Infrastructure & tooling
Stop paying for infrastructure you do not need.
We review the software, hosting and services a business already pays for and identify where simpler or lower-cost tools do the same job reliably — and where paying is the right answer.
Technical procurement, not bargain hunting
Software costs accumulate quietly. A tool arrives for one project, the project ends, the subscription does not. Multiply that by five years and the monthly total is nobody's job to question.
We go through what you pay for and ask what each thing does, whether something simpler does it reliably, and what the switch would cost in work and risk. Free tiers and open source are part of that answer where they genuinely fit — and sometimes the recommendation is to keep paying, because paying removes operational risk that would otherwise land on you.
What is in scope
Hosting and edge
VPS, managed platforms and CDN — sized to what you actually serve.
Source control and CI
GitHub, GitLab or self-hosted, with deployment that does not need a person watching it.
Self-hosted and open source
Where established commodity software already solves the problem you are paying enterprise prices for.
Backups and monitoring
Boring, tested, and cheap enough that nobody is tempted to cancel it.
Automation
The scheduled jobs and glue that remove recurring manual steps.
Collaboration and dev tooling
What the team needs to work, without a licence per person for software two people open.
How we judge a tool
Three tests: does it do the job reliably, what does it cost to run and to leave, and who has to understand it in a year.
Don't pay enterprise prices for a commodity problem
Established software solves most of this already.
Free is not automatically better
If a paid service removes real risk or real hours, keeping it is the right call.
Migrations are costed, not assumed
A cheaper tool that takes three weeks to move to may not be cheaper.
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What you pay for each month, and what each thing is supposed to do.