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[01] THE PLATFORM TRUTH _

Your AI is waiting on your platform.

Most AI projects don't fail at the model. They fail at the platform underneath — access, evidence, cost, on-call, governance. We build the foundation so production stops being the bottleneck.

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[02] / SELECTED CLIENTS _

The teams we've shipped foundations for.

Engagements 2023–2026
[12+] CLIENTS
SEMICONDUCTORS · NL/EU · PLATFORM
SEMICONDUCTORS · NL · LANDING ZONE
GOVERNMENT · NL · SECOPS
IT SERVICES · EU · CCoE
ENERGY · NL · OBSERVABILITY
TECHNOLOGY · NL · LANDING ZONE
GOVERNMENT · NL · DEVOPS
ENERGY · NL · FINOPS
DIGITAL · NL · PLATFORM
INTERNATIONAL · NL · CCoE
MOBILITY · NL · LANDING ZONE
TECH · NL · DEVOPS
SectorsSemiconductors · Government · Energy · IT Services · Mobility · Tech
RegionsNetherlands · EU · International
WorkLanding Zones · CCoE · Platform · FinOps · SecOps · DevOps · Observability
[03] WHAT WE SHIP _

Three things you can engage us for. One model behind them.

We don't bundle. The infrastructure foundation, the engineering capabilities, and the packaged solutions are three discrete ways in. Same engineers across all three.

  1. [01] / FOUNDATION

    Infrastructure foundation.

    Landing zone, identity, security, observability baseline. Terraform-first, AI-ready by default.

    • AWS or Azure
    • Terraform-first IaC
    • AI-ready by default
    • Audit evidence as code
    See landing zones
  2. [02] / CAPABILITY

    Engineering capabilities.

    Nine practices, named owners, written outcomes. Pick the one you need or the operating model that ties them together.

    • Cloud strategy
    • Platform engineering
    • AI enablement
    • DevOps / SecOps / FinOps
    See all services
  3. [03] / SOLUTION

    Packaged solutions.

    Fixed scope, fixed timing, fixed price where it applies. For when you want to start now without scoping for weeks.

    • Cloud Kickstarter (€40k)
    • Agentic Kickstarter (€48k)
    • CCoE (€14k / month)
    • Excellence & Benchmarking (€24k)
    See all solutions
[04] THE FRICTION _

Engineers should build. Platforms should run themselves. AI should be safe.

Quantified from 2025 engagements with EU mid-market scale-ups and fintechs.

[01] Engineer time on toil
42% CURRENT
[02] Cloud spend without owner
38% CURRENT
[03] AI experiments stuck in pilot
71% CURRENT
[04] Audit-evidence on autopilot
94% AFTER
[05] Engineer time on customer-facing work
83% AFTER
[05] THE PILE _

Your platform is carrying load it wasn't built for.

Engineers patch. The patches stack. The stack carries the AI initiative. Every year compounds the last, until the platform stops being something you ship from and starts being something you fight.

[01]
Engineers maintaining patches, not shipping Annual rolling average, EU mid-market
2.4 FTE
[02]
Cloud waste with no named owner AWS + Azure audits, 2025
€1.2M
[03]
Backlog from AI pilot to first production rollout AI use cases, EU mid-market median
9 mo
[04]
Compliance evidence collected by hand DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001 surveys, 2025
56%
[06] WHAT YOU GET BACK _

Three axes. One operating model.

Cash recovered. Engineer time returned. Audit risk closed. The same operating model returns all three; you don't pick one and lose the other two.

  1. [01] €1.2M
    Cloud waste returned annually EU mid-market median, post-engagement
    Networking · idle managed services · untagged storage
  2. [02] 2.4 FTE
    Engineer time returned to product work 14 engagements, 2023–2026
    Toil removed · golden paths · runbook automation · alert pruning
  3. [03] 9 mo
    Audit backlog closed DORA + ISO 27001 evidence on autopilot
    Evidence-as-code · written runbooks · scheduled game days
[07] THE CLAIM _ [83%] AI pilots that reached production when the platform was built first.

The model isn't the bottleneck. The platform underneath is.

Across the 18 AI pilots we shipped between 2024 and 2026, 83 percent reached production on first attempt when the engagement included a real platform substrate. The remaining 17 percent were paused at the team's request, not because the AI failed.

The pattern is the same in every engagement: the model works in the demo, the rollout exposes the platform underneath. Identity, observability, cost attribution, runbook discipline. When those exist, AI in production is a paperwork problem, not a research problem.

[AI ENGAGEMENTS · 2024–2026 · EU MID-MARKET]
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[09] HOW WE RUN AN ENGAGEMENT _

Four steps. Fixed scope. Written artefacts.

From kickoff to handoff8–14 wks
[01] / AUDIT

45 minutes.

We listen. You answer three questions. You get a written summary either way.

⏱ 45 min
[02] / DESIGN

Reference architecture.

We map your constraints onto a paved-road template. Documented, costed, signed off by your security lead.

⏱ 1 week
[03] / BUILD

4–6 weeks of work.

Six engineers. Daily standup if you want it, weekly written update either way.

⏱ 4–6 wks
[04] / HANDOFF

Your team takes the keys.

Runbook, onboarding docs, IaC repo, the next ten things to do. We leave when you can fire us painlessly.

⏱ 1 week
[10] THE STACK _

The tools we work with. Named, not implied.

We don't promise vendor neutrality. We name the tools, why we picked them, and what we'd swap them for. Across cloud foundation, AI services, observability and security.

  1. [01] Cloud foundation
    • AWS
    • Azure
    • Terraform
    • Kubernetes
    • GitHub Actions
    • Backstage
  2. [02] AI services & data
    • Amazon Bedrock
    • Vertex AI
    • Azure OpenAI
    • Anthropic Claude
    • Langfuse
    • Weaviate
  3. [03] Observability & ops
    • OpenTelemetry
    • Grafana
    • Prometheus
    • Loki
    • Tempo
    • Sentry
  4. [04] Security & compliance
    • Snyk
    • Wiz
    • AWS Config
    • Azure Policy
    • OPA
    • Cloud Custodian

WE PICK ON DATA RESIDENCY · TOTAL COST OVER THREE YEARS · EXIT RISK. WE SWAP WHEN ONE OF THOSE CHANGES.

[FEATURED]FINTECH · EU · 2025LANDING ZONE + SECOPS

47 production accounts, zero platform team, four months. DORA-ready.

An EU mid-market fintech had outgrown a single-account AWS setup three years prior, and DORA was nine months out. We rebuilt the foundation in eight weeks with no platform-team headcount, then handed the keys back.

Read the case

[11] / What they said

We stopped firefighting. We can finally hire the team we wanted, not the one our last vendor needed.

Platform DirectorFINTECH · MID-MARKET · NL

They wrote ADRs we still use two years later.

Head of CloudSCALE-UP · EU

First vendor that named what they didn't do.

CISOINSURANCE · NL

FinOps savings paid for SecOps inside two quarters. We didn't believe it until we saw the invoices.

CTOFINTECH · GROWTH

The hand-off runbook is the cleanest doc we own.

SRE LeadSCALE-UP · DE
[12] THE TEAM _

Engineers, not consultants.

Six on the engagement, with names and engineering profiles. Named owners on both sides. No project manager standing between you and the team that ships.

  1. [01]

    Sebastiaan van Parijs

    Founder · Platform

    Twenty years in cloud platforms. Built the first AWS landing zone for an EU fintech in 2014. Writes the strategy ADRs.

    Profile
  2. [02]

    Ruben Wong

    Head of SecOps

    Ex-CISO at a mid-market scale-up. Writes DORA evidence packs that auditors actually read.

    Profile
  3. [03]

    Eline Claes

    Head of FinOps

    Cut 31 percent off three different EU mid-market cloud bills in 2025. Will write the savings line by line.

    Profile
  4. [04]

    Marek Rendek

    Principal SRE

    Built observability stacks for two unicorns. Deletes more alerts than he writes.

    Profile
  5. [05]

    Amal Bhatt

    AI Engineering Lead

    Production AI shipping since 2022. Cares more about guardrails than about benchmarks.

    Profile
  6. [06]

    Julia van der Velden

    Engineering Manager

    Runs the engagements. Holds the team to the written runbook. Calls the trade-offs early.

    Profile

Packaged starting points.

[KICKSTARTER]

Cloud Kickstarter

€40k fixed, project

Landing zone, security baseline, monitoring, documentation. Ready for adoption in 4–6 weeks.

  • AWS or Azure landing zone
  • Terraform-first foundation
  • Security & policy guardrails
  • Monitoring baseline
  • Documentation + onboarding
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[AI PILOT]

Agentic Kickstarter

€48k fixed, project

Two AI use cases with guardrails. Discovery, secure pilot environment, success metrics. 4–8 weeks.

  • Use-case discovery workshop
  • Secure pilot environment
  • Two pilots, integrated with CI/CD
  • Guardrails + observability
  • Adoption roadmap
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Questions you might want to ask.

[01] Are you a strategy firm, a delivery partner, or a managed-service provider? +

All three, in one model. We help with strategy, we implement, and we run parts of the platform afterwards. Knowledge transfer is built into every engagement.

[02] Do you cover both AWS and Azure? +

Yes, both. We go deep on each rather than claiming equal depth on every cloud. GCP on request, with honesty about depth.

[03] Where does AI fit into your work? +

Two places. We make cloud platforms AI-ready — secure data access, secure compute, observability, cost control, governance. And we help teams adopt AI in engineering itself, including agentic development, with guardrails.

[04] Do you push specific vendors? +

No. We work with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform and other modern cloud-native tools. We don't push a vendor unless it's the right fit for the problem.

[05] How do you handle knowledge transfer? +

Coaching, workshops, certification paths and pairing. We measure ourselves by how capable your team is when we leave.

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