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Engineering
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Productized engagements with clear deliverables and transparent pricing. Most clients start with a review, then scale into a build.

Prices shown are starting points, adjusted to your region for purchasing-power parity. Every engagement is scoped to your system and quoted as a fixed price after a short discovery call.

01Start here

Engineering Architecture Review

The entry point. A senior, outside read on your system — in weeks, not quarters.

From $13,000Fixed scope · 2–3 weeks

Where it fits

  • You're about to commit budget to a rebuild and want a second opinion first.
  • Nobody has a clear map of where the real risk, cost, and latency live.
  • Leadership needs a defensible roadmap, not a gut feel.

What you get

  • 30–50 page technical report
  • Risk & security assessment
  • Performance & cost-optimization analysis
  • Prioritized modernization roadmap
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02

Legacy Platform Modernization

Django or Node monoliths that no longer scale — migrated to Go without downtime.

From $63,000Scoped per system

Where it fits

  • A monolith that's slow to deploy and expensive to scale.
  • Latency and reliability degrading as traffic grows.
  • Every change risks breaking something else.

What you get

  • Architecture review & migration plan
  • Zero-downtime strangler-fig migration
  • Go service implementation
  • PostgreSQL optimization
  • Observability through and after cutover
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03

AI Infrastructure

Private, on-prem AI that runs on your hardware. Not chatbot development.

From $84,000Scoped per system

Where it fits

  • You can't send sensitive data to third-party model APIs.
  • You need AI that runs inside your own network and hardware.
  • Off-the-shelf chatbots don't fit your domain or compliance rules.

What you get

  • On-prem / private LLM deployment
  • RAG & knowledge-retrieval systems
  • Agent orchestration
  • Evaluation suites & guardrails
  • Local memory & knowledge graphs
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04

Data Platform Engineering

Real-time pipelines, telemetry, and analytics at fleet scale.

From $84,000Scoped per system

Where it fits

  • Telemetry, IoT, or event data arriving faster than you can use it.
  • No reliable real-time pipeline or single source of truth.
  • Duplicate or lost events corrupting downstream analytics.

What you get

  • Kafka & Debezium CDC pipelines
  • Time-series & telemetry storage
  • IoT & fleet analytics
  • Idempotent, at-least-once delivery
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05

Reliability & Observability

Make it fast, make it stay up — and prove it with data.

From $50,000Scoped per system

Where it fits

  • You're firefighting incidents instead of preventing them.
  • No SLIs, SLOs, or alerting you can actually trust.
  • Latency and memory creeping up with no visibility into why.

What you get

  • Prometheus / Grafana / Loki stack
  • SLI / SLO & alert-threshold design
  • Latency & heap profiling with pprof
  • Incident response & RCA process
  • Runbooks & on-call structure
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How an engagement runs

01

Assess

We review your architecture, code, and infrastructure to find where the real risk, cost, and latency live.

02

Plan

You get a written plan — sequencing, milestones, benchmarks — and a fixed quote before any build begins.

03

Build

We ship in production-safe increments: strangler-fig migrations, zero-downtime cutovers, measured at every step.

04

Hand over

You keep everything — ADRs, dashboards, runbooks — and a team that understands the system. No lock-in.

Start with the smallest
engagement that de-risks it

Tell us what's slow, fragile, or scaling badly. We'll come back with a scoped plan and a fixed quote.

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