We pair frontier-model automation with senior SREs who own every change. The result: cloud platforms that move faster, cost less, and stay up — without the consulting theatre.
Trusted in production
How we work
Most consultancies sell hours. We sell judgement, accelerated by tooling. Every change runs through both a model and a staff-level SRE — neither one alone.
01 · AI accelerates
Generation, evaluation, and remediation tasks run in parallel against your real environment — not slideware.
02 · Senior engineers gatekeep
A staff-level engineer signs every change. We don't ship work we wouldn't put our name on.
Services
Pick the surface you need help on. Most teams start with one and grow from there.
Lift, refactor, or rebuild — moved without downtime, against a real cutover plan.
avg. 8-week engagementFind the spend that doesn't earn its keep. Then cut it without taking the platform down with it.
30–60% spend reductionProduction-grade K8s with golden paths, autoscaling, and the boring stuff already solved.
Day-0 to Day-2 readySLOs that mean something, runbooks that get used, on-call rotations that don't burn people out.
99.99% target uptimeSOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA — translated from auditor-speak into shippable controls.
Audit-ready in 12 weeksInternal developer platforms that engineers actually want to use — golden paths, paved roads, fast feedback.
4× deploy frequencyProcess
No 80-page proposals. We size in days, scope in weeks, and ship in sprints. You always know what's happening this week.
Week 0 · Discovery
We look at the cluster, the bill, the runbooks, the on-call schedule. Reality is the input — not a stakeholder questionnaire.
Week 1 · Plan
You get a one-pager: what we change, in what order, what it costs, what it unlocks. You sign-off before we write a line.
Weeks 2–6 · Build
Weekly cadence. PRs, demos, metrics on a shared dashboard. You see velocity in production, not just in slides.
Week 7 · Cutover
Cutover plans rehearsed, rollback rehearsed. We sit in your war room until the page is quiet.
Week 8 · Handoff
Documentation, runbooks, a recorded architecture review, and 30 days of on-tap support. No lock-in, no “managed services” trap.
Case studies
Three engagements. Different industries, different problems, the same operating model.
Fintech · Series C
Northwind's payments stack was running on a mid-2010s architecture: oversized RDS clusters, over-provisioned EKS, and a Kafka tier that hadn't been re-tuned since launch. We rebuilt the spending profile bottom-up and shipped a new Karpenter-based capacity plan in seven weeks.
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Spend reduction · 90 days
Healthcare SaaS · Growth-stage
Meridian needed to move from a single-tenant Heroku setup to a multi-region, HIPAA-aligned platform on GCP. We delivered a hardened GKE platform with continuous compliance scanning baked into the PR flow — they passed both audits without a single material finding.
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Material audit findings
Logistics · Enterprise
Voltage's platform team needed to ship like a product company while staying inside an enterprise change-management framework. We built an IDP on top of Backstage with policy-as-code gates so changes route themselves to the right approvers automatically — humans only see what they need to see.
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Deploy frequency
Tools & open source
A short list of the things we build in-house, plus the open-source projects we maintain.
Terraform composition + workflow orchestration. The opinion we wished Terraform shipped with.
View on GitHub200+ production-grade modules across AWS, GCP, Azure. Battle-tested, MIT-licensed.
View on GitHubCatches state drift between code and live cloud — before the next change does.
View on GitHubPer-namespace, per-team, per-PR cost telemetry for Kubernetes. Drop-in for Prometheus.
View on GitHubWhy teams pick us
Premium delivery isn't a tagline; it's a set of operating constraints we don't break.
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Every change touched by a named staff-level engineer. Not "supervised by." Touched by.
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We use frontier models to accelerate, never to absolve. The accountability stays human.
03
No retainer creep. We size in days and ship to a calendar your CFO can defend.
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Plain Terraform, plain runbooks, plain documentation. No proprietary lock-in, no managed-services trap.
Testimonials
CloudDrove cut our AWS bill by 64% in a quarter and we never noticed a degradation. The work was so quiet I had to look at the invoice to believe it happened.
Priya Anand · VP Engineering, Northwind Payments
They walked into a HIPAA audit cold and the auditor's first question was "who built this?" — that's the bar I'm holding all my vendors to now.
Daniel Reyes · CTO, Meridian Health
The whole engagement felt like hiring a senior platform team for two months. They left, the platform stayed, my engineers sharpened up. That's the model.
Mei-Lin Chen · Director of Platform, Voltage Logistics
A 30-minute call. We look at one painful surface — cost, reliability, or speed — and you leave with a one-page plan to fix it. No deck.
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