Salesforce Consulting & Implementation
End-to-end Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud deployment and custom development.
Salesforce consulting grounded in enterprise architecture and delivery excellence.
Precision. Progress. Aetrum.
Aetrum is a Salesforce consulting firm built for federal, financial services, and healthcare organizations operating under real regulatory weight. Senior architectural leadership on every engagement, backed by 25+ years of enterprise software experience and 15+ years on the Salesforce platform.
What we do
Salesforce Consulting, Enterprise Architecture & Integration
Aetrum delivers Salesforce platform consulting, enterprise architecture, and integration services for organizations navigating complex CRM implementations, platform migrations, and system modernization, backed by senior architectural leadership and specialists tailored to project needs.
Integration Architecture & Delivery
Scalable API architectures, middleware orchestration, and secure enterprise integration patterns.
Salesforce Security Architecture & Governance
Sharing and visibility architecture, permission set design, integration governance, and security posture reviews.
Agentforce, Agent Governance, and Intelligent Automation
Agentforce, multi-agent orchestration via Agent Fabric, agent governance, and prompt engineering.
Product & Application Engineering
Salesforce-native ISV products, Lightning component frameworks, and custom application development.
How we engage
Five ways to engage Aetrum
Senior-led engagements sized to where your organization is today. Two are built for organizations that want senior Salesforce architecture without a full-time hire: fractional architecture and advisory retainers.
Fractional Architecture
Senior Salesforce architectural leadership on a part-time, deliverable-focused basis, for organizations that need architecture-level decisions and roadmap ownership without a full-time hire.
Architecture Oversight
Design Review
Roadmap
Governance
Advisory Retainer
Ongoing senior advisory for organizations in steady state: architecture review, change advisory, integration guidance, and security posture monitoring through a monthly hours block.
Advisory
Change Review
Architecture Continuity
Security Posture
Fixed-Scope Assessments
A defined 4 to 6+ week assessment: architecture, security posture, integration, or migration readiness.
Implementation Programs
End-to-end Salesforce implementation, migration, or modernization, typically 3 to 6+ months.
Prime Contractor Subcontract
Teaming partner or subcontractor for federal and SLED engagements. NAICS 541512, 541511, 541519.
Why Aetrum
What sets Aetrum apart
Aetrum delivers enterprise consulting led by practitioners, not layers of management. Every engagement benefits from senior architectural leadership and hands-on technical depth.
Deep Architecture Expertise
Aetrum's founder and principal consultant brings more than 25 years of software engineering and architecture experience, including work across Fortune 100 organizations. That depth leads every engagement.
Salesforce Platform Specialists
The founder brings over 15 years of hands-on Salesforce architecture and development, spanning Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, custom platform work, and complex integrations.
Enterprise Integration Experience
Proven ability to connect Salesforce with ERP systems, legacy platforms, and third-party services through scalable API architectures and secure integration patterns.
Flexible Delivery Model
Aetrum combines senior architectural leadership with flexible delivery support tailored to the scope and needs of each engagement.
Typical engagements
Common consulting engagements
Aetrum works with enterprise and mid-market organizations on focused initiatives that improve CRM adoption, streamline integrations, and modernize legacy platforms.
Salesforce CRM Implementation
Oracle or SAP CRM Migration to Salesforce
Salesforce Service Cloud Deployment
Salesforce Integration Architecture
CRM Platform Modernization
Enterprise Security & Governance Reviews
Who we are
A founder-led firm built on enterprise depth
Aetrum is a founder-led enterprise technology consulting firm. The founder and principal consultant brings more than 25 years of software engineering and architecture experience, including over 15 years on the Salesforce platform. That background spans CRM implementations, enterprise integrations, and platform architecture across organizations such as Yahoo, AOL, Verizon, and Capital One, as well as government and public sector environments.
Credentials
Salesforce certifications held by Aetrum's principal consultant:
Application Architect
Platform Data Architect
Sharing and Visibility Architect
Platform Developer I
Platform App Builder
The founder's background
Prior to founding Aetrum, the principal consultant held senior engineering and architecture roles across major enterprise organizations, leading CRM implementations, enterprise application architecture, and end-to-end project delivery from strategy through go-live. That experience informs every engagement Aetrum delivers today.
How Aetrum delivers
Aetrum delivers through a founder-led model that pairs senior architectural leadership with specialized consultants and implementation support tailored to engagement needs. Clients work directly with experienced technical leadership, supported by the right specialists for each project. The result is consulting that is precise, accountable, and built to deliver measurable outcomes.
Aetrum delivers through a small core team supplemented by a vetted contractor network and trusted prime contractor relationships. Engagements are scoped to senior-led delivery rather than pyramid staffing models.
How we work
Pragmatic, outcome-focused delivery
Aetrum’s approach combines pragmatic execution with strong architectural foundations. Every engagement is structured around clear milestones, secure delivery practices, and measurable outcomes aligned to business objectives.
Aetrum engages in five ways. Two are built for organizations that want senior Salesforce architecture without a full-time hire: fractional architecture, where Aetrum owns architecture-level decisions and roadmap on a part-time basis, and advisory retainers for clients in steady state who want ongoing architectural continuity. Alongside these: fixed-scope assessments (4 to 6+ weeks), implementation programs (typically 3 to 6+ months), and prime contractor subcontract relationships structured separately. Aetrum scopes work to fixed outcomes where the requirements support it, and time and materials where they don't. See Services for details.
Pragmatic execution
Start with what matters most, frame tradeoffs clearly, and move from architecture
decisions to working software without unnecessary complexity.
Strong architecture
Design for reliability, security, and maintainability so that teams can evolve the
solution with confidence.
Trust & Reliability
Earn trust through secure practices, clear ownership, and reliable delivery,
so both clients and their customers can depend on the solutions we build.
Measured outcomes
Align on concrete goals, define how success will be measured, and check in against
those markers throughout the engagement.
Insights
Latest from Aetrum
An ongoing series on what it takes to migrate from Oracle CRM to Salesforce, drawn from patterns and failure modes common in regulated industries.
The Three Salesforce Data Model Tests Most Migrations Defer to Year Two
The forcing functions most teams discover too late: reporting, integration, and scale as design inputs in month one, not discoveries in month eighteen.
Part 3
May 20, 2026
The Oracle-to-Salesforce Migration Question Nobody Asks Until It's Too Late
The data model decision that determines whether year two of your Salesforce migration is a victory lap or a re-platforming project.
Part 1
April 14, 2026
The Salesforce Security Decision Your Data Architect Should Be Making
Why master-detail vs. lookup in Salesforce is the most consequential schema choice nobody escalates, and the sharing-model consequences that decide whether your org absorbs a reorganization gracefully.
Part 2
April 22, 2026
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