Architecture Assessments & Org Audits
Independent, read-only reviews of your Salesforce org. A full six-framework Architecture Assessment, or a focused Org Access Assessment. Fixed price, scoped after a short call.
Salesforce consulting grounded in assessment, architecture and delivery
Precision. Progress. Aetrum.
Aetrum is a Salesforce consulting and architecture practice in the Washington DC metro area, across implementation and integration, with a specialty in access, security, and dependency governance.
We work with nonprofits and associations, healthcare and HealthTech organizations, and teams in financial services, federal, and other industries who need the same answers. Senior architectural leadership on every engagement, backed by 15+ years on the Salesforce platform.
What we do
Salesforce Consulting, Architecture & Integration
Aetrum delivers Salesforce platform consulting, architecture, and integration services. The work ranges from focused org assessments to full implementations, migrations, and modernization. Every engagement is led by senior architectural leadership, with specialists added on implementation programs where the scope requires it.
Salesforce Consulting & Implementation
End-to-end Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud deployment and custom development. Nonprofits: see the NPSP Constituent Self-Update Portal, a fixed-price build delivered in about a week.
Integration Architecture & Delivery
Scalable API architectures, middleware orchestration, and secure integration patterns.
Salesforce Security Architecture & Governance
Sharing and visibility architecture, permission set design, integration governance, and security posture reviews.
Need to know who can reach what, and what breaks when it changes? See the Org Access Assessment.
Agentic AI Architecture and Agent Governance
Agent architecture with Agentforce, integration architecture for agent platforms outside Salesforce, agent identity and permission scope, action blast radius review, and consumption cost analysis.
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 Engagements
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 consulting led by practitioners, not layers of management. Every engagement benefits from senior architectural leadership and hands-on technical depth.
Senior judgment from day one
Aetrum's founder and principal consultant brings more than 25 years of software engineering and architecture experience, including work across Fortune 100 organizations. You are not paying for someone to get up to speed on your org.
Patterns, not guesses
Over 15 years of hands-on Salesforce architecture and development, spanning Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, custom platform work, and complex integrations. The failure modes are ones Aetrum has already seen.
Integrations built to be maintained
Salesforce connected to ERP systems, legacy platforms, and third-party services through scalable API architectures and secure integration patterns your team can still reason about in two years.
You work with the architect
Every engagement is led by the founder. Implementation programs add specialists where the scope requires it. Assessments and advisory work are not subcontracted.
Who we are
Who you actually work with
Bergin Panimayam
Founder and Principal Consultant, Aetrum LLC
I have spent more than fifteen years on the Salesforce platform, most of it inside orgs that grew for a decade before anyone stopped to map them. Ten of those years were at AOL and Yahoo, where I worked on customer support and subscription engagement, and built the integration between Salesforce and Sierra AI for their agentic support tooling.
I am a certified Salesforce architect, holding the Application Architect, Sharing and Visibility Architect, and Platform Data Architect credentials. Aetrum is a Salesforce Consulting Select Partner.
When you hire Aetrum, I do the architecture work. I am the one in your org, and I am the one who writes the findings. There is no bench and no handoff.
Typical engagements
Common consulting engagements
Aetrum works with organizations from mid-size nonprofits and associations to large institutions, on focused initiatives that assess what an org contains, improve CRM adoption, streamline integrations, and modernize legacy platforms.
Org Access Assessment
Salesforce Architecture Assessment
Salesforce CRM Implementation
Salesforce Service Cloud Deployment
Salesforce Integration Architecture
CRM Platform Modernization
Security & Governance Reviews
CRM Migration to Salesforce
How we work
Pragmatic, outcome-focused delivery
Engagements start with read-only access and a scoped call. Assessments produce ranked findings, each with the evidence and the steps to reproduce it, followed by a working session to walk through them. Implementation work runs to fixed milestones where the requirements support it.
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
Practical perspectives on Salesforce security architecture, integration dependencies, and the operational decisions that shape Salesforce platforms.
Governing AI Agents in Salesforce, Part 1: The Access Your Agent Inherits
Part 1. An agent is not a new security model. It is a new consumer of the one you already have. Two doors into the org, one access surface, and five questions to answer before go-live.
Part 1
August 20, 2026
The Salesforce Implementation Model Most Companies Are Still Running Is Already Obsolete
AI generates Apex, Flows, and LWC faster than teams can spec them. Build speed stopped being the constraint. The review of dependencies, agent access, and credentials did not move to match.
AI Strategy
August 6, 2026
A Map You Drew Once Is a Map That Is Already Wrong.
Part 6. A dependency map is right the day you draw it and wrong a quarter later. Keeping it true while the org moves is an operating model, not a document.
Part 6
June 30, 2026
Your Certificate Has an Expiry Date. It Does Not Have an Owner.
Part 5. Salesforce records who changed a credential. It does not record who owns it. That is where renewals fall through.
Part 5
June 21, 2026
Named Credentials and the Certificates They Quietly Depend On
Part 4. A Named Credential looks like an endpoint and a login. Underneath it is often a certificate dependency that Salesforce does not draw for you.
Part 4
June 16, 2026
The Connected App nobody scoped
Part 3. A Connected App is one node in Setup with half a dozen invisible edges, and a blast radius that only becomes visible after the breach.
Part 3
June 6, 2026
Contact
Start a conversation with Aetrum
Whether you want an independent assessment of your org, are planning a Salesforce implementation, or need architecture and integration support, share a bit about your initiative. Aetrum's founder reviews every inquiry and responds personally.
There is no obligation. A brief overview of your current platforms, timelines, and objectives helps us prepare for a productive first conversation.
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