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Give every engineer a paved road — not a maze of tickets.
We design and build internal developer platforms that turn "file a ticket and wait three days" into "click a button and ship." Golden paths, self-service infrastructure, and a platform team that scales with you, not against you.
How we deliver this: AI handles the routine analysis (audits, IaC drafts, runbook scaffolds, alert triage). A senior engineer reviews every change before it touches your production. Consultancy speed at consultancy quality.
Read more →When you need this
Every team reinvents the same wheel
Five teams, five slightly different CI pipelines, five sets of Terraform modules that all do roughly the same thing — badly. Without a shared platform, every "how do I deploy this" question gets answered from scratch.
The platform team is a bottleneck, not an accelerator
When provisioning a database or standing up a new service requires a ticket and a three-day wait, your platform team has become exactly what it was meant to prevent — friction between engineers and production.
Onboarding takes weeks instead of days
New engineers spend their first month learning tribal knowledge that lives in someone's head, a half-finished wiki page, and a Slack thread from eight months ago. A real platform makes that knowledge executable.
How it works
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Phase 01
Discovery
We spend two weeks shadowing your engineers — how they actually deploy, debug, and provision, not how the architecture diagram says they do. We surface the workarounds, the tribal knowledge, and the friction points that never make it into a retro.
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Phase 02
Golden-path design
We identify the three to five workflows that account for most engineering time — "stand up a new service," "provision a database," "add an environment" — and design self-service paths for each, scoped to your stack and your team's actual maturity.
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Phase 03
Build the platform, not a side project
We implement the platform as a product with you — Backstage, Port, or a lighter homegrown layer depending on your scale — wired into your existing CI/CD, IaC, and observability stack, not bolted on top of it.
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Phase 04
Enable, document, transfer
We pair with the engineers who'll own the platform after we leave, write the documentation that actually gets used, and run the workshops that turn "the consultants built this" into "we built this."
What you get
- → Platform readiness assessment with a scored capability map
- → Golden-path designs for your top 3-5 engineering workflows
- → A working internal developer platform (Backstage, Port, or custom), wired to your stack
- → Self-service templates for service creation, environment provisioning, and infrastructure requests
- → Platform documentation and onboarding guide your team can maintain
- → Recorded enablement sessions for your platform team
What changes for you
Hours, not days, to ship something new
A new service goes from "file a ticket and wait" to "fill out a form and deploy" — typically cutting provisioning lead time from days to under an hour.
Onboarding measured in days
New engineers follow the golden path instead of hunting for tribal knowledge. Most clients see ramp-up time for new hires drop by 40-60%.
A platform team that multiplies, not bottlenecks
Self-service means your platform engineers spend their time improving the paved road — not manually provisioning the same database for the fortieth time.
Consistency without a mandate
Golden paths make the right way the easy way. Engineers adopt good patterns because they're the path of least resistance, not because a policy document told them to.
Compliance and security baked into the template
When the self-service template already includes the right IAM policies, scanning, and tagging, you stop relitigating security review on every single service.
A platform that survives the engagement
We build it as a product with your team, not a black box. When we leave, the people who'll run it have already been running it for weeks.
What clients say
"CloudWizz rebuilt our delivery pipeline in eight weeks. Deploys went from a Friday-night ritual to a non-event we ship four times a day."
Director of Engineering
Fintech, Series C · 2025-11
"Moving 132TB of patient imaging data while keeping the platform live — I didn't think we could do it without a maintenance window. The team just figured it out. GKE has been rock solid since, and the CI/CD they set up is something our own engineers actually want to work with."
Joseph Sokol
CEO & Founder · iCardio.ai · 2025-12
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between Platform Engineering and DevOps Consulting? +
DevOps Consulting improves how your team ships through a specific codebase or pipeline. Platform Engineering builds the self-service layer that lets every team ship that way without needing us — or a dedicated platform engineer — in the loop for every request.
Do we need a dedicated platform team to make this work? +
Not on day one. Many of our clients start with one or two engineers wearing a "platform" hat part-time. We design the platform to grow with the team, not require a five-person org before it delivers value.
Backstage, Port, or build it ourselves? +
Depends on your scale and stack maturity. Backstage gives you a powerful, extensible foundation if you have engineering capacity to maintain a Node/React app. Port is faster to stand up and lower-maintenance if you'd rather configure than build. For smaller teams, a lightweight custom layer on top of existing tools (Terraform modules + a CI template + good docs) often beats both. We help you make this call honestly — including the option that we don't recommend a platform tool at all yet.
How long does a platform engagement take? +
Discovery and golden-path design run 3-4 weeks. The first working version of the platform, covering your highest-leverage workflows, typically ships in 8-12 weeks. Most engagements run 4-6 months end to end, including enablement and handoff.
Will this slow my team down while you build it? +
No — we build incrementally and ship the first golden path early, so your team gets value in weeks, not months. Nobody waits for a "big bang" platform launch.
How do you decide which workflows to automate first? +
We measure where engineering time actually goes during discovery — ticket volume, time-to-provision, support-channel patterns — and prioritize the few workflows that account for the most friction. Usually three to five workflows cover 70-80% of the pain.
Can you integrate with our existing CI/CD and IaC? +
Yes — that's the point. A platform that replaces your toolchain creates more migration risk than it removes friction. We build the self-service layer on top of what you already run: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Terraform, Argo CD, whatever's in place.
What does "golden path" actually mean in practice? +
A pre-approved, documented, supported way to do a common task — backed by a template, not a policy memo. "Click here to spin up a new service with CI, monitoring, and the right IAM role already wired in" is a golden path. "Read the wiki and ask in
How do you measure whether the platform is working? +
Lead time for common requests (provisioning, environment creation, service scaffolding), adoption rate of golden paths versus one-off workarounds, and new-hire time-to-first-deploy. We agree on these during discovery and track them through the engagement.
What happens after you leave? +
Your team owns the platform — fully documented, with the people who'll run it having already run it alongside us for weeks. We're also available for ongoing advisory if you want a second set of eyes as the platform evolves.