Case studies
What the work looks like, decision by decision.
Kakoriya Cloud opened in October 2026. The case studies below were delivered by our principal, Akshay Kakoriya, inside system-integrator teams before then. Each says plainly which decisions were the principal’s own and which were the team’s, and none names a client.
The principal’s record
- Migration architecture · Ferry & cruise · 2025 — 2026 Inside an SI team
Two hundred integrations, counted before designed
A legacy integration estate with a data-centre exit date and no inventory — the count that had to come first, the four patterns it produced, and the design that was approved as the baseline for the build.
Read the case study on akshay.kakoriyacloud.com - Integration platform · Construction · ERP · 2024 — 2025 Inside an SI team
Thirty interfaces, one go-live date
Bespoke on-premises applications wired into a new ERP against a fixed date, with requirements still moving — the contract-first discipline that absorbed the churn, and what a batch of messages is worth.
Read the case study on akshay.kakoriyacloud.com - Estate turnaround · Automotive · 2022 — 2024 Inside an SI team
An estate nobody had documented
An integration estate taken over undocumented, deployed by hand and failing in ways nobody could explain — the order the team took it in, and the five decisions inside it that were mine.
Read the case study on akshay.kakoriyacloud.com - Customer platform · Energy utility · 2019 — 2022 Inside an SI team
The day the platform was built for
A utility's public customer platform meeting its first real storm — what gave way, what the team changed afterwards, and which of those changes were mine.
Read the case study on akshay.kakoriyacloud.com - Independent project · Retrieval-augmented generation · 2026 Independent project
Retrieval that cannot leak, and an upgrade refused
My own build: a retrieval system over 1.5 million chunks where source isolation is a property of the topology rather than a prompt instruction, and where an 87-case evaluation set talked me out of a model upgrade.
Read the case study on akshay.kakoriyacloud.com
Case studies open on the principal’s portfolio, akshay.kakoriyacloud.com, which carries the full record. In the summaries, “mine” is the principal speaking.
Firm engagements will be published here
Each one with the client’s written permission, described by sector unless they would rather be named.