Totus Consulting
The hardest transition in a generation. You don’t have to navigate it alone.
Built to stand.
Technology used to be built by teams you could see, at a pace you could review. Now AI builds at machine speed, everything looks finished, and your people are unsettled. We ran technology the old way for thirty years — and we run it the new way every day, on our own company.
The job hasn’t changed. The team has.
Managing developers
Managing AI
Devs who go their own way
Agents that go their own way
Code review before merge
Approval before anything ships
Scope creep
Confident, wrong answers
Growing your juniors
Repurposing them — toward judgement and design
Same discipline. New team. Your people still on it.
Six offers · three families
From a second opinion to a whole solution.
Advise · expertise, rented
The Technical Review
“Will it stand?”
New and planned IT, architecture reviews, the vendor pitch on your desk. Priced per review, by complexity.
Board-level Counsel & Fractional CTO
One posture, two cadences: quarterly counsel, or days per month. An advisor at your board’s table, not a director on your register.
Design & build · expertise, with hands
Architecture & Design
Building, integration, migration. The blueprint as its own deliverable.
Bespoke Solutions
Architecture, development, integration, training — end to end, per phase.
Enable · expertise, transferred
AI Implementation
Security, governance, how-to — and the team transition itself: what moves first, who steers the architecture, how your developers are repurposed. Juniors included.
FIQ Services
Implementation, training, using FIQ well. The bridge between product and practice.
AI removed the cost of building. It did not remove the cost of building wrong — it hid it.
71.8
Programming’s automation-feasibility score — second of 35 skills. Senior architects judging trade-offs are among the least exposed.
The AI Skills Shift · arXiv · 2026
12.3%
of changed lines are now copy-paste, up from 8.3% since AI assistants arrived. Refactoring collapsed from 25% to under 10%.
GitClear · 211M lines · 2020–2024
45%
of AI-generated code failed security tests — flat regardless of model size. The constraint is the person judging what the model produces.
Veracode · 100+ LLMs · 2025
Tenant zero, for the practice
We build FIQ this way, every day.
A two-founder company running a team of AI agents — every change proposed by an agent, approved by a person, audited after. The practice’s proof is the product’s development.
