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socraft
The craftspeople of digital. Expert tech talent, ready for your projects.
Consulting firmSoftware EngineeringIT ArchitectureIT StrategyProduct & Design
About
Founded in 2019 and based in Lausanne, socraft brings together developers, product managers, designers and architects across Switzerland, France and Morocco. Its website lists a network of more than 300 crafters as of October 2026 (source).
- Expertise: software engineering, IT architecture and strategy, product design, and agile consulting.
- Approach: qualification through project work, matching to the technical and business context, and support for onboarding.
- Stated focus: helping clients build autonomy through skills transfer (about socraft).
- Leadership: Farhdine Boutzakhti is listed as CEO on the company’s team page.
Architecture and client autonomy
An architecture knowledge base can help a consulting team hand over the context behind its recommendations: the existing landscape, target hypotheses and dependencies to maintain.
What socraft does
- IT strategy and transformation roadmaps
- IT architecture and system landscape organisation
- IT audits and tender scoping
- Digital Factory: turnkey product teams, from design to deployment
- Sourcing qualified tech experts
- Taking AI prototypes to production: code audits, hardening, deployment
- IT organisation, agile at scale, training
Published references
- IT strategy for a cantonal insurance institution (ECAB/KGV): audit of the existing IT landscape, business analysis and construction of the IT roadmap, extended into the overhaul of the core building management system.
- IT strategy for a pension fund (CPPEF): IT architecture, IT department organisation and cybersecurity workstream.
- Tender for the Geneva Conservatory of Music: functional analysis, market study and IT audit ahead of solution selection.
- Infrastructure migrations for Calico Life Sciences: Kubernetes migration and overhaul of a critical NGS pipeline, with ongoing follow-up.
- Agile transformation at SwissBorg and Kudelski: raising team maturity and organising agile at scale.
- Product development for GridWatch: design and delivery of a cloud platform, from UX to technical architecture.
These examples are described in socraft’s published references.
Uses Boldo can support during an engagement
- Mapping the existing IT landscape during audit and strategy phases
- Modelling target architecture in scenarios for comparison and review, depending on your plan
- Mapping data and process flows, and impact analysis ahead of migrations
- Visual reporting to senior management and steering committees
- Handover at project close: sharing documented assets, relationships and views for the client team to maintain
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