Cloud, Data & Platform

From kickoff to paying customers in 14 weeks

A greenfield dispatch platform. We owned the architecture, the infrastructure and the first three service surfaces, then hired the team that took it over.

Client: Series A logistics SaaS
Industry: Logistics
Duration: 14 weeks
Disclosure: Anonymised under NDA

Kickoff to first paying customer: 14 wksKickoff to first paying customer
Uptime from day one: 99.95%Uptime from day one
Engineers hired and onboarded: 3 → 11Engineers hired and onboarded

The challenge

Greenfield: no platform, no infrastructure and a launch date to hit.

Stack

Next.js
Python
AWS ECS
Aurora Postgres
Terraform

What we did

01Architecture and Terraform-managed multi-AZ infrastructure
02Auth, routing and billing services
03Day-one SLOs, dashboards and on-call runbooks
04Hiring loops and onboarding on the patterns we left

Generic reference architectureDiscovery to handover

A generic representation of the pattern, not the client’s topology.

How you would buy this

Delivery Pod

A lead architect plus two to four senior engineers, run as one accountable team against a quarterly roadmap.

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A lead architect plus two to four senior engineers, run as one accountable team against a quarterly roadmap.

Named lead architect, not a rotation
Quarterly roadmap and SOW refresh
Weekly demo and written changelog
Scale the pod up or down each quarter

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Start with a scoping call.

Thirty minutes with the founder. Bring your architecture diagram, your cloud bill or your plant drawings, and leave with what is realistic — including when the answer is that you do not need us yet.

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