Strength.
Resilience. Foundation.
Built to give organizations making significant technology investments an independent perspective from process foundation through outcome.
Old Norse origin. Meaning “Thor's stone.” A name chosen deliberately for what it represents: strength, resilience, and the steady foundation of a structure built to hold.
Built to keep the work aligned with the outcome that matters: yours.
Torsten Advisory was, after twenty years across every side of the enterprise software lifecycle and a recurring pattern observed: significant technology investments going wrong not because the technology was wrong, but because the foundation was missing.
The practice is intentionally structured for focused, dedicated advisory work. Engagements are selective and hands-on, so the work can compound through depth of understanding, continuity, and direct founder involvement.
Most of all: fully vendor-independent. No referral fees, no partner arrangements, and no financial relationship with any technology vendor or system integrator. Based in Toronto and working globally, the practice is structured around one interest: the client's outcome.
Andrew Mehes. Operator before advisor.
This practice is grounded in twenty years spent inside enterprise software, not observing from the outside. The throughline is direct experience across development, customer engineering, implementation, business development, and product leadership.
The result is an advisory perspective shaped by how products are built, sold, delivered, supported, and measured in the real world.
A career built alongside the people who built the products from the ground up.
What makes the work different is where it comes from. Not from advising on the outside. From operating on the inside, in customer engineering, development, delivery, business development, and head of product at every stage.
Building something genuinely original, and learning what it takes to protect it.
The pattern started early. While still in high school, Andrew began working at i4i Limited, a small Toronto software company developing novel XML document technology. He returned as an intern during university, making it his first formal professional role.
i4i was a true founding-stage company. The founders built the product themselves and defended it all the way to the Supreme Court, where i4i v. Microsoft (2011) became one of the most consequential software patent cases in history. Working alongside those founders at that stage gave a foundation for understanding what it means to build something genuinely original.
Deep enough to find the actual problem. Clear enough to explain it under pressure.
At IBM, Andrew joined the compiler development group, contributing directly alongside the engineers who had built the Java Just-In-Time compiler from the ground up. This produced a compiler-level understanding of how enterprise software actually works at a systems level.
Critically, he was also the customer-facing side of the compiler group. When enterprise customers in defense, banking, and online commerce had critical production issues, Andrew was the person translating highly complex technical problems into clear, actionable explanations that enabled executives to make informed remediation decisions in time-critical situations. That combination is foundational to the advisory work at Torsten Advisory today.
What happens to a product's integrity during a major repositioning and scaling event.
Andrew joined Camilion Solutions, a Toronto-based founder-built enterprise software company serving the insurance industry. He worked as a consultant and solution architect serving insurance clients while also contributing directly to the development team. After the SAP acquisition, he was part of the team that scaled that product from a focused regional offering into a global SAP product targeting markets in Asia and beyond.
That experience gave direct insight into what happens to a product's integrity during a major repositioning event, how the original design intent holds up, where it bends, and where the distance between the product and its narrative starts to grow. Every project achieved successful go-live across engagements ranging from multi-million to nine-figure investments, including Samsung Life and Samsung Fire and Marine.
Honest assessment over sales momentum. Saying no when no was the right answer.
Within SAP, Andrew helped build and define the Innovation Services offering for blockchain. As Innovation Manager, he created service offerings and worked directly with international customers across financial services, consumer packaged goods, and government organizations.
A foundational principle of this work was transparency: helping customers understand when blockchain was appropriate for their situation and when it was not. That commitment to evidence over momentum is a direct precursor to the work at the core of Torsten Advisory.
The rarest credential in the advisory space: full lifecycle operator experience, on both sides of the table, at the same time.
As Founding Head of Product for SAP GreenToken, Andrew built a product from zero to commercial general availability with live customers, the first SAP.io product to reach commercial GA. The role required driving results across every area: product management, presales, demo creation, implementation delivery, service creation, thought leadership, and serving as regulation subject matter expert simultaneously.
During his tenure, the product exceeded adoption goals and expanded to Fortune 500 companies across five global regions, more than ten industries, and new regulatory frameworks including EUDR. Andrew also designed and delivered training and enablement programs that equipped more than 1,000 people across internal teams, customers, and partners, including Big Four consulting firms, to understand, position, implement, and support the product.
This is the reason this practice can credibly advise organizations making significant technology investments. Not from theory. From having done every part of it.
I founded Torsten Advisory because I spent twenty years inside the enterprise software lifecycle and saw the same pattern repeat.Andrew Mehes, Founder
The conditions that make the work possible.
These are not positioning statements. They are the structural commitments that determine what every engagement looks and feels like.
Fully vendor-independent.
No referral fees, no partner arrangements, and no financial relationship with any technology vendor or system integrator. The structure is designed to keep recommendations aligned with the client's outcome.
Bounded engagements by design.
Every engagement is treated as a partnership, not a transaction. Quality of attention, continuity of relationship, and dedicated founder involvement are central to how this practice operates.
Decisions grounded in real data.
Recommendations come from analysis specific to the client's situation. Not from generic frameworks, subscription-model research, or vendor-supplied benchmarks applied from the outside.
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