INDEPENDENT ARCHITECTURE OVERSIGHT

Fractional Salesforce Architecture & Governance

Senior architecture judgment on the decisions that are hard to reverse, without a full-time architect.

For organizations that already have admins, developers, and implementation partners. Aetrum owns the architecture call, not the ticket queue.

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Fit

When organizations bring in an independent architect

The first is why you are reading this. The rest are what make it urgent:

  • You need an architect. A full-time hire is not on the table.
  • Major changes ship without anyone reviewing the architecture consequences.
  • Several vendors each make locally sensible decisions that do not add up.
  • Nobody can say what depends on what across integrations and identity.
  • Technical debt keeps growing and no one owns the order it gets paid down in.
  • Leadership has no short, honest read on architecture risk.
  • An AI or agent initiative is about to create new identities, permissions, and data paths.

Not staff augmentation. Not ticket delivery. Not a replacement for your admins, developers, or SI.

Your team keeps delivering. Aetrum is accountable for the architecture decisions behind what they deliver.

The 2026 enforcement deadlines have passed. What was changed to meet them has not been reviewed.

Permission, credential, and integration changes made under time pressure are still in place. Meanwhile agent and AI projects are adding identities and data paths faster than anyone is reviewing them. Both land on architecture.

Oversight

Six things nobody owns when there is no architect

Not another review of your org. These are the standing responsibilities a full-time architect would hold. Aetrum holds them without the headcount.

Architecture Decisions

A clear position on consequential designs before anything gets built. Yes, no, or a better option.

Platform Roadmap

What gets built when, what waits, and what should not be built at all.

Standards and Patterns

The rules your admins and developers build against, so the same decision is not remade every sprint.

Change and Release Risk

Which changes in flight are consequential, what they depend on, and what they break downstream.

Technical Debt Ownership

What is accumulating, what it is costing you, and the order it gets paid down in.

Adopt or Wait

Agentforce, Data Cloud, AI agents. Whether to take them on now, and what has to be true first.

The decisions that actually come up:

  • Should this be a new object, a record type, or a field on something that already exists?
  • Does this integration belong in middleware, or is a point-to-point call defensible here?
  • Can this permission set go to the whole department, or does it have to be scoped?
  • Is this the release that takes on Data Cloud, or does the data model have to move first?
  • Does this agent need write access, or will read plus a queue do?

Want a one-time verdict on the whole org rather than ongoing oversight? The Architecture Assessment is a fixed-scope review that ends with a report.

Process

How the engagement works

  1. Baseline. Establish current state across access, integrations, data, technical debt, and agents. For the ongoing tiers this is usually the Architecture Assessment, and a recent assessment of your own can substitute. Advisory sessions start without one.
  2. Standing review. Consequential decisions come to Aetrum before they are committed. Each one gets a written decision record and a place in the risk register.
  3. Executive visibility. Leadership gets a short, current read on architecture risk and what it would take to close it. Short enough to be read before the meeting, current enough to act on.

Scoped after a short call. Engagements run for a defined term and renew by mutual agreement.

Engagement

Three ways to engage

The difference is not how many hours. It is how much of the decision Aetrum is accountable for.

Advisory Sessions

DECISIONS STAY WITH YOUR TEAM

Scheduled senior review of specific decisions as they come up. Bring a design, a roadmap question, or a problem. Leave with a position and the reasoning behind it.

Standing Advisory

AETRUM RECOMMENDS, YOU DECIDE

Recurring architecture review across an active program, with escalation access between sessions. Aetrum keeps the risk register current and flags what is drifting.

Design Authority

AETRUM SIGNS OFF

Aetrum holds sign-off on architecture decisions within an agreed scope, before they are committed. Release approval stays with your team, and the architecture call does not.

Cadence and term are set at kickoff. Every tier costs a fraction of a full-time architect, and is scoped on a call rather than published here.

What you keep

What you keep

Advisory work disappears if nothing is written down. These do not:

  • Architecture Decision Records for every consequential decision reviewed, including the options rejected and why.
  • A prioritized architecture risk and technical-debt register, kept current rather than delivered once.
  • Written design review outcomes, so the reasoning survives the person who made the call.
  • An integration and identity dependency map, where the engagement touches it.

The record stays with you. If the engagement ends, your team still knows why the org is shaped the way it is.

Credibility

Why Aetrum

  • Led by an architect with 15+ years on the Salesforce platform and five Salesforce certifications, three at architect level: Application Architect, Sharing and Visibility Architect, and Platform Data Architect.
  • Built the Salesforce integration behind a production agentic customer support platform delivered with Sierra AI, connecting case and subscription data to an AI agent layer.
  • Architected the AOL and Yahoo Salesforce org merger, including data migration.
  • Owned 14+ integrations to and from Salesforce in a high-volume consumer environment.
  • Led security, event monitoring, and governance programs aligned to enterprise security and GDPR requirements.
  • Experience across media, financial services, healthcare quality, nonprofits, state government, and federal contracting.
  • Founder-led, not subcontracted. The architect you meet is the architect in the review.

Aetrum has sat on the delivery side of these decisions.

Implementations, migrations, and subcontract work are part of the practice. That is why the advice accounts for what a design actually costs to build, instead of assuming the ideal one gets built.

For a sense of how Aetrum reasons about these decisions, see the case against the current implementation model and the access an AI agent inherits.

Bring an architect into the room

Bring a decision you are sitting on. Thirty minutes is enough to get a position on it.

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