altitudes® Cloud · Platform · AI Amsterdam · Rotterdam --:--
[FROM €40K · FIXED][2 SLOTS · Q3 2026][WRITTEN GUARANTEE]
[OFFER] / WHAT YOU SIGN _

47 production accounts. DORA-ready. Eight weeks. Or you pay nothing.

One offer, three ways in, one written guarantee behind all of them. The fixed-price work that gets your platform out of the way of your AI roadmap. This is what we ship; this is the page you defend at procurement.

Book the Platform Read→ See the Cloud Kickstarter→
[01] / THE STACK _

Eight named deliverables. Not eight promises.

Right column is what you'd pay to procure each line on its own elsewhere. Engagement price is bottom-left. The gap isn't a discount; it's how we work.

  1. [01]

    AWS or Azure landing zone

    Identity, network, accounts, baseline policy. Terraform-first. AI-ready by default.

    €85k+
  2. [02]

    Security and policy guardrails

    SCPs, Azure Policy, data-egress controls. Scored against ISO 27001 and the DORA baseline.

    €45k+
  3. [03]

    Observability baseline

    OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Tempo. SLOs that change behaviour, alerts the on-call trusts.

    €60k+
  4. [04]

    FinOps foundation

    Allocation, showback, anomaly detection. Engineers see the bill impact of what they ship.

    €40k+
  5. [05]

    AI-ready substrate

    Identity for service-to-service AI, model access, token + quality metrics from t=0.

    €55k+
  6. [06]

    Audit-evidence as code

    DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001 evidence pack generated from the platform itself. No PDF graveyard.

    €70k+
  7. [07]

    Written runbook + handoff

    Onboarding docs, IaC repo, the next ten things to do. We measure ourselves on how quickly you can fire us.

    €35k+
  8. [08]

    Six engineers in the room, not one account manager

    No sales engineer in the retainer. The people on the work are the people on the call.

    €90k+
Sum of market values €480k+
Engagement starting price (Cloud Kickstarter, fixed) €40k

No change requests inside the scope. No variation clauses. One invoice per quarter, known in advance.

[02] WHAT YOU GET BACK _

Three axes. One operating model returns all three.

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
[03] / WRITTEN GUARANTEE

Holds at your security lead's desk, or you pay nothing.

At the end of week one of any Kickstarter, we hand over a written ADR pack — architecture decisions, alternatives rejected, constraints named. If your security lead can't defend it to an auditor, you stop the engagement with no invoice. We've never had to invoke this clause. We're prepared to.

[04] WHAT WAITING COSTS _

Every 90 days the platform stays as-is.

Quantified from our 2025 engagements with EU mid-market scale-ups and fintechs. Median, not edge case. Not forecast; observed.

  1. [01]
    +€300k / quarter

    Unallocated cloud spend keeps stacking

    EU mid-market median, post-audit baseline

  2. [02]
    +90 days

    DORA evidence backlog slides right

    ISO 27001 + NIS2 prep, 2025

  3. [03]
    +1 pilot

    AI use case stuck between demo and production

    AI engagements 2024–2026

  4. [04]
    −0.6 FTE

    Engineer time leaks back into toil

    Patches on patches, annual rolling

[05] WHAT THIS OFFER IS NOT FOR _

Four situations where we would already say: ask someone else.

The Platform Read is free; your time isn't. Four signals the match is wrong — said this directly because you'll spot any of them in the first ten minutes of a call.

  1. Your platform team isn't in the room and you want a deck before a conversation.
  2. You have a budget without a problem under it (don't shop for a vendor; bring the problem).
  3. You expect us to recommend a specific vendor; we name the right tool for your constraint.
  4. You want to sign off in six months but expect engineers on the work next week.
We run eight clients at a time. Two slots open for Q3 2026. No waiting-list theatre. We name it so you can plan around it.

Questions this offer runs into.

[01] Why is this cheaper than a Big Four engagement? +

No 200-seat sales organisation, no external investors, no quarterly pipe to fill. Six engineers per engagement, eleven total. The price is the real cost of the work, not the real cost plus a recruiting margin.

[02] What if we already have a landing zone? +

Then the Cloud Kickstarter isn't the right entry. Excellence & Benchmarking is: we assess what's there, name the top five gaps, and propose focused remediation. No rip-and-replace to inflate the invoice.

[03] How do we know you'll still be here? +

Every 2023–2024 engagement is still a client today (or explicitly closed on our recommendation). We measure ourselves on how quickly you can fire us painlessly, not on retainer hours.

[04] What if you mess it up? +

The guarantee is written, not assumed. If the week-one architecture decisions don't hold at your security lead's desk, you stop the engagement and pay nothing. Never invoked; explicitly available so you can.

[NEXT STEP]

One written page within 24 hours. After that, you decide.

Book the Platform Read→ hello@altitudes.cloud→

Free. 45 minutes. Written outcome, whether or not we sign afterwards.