Choosing the right partner for your cloud and DevOps strategy is a critical decision.
It's easy to get lost in complex contracts, unpredictable bills, and reactive service models. On this page, we transparently compare our unique, fixed-price partnership against the common alternatives. Your team builds product and innovates for business growth, our goal is to show you how our proactive, automation-first methodology removes operational burdens and empowers your team to focus.
Which situation describes you best?
You're currently working with a traditional MSP
You rely on an MSP to handle your cloud infrastructure and support, but find yourself facing unpredictable hourly billing for every change request or incident. Your vendor is reactive, and you spend more time managing them than your cloud.
Traditional MSP
The old way of cloud management
Pricing
Unpredictable hourly billing with surprise costs and hidden fees
Engagement
Reactive break-fix model, waiting for problems to occur before taking action
Relationship
Vendor-client dynamic with misaligned goals and limited collaboration
Value
Operational support only, limited innovation and strategic guidance
Support
Ticket-based system with slow response times and limited availability
Innovation
Limited to maintaining existing systems without forward-thinking improvements
The modern DevOps partnership
Pricing
Predictable fixed monthly pricing with no surprises or hidden costs
Engagement
Proactive partnership preventing issues before they start
Relationship
Integrated team extension with aligned goals and true collaboration
Value
Innovation focus delivering faster delivery, enhanced security, and strategic growth
Support
24/7 proactive monitoring with instant response and continuous optimization
Innovation
Continuous improvement and cutting-edge automation
You're managing your cloud with an internal team
You've built an in-house team, but are bogged down by the cost and complexity of hiring, retaining, and managing top DevOps talent. Your internal team is firefighting instead of innovating, and compliance is a constant challenge.
The Old Way
The internal approach to DevOps
Cost
High and rising costs for salaries, benefits, recruitment, and constant training.
Talent
Constant battle to hire and retain highly skilled and expensive DevOps experts.
Availability
24/7 on-call burden leading to burnout and turnover
Focus
Your team is consumed by operational tasks, leaving little time for product innovation.
Innovation
Limited time for R&D due to operational overhead
Compliance
Internal teams often struggle to build and maintain complex compliance requirements.
The modern DevOps partnership
Cost
Lower, predictable costs. Our fixed price provides elite expertise for less than a full-time hire.
Talent
Access to a global team of specialists. Our expertise is instantly available and continually updated.
Availability
24/7 coverage without burdening your internal team
Focus
Your team focuses on product. We handle the operational complexity so your developers can do what they do best.
Innovation
oOrking with you on cutting-edge tools. Enabling rapid experimentation and breakthough innovations.
Compliance
Built-in, automated compliance. We provide certified frameworks, audit trails, and automated guardrails.
You're building your own AI solutions
You're experimenting with AI using standard cloud tools, but are struggling to scale from proof-of-concept to a secure, compliant, and cost-effective production environment.
Tool based DIY
Building AI infrastructure from standard tools
Compliance
Manual and error-prone setup for governance and compliance, with high security risks.
Complexity
Your team must integrate and manage disparate tools, and build the MLOps pipeline from scratch.
Maintenance
Constant monitoring and optimization of AI workloads
Speed
Slow and risky journey from experimentation to production deployment.
Expertise
Your team is distracted by infrastructure, security, and operational headaches.
The modern AI Factory partnership
Compliance
Compliance-built-in. Our managed AI backbone includes automated guardrails for GDPR, HIPAA, and more.
Complexity
Fully managed AI infrastructure. We provide a production-ready, automated environment.
Speed
Accelerated delivery. Our factory model enables rapid, secure deployment of models and agents.
Maintenance
Proactive monitoring and optimization of AI infrastructure
Expertise
Full focus on AI. We manage the infrastructure so your data scientists and developers can focus on innovation.
You're managing security and compliance with a platform, but are still doing the work
You have invested in compliance automation tools like Vanta, but your team is still spending significant time manually remediating issues, preparing for audits, and managing operational security. You have visibility, but not peace of mind.
Tool based DIY Compliance
Maintaining compliance from standard tools
Complexity
Your team is responsible for interpreting tool outputs and manually fixing security gaps.
Operational Risk
While you have a compliance dashboard, your team is on their own for real-time threat detection and incident response.
Expertise
Your team still needs to be experts in security operations and multiple frameworks to use the tools effectively.
Speed
Manual remediation and evidence gathering slow down development and make annual audits stressful.
The modern Managed Compliance
Complexity
Fully integrated. Our team handles the remediation, ensuring controls are automated and embedded into your infrastructure.
Operational Risk
Proactive and continuous. We manage your operational security 24/7, from continuous monitoring to incident response.
Expertise
Expertise on-demand. Our certified security professionals provide hands-on management and support, acting as an extension of your team.
Speed
Accelerated audits. We provide attestation reports and continuous evidence collection, dramatically reducing audit time and effort.
You're a startup or SaaS company without a CTO
You have a great product idea and a development team, but you lack senior technical leadership, leading to a reactive approach to technical problems and a lack of a clear technology roadmap.
No CTO
Reactive leadership and a lack of a clear technology roadmap
Pricing
Unpredictable costs from technical debt, reactive problem-solving, and inefficient workflows.
Engagement
A reactive, "fire-fighting" model where you are constantly addressing technical issues and security problems as they arise.
Relationship
A disconnected dynamic where the development team and business leaders lack a unifying technical vision and structure.
Value
Primarily focused on getting a product to market, often neglecting crucial areas like knowledge management, process optimization, and building scalable foundations.
The modern Fractional CTO
Pricing
Predictable fixed monthly price for a complete fractional CTO solution, including strategic planning and ongoing guidance.
Engagement
A proactive partnership focused on delivering strategic results that drive your business forward. We provide regular strategic sessions and oversight to prevent problems.
Relationship
An integrated team dynamic. We become an extension of your leadership, providing strategic technology planning, architecture direction, and technical guidance to your team.
Value
A focus on both business benefits and technical excellence, that includes Strategic Technology Planning, Team Development & Mentoring, Technology Evaluation, Technical Oversight,Knowledge Management, Process Optimization, Strategic Guidance and Scale for Growth.
You're managing legacy technology and infrastructure
Your team is spending most of its time on maintaining an outdated infrastructure, which prevents them from innovating. Migration projects are high-risk, expensive, and require specialized expertise your team may not have.
Maintaining Legacy Infrastructure
Constantly firefighting and patching vulnerabilities
Pricing
Unpredictable and high costs from continuous "keeping the lights on" maintenance, expensive legacy specialists, and costly downtime.
Engagement
A reactive approach focused on patching and extending the life of outdated systems. Migration is a separate, high-risk project often done with external consultants.
Relationship
The internal team is burdened by the legacy tech stack, leading to burnout and difficulty attracting new talent. There is often a disconnect between the business's goals and the team's technical capacity.
Value
Primarily focused on preventing system failures and keeping the business operational. Innovation and leveraging new technologies are severely limited.
Re-Architected Cloud Migration
Pricing
Predictable fixed monthly price that includes a clear roadmap for modernization and ongoing management of the new environment.
Engagement
A proactive, phased modernization strategy. We partner with you to develop a clear, low-risk migration plan and execute it on a modern, scalable cloud platform.
Relationship
An integrated team dynamic. We become your modernization partner, providing the specialized skills to lift, shift, or re-architect your applications and manage your modern cloud environment.
Value
Focus on enabling innovation. We free your team from legacy burdens, providing a new secure and scalable foundation that accelerates development and reduces technical debt.