Consult 30

Authority. Knowledge. Frictionless access.Consult30 gives you the value of an advisor, the depth of a specialist, and the accessibility of a colleague—one session at a time.We connect you with a senior practitioner who has 25+ years of hands-on experience — the kind of expertise that usually is found inside Fortune 100 organizations and advisory firms — and is prohibitively expensive to access.
Consult30 provides insights, not invoices.
No lengthy engagements, contracts, retainers, or RFQs required.Just direct access to seasoned enterprise IT expertise in 30 minutes, 60 minutes, or multi-hour Deep Dive format, delivered virtually.

Who It's For

Consult30 is built for the people driving decisions - product managers, business analysts, product owners, project managers, teams leading or participating in data or transformation initiatives. It's for and anyone who desires insight into a specific problem involving:
— Data correctness & reconciliation
— Modernization & transformation planning
— Assignment support / new role
— Decision & architecture validation
— Communicating expertise with authority
— Mainframe, COBOL, JCL & legacy systems
— Project strategy & methodology

The process

Consult30 is designed for faster access and immediate benefit. The process is simple:

• Choose your topic from the list provided.
If your topic is not available, use the Custom Q button in the Book Now section. • Describe your question in as much detail as possible so we can maximize your time with us. • Choose your session length — 30 min, 60 min, or deep dive. • Book and pay for your session.

That's it! Show up ready to work!
After a brief introduction, the session starts on your issue immediately.What you get is direct access to a senior practitioner who has been inside the systems — not just advising from the outside. The kind of judgment most organizations only get after months of engagement, or never. No retainer. No junior staff relaying your questions.Just practical answers to real problems.Consult30 provides insights, not invoices.

Categories and questions

Below are the categories and sample questions we can help with. We also have a custom question selection available.

Strategy and Trusted Advice for Founders
• Am I building the right thing?
• Is my developer actually competent or just convincing?
• Am I being taken advantage of because I don't speak the language?
• What should this actually cost?
• How do I know if I'm behind?

AI and Automations
• How do I go about automations? Where do I start? What about Digital transformations?
• What AI tools can help my business?
• How would using an AI agent impact my business?

My data is a mess
• I have multiple systems and the data doesn’t match—how do I figure out what’s actually correct?
• We’re reconciling data manually every month—what’s the smarter way to fix this?
• I don’t trust our reporting—how do I trace where the problem is coming from?

We’re trying to modernize, but don’t know how
• We want to replace a legacy system—how do we do it without breaking everything?
• How do I even define scope for a transformation when everything is connected?
• What shouldn't we automate yet?

I need help / Assignment support
• I just got put on a complex project and I don’t know where to start.
• How do I quickly understand a system no one has documented?
• What questions should I be asking that I’m not?

Sanity check my thinking
• Here’s my plan—what am I missing?
• Does this architecture / approach make sense?
• Is this realistic or am I underestimating?

Communicate Authoritatively
• How do I explain my experience at a senior level?
• What should I say in an interview about data migration / integration?
• How do I push back on engineers or stakeholders without sounding weak?

We don’t fully understand our mainframe / legacy core systems
• How do I reverse engineer mainframe business logic?
• I have a specific COBOL, JCL, VSAM, or mainframe processing question.
• We have decades of COBOL / batch / legacy processes—how do we map what actually happens today?

Project Strategy
• How can I reinvent this business process?
• Crash course on requirements gathering techniques / drill down.
• Is the methodology for this project agile, waterfall, iterative or hybrid?

Custom Question
If you have a question in a category not listed above, submit your custom question (Custom Q) via the Book Now page and we will let you know as soon as possible if we can help.
• We also offer 'second opinion' and 'simple question' services.

industries served

Financial Services · Wealth Management · Banking · Brokerage · Insurance · Government · Manufacturing · Professional Services · Technology

selected engagements

Regulatory reporting data integrity and remediationTrading account reference data migration and decommissionBasel commercial loan data qualityGlobal custody solutions and SWIFT messagingLegacy system digital transformation and straight-through processingMainframe modernization — COBOL, VSAM, JCL, and CICS legacy systemsCode decomposition and reverse engineeringPension administration modernizationInsurance correspondence and eDelivery modernizationWealth management portal and enterprise ecosystem design for 360-degree client viewAdvisor commissions / compensation platform design and data servicesAPI product management — requirements, data mapping, integration workflows, performance managementClient onboarding and KYC automationIdentity and access management designSupply chain exception processing and reconciliationAI agent development, GenAI workflow automation and productivity

Pricing

Single Session - 30 minutes - $200

Double Session - 60 minutes - $325

Deep Dive - 3.5 hours active / 5 hours with breaks - $1500

Strategic Guidance and Executive Advisory are available for complex, multi-session, and enterprise-scale engagements. Submit a custom question.

Ready to get started? Click Book Now below.

About

I've watched a problem growing for years on both sides of the table.Organizations are cutting consulting budgets while complexity keeps climbing. Founders, small and mid-size businesses, and enterprise teams alike are facing decisions that require deep expertise — but don't need, can't justify, or can't afford a long-term engagement. Sometimes you just need a few minutes with someone who has been there and knows.At the same time, some of the most experienced practitioners in enterprise IT — senior analysts, architects, data leads, and technical PMs with decades of hands-on work — are sitting outside the room where those decisions are being made.
Their knowledge is largely untapped.

Consult30 was built to close that gap.

I'm Karen "Kae" Russell, founder of Kae Infotech Consulting and Services. I built my career across nearly 40 years in enterprise IT — from software development and data team leadership through Business Systems Analysis, Process Optimization, and Product Management across financial services, banking, insurance, government, technology, and manufacturing.The through-line across all of it: systems thinking and pattern recognition — the ability to understand what's actually happening inside a system when the documentation, if there is documentation, says one thing but the behavior and the data say another.That's what Consult30 delivers. Insights, not invoices.
One session at a time.I look forward to serving you.
- Karen

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Enterprise-grade expertise, on your schedule — in blocks as short as 30 minutes.
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STEP 1:
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