Stack Architecture & Integrations

Most marketing stacks are accidental archaeology — every quarter someone bought a tool, nobody decommissioned anything, and now nothing talks to anything else.

We audit, redesign, and re-implement marketing stacks so customer data flows where it needs to, integrations stop breaking, and your tools earn the money you pay for them.

What we do

Does this sound familiar?

Symptom

Your marketing stack is an accidental museum

You're paying for 27 tools, half overlap, three don't talk to anything, and nobody on the team can fully list them. Renewals come up and finance blanket-renews because nobody knows what would break if they didn't.

Most stacks accreted by acquisition, vendor pitches, and CMO mood. Without intentional architecture, every quarter adds more tools and more integration debt — and the line item keeps climbing while marginal value falls.

We audit the whole stack — capabilities, contracts, integrations, real usage — and produce a three-year roadmap that consolidates, replaces, and de-risks. With dollar values attached, not just architectural diagrams.

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Diagnosis:Tools accumulate; nobody decommissions. The bill grows, the value doesn't, and renewals run on inertia.

PrescribedMarTech Stack Audits & Roadmaps
Symptom

Customer data is fragmented across silos

Your CRM has one view of the customer, the warehouse another, paid platforms a third. Each tool over-fires or misses critical signals because nothing is the source of truth and identity stitching is improvised.

Without a CDP — or a well-implemented warehouse-native equivalent — personalisation, suppression, and attribution all break at the boundaries between systems. You're paying for sophistication you can't actually deliver.

We implement CDPs that resolve identity, sync clean audiences to downstream channels, and feed your analytics with deduplicated, governed event streams. One customer, one record, every system in agreement.

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Diagnosis:Without a single customer record, every downstream system is confidently wrong in its own direction.

PrescribedCustomer Data Platform (CDP) Implementation
Symptom

Integrations break every quarter

Zapier and native connectors get you 80% there, but the last 20% — the bit that matters — breaks every release. Marketing operations spend half their week duct-taping, and nobody notices a sync is dead until revenue does.

Fragile integrations cap the velocity of every team that depends on them. Without durable, observable integration architecture, the stack stays brittle and engineering treats marketing requests as Tier 3.

We build custom middleware (Temporal, Inngest, webhook orchestration) for the integrations that matter — durable, observable, retryable, and version-controlled like the production code they actually are.

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Diagnosis:Native connectors solve the easy 80%; the 20% you actually need is the part that quietly breaks.

PrescribedCustom API & Middleware Connectors
Symptom

You're trapped on a platform you've outgrown

The CRM you bought at Series A can't model your current GTM, the marketing automation platform is two acquisitions deep, and every quarter someone proposes a big-bang replatform that gets quietly shelved when the timeline hits twelve months.

Big-bang migrations fail because they freeze the business while engineering rebuilds it. Meanwhile, the legacy system keeps drifting and the new one keeps missing scope. Years pass; nothing ships.

We migrate strangler-pattern: one capability at a time, both systems live, traffic shifted incrementally. You're never offline, never overwhelmed, never stuck halfway — and you can stop the migration at any boundary without losing what's already moved.

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Diagnosis:Big-bang replatforms freeze the business and miss scope; strangler-pattern is the only migration that actually finishes.

PrescribedLegacy System Migration
Symptom

Enterprise deals stall on security review

Your enterprise prospects ask for SOC2, your security posture is improvised, the deals stall at procurement. Sales blames engineering, engineering blames the absence of investment, and the contract value sits in pipeline purgatory for two quarters.

Without a deliberate cloud security posture — landing zone, IAM, logging, DLP, vendor reviews — every enterprise deal becomes a months-long firefight against a questionnaire nobody on your team has answered before.

We set up cloud security foundations — landing zones, identity, secrets management, SOC2-ready logging — and document the posture so security reviews become a checkbox exercise, not a quarter-long slog that costs you the deal.

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Diagnosis:Improvised security posture turns every enterprise deal into a two-quarter procurement war you usually lose.

PrescribedCloud Security & Compliance Setup

How we run stack architecture

Three phases, no big-bang projects

Audit

Inventory of tools, contracts, integrations, and real usage. We surface redundancies, integration risks, and total cost of ownership — and build a roadmap with dollar values, not just architectural diagrams.

Implement

Strangler-pattern delivery — we replace one capability at a time, never a big-bang replatform. Your stack stays live throughout. Risk is bounded; rollback is possible.

Govern

Documentation, runbooks, monitoring, and a quarterly health-check cadence. Stacks decay without governance — we build the operating rhythm that keeps them clean after we leave.

There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things. Marketing stacks add a third: vendor lock-in.

Phil Karlton (with apologies)Software Engineer

Frequently asked questions

Stack architecture, demystified

  • Sometimes. Warehouse-native (reverse-ETL) approaches with tools like Hightouch and Census can replace much of what a traditional CDP does — usually cheaper and more flexible. We'll help you evaluate based on your data maturity, activation needs, and team capability.

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