For scale-ups and enterprise teams without a dedicated platform team
Production infrastructure for teams shipping AI.
We build and run the cloud, AI, and data platforms behind your product — so your engineers ship features, not fires.
Where teams start: slow releases · unreliable data pipelines · rising cloud costs · AI stuck in prototype · no clear owner for production
45 minutes with a senior engineer: your setup, the risks, what to fix first. No sales team.
4
clouds run in production: AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle — plus bare-metal GPU
15+
years in production platform engineering, per lead engineer
Services — what we build and run
Four practices, one standard: systems that have to actually work.
Cloud and platform engineering, AI infrastructure, AI-assisted engineering, and real-time industrial data. They reinforce each other — AI needs data, data needs cloud, agents need a pipeline with gates — so most engagements start in one and grow into the next.
Selected work
Shipped — and still up.
Pfizer
AWS Infrastructure Automation for Manufacturing Process Tracking
Environment provisioning
days
< 1 hour
John Snow Labs
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Management for AI Applications
Model training time
up to −60%
Iseatec
Scalable IoT Sensor Data Platform on AWS with Real-Time Analytics
Sensor events · 99.9% uptime
billions / day
Who does the work
Senior engineers on your problem — not one architect over a bench of juniors.
The most expensive thing an agency can do to you is sell a senior and staff a junior. Every engagement here is staffed to the same floor, and the people who scope the work are the people who deliver it.
10+
years in production, minimum, for every engineer on an engagement
4+
senior engineers available per engagement
US + EU
clients running in production on both sides of the Atlantic
Whoever scopes it, builds it
The engineer who sizes the work is on the delivery team. There is no handover from the person who understood the problem to the people who write the code.
Senior only, on the critical path
We do not staff a project with one architect and a bench of juniors billed at senior rates. Everyone assigned has run production systems of comparable scale.
Named engineers, not headcount
You get specific people whose work you can look at before they start, and they stay on the engagement. Rotation happens only when you ask for it.
The team that builds it, operates it
Where we run what we build, the on-call rotation is staffed by the same engineers. It is the fastest way to make sure the thing was built to be operated.
45 minutes with a senior engineer: your setup, the risks, what to fix first. No sales team.
Certifications on the bench
22 active certifications, each verifiable on Credly.
Kubernetes & cloud native · 15
Cloud · 3
Infrastructure as code · 1
AI · 3
Two minutes, no email required
How production-ready is your platform?
Eight questions; “Not sure” is a fine answer. You get the score and the fixes straight away. We keep your answers without your name or email, to improve the check, and if you then contact us from this tab, we attach them so the engineer can prepare.
Pick the check closest to your work
Infrastructure as code
Question 1 of 8
If your production environment vanished tonight, how would you rebuild it?
Filling in as you answer
Infrastructure as code
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Deployment
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Observability
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Cost control
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Recovery
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Access & security
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Capacity
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Ownership
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How we compare
Why a senior-led team
Small enough to own your platform. Able to scale when the roadmap needs it.
Direct access to senior engineers
The engineer on your call is the one who designs and builds.
Clear technical ownership
One named lead owns your platform, from architecture to production.
Continuity, build to run
The team that builds it keeps running it, so the knowledge stays.
Scales to what you agree
More senior engineers join when your roadmap needs them, on terms you set.
Criterion
AfiOps (senior-led team)
Large agency
Freelancers
Hire a platform team
Time to start
Days
Weeks — after the sales cycle
Days
3–6 months to hire
Who does the work
A senior architect leads; vetted senior engineers scale behind them
Mixed; often juniors on the keyboard
One person, variable depth
Depends on who you can attract
Scaling up
Weeks — from a vetted senior bench, led by the same architect
Yes — often with juniors
Limited to one person's time
Months per hire
Continuity
Same lead, build → run
Rotations and handoffs
Availability risk
Attrition risk
Accountability for production
Yes — we run it, on-call as the contract sets
Depends on the contract
Rarely, beyond the contract
Yes
Cost profile
Fixed-scope or monthly, sized to the roadmap
Higher overhead
Low, but you manage the risk
Salaries + recruiting + ramp-up
Time to start
AfiOps (senior-led team)
Days
Large agency
Weeks — after the sales cycle
Freelancers
Days
Hire a platform team
3–6 months to hire
Who does the work
AfiOps (senior-led team)
A senior architect leads; vetted senior engineers scale behind them
Large agency
Mixed; often juniors on the keyboard
Freelancers
One person, variable depth
Hire a platform team
Depends on who you can attract
Scaling up
AfiOps (senior-led team)
Weeks — from a vetted senior bench, led by the same architect
Large agency
Yes — often with juniors
Freelancers
Limited to one person's time
Hire a platform team
Months per hire
Continuity
AfiOps (senior-led team)
Same lead, build → run
Large agency
Rotations and handoffs
Freelancers
Availability risk
Hire a platform team
Attrition risk
Accountability for production
AfiOps (senior-led team)
Yes — we run it, on-call as the contract sets
Large agency
Depends on the contract
Freelancers
Rarely, beyond the contract
Hire a platform team
Yes
Cost profile
AfiOps (senior-led team)
Fixed-scope or monthly, sized to the roadmap
Large agency
Higher overhead
Freelancers
Low, but you manage the risk
Hire a platform team
Salaries + recruiting + ramp-up
How to start
Know what to fix first.
Free 45-minute architecture review
Bring your current setup and the problem you're facing. A senior engineer walks through it live and tells you honestly what we'd do — whether or not you hire us.
- For
- Teams whose platform slows releases, costs too much, or keeps someone on call at night.
- Bring
- A diagram or a short description of your setup. No credentials, nothing confidential.
- You leave with
- The risks we see and what to fix first, in order.
- No obligation
- The call does not start a paid engagement.
45 minutes with a senior engineer: your setup, the risks, what to fix first. No sales team.
Cloud Readiness Audit
1 week · fixed scope
Cost, reliability, security, and delivery-maturity review
Prioritized action list with effort estimates
Written report + walkthrough call
Fixed price — ask on the call
Details
AI Readiness Assessment
2 weeks · fixed scope
Data, infrastructure, and use-case pipeline audit
Top 3 initiatives with cost and effort
Reference architecture + written roadmap
Fixed price — ask on the call
Details
Agentic SDLC Assessment
2 weeks · fixed scope
Your delivery lifecycle mapped, stage by stage
Where agents add value, scored
Gated roadmap with costs and risks
Fixed price — ask on the call
Details
Data Platform Audit
2 weeks · fixed scope
Pipeline reliability, warehouse design, and cost review
Prioritized roadmap with effort estimates
Written report + walkthrough call
Fixed price — ask on the call
Details
After the audit: we build it, or run it with you
- 1
Assessment
A free 45-minute review, then a fixed-scope audit if you want the full picture.
- 2
Planning
A prioritized roadmap with effort estimates, in writing.
- 3
Implementation
Senior engineers build it, alongside your team.
- 4
Operations
We run it, with response times set in the contract, or hand it over documented.
Next step
Let's look at your platform together.
45 minutes with a senior engineer: your setup, the risks, what to fix first. No sales team.