Engagement
Three ways to work with us
Pick the shape that fits today — teams commonly move from Project to Retainer as systems reach production.
Project
Scoped delivery
A defined outcome with a start and an end: a migration, a new platform, a Kubernetes rollout — designed, built, documented and handed over.
- Fixed scope, weekly demos
- Everything as code + docs
- Handover & team training
Best for: migrations, greenfield builds, audits.
Retainer
Run & improve
We take over operations: monitoring, on-call, upgrades and continuous improvement — with agreed SLOs and a monthly engineering budget.
- 24/7 on-call — we hold the pager
- SLOs, incident response, post-mortems
- Monthly cost & security reviews
Best for: products in production without an ops team.
Fractional
Embedded platform team
Senior DevOps engineers embedded part-time in your team — the platform expertise of a full hire, without the full-time cost.
- Works inside your repos & rituals
- Mentors your engineers as we go
- Scale hours up or down monthly
Best for: startups between "no ops" and "ops team".
Side by side
| Project | Retainer | Fractional | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical shape | Fixed scope, start & end date | Ongoing, month-to-month | Ongoing, scoped hours per month |
| You get | A delivered, documented system | A team holding the pager for you | Embedded senior engineers |
| On-call included | No | Yes — 24/7 | Optional |
| Best for | Migrations, greenfield builds, audits | Production systems without an ops team | Startups between "no ops" and "ops team" |
| Ends with | Handover + team training | Runs as long as you need it | Scales up or down monthly |