Founder post-CTO exit
Production is still up but nobody is formally holding it. You need a senior team to assume responsibility before the first 3 AM incident.
We hold the pager so your team can focus on building.
Deployment, monitoring, backups, performance, security basics. The unsexy production essentials — held by a senior team, not an automated runbook with no one home.
- Engagement
- Audit · Migrate · Own
- Team
- Senior SRE-led
- Stack
- AWS · GCP · Dokploy · Vercel
- Typical run
- 1–8 weeks → ongoing
- From
- $4,200 (audit)
Who this is for
Teams whose production is one phone call away from going down.
If ‘who’s on-call this week?’ has an awkward silence after it — start here.
Series A scaling without DevOps
Engineering is heads-down on the product. There’s no SRE hire on the runway. We become your DevOps function — without the salary line.
SME on legacy hosting
You’re on a shared host, a managed WP plan, or a single EC2 instance someone set up in 2019. Time to move to something that doesn’t fall over.
What we ship
The boring layer, done right.
We don’t sell DevOps as ‘transformation’. We sell it as ‘this thing stays up and you sleep through the night.’
01
Production infra
Deployment pipelines, environment management, infra-as-code. The plumbing that turns a deploy from a ritual into a non-event.
02
Monitoring + alerting
Metrics that matter. Alerts that page. Dashboards your team will actually open. No more ‘is the site down?’ from the founder at 8 PM.
03
Runbooks + on-call rotation
Documented response procedures for the top 20 incident classes. A rotation that includes us. The pager doesn’t sit with one person.
04
Security baseline
Secrets management, IAM, backups, audit logs. The things that should have been in place from day one, retroactively put right.
05
Performance audits + remediation
Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, DB query review, cost-vs-performance tradeoffs. We surface what’s slow, what’s expensive, and what to do.
06
Disaster recovery
Tested restore procedures. RPO + RTO targets you can quote to enterprise customers. Monthly fire drills.
AWSGCPHostinger VPSDokployVercelDockerTerraformSentryDatadogCloudflareGitHub ActionsPagerDuty
How we engage
Three engagement shapes.
One operating model.
Senior-led in every shape. Pick the one that fits the problem.
Infra audit
1–2 wk · from $4,200
- Full infra inventory
- Risk + cost analysis
- 90-day stabilization plan
- Honest takeover scope
Cloud migration
4–8 wk · from $22,000
- Migration to chosen target
- IaC + CI/CD
- Monitoring rollout
- Zero-downtime cutover
Ownership retainer
Ongoing · from $4,500/mo
- Tiered SLA: Standard · Pro · Critical
- Monthly reliability report
- Quarterly DR drill
- We hold the pager
Sample case
Zero downtime in 90 days after a CTO exit.
A Series A fintech needed someone to assume infra responsibility cold — no documentation, no handover, departing CTO unreachable.
Series A fintech · Ongoing
Took over production after a CTO exit — zero downtime in 90 days.
Founder needed a senior partner to hold infra after their CTO left. We took over deploys, monitoring, on-call, and shipped two architecture improvements during the takeover. The team didn’t notice — which was the point.
Uptime
99.98%
MTTR
−62%
Reliability dashboard
Common questions
Things CTOs usually ask.
Three tiers. Standard: 4-hour business-hour response. Pro: 1-hour 24/5. Critical: 15-minute 24/7. Only on Critical do we ship the pager — the others are best-effort with a posted target.
Transmission open
Let’s turn the scattered into a system that holds.
30 minutes · no pitch · no obligation