ClimsTech

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Fixed scope. Fixed fee. A plan you own.

Four productised assessments — what you send, what we do, what you hold at the end, and what happens next. No open-ended consulting.

Cloud Cost & FinOps Audit

~2 weeks, typical

Kubernetes Production-Readiness Review

~2–3 weeks, typical

Cloud / DevOps Maturity Assessment

~3 weeks, typical

Migration Readiness Assessment

~3 weeks, typical

Cloud Cost & FinOps Audit

Engineering or finance leaders whose cloud bill has grown faster than usage — and who need to know which part is structure and which part is waste.

~2 weeks, typical

Fixed fee, agreed at a 30-minute scoping call — no day rates, no surprises.

When this is the right move: Spend rising month over month with flat traffic · No allocation by team, product or environment · A renewal or commitment decision coming up

What you send

  • Read-only billing access (or 3 months of exports)
  • Read-only monitoring/utilisation access
  • 30 minutes with whoever owns the bill

What we do

  • Utilisation-versus-provision analysis across the estate
  • Idle, oversized and unowned resource identification
  • Scheduling, tiering, Spot and commitment modelling
  • Tagging and ownership-model review

What you hold at the end

  • Cost baseline: where the money actually goes, by owner
  • Prioritised savings roadmap with risk notes per action
  • Governance recommendations that keep it down

Format

Kick-off (30 min) → async analysis → findings walkthrough (60 min) with your engineering and finance owners.

Not included

Executing the changes (separate, optional engagement) · Contract negotiation with your cloud provider

Evidence

Monthly spend 31% lower with availability preserved (verified Azure scope) Capability page

After the engagement: You own the roadmap either way — execute it with your team, or we deliver it as a fixed-scope follow-on.

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Kubernetes Production-Readiness Review

Teams running (or about to run) production workloads on Kubernetes who can't confidently answer: what happens at 3× traffic?

~2–3 weeks, typical

Fixed fee, agreed at a 30-minute scoping call.

When this is the right move: A launch, campaign or seasonal peak on the calendar · Latency or cost climbing with no clear cause · Scaling still involves a human mid-incident

What you send

  • Read-only cluster access (or manifests/Helm charts)
  • Recent monitoring data and one recent incident story
  • An hour with the platform owner

What we do

  • Requests-versus-usage and autoscaling-configuration review
  • Workload separation, disruption-budget and probe audit
  • Security posture: RBAC, network policy, image hygiene
  • Staged load test where access permits

What you hold at the end

  • Production-readiness report, findings ranked by risk
  • Remediation plan sequenced by effort and impact
  • Autoscaling and governance configuration recommendations as code

Format

Kick-off (45 min) → async review → findings session (90 min) with your platform and product-engineering leads.

Not included

Application code changes · Clusters we're not given visibility into

Evidence

The same review discipline validated a 120,000+ concurrent-user load scenario (CricRadio) Capability page

After the engagement: Most teams remediate the top findings with us in a follow-on sprint; some take the plan and run it internally. Both are fine.

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Cloud / DevOps Maturity Assessment

Leaders who've inherited or outgrown their platform and need an honest, prioritised picture before committing budget.

~3 weeks, typical

Fixed fee, agreed at a 30-minute scoping call.

When this is the right move: New engineering leadership taking stock · Delivery slowing as the team grows · Board or investor questions about platform risk

What you send

  • Architecture diagrams as they exist (imperfect is fine)
  • Access to pipelines and monitoring, or walkthroughs
  • Interviews: 3–5 engineers and leads, ~45 minutes each

What we do

  • Architecture, delivery-pipeline and environment review
  • Reliability and incident-history analysis
  • Cost-structure review
  • Maturity scoring against a stage model — where you are, what the next rung is

What you hold at the end

  • Current-state assessment across the four dimensions
  • 12-month roadmap sequenced by risk and dependency
  • A one-page executive summary you can put in front of the board

Format

Kick-off → interviews across week one → async analysis → executive readout (90 min).

Not included

Implementation (the roadmap is the deliverable) · Vendor selection exercises

Evidence

Method documented in the capability page and field notes. Capability page

After the engagement: The roadmap names the first three engagements worth doing — with us or without us.

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Migration Readiness Assessment

Teams facing a data-centre exit, a cloud-to-cloud move or a re-platforming — where the real blocker is that nobody trusts the dependency map.

~3 weeks, typical

Fixed fee, agreed at a 30-minute scoping call.

When this is the right move: A contract, lease or licensing deadline forcing a move · A migration 'in planning' for more than two quarters · A previous migration attempt that stalled or hurt

What you send

  • Workload inventory as it exists (spreadsheets welcome)
  • Network and integration documentation, or walkthroughs
  • Access to the people who know where the bodies are buried

What we do

  • Dependency discovery and mapping
  • Target-architecture design with decision records
  • Wave planning: grouping, sequencing, validation criteria
  • Rollback and risk analysis per wave

What you hold at the end

  • Dependency map and workload inventory
  • Target architecture with decision records
  • Staged wave plan with rollback per wave — the document a migration is actually run from

Format

Kick-off → discovery interviews and analysis → wave-plan review session (90 min) with your architecture owners.

Not included

Executing the migration (separate engagement, usually wave by wave) · Application re-architecture

Evidence

The same method moved 76 VMs and ~38 TB with under 90 minutes of cutover disruption Capability page

After the engagement: The wave plan is the backlog. Execute it with us wave by wave, or hand it to your team — it's built to survive either.

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Where assessments lead

Working with us beyond the first engagement

Every assessment above ends in a plan. These are the shapes the follow-on work takes — always senior-led, always handed over as code.

Cloud / DevOps assessment

A focused review of architecture, delivery and cost, with a prioritised roadmap.

Fixed-scope project

A defined migration, modernisation or automation build, delivered as code with handover.

Managed DevOps / SRE

Ongoing operation and improvement of your platform as an extension of your team.

Dedicated engineering

Senior cloud and DevOps engineers embedded with your team for sustained work.

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