How We Work

Four Stages

Most consulting work goes wrong because the plan is written before anyone has properly understood what's already running, and then the finished system doesn't fit the environment it goes in. We fully understand your business use case and challenges first to avoid this pitfall.

The Stages

Assess

Read-only access to your accounts, the bill, and whatever documentation exists. We map what's actually running, including the things nobody remembers creating. Then provide a written summary explaining how everything is architected, what environments and applications are your cost drivers, and key optimization points, both now and as you grow. You get a prioritized list of what to change, each item costed in terms of money, time, and risk. See assessment pricing.

Plan

You decide what, if anything, you want our help or ownership implementing. You get a fixed-price quote for the final set of work, paid in milestones after each is delivered.

Implementation

The work sequenced based on your actual business needs and priorities. You choose if we architect a detailed plan for your team to implement, or be your implementation partner owning the changes. Weekly reviews to verify everything is on track.

Hand Over

Runbooks, architecture notes and a working session with your team. The measure of a good handover is that you could fire us the next day and nothing would break tomorrow, or next year.

What You Get

Everything we build is infrastructure as code in a repository you own, with documentation written for the person who inherits it. Not a slide deck and a console full of hand-made resources.

Our Commitment to You

If the work does not need doing, we will say so on the first call. If your existing setup is fine, that is a useful answer and it costs you nothing. We would rather turn down a project than bill for one that doesn't help your business.