You are about to spend money and want an outside read.
A software proposal, a new website, an AI tool, a consultant, a migration. Before you commit, you want someone who is not trying to sell you the thing.
Towns I work in regularly
If your business is in one of these towns, I can be at your office in the morning and home by lunch. That is the default, and it is the reason the work is better than a phone call from someone three states away.
- Hingham Home base. Where Lantern Harbor is based.
- Cohasset A short drive down 3A.
- Scituate Harbor to harbor.
- Duxbury Just across the bridge.
- Hull Nantasket and the peninsula.
- Marshfield Down Route 3, easy reach.
- Norwell Inland neighbor, quick trip.
- Weymouth The north edge of the South Shore.
- Quincy North side, closer to Boston.
- Braintree Between Quincy and Weymouth.
- Plymouth Southern end of the South Shore.
- Hanover Inland, by Hanover Crossing.
- Pembroke South of Hanover, off Route 53.
- Kingston Between Duxbury and Plymouth.
- Rockland Where the South Shore Chamber is based.
- Abington Off Route 18, inland.
- Whitman Toll House country.
- Hanson Off Route 27, west of Pembroke.
- Holbrook Western edge of the South Shore.
Not on the list? If you are on the South Shore or within about forty-five minutes of Hingham, the same in-person approach applies. Follow-up and delivery happen by phone and email like anything else, but the relationship starts face to face.
The South Shore has business owners from a lot of places. Whatever your first language, the door is open. A note in a few languages →
You might call Lantern Harbor when...
The common thread is usually the same: a technology problem that nobody has translated into a sensible next move yet.
There is drag in the business, and it is starting to feel expensive.
The same manual work keeps happening, the handoffs are loose, and the fixes so far have been workarounds rather than decisions.
Your website is underselling the business.
The service is solid, but the homepage does not say so clearly, and the person landing on it does not know what to do next.
AI keeps coming up, but the real question is where it is worth using.
You do not need an innovation theater project. You need a sober answer about where it will save time or improve the customer experience.
How the work usually goes
Simple on purpose. No sprawling discovery project unless the problem truly needs one.
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We name the actual problem.
Not the vague version. The specific decision, bottleneck, or question that is costing you time or confidence.
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I look at the real work.
The website, the workflow, the vendor materials, the current tools, or a morning sitting with your team. The point is to react to the work itself, not guess from the abstract.
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You get a clear next move.
Sometimes that is a short written plan. Sometimes it is a build. Sometimes it is a calm recommendation not to do the project at all.