FIELD NOTE 01
The Invisible Month Six
Steady-state on the project plan, firefighting in reality. What actually happens in the months after hypercare ends — when the A-team rolls off and the tickets keep coming?
Antaral?
Executive research · Season one
You've lived the transition.
Now go on the record.
Antaral is a podcast-style research interview on IT outsourcing and partner transitions. Your host asks on video, you answer in your own voice, and AI tidies the transcript. About 5–8 minutes — no prep, no slides.
3
Leaders on record
20
Questions
7
Domains
5–8min
Of your time
Your host
Research with a practitioner, not a survey bot
Sriram GotetiSr. IT Systems Engineering Architect · Dallas–Fort Worth
Sriram has spent two decades inside the systems this research is about — architecting, migrating, and untangling enterprise IT estates through vendor changes, carve-outs, and outsourcing transitions.
Antaral is his independent primary-research project: structured conversations with the leaders who actually signed the SOWs, survived the knowledge-transfer windows, and felt the gap between the deal on paper and month six in production. Your answers join an anonymizable research corpus — quoted publicly only if you say so, with your name, on your terms.
Why this research exists
The questions no QBR slide ever answers
Three patterns keep surfacing in outsourcing transitions. Nobody has put real executive testimony behind them. That's the gap Antaral closes.
FIELD NOTE 02
The Unchallenged Change Order
The scope was "fixed" until it wasn't. Why do seasoned leaders approve change orders they privately doubt — and what would have made pushing back possible?
FIELD NOTE 03
The Role That Does Not Exist Yet
Every transition quietly invents a job nobody scoped — the translator, the shadow PM, the institutional memory. Who ends up holding it, and at what cost?
Guest voices
Leaders who took the seat
Twenty minutes of talking out loud surfaced more honest lessons than two years of post-mortems. The format makes you say the quiet part.
VP of InfrastructureFortune 500 retailer
It felt like being a podcast guest, not a survey respondent. I forgot I was contributing to research until the transcript arrived.
CIOMid-market manufacturer
The questions were the ones I wish someone had asked me before we signed. I'd put every transition lead through this.
SVP, Technology OperationsHealthcare network
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