Fractional Platform Team
SaaS teams get a fully-operated AWS / Azure & Kubernetes platform, live in 14 days, so 100% of your engineers go back on the roadmap.
Who this is for
Technical founders and CTOs of B2B SaaS companies running on AWS or Azure with Kubernetes — where infrastructure is quietly eating 20–40% of your best engineering time.
Hiring a platform engineer means a six-figure salary and five months. The board wants product velocity, not infra firefighting.
What you get
The engine — done-for-you, every day
- Full 24/7 platform operations — AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, networking, backups & tested DR, ongoing tech-debt paydown
- Incident ownership with an SLA — we lead every response; your team never carries a pager
The fast start — first 14 days
- Day-5 Platform Audit & Scorecard — a prioritized reliability, security & cost report
- 14-Day Done-for-You Takeover — run in parallel, zero disruption to your live product
The assets you own — keep these even if you leave
- Complete documentation + Infrastructure-as-Code — your stack, no longer trapped in one head
- Observability stack + live shared dashboards — your transparency window into everything we do
- Safe CI/CD with automated rollbacks
- Security hardening + continuous patching + automated scanning
The strategic layer — quarterly
- Cloud cost optimization + cost review (frequently offsets part of the fee)
- Architecture & scaling review + roadmap — we grow the platform ahead of your demand
- Board-ready ROI report — justify the spend in a single slide
How it works
Two components: a one-time Launch that builds the foundation and hands you the assets, and a monthly Operate retainer that runs it.
Platform Audit
A risk-free diagnostic showing exactly where you stand. Free for founding clients, and credited toward the Launch if you proceed.
The 14-Day Launch
Everything that happens once, up front — audit deep-dive, 14-day done-for-you takeover, full documentation + IaC, observability, CI/CD, security baseline, and cutover to live operations. Fixed scope, fixed price, ~2–3 weeks.
Scoped to your complexity — Lite, Standard, or Complex.
Operate
Ongoing 24/7 operations once you’re live. Month-to-month, with a discount for quarterly or annual prepay.
- 24/7 operations with SLA
- Incident ownership
- Monitoring & patching
- Live dashboards
- Quarterly architecture & scaling review
- Cost optimization
- Board-ready ROI report
Pricing is tailored to your platform — we’ll walk you through it on the call.
Our guarantees
On the 14-Day Launch
14-Day Go-Live Guarantee
Operating in 14 days, or your Launch is free.
Fixed-Price Guarantee
Fixed scope, fixed price; no surprise overruns mid-migration.
Keep-It-All Promise
All documentation, IaC, and dashboards are yours to keep forever — even if you never sign the retainer.
On Operate
No-Lock-In Promise
Month-to-month, cancel anytime on 30 days’ notice.
Zero-Ops Guarantee
Within 90 days your engineers spend effectively zero hours on infra ops, or we keep working free until they do.
P1 Promise
A Sev-1 outage caused by us means that month is free.
Why now, and why limited
We’re only a few senior engineers who can stand up one new platform per month — so Launch slots, not retainer seats, are the real bottleneck (we cap at ~8–10 platforms under management). That constraint is the point: you get senior people, not a junior in a ticket queue. When slots fill, it’s a waitlist.
Start here
Book a free 30-minute platform review. We’ll show you the three biggest reliability, cost, or security wins available right now.