A cloud that earns its bill.
Landing zones, migrations, platform engineering, and cost optimisation across AWS, Azure, and GCP — built by engineers who have run them under load.
How we approach cloud solutions.
Most cloud bills are a record of unmade decisions. We help teams make them — about account structure, networking, identity, observability, and the boundaries between teams — so the platform helps you ship instead of slowing you down.
We design and operate landing zones, replatform workloads, and stand up internal developer platforms. We are equally comfortable in a single-account startup and a 200-account enterprise organisation.
Best fit for
- Teams with a measurable product, operational, or platform outcome.
- Leaders who want senior engineers accountable for delivery decisions.
- Systems where launch quality, security, and handover matter commercially.
Not a fit for
- Staffing-only requests where nobody owns outcomes or technical quality.
- Projects that need the cheapest possible build, regardless of maintainability.
- Big-bang programmes with no room for discovery, proof, or staged cutover.
What you get in week one
- A named technical lead and communication rhythm.
- Outcome map, risk register, and first-slice recommendation.
- Access plan, repository/cloud checklist, and demo schedule.
Concrete artefacts, not just engineering activity.
Every engagement leaves your team with working software and the operational assets needed to own it: architecture records, dashboards, runbooks, and handover notes.
Cloud Solutions roadmap with outcome metrics and assumptions
Architecture decision records and integration contracts
Delivery dashboard covering scope, risks, burn, and demo outcomes
Production code, tests, CI/CD, and environment documentation
Security, accessibility, and performance checklist
Runbooks, handover notes, and operating model recommendations
Start small, build fixed-scope, embed a squad, or stay for support.
Discovery
One to two weeks to shape the outcome, risks, and plan.
Fixed-scope build
Milestone-led delivery for a well-defined product or platform slice.
Embedded squad
A senior cross-functional team working inside your cadence.
Ongoing support
Operations, optimisation, roadmap delivery, and handover support.
A typical path from first workshop to production.
Week 1
Discovery, access, and risk map
Align on the cloud solutions outcome, validate constraints, and define the first demo-able slice.
Weeks 2–3
Architecture and first working slice
Stand up the delivery environment, agree technical decisions, and ship the first thin slice to staging.
Weeks 4–8
Build, measure, and de-risk
Weekly demos, production-shaped infrastructure, testing, observability, and stakeholder feedback loops.
Launch
Harden, cut over, and hand over
Security, performance, accessibility, go-live runbook, and a practical ownership handover.
Risk reduction is part of the scope.
We make risks visible early: security posture, data migration, accessibility, performance, operational handover, and ownership. The risk register is reviewed in demos alongside working software.
A short list, so the engagement starts with momentum.
You do not need a finished spec. You do need a few things in place so senior engineers can move quickly instead of waiting.
- A named decision-maker who can prioritise the cloud solutions scope
- Access to the people who understand the current process and its edge cases
- Access to systems, data samples, and environments (read-only is fine to begin)
- The constraints that matter: compliance, deadlines, budget envelope, integrations
- A definition of success we can measure — even a rough one to sharpen together
The expensive failure modes we have seen before.
Most of the cost in this work comes from a handful of avoidable errors. We design the engagement to keep you out of them.
- Scoping the cloud solutions too broadly before anything ships and learns
- Treating security, accessibility, and operability as launch-day work
- Building on assumptions that were never validated with real users or data
- No clear owner, so decisions stall and momentum quietly drains away
- Skipping the handover, leaving a system nobody on your team wants to touch
Indicative shapes, so you can budget before we talk.
Every project is scoped to its outcome, so these are guides, not quotes. They give you a realistic sense of duration, team shape, and where the value lands.
Discovery sprint
1–2 weeksValidate the outcome, map risks, and leave with a costed plan and a fixed first milestone.
Team: 1 senior engineer + part-time architect
Fixed-scope build
6–12 weeksA well-defined product or platform slice delivered to production against agreed milestones.
Team: 2–4 senior engineers + design as needed
Embedded squad
3+ monthsA cross-functional team working inside your cadence, owning delivery alongside your people.
Team: Lead, senior engineers, product/design
No exact budget required to start. A 30-minute scoping call turns these shapes into a firm plan and a fixed first milestone.
The problems this work exists to solve.
Before we talk solutions, we get specific about what is actually costing you time, money, or sleep. These are the patterns we see most often.
Cloud spend is climbing faster than usage
The monthly bill grows but nobody can map it to value. Idle resources, oversized instances, and egress surprises hide in accounts no single team fully owns.
Every environment is a snowflake
Infrastructure built by hand drifts out of sync. Reproducing an environment is an archaeology project, and disaster recovery is a document nobody has tested.
Migration risk is blocking the roadmap
You know the legacy footprint has to move, but a lift-and-shift could break things you cannot afford to break — so it keeps getting deferred another quarter.
What you can expect.
Landing zones that scale
Multi-account, IaC-driven foundations with identity, networking, logging, and guardrails on day one.
Migrations without drama
Strangler-pattern moves with measured cutovers, not lift-and-shift surprises.
Cost optimisation that sticks
Right-sizing, savings plans, and architectural changes — combined, the difference is usually 20–40%.
Security baselines built in
CIS benchmarks, least-privilege IAM, secrets management, and detective controls from the first commit.
Developer platforms that ship
Internal portals, golden paths, and templates that make doing the right thing the easy thing.
Operated, not just delivered
On-call coverage, monthly reviews, and a clear handover path when you are ready to take it back.
How we deliver.
Step
Discovery & scoping
One to two weeks. We confirm the outcome, the constraints, the risks, and the smallest first slice worth shipping.
Step
Architecture & plan
A short, opinionated document covers the system shape, delivery plan, named team, and the success metrics by week.
Step
Build in slices
Working software demoed every week. CI from day one. Staging environment from day one. No big-bang reveal at the end.
Step
Harden & launch
Performance, security, accessibility, and observability passes before go-live. Runbooks and handover that match.
Step
Operate & evolve
Stay on as long as it makes sense. Continuous improvement, capacity changes, and the next initiative when you’re ready.
The stack, give or take.
We pick per problem, not per pitch. These are the tools we reach for most often on this kind of work.
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Terraform
Pulumi
Kubernetes
Helm
Datadog
Grafana
Crossplane
Where this work earns its keep.
The same engineering discipline, tuned to the regulation, scale, and accuracy demands of your sector.
Proof, in production.
We would rather show you a result than describe a capability. Here is a recent engagement where this work moved a number that mattered to the business.
Common questions.
- The one your team can operate well. We have shipped on all three of the majors and the answer is rarely about features — it is about people, contracts, and existing investments.
- Typical mid-market replatform: 4–9 months end to end. We deliver in cutover-able slices, so the first workload moves within the first 6–8 weeks.
- In almost every audit we have done, yes — and usually meaningfully. We start with a fixed-fee assessment that pays for itself in the first quarter of savings.
- Yes. Many of our enterprise engagements include a meaningful on-prem footprint. We design for it rather than around it.
Ready when you are
Let’s talk about your cloud solutions project.
Tell us what you are trying to ship. A senior engineer will follow up within one business day.
- Avg. engineer experience
- 9+ yrs
- Response time
- 1 day
- Code & IP ownership
- 100%