metis

Why Metis

Your network.
Your priorities.
Our expertise.

The best network decisions start with someone on your side of the table.

We bring independent advice and senior engineering to the decisions and changes that matter. Your team gains a partner who understands the environment, leads the work, and sees it through.

Talk through your network

Aligned with you

Good advice starts with the right incentives.

Your network has to work for your business, your budget, and the people responsible for it. That is what shapes our recommendations.

mētis / practical wisdom

Our name reflects how we work: understand the situation, weigh the options, and put sound judgment into practice.

  1. Advice free from a sales target.

    We sell our expertise. No hardware or software resale, referral fees, carrier commissions, or vendor partner tiers. You get recommendations based on fit, with the freedom to buy from whoever you choose.

  2. The engineer you meet leads the work.

    The person who helps define your scope stays accountable through delivery and handover. You work directly with the engineer making the recommendations and can question the reasoning behind them.

  3. Your team keeps the knowledge.

    Design decisions, working sessions, and usable documentation are part of the engagement. Your engineers understand what changed, why it changed, and how to operate it after handover.

A technician connecting fiber-optic cabling in a data center

Depth where it matters

Senior expertise.
Working alongside you.

Bring in senior design capacity for a second opinion, a complex migration, or the next stage of your network. We connect architecture with hands-on engineering, from the first design review to validation in production.

We look at how your routing, security, wireless, and cloud connectivity work together. Recommendations account for the platforms you already run and the team that will maintain them.

Our experts hold industry-leading certifications.

  • Cisco
  • Fortinet
  • Juniper Networks
  • Palo Alto Networks
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Judgment into practice

A recommendation is only useful if you can act on it.

We make the reasoning, the plan, and the next step clear. An assessment can stand on its own; implementation is separately scoped when you need help carrying it through.

  1. 01 / Understand

    Start with the evidence.

    Review your goals, configurations, and operating constraints. Agree on the problem to solve and what success looks like.

  2. 02 / Architect

    Make the trade-offs clear.

    Compare the options and explain the recommended path, including what to keep, what to change, and why.

  3. 03 / Implement

    Plan for production.

    Deliver agreed changes with runbooks, validation checkpoints, and rollback plans under your change process.

  4. 04 / Enable

    Leave a usable handover.

    Walk your engineers through the results, design decisions, and documentation so they can carry the work forward.

What stays with your team

A clear record of the decisions, agreed deliverables, and next steps. Documentation and knowledge transfer belong in the work from the start.

Straightforward from the start

Clear scope.
Shared expectations.

Know what you are engaging us to do, what it will cost, and how the work will be accepted before it begins.

Your team or MSP keeps running the network. We add the expertise and capacity your engagement needs, with specific ongoing responsibilities agreed through an advisory retainer.

Find the right engagement

  • Assessment, strategy & design

    Fixed fee for an agreed scope and set of deliverables.

  • Implementation & migration

    Fixed fee per milestone, with clear acceptance criteria.

  • Troubleshooting & incident review

    Live troubleshooting by the day. Post-incident reviews with a known scope at a fixed fee.

  • Advisory retainer

    A flat monthly fee for a named architect and agreed capacity over a fixed term, reviewed together at renewal.

  • Remote first. Onsite when it counts.

    Reviews and design work usually run remotely. Wireless surveys, cutovers, and physical site reviews bring us onsite.

  • Access under your control.

    A mutual NDA comes before access. Read-only is the default; write access is limited to agreed change windows under your process.

  • Focused engineering support.

    We work alongside your engineers and suppliers, with no bid to take over operations. NOC services, 24/7 monitoring, and first-line support sit outside our scope.

Start with a 30-minute scoping call.

A free conversation with a subject matter expert about your network and the next step.

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