For funded startups
Funded startups burn the runway on the wrong things. Infrastructure should not be one of them. We are the senior hand on your cloud, servers, and CI/CD: we manage it, fix what breaks, and take the tasks your engineers have no time for. One task or ongoing, no in-house head of infra to hire, no retainer required.
Funding-stage fit
Seed
Single-server, fast iteration
Series A
Real users, real uptime
Series B
Multi-region, audits start
Series C
Full DevOps team transition
Where it usually hurts
You hired engineers to ship product. Half their week is going to the cloud instead.
We pick up the cloud account, ship the IaC, and handle the day-to-day. Your engineers get their week back.
Something is broken in production right now and nobody owns the infrastructure.
Send us the problem. A senior engineer diagnoses it, fixes it, and writes down what happened so it does not repeat. No retainer needed to get help.
Investors asked about your runway and your cloud bill in the same call.
Fixed-price audit. Right-sizing, reserved instances, architectural fixes. Typical outcome: 20-40% off the bill without performance loss.
You have a backlog of small infra tasks and no one senior to do them.
Bring them one at a time or hand us the list. Each task gets a plan, a time estimate, and a fixed price before any work starts.
Where the work lives
The infra spend goes from a rounding error to a real line item somewhere between Series A and B. That is when getting it right starts paying off the fastest.
Seed
$50-200/mo
MVP
$200-800/mo
Series A
$800-3K/mo
Series B
$3K-15K/mo
Series C
$15K+/mo
The shaded zone (Series A - B) is where most teams hire us. Earlier is welcome; we just tell you when AWS is overkill.
Where you are right now
What breaks at seed is not what breaks at Series A, and the fix that was right eighteen months ago is usually the thing slowing you down now. Find the row that sounds like this week.
One or two engineers, everything deployed by whoever is awake.
What breaks
There is no second person who can deploy, and nobody has tried restoring the database. The risk is not the bill, it is that a single laptop or a single leaver takes production with it.
What we do
We put the environment in code, give you a deploy anyone can run and a restore that has actually been tested. Small scope, done once, and you own it afterwards.
Paying customers, a roadmap, and infra eating a day of engineering a week.
What breaks
Uptime becomes a promise you made in writing. Alerts fire at people who cannot act on them, and the cloud bill starts appearing on the board deck next to the runway.
What we do
We take the infra layer off your engineers: monitoring that wakes the right person, CI/CD they can maintain, and a cost pass before the number becomes a conversation.
A real team, real compliance questions, and someone asking about the next round.
What breaks
Due diligence arrives and wants to know whether the whole thing can be rebuilt from code, who has access to what, and where the customer data physically sits.
What we do
We build the answer rather than the slide: documented architecture, least-privilege access, backups with a restore drill, and the fixes that would otherwise come back as conditions on the round.
What we usually run
Each engagement is one of our real services with a focus tuned to startups needs.
IAM, networking, secrets, and cost discipline on AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, or wherever you run.
Open serviceA senior engineer on call for your infrastructure. One task or ongoing, no head of infra to hire.
Open serviceAlerts that wake the right person, and someone who responds when an incident fires.
Open serviceFixed-price cloud audit. Most startups find 20-40% of their bill is recoverable.
Open serviceWhat it looked like
Anonymised, but the numbers are the ones the work produced. Each figure links to the write-up it came from.
-68% cost
Case Study - Cost Optimization
13 servers and 6 load balancers, half of them dead, running at 0.2-2.6% CPU. We measured first, then migrated to a cloud-native autoscaling architecture with an HA database cluster - cutting cost 68% with zero downtime.
+60% traffic
Case Study - Headless Commerce
A monolithic WordPress store where the storefront shared resources with the backend. We decoupled it into a headless architecture: WordPress kept as the backend, a containerized frontend on Kubernetes behind a CDN, multi-layer caching, and a zero-downtime delivery pipeline.
~95% reclaimed
Case Study - Cloud Storage
Four years of orphaned media, intermixed with live user content, made a storage cleanup a data-loss risk. We caught two deletion bugs in review and redesigned the operation to be fully reversible.
FAQ
Maybe. If you run a single small app and burn under a few hundred a month on infra, you are fine for now. Talk to us when the cloud bill shows up on the invoice list, when something breaks and nobody owns it, or when customers start asking about uptime in writing.
No. Bring us a single task or a problem, get a plan and a fixed price, and we do it. A retainer only makes sense once the work is ongoing: it is cheaper per hour and faster, but it is not a requirement to work with us.
That is the typical mode. We own the infra layer (cloud, servers, CI/CD, secrets, on-call). Your engineers own the application. Handover and a weekly sync, not gatekeeping.
Yes for the first 12 to 18 months, because there is no salary, no equity, no onboarding, and no risk of the wrong hire. Past that point a full-time hire usually wins, and we tell you when we think you have reached it.
Overlap with US business hours is part of the standard model, and we work with teams on both sides of the Atlantic. We are not a 24/7 NOC, and we say so before you need one rather than after.
Yes. Investors increasingly ask what happens if your one engineer leaves, whether the infrastructure can be rebuilt from code, and where customer data physically sits. We put together the documentation, the architecture diagram and the access and backup story, and we fix the items that would otherwise come back as conditions on the round.
Other industries we cover
Sound like your situation?
One task or the whole list. You get a plan, a time estimate and a fixed price before any work starts, and a straight answer if we are not the right people for it.