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How we engage

Your primary
engagement partner.

One organisation to engage, one umbrella over everything beneath it. You are not assembling a consortium, chasing three suppliers for a price, or hoping the design and delivery teams ever spoke to each other.

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What one engagement partner means in practice

One engagement

A single point of accountability

You engage WantedX. We hold the design, the response, the commercial construct and — on award — the delivery contract as prime. Every partner behind the solution is managed by us, not by you.

One umbrella

Design, solutions and delivery in one place

The architecture, the AI-native components that fill it, the business case that funds it and the team that implements it all sit under the same roof — so nothing is lost in the handover between them.

Turnkey

From requirement to running system

We do not stop at the submission. On award the same architects who designed the response govern the build, the integration, the cutover and the support model that follows.

Figure 3

The engagement lifecycle

Six stages, scaled to the size of the decision.

Figure 3 — Engagement lifecycle
1 Engage The requirement or solicitation, and its deadline
2 Interpret Decompose requirements and evaluation criteria
3 Design Target state, integration, ecosystem composition
4 Justify Cost model, TCO, ROI, the commercial envelope
5 Respond Assemble, review and submit; defend clarifications
6 Deliver Turnkey build, integration, cutover and support
Delivered remotely · governed continuously · measured against the business case

The architects who design the response in stage 3 are the design authority through stage 6. The same team carries the solution from interpretation to production. Nothing is re-explained at a handover, and nothing bid in stage 5 becomes someone else's problem in stage 6.

Figure 4

Three levels of adaptation

Any solution we design in is available at three levels, so you pay for exactly the degree of customisation the requirement justifies.

Figure 4 — Three levels of adaptation
Level 1 Pre-Built Out-of-the-box solution. A proven portfolio solution, configured to your environment.
Fastest time to valueLowest cost
Level 2 Pre-Built + Tailored Adapted to your specification. A solution core, extended to your business and functional requirements.
Balanced speed, fit and cost
Level 3 Newly Designed Built to your objectives. Bespoke design and development against your functional specification.
Maximum differentiationCompetitive fit
Every level is a South African-developed, bespoke solution

Built by our group or an assured ecosystem partner — never resold foreign product. Clients enter at the level their requirement justifies, and can move up a level as the solution matures. The level changes how much is tailored, never where it was built.

How we contract

One agreement.
One SLA. One party answerable.

WantedX contracts as prime — however many partners sit behind the solution. Partner relationships are back-to-back subcontracts held by us, so a multi-party solution never becomes a multi-party negotiation for you.

All of our services are delivered remotely by design. Removing travel, premises and geographic constraint from our cost base lets us price competitively against far larger firms while accessing scarce senior skills wherever they are.

Two ways to engage

Project-based, or as-and-when

Project-based for a defined response or programme, priced to the deliverable. Or an as-and-when retainer, which gives smaller ICT businesses standing access to architecture competency without carrying it on payroll — you draw on it for the bid in front of you and stand it down when the response is submitted.

What we do not sell

Our architects and engineers are key enablers of the products and services we offer — they are not sold as individual resourcing. WantedX is not a body shop or a staff-augmentation supplier. There is no rate card and no CV pack. You engage us for an outcome, and we deploy an accountable team against a defined deliverable for the duration of the engagement.

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