Professional Services
Project-based engagements with clear scope, clear timelines, and clear outcomes. We come in, do the work, hand it off cleanly, and leave you with infrastructure your team can own — not a dependency on us.
The state of most AWS consulting engagements
- Statements of work are written to be hard to disprove — vague deliverables, indefinite timelines, change orders baked in
- The work that gets shipped is a slide deck — not infrastructure your team can run
- Knowledge transfer is a final 30-minute call — and nobody on your team can extend what was built
- The consulting team's incentive is to extend the engagement — not to finish it cleanly
- "We delivered what was scoped" — but the scope was always more about justifying the budget than solving the problem
- Three months in, you're paying for the relationship as much as for the output
Why we engage differently
Our incentive is to finish — clean handoff, your team owns it, we move on. We don't sell change orders. We don't pad SOWs. We don't build dependencies on us. And the person you talk to is the person who does the work.
If a project doesn't fit our model, we say so up front and recommend who might be a better fit.
Work that ships, not slides that get archived
- Cloud migrations — lift-and-shift, re-platform, or re-architect
- Cloud modernization — containers, serverless, event-driven
- AI implementation — Bedrock, SageMaker, inference endpoints
- Infrastructure builds — IaC, CI/CD, GitOps, self-service platforms
- Security hardening — IAM, network, WAF, compliance posture
- Data platform builds — ingestion, transformation, analytics
Engagement Models
Every engagement starts with a scoping call. We won't propose work we can't deliver.
Scoped to ship, not scoped to justify
Define success before we start
We spend time understanding your current state, your target state, and your constraints. Then we scope work that's achievable and measurable — not work that looks impressive in a SOW.
Iterative, not big-bang
Sprint-based delivery. You see progress every two weeks. Every sprint has a demo, a rollback option, and a clear definition of done.
You own it when we're done
All IaC committed to your repos. Architecture diagrams, runbooks, and knowledge transfer sessions. We don't leave you with undocumented infrastructure.
60-day support window
After handoff, we stay available for 60 days to help your team work through any issues that come up. Your first few weeks of operating new infrastructure shouldn't be solo.
What you walk away with
- Working infrastructure — migrated workloads, modernized services, built platforms, hardened security — not a slide deck
- All Infrastructure as Code committed to your repositories — Terraform or CDK, submitted as pull requests your team reviews
- Architecture diagrams that match reality and runbooks for the most common operational tasks
- Named internal owners on your team trained to extend, operate, and debug what we built
- A 60-day post-project support window — we're available to help your team through the first few weeks of operating the new system
- A clean handoff — not a relationship that quietly becomes permanent
Frequently asked questions
What does "fixed scope, no change orders" actually mean?
The statement of work defines deliverables, timeline, and price before work starts — and that price does not move for work inside the scope. If your requirements genuinely change mid-project, we re-scope openly as a new decision you make, not a change order that appears on an invoice.
Who actually does the work?
The person you talk to. No account managers, no handoff to a delivery bench — senior engineering from the first scoping call through the last commit. That is a structural feature of a boutique, and the reason the quality does not vary.
How do we see progress?
Two-week sprints, each ending with a demo of working infrastructure and a clear definition of done. You are never more than two weeks from seeing exactly where things stand — and every sprint has a rollback path.
What does handoff include?
All infrastructure code committed to your repositories, architecture diagrams that match what actually shipped, runbooks for the common operational tasks, and a knowledge-transfer session with the engineers who will own it. Then a 60-day window where we stay available as your team takes over.
What if the project is bigger than one person?
Then we say so at scoping — honestly and before you commit. Some projects fit a solo senior engineer with your team engaged; some need a bench we do not pretend to have. The scoping call exists to find out which one yours is.
What does an engagement cost?
Fixed price per scope, set after the scoping conversation. Migrations, modernization phases, and platform builds each get their own number — you will not see an hourly rate with an open-ended total.
Need something built, not advised?
Let's talk about what you're trying to do and whether we're the right fit. No pressure, no sales scripts — just a direct conversation.
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