Inner Monologue

Technology consulting

The question nobody says out loud.

Inner Monologue is a technology consulting firm for small and mid-sized companies. We take on the projects, the questions and the processes that do not fit anywhere else, and we bring in the right specialist when the work calls for one.

Everyone in the room already knows which system it is.

What we do

Four ways companies bring us in.

  • Projects

    A migration, a rebuild, an integration that has to ship. We scope it, run it, and hand it back working.

  • Questions and training

    An hour with someone who has seen it before, or a morning teaching your team to run it themselves. Not a six-week engagement.

  • Processes

    How work actually moves through your company. Mapped, simplified, and made to hold once we leave.

  • Special projects

    The odd one out. No owner, no precedent, and a date already attached to it.

The network

A small firm with a long bench.

We keep the firm deliberately small and the roster of experts deliberately wide: engineers, data people, security folks, operators who have run the function you are trying to fix. You work with us. We bring the specialist to the table when the problem earns one, and you never pay for a bench you are not using.

  • Engineering
  • Data
  • Security
  • Cloud & infrastructure
  • Product
  • Operations
  • Finance systems

Our values

How we prefer to work.

Confidentiality

What we see inside your company stays inside your company.

It is the first of our principles, not a clause at the end of a contract. We do not name our clients or reuse their material, every expert we bring in signs the same terms we do, and when we write about the work the identifying details come out before anything is published.

Plain language

No jargon between you and the decision. If we cannot explain it simply, we do not understand it yet.

Right-sized

The smallest thing that solves the problem. We would rather write a short invoice than build an empire.

Hands on the work

The people who scoped it are the people who do it. Nobody is handed down a level after the first meeting.

Yours to keep

Every engagement ends with your team able to run the thing without us on the phone.

Mission & vision

Mission

To give small and mid-sized companies the same quality of technical judgment that large ones keep on staff.

Vision

A market where the size of a company no longer decides the quality of its technology, or the confidence behind the decision.

Articles

Reflections from the work.

All articles

Contact

Write to either of us.

Tell us what is on your desk. A first conversation costs nothing and usually takes half an hour.

Hank McNamara

BD Associate

Mike Picello

BD Associate