I friend of mine hired the principles at Cognitect to kick off a Clojure/Datomic project. They were like a force of nature, really, and very quickly got things set up and helped with architectural decisions, etc. I would imagine that they have helped hundreds of customers this way.

From the blog post, I think that the answer to your question is yes: they will stop general consulting services.

Here's hoping they release a getting started project now that they've dipped out of general consulting.There must have been a standard-ish template in use.