Enterprise IT doesn’t need another 100-slide deck. It needs a napkin sketch.

Hi, I’m Andrew Griffiths. For 30 years, I’ve helped CIOs and tech leaders untangle technical debt, navigate digital transformation, and solve the "too complex to tackle" IT challenges. No vendor jargon. No fluff. Just clear, practical, peer-to-peer advice.

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Sound familiar?

The Legacy Trap

A 20-year-old core system running critical business functions, too fragile to touch but too expensive to replace.

The Tool Sprawl

27 different monitoring tools with flashy dashboards that nobody actually looks at when the system goes down.

The Onboarding Black Hole

A fully funded new hire sitting idle for two weeks because manual JML processes are blocking their access.

The best solutions happen over coffee.

I started Napkin Sketch because I got tired of the paralyzing complexity of modern IT strategy. The best breakthroughs I’ve ever been a part of didn’t start in a sterile boardroom. They started over a coffee, with a simple sketch on a napkin.

Fresh off the Napkin

Hello world!

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