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Constellate

The private platform behind the practice.

The Nitrosite is the public face of a firm. Private Consulting is the system behind it. We design, build, and operate a custom internal platform that unifies a firm's data, runs its day to day operations, and answers to no one but its owner. We run it. You own it.

It is not software leased back to you. It is infrastructure built to specification in your own cloud account, hardened, documented, and handed over in full. The same discipline that makes a Nitrosite fast and secure makes a private platform something a managing partner can trust with the firm's numbers.

Owned by you. Operated by us.
What we build

One private system, not a drawer of disconnected tools.

Most firms run on a stack of applications that never speak to each other. The numbers live in one place, the documents in another, and the answer to a simple question takes a week to assemble. We replace that with a single private platform: a branded intranet, live dashboards, and a data layer that pulls every system into one place you control.

  • menu_book
    Branded internal intranet Handbook, procedures, policies, and reference material in one private, searchable place.
  • monitoring
    Live operational dashboards The firm's real figures, intake, pipeline, workload, and performance, on one screen and kept current.
  • database
    A unified data layer Read-only connections to the systems you already use, normalized into one warehouse you own.
A precision instrument, representing a platform built to specification rather than assembled from parts
Fig 1. Built to specification, operated with discipline
Capabilities

Production grade from the first deploy.

Every platform is built on the same foundation we hold ourselves to. Any single engagement uses the subset it needs.

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Cloud platform engineering

Infrastructure defined as code on Amazon Web Services: networking, compute, storage, databases, monitoring, and budgets, sized to a documented monthly cost before anything is provisioned.

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Data pipelines and integration

Scheduled, read-only pulls from the systems you already run, normalized into one warehouse, with publish gates and anomaly alerts so a bad pull never reaches a screen.

insights

Internal web applications

Branded intranets, real-time dashboards, and strategic insight pages, built as fast static front ends with no framework bloat and a mobile-responsive layout.

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Authentication and access control

Single sign-on through your existing identity provider, enforced at the edge, with role-based permissions and no credentials ever stored on disk or in source control.

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Operational tooling and runbooks

Deploy, snapshot, restore, and smoke-test scripts, monitoring alarms, and written runbooks, so the platform can be operated and recovered with confidence.

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Pre-deployment review

Every change to production passes a structured review for bugs, security, and performance before it ships. Findings rated critical or high are resolved first.

How it works

A build, then a partnership.

Setup

The build

A one-time engagement to design, build, and deploy the platform. The scope is fixed and the work is invoiced against delivery milestones. When it is done, the platform is live and the work product is yours.

Subscription

The partnership

Ongoing hosting, monitoring, maintenance, and steady enhancement, billed monthly. The platform keeps pace with the firm: new views, new data, and new workflows are delivered as the needs change.

cloud_done Deployed in your account The platform runs in your own cloud, reached by least-privilege roles with multi-factor authentication.
handshake Owned outright Once fees are paid, the work product is yours, with full title to what we built for you.
visibility Read-only by default Connections to your operational systems read data only. Nothing is changed without your written agreement.
paid Cost shown first Estimated monthly infrastructure cost is presented before provisioning, and no new service is added without your sign-off.
Business guidance

The numbers, turned into decisions.

A platform that only stores data is a filing cabinet. Ours reads it. On a set schedule, the firm's unified data is synthesized by our analysis engine into a ranked, plain-language briefing: what moved, what is at risk, and what to do about it. Profitability by matter type, revenue at risk, workload distribution, and rolling forecasts stop being quarterly guesses and become a standing view the partners can act on.

The software is the instrument. The guidance is the point. We sit alongside the people who run the firm, read the same evidence they do, and help decide what to do with it.

  • schedule
    Scheduled briefings A recurring summary of the prior period, delivered with your branding, written in plain language.
  • trending_up
    Profitability and forecasting Revenue per engagement, margin by service line, and rolling forecasts you can plan against.
  • leaderboard
    Workload and capacity Where the work sits, who is carrying it, and where the next bottleneck is forming.
  • query_stats
    Revenue at risk Early signals on the matters, accounts, and renewals that need attention before they slip.
The Constellate approach to private platforms

A firm's best decisions are already hiding in its own data. We build the system that surfaces them, and we keep it running.

Private, owned, and built to the same standard as everything else we ship. No leased software, no black boxes, no surprises on the invoice.

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Write to the partners directly. Describe how the firm runs today and what you wish you could see. We read every message, and if the fit is right we reply within one business day.