Case Studies โ Real IT Consulting Outcomes
We’ve helped startups ship faster, consulting firms punch above their weight, and healthcare organisations untangle decades of IT complexity. Here’s what that looks like in practice โ powered by OpenClaw and deep Azure expertise.
13,000 Lines of Production Terraform in a Fraction of the Time
Client: Early-stage startup with an aggressive deployment timeline
Challenge: Production-grade cloud infrastructure needed to be deployed into a customer’s Azure tenant โ fast. The team was two people. The timeline would normally require a dedicated platform engineering team working 8โ12 weeks.
Approach: Using agentic coding tools โ Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw โ the two-person team built 13,000+ lines of production Terraform from scratch. The infrastructure spanned 10 layered configurations covering:
- Networking and identity
- Storage and compute
- AI services and application workloads
Every layer was validated by multiple AI models for security misconfigurations, naming consistency, and Azure best-practice compliance โ before deployment.
Result:
- 8โ12 weeks of effort compressed into a fraction of the time
- Audit-ready code that exceeded what manual development typically achieves
- Zero dedicated platform engineers required
A two-person team delivered enterprise-grade infrastructure at a pace that would normally require a dedicated platform engineering team.
Consulting Firm Delivers Higher-Quality Work โ Without Adding Headcount
Client: Mid-market consulting firm
Challenge: The firm needed to produce better client deliverables โ technical documentation, operational procedures, how-to manuals โ without proportionally increasing headcount or blowing timelines.
Approach: By integrating OpenClaw and other AI tools into daily workflows, consultants accelerated every phase of deliverable production โ drafting, refining, structuring. AI assistants helped produce content that more deeply explains the technology and gives customers actionable guidance.
Result:
- Deliverable quality visibly improved in both depth and polish
- Boring data turned into high-quality reports with metrics that surfaced hidden value
- Slide decks, architecture diagrams, and visual materials produced without dedicated design resources
AI didn’t replace the consultants โ it gave them leverage to produce work that punches above their weight class.
9-Month Virtual Desktop Strategy for a Multi-Geography Healthcare Org
Client: Large healthcare organization spanning multiple geographies
Challenge: This wasn’t greenfield โ it was a patchwork of merged organizations, each with its own governance, data practices, applications, and politics. They needed a coherent virtual desktop infrastructure strategy across all of it.
Approach: Big Hat Group navigated the complexity head-on. The real challenge wasn’t standardization โ it was the history. These were smaller entities forced together over time, creating a massive patchwork. Success required deep stakeholder engagement across specialized areas with fundamentally different requirements.
Result:
- 9 months of planning to build consensus before build-out could begin
- Strategy addressed specialized security, privacy, and availability requirements across diverse clinical and operational areas
- Unified path forward that respected organizational complexity instead of steamrolling it
You don’t fully understand the complexity until you try to make changes in an organization with so many specialized areas. A coherent strategy isn’t just about technology โ it’s about navigating the human side of IT transformation.
Let’s Talk About Your Challenge
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