An engagement model designed for engineering leaders who answer to a board: defensible scope, realistic timelines, named deliverables, and a clean handover. No open-ended retainers. No surprises in month six.
A structured audit of your current platform, AI ambitions, team capability, and business constraints — sized to inform an investment decision. Output is an honest maturity scorecard, a written gap analysis, and a defensible go/no-go recommendation. Available as a standalone engagement with no obligation to proceed.
We design your target-state platform with the AI layer integrated from the start — not as a future phase. Tooling decisions, governance, and a cost model that includes GPU and AI spend. Nothing gets built until you've signed off on scope, timeline, and budget.
Hands-on delivery in your environment, alongside your team. Platform foundation first, AI capability integrated as a parallel track. Weekly demos give you visible progress and de-risk the engagement at every step. Everything lives in your repositories from the first commit — owned by your organisation, not by us.
⚡ Honest note: Timelines are tied to scope, not optimism. A greenfield IDP for a 50-person engineering org typically runs 8–10 weeks. Adding the AI capability adds 4–6 weeks. A complex legacy migration runs 12–16 weeks. We tell you upfront — we never pad estimates to look safe, and we never compress them to win the work.
Structured enablement across the platform and AI capabilities — tailored to your team's actual roles. Operations engineers get day-2 platform depth. Application engineers get the AI patterns. Everyone leaves with the runbooks and confidence to act independently. Includes a 30-day post-handover support window — and then we're done.
A full engagement from first call to trained team typically runs 16–24 weeks. IDP-only (no AI layer): 12–18 weeks. Standalone assessment: 1–2 weeks.
A 1–2 week assessment gives you a clear picture of platform maturity and AI readiness — enough to make an informed investment decision before scoping anything bigger.
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