Technology Stack Assessment
that cuts through vendor hype.
Your team is using 15 different tools that barely talk to each other. Sales complains the CRM is clunky. Marketing wants to add another platform. IT is worried about security and integration nightmares. Every vendor promises their solution will transform your business, but you're drowning in subscriptions that don't deliver results. We assess your entire technology stack and tell you what's actually worth keeping, what's holding you back, and what investments would genuinely move the needle.
How we help
Most B2B companies have technology sprawl. Someone bought a marketing automation platform three years ago that no one uses properly. Your website runs on WordPress but you're not sure why. Sales has a CRM they hate. Analytics tools are collecting data nobody looks at. Each tool made sense when purchased, but together they create inefficiency and frustration.
Technology stack assessments solve this by evaluating your tools against what your business actually needs to accomplish. Not what's trendy or what competitors use, but what will help your specific team generate better leads, close more deals, and operate more efficiently.
We start by understanding your workflows. How does a lead become an opportunity? What information does sales need to close deals? What's creating manual work that could be automated? What data would help you make better decisions if you had it? Then we evaluate whether your current tools support or sabotage these workflows. Our assessments identify three categories. Tools working well that you should leverage more fully. Tools creating problems through poor integration, complexity, or misalignment with how your team works. Tools you're missing that would eliminate bottlenecks or unlock new capabilities.
We're platform-agnostic. If your current stack is right for your business, we'll tell you to keep it and show you how to use it better. If it's holding you back, we'll explain exactly why and recommend specific alternatives with honest assessments of migration complexity and cost.
The result is a clear technology roadmap. Keep these tools and use them this way. Sunset these platforms because they're not delivering value. Add these capabilities because they'll solve real problems. Every recommendation tied to business outcomes, not technical features.
Why work with espress labs
- Platform-agnostic recommendations - We have no allegiance to specific vendors and only recommend tools that solve your actual problems
- Integration analysis - We evaluate how well your tools work together, not just individual platform capabilities
- Workflow-first approach - Technology should support how your team actually works, not force them into rigid processes that slow everything down
- Cost-benefit clarity - Every recommendation includes honest assessment of implementation time, ongoing costs, and expected ROI
- Implementation support available - We don't just hand you a report, we can help execute migrations, integrations, and training if needed
What we deliver
Complete inventory of your existing technology stack with evaluation of what each tool does, how it's used, integration points, costs, and performance against intended purpose.
Documentation of critical business processes showing where technology supports versus hinders your team's ability to generate leads, close deals, and serve customers.
Analysis of how well your tools communicate with each other, identifying data silos, manual handoffs, and opportunities for automation that would eliminate repetitive work.
Identification of missing capabilities that would drive business results, with specific examples of what becomes possible when gaps are filled.
Specific tool recommendations for areas requiring change, including alternative options, implementation complexity, migration considerations, and total cost of ownership.
Prioritized plan for keeping, optimizing, migrating, or adding tools with phased approach that minimizes disruption while maximizing business impact.
Typically 2-3 weeks depending on stack complexity. We need access to your tools, interviews with users across departments, and time to evaluate integration capabilities and alternative platforms.
We'll assess whether it's the right fit and help you maximize the investment. Sometimes the tool is fine but implementation or training was inadequate. Other times a recent purchase was wrong for your needs and cutting losses early makes sense.
We're Webflow Certified Partners and work with platforms like ActiveCampaign, but we're transparent about relationships and only recommend tools that genuinely fit your needs. If your business is better served by competitors, we'll say so.
Change management is part of the recommendation. We identify why current tools aren't working and show team members how new approaches solve their actual pain points. When people see technology making their jobs easier, resistance decreases.
Yes. We can handle migrations, build integrations, configure new platforms, and train teams on proper usage. Some clients prefer to handle implementation internally, others want our help throughout the process.
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