Infrastructure that deploys without ceremony

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with CI/CD, monitoring and backups that have actually been restored from at least once.

Two questions about your infrastructure

Two questions tell you most of what you need to know about a team's infrastructure: how long a deployment takes, and when the backups were last restored. If the answers are "an evening" and "never", that is where to start.

We set up infrastructure as code so environments are reproducible, pipelines so releasing is unremarkable, and monitoring that tells you about a problem before a customer does. Then we go through the cloud bill line by line, because most are a third larger than they need to be.

Who this is for

If one of these sounds like your situation, it is worth a conversation.

Deployments people dread

Manual, done late at night, by the one person who knows the steps.

A bill nobody can explain

Cloud spend growing faster than usage, with no owner and no breakdown.

Backups nobody has tested

They run. Whether they restore is a different question, and a bad time to find out.

How we work

Engineering practice, stated plainly, so you can hold us to it.

You own the code

Your repository, your infrastructure, from the first commit. No hostage-taking, no licence to renegotiate.

Working software every fortnight

Something you can open and use, not a progress report. If a sprint produced nothing you can click, we say so.

Tests where they earn their keep

On the logic that would be expensive to get wrong. We do not chase a coverage number for its own sake.

Handover assumed from day one

Written so your team, or the next agency, can pick it up. That is a feature, not a risk to us.

Part of Technology

Part of Technology

Software that carries the business

Custom software, web and mobile applications, cloud platforms and the integrations that hold them together — built to be maintained, not just launched.

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What we commit to

What we commit to

  • A fixed price for a fixed scope, or a rate — never both at once
  • One named engineer who knows your system, not a rotating pool
  • Weekly written updates, including the weeks that went badly
  • Your data exportable in a documented format, always
  • No lock-in: no proprietary framework you can only maintain through us
How a build runs

How a build runs

Four stages. You can stop after any of them and still have something worth having.

Discovery

We map the process as it really is, agree what the software must do, and write down what it will not. You get the plan whether or not you build with us.

Design and architecture

Screens, data model, and the technical decisions that are expensive to reverse later. Reviewed with you before anyone writes code.

Build

Two-week cycles, each ending in something you can use on a staging environment. Priorities can change between cycles; scope inside one cannot.

Launch and support

Deployment, monitoring, and a support arrangement sized to what you actually need — which is usually less than you were quoted elsewhere.

Common questions

If the answer is an evening, or one person's evening, that is where we start. Automated pipelines usually bring it to minutes and remove the ceremony around releasing.

Usually by a third, through right-sizing, reserved capacity and finding resources nobody remembers provisioning. We go through it line by line and show you the workings.

They run. Whether they restore is a different question, and the worst time to find out is during an incident. We do a restore drill so you know it works and how long it takes.

Is this the right fit?

Tell us what you are trying to do. If cloud & DevOps is not the answer, we will say so.

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Who this is for

Teams who would rather ship product than manage servers.

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Growing product teams

Growing product teams

Where deploys have started to feel risky.

Regulated operations

Regulated operations

Where every change needs evidence and a way back.

Boring infrastructure is good infrastructure

Boring infrastructure is good infrastructure

  • Every environment reproducible from code
  • Secrets out of the repository
  • Alerts that mean something
  • A rollback that takes one command
Nobody should be paged for something a pipeline could have caught.
How we work

By the numbers

-34%

typical cloud spend in year one

from merge to production

100%

environments defined in code

How the work runs

How the work runs

Short cycles, with something you can look at when each one ends.

Week 1

Audit: what you run, what it costs, what is fragile.

Week 2–4

Pipeline, environments and monitoring in code.

Week 5+

Cost tuning and on-call handover.

Common questions

No. Most of the benefit comes from how the account is organised, not from which logo is on it.

Infrastructure holding you back?

We will audit what you have and tell you what is worth changing.

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