Responsibilities

A view serves a task: capturing a request, planning delivery, reviewing a decision or preparing content for publication. We configure filtering, grouping and properties around those responsibilities while retaining one coherent record model. Permissions are reviewed with the people and connections that need access. In a Local Notion CMS, for example, a Services overview editing view can show its Sections without being cluttered by every nested offering Page. The underlying records and their identities remain consistent across those purpose-specific views.

Provide focused capture, review and operational views for each responsible role.
Keep database structure distinct from the way a particular view presents it.
Review sharing and integration access against the intended information boundary.
Document the conventions needed to maintain useful views as records grow.

Integrate Notion Through Explicit Ownership Boundaries

An integration owns named properties and a recorded operation identity. The client follows Notion pagination, request limits and Retry-After behaviour, and handles relation or rollup data that requires separate reads. Webhooks trigger a fresh source read and an idempotent processing outcome. For Local Notion, the integration verifies native Page/block state, original attachments, cached source, rendered themes and served routes independently, including changes inside nested Columns whose owner header did not change.

Map source-of-truth ownership and update direction for every integrated field.
Handle rate limits, pagination, duplicate notifications and interrupted processing.
Retain source identifiers and useful diagnostics for failed integration work.
Verify actual saved records and downstream results after important changes.

Accept the Workspace as a Working Business Process

Acceptance follows complete tasks with representative users and records. We test creation, reassignment, review, completion and the exception paths the team encounters. Integration checks confirm the actual saved properties, relationships and publication output, including permission-denied or unavailable-source cases. The handover includes the database model, templates, role conventions, integration configuration and maintenance notes. Your team receives a workspace it can operate deliberately, with clear procedures for adding a new record type, changing a status or investigating information that has not reached its expected destination.

Walk through realistic tasks using the configured views and permissions.
Check relationships, rollups and template defaults against expected examples.
Exercise an interrupted or rejected integration and demonstrate controlled recovery.
Hand over the model, editing conventions and ongoing workspace ownership.

Technologies & Integration

Notion data-source API — Model schema and Page integration using the database/data-source object boundaries selected by the pinned API version.
Notion relations and rollups — Connect authoritative records and expose related context without maintaining competing copies.
Notion webhooks — Trigger controlled, idempotent integration work from workspace events and verify the current record state.
Notion request limits — Implement pagination, bounded requests, rate-limit handling and observable partial-failure behaviour.
Local Notion — Deliver .NET publishing/local retention with native ownership, original media and independently verified generated and served output.

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Web3 Consulting

Sphere 10 designs Ethereum/EVM and Bitcoin integrations as complete products: wallet interaction, contract or node operation, C# services and the resulting business workflow. We specify signing authority, transaction state, event projections and recovery, using Solidity/OpenZeppelin and Nethereum for selected EVM work and Bitcoin-specific node interfaces where required. The engagement produces a technical prototype and delivery plan connecting user consent to an owned, traceable application outcome.

We bring protocol, cryptographic and .NET application engineering into the product discussion early. That makes custody, signing authority, confirmation, data ownership and operational support visible before interface and platform choices become expensive commitments. We develop architecture, prototypes and an implementation roadmap grounded in the intended user journey. You receive a practical plan for the on-chain and off-chain components together, including the controls and acceptance evidence required to operate the product after its initial release.

💡 Define the User’s Ownership and Consent — Specify what the user controls, what an action authorises and how its consequence is communicated before asking the user to sign.

Make Custody, Identity and Rights Explicit

Ethereum wallet integration follows the EIP-1193 provider boundary, including account and network changes. Sign-In with Ethereum uses ERC-4361 message fields and an application-checked domain, nonce and expiry; EIP-712 provides typed signing for the selected structured intent. We define chain ID, signer authority, replay handling and credential recovery with the product's identity model. A wallet signature and the business permission it authorises are connected by an explicit application rule.

Map asset custody, signing authority and represented business rights.
Define identity association and permissions without assuming an address proves identity.
Specify delegation, administrative succession and account-recovery responsibilities.
Describe user consent and the information shown before a signed action.

Design the Transaction Journey and Off-Chain Work

The transaction journey records preparation, signature rejection, submission, receipt, confirmation and business completion. Nethereum/C# services use the agreed ABI, JSON-RPC methods and chain identifiers, retaining transaction, block and log identity for replayable projections. Replacement transactions and reorganised observations have reconciliation rules. Bitcoin integrations define their UTXO, wallet/descriptor, PSBT and confirmation responsibilities separately. The prototype proves the selected signing-to-fulfilment path and a delayed or interrupted outcome.

Show understandable transaction states and recovery actions in the user interface.
Bind signed instructions to the intended network, contract and operation.
Separate chain confirmation from fulfilment or other off-chain business completion.
Retain correlation and source references for support and reconciliation.

Review Governance and Dependencies as Product Design

We identify who can change contracts, pause functionality, supply external facts or alter the application’s rules. The assessment considers node providers, wallets, indexing services and any bridge or external-contract dependency the product intends to use. Technical choices are evaluated with their user and operating consequences, including fees, upgrade approval and data visibility. Commercial or legal review receives a defined set of product facts and decision points. A focused prototype proves the most important interaction or trust assumption before the full implementation is commissioned.

Record privileged operations and the approvals required to exercise them.
Evaluate external dependencies and their effect on availability and user rights.
Test a representative transaction and its critical rejection or recovery paths.
Turn prototype evidence into architecture decisions and an implementable backlog.

Deliver a Product and Operating Roadmap

The engagement produces the user-journey model, component architecture, responsibility matrix and a phased delivery scope. Acceptance criteria cover both contract behaviour and the complete application experience, including support and recovery. We define the records, dashboards and runbooks needed to explain an individual transaction after release. The work can progress into implementation of the selected contract, service and interface components. Your team receives the source material, prototype evidence and operational decisions needed to maintain a coherent product across its wallet, network and business boundaries.

Deliver architecture diagrams and the decisions behind custody and governance.
Define end-to-end acceptance for transaction, fulfilment and support scenarios.
Assign monitoring, key administration and dependency-maintenance responsibilities.
Hand over prototypes, interface contracts and a prioritised delivery roadmap.

Technologies & Integration

Ethereum JSON-RPC — Specify chain identity, transaction submission, receipts/logs and the observations used by the application projection.
Solidity security considerations — Review state transitions, external calls, authority and upgrade assumptions in the selected contract design.
OpenZeppelin access control — Define owner/role administration, privileged transitions and the transfer or revocation of authority.
Nethereum — Prototype ABI calls, transaction handling and EVM event processing from C# services with explicit replay and reconciliation.
Bitcoin RPC — Define Bitcoin-specific node, wallet and transaction observations, with selected-version command and ownership requirements.

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IT Consulting

Sphere 10 provides IT consulting across Microsoft365, Entra ID, Intune, Windows/Active Directory, Linux, virtual infrastructure, Azure/AWS and .NET business applications. We connect identity, endpoint management, networks, SQL data, backup and application lifecycle into an implementable operating plan. The assessment identifies the actual product configuration and dependency behind each recommendation, with a phased migration, acceptance evidence and an accountable owner for the resulting environment.

Our advice is informed by building and operating software. We examine how a proposed platform will be deployed, maintained, monitored and recovered, and who will own those responsibilities. That includes C# and .NET applications, Windows or Linux hosts, cloud services and existing business systems. You receive a reasoned target architecture and a phased roadmap with defined outcomes, acceptance evidence and ownership. The resulting package supports procurement, internal planning or a Sphere 10 implementation without leaving critical decisions hidden in informal conversations.

💡 Connect Every Recommendation to a Constraint — Identify the business requirement, current limitation and operating owner behind a proposed change. Those facts make the technical recommendation reviewable and useful.

Understand the Estate and Its Real Dependencies

The estate review maps Microsoft365/Entra tenants, Active Directory, managed endpoints, Hyper-V/vSphere or Proxmox hosts, business applications and their SQL/data stores. We inspect service identities, admin access, patch/runtime support, backup and representative network paths. The applicable CIS Controls and product Benchmarks provide a structured baseline, with NIST CSF outcomes framing priorities and evidence. Findings retain the actual system, configuration, operational consequence and closure test.

Inventory critical applications, interfaces, hosting environments and responsible owners.
Trace identity, data and network dependencies for important business workflows.
Review software lifecycle, operational support and current recovery evidence.
Record capacity, access, budget and maintenance constraints that affect the decision.

Compare Options Against a Common Set of Requirements

We compare a supported .NET upgrade, product replacement, API integration or infrastructure move against compatibility, data migration and the support model. Entra Conditional Access and Intune management are evaluated with the organisation's identity, device and licensing requirements. Azure/AWS managed hosting or retained on-premise infrastructure receives the same workload and recovery criteria. Where an ISO/IEC27001 programme is in scope, technical asset, access and recovery evidence is mapped to the agreed ISMS responsibilities.

Compare realistic options with common functional, commercial and operational criteria.
Assess compatibility, migration needs and ongoing dependency maintenance.
Define identity and access responsibilities alongside application capability.
Record the chosen direction, alternatives and triggers for later reassessment.

Build a Transition Plan With Observable Outcomes

The roadmap starts with a bounded identity, migration or integration proof, then defines staged configuration, cutover and recovery decisions. An Entra policy change includes the selected test/report-only approach and retained emergency administration; an application change includes a representative transaction and supported runtime inventory. Operators receive the backup/restore, monitoring and escalation requirements for each phase. Acceptance records the useful user and support functions demonstrated on the resulting platform.

Prioritise phases by business impact, dependency order and delivery risk.
Prove critical interfaces or migration assumptions before a broad rollout.
Define cutover, rollback and operational acceptance conditions for each phase.
Include monitoring, support training and ownership in the transition scope.

Hand Over Decisions That Can Drive Delivery

The consulting package includes the current-state assessment, target architecture, decision record and prioritised implementation scope. Requirements and acceptance examples are detailed enough to support internal delivery or procurement. We review the plan with the people who will own the systems, then identify outstanding decisions and their responsible parties. The engagement can proceed through paid Project Design into defined delivery and separately scoped QA, with ongoing operational responsibilities agreed through Project Execution. Your organisation retains an actionable technical baseline and the material needed to commission, accept and operate the resulting change.

Deliver system maps, option assessments and the reasoning behind recommendations.
Provide an implementation backlog with dependencies and acceptance examples.
Agree operational owners, support responsibilities and ongoing maintenance needs.
Hand over configuration findings, proof results and unresolved decision items.

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Technologies & Integration

Microsoft Entra Conditional Access — Assess identity/device signals, access-policy rollout and the administrative recovery boundary for the selected tenant.
Microsoft Intune — Define endpoint enrolment, configuration/compliance and operating ownership alongside the organisation's identity model.
.NET support policy — Plan runtime and dependency upgrades using the selected application's compatibility and official lifecycle dates.
CIS Controls — Prioritise applicable safeguards and map product-specific configuration findings to owned corrective work.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework — Structure the agreed cybersecurity outcomes, current evidence and improvement priorities.

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