One-week architecture review
Fixed fee. Written deliverable. You keep the doc whether we continue or not.
Services
Fix the site. Fix the stack. Fix the bill.
Four ways we engage. One standard: production-ready when we hand it back.
01 / Redesign
Web experiences that convert.
Your marketing site, product UI, or internal dashboard — rebuilt as a fast, accessible, measurable experience.
We audit your current funnel, benchmark Core Web Vitals, and rebuild with a design system that your team can extend without breaking. Everything ships with accessibility, SEO, and performance baked in — not bolted on.
Included
- Stakeholder interviews & current-state audit
- Content strategy & information architecture
- Design system: tokens, components, documentation
- Production build (Next.js · Astro · plain HTML — fit for purpose)
- WCAG 2.2 AA compliance & Lighthouse 95+
- Analytics & conversion instrumentation
02 / Infrastructure
Legacy stacks, modernized without downtime.
Flakey deploys, fragile cron jobs, and server rooms no one wants to touch — dragged into the present, in pieces your team can own.
We containerize what needs containerizing, add the CI/CD your release manager wishes they had, and leave behind runbooks that read like a manual, not a mystery novel.
Included
- Architecture review & migration roadmap
- Docker / container build pipelines
- CI/CD on GitHub Actions · GitLab · Railway · AWS
- Secrets, secrets, secrets — rotated, scoped, audited
- Postgres, pgvector, Redis, Ollama — fit-for-purpose data stack
- Observability: logs, traces, alerts, SLOs
- Runbooks & on-call docs written for humans
03 / Cost Optimization
Cut your cloud bill. Keep your capability.
Most AWS bills are 40% waste. We find it, retire it, and leave your SLOs alone.
Reserved instances, savings plans, right-sizing, self-host vs. managed trade-offs — done with a written report your CFO can sign off on. If the savings don't beat our fee inside a year, we'll tell you upfront.
Lived experience
We were the operator whose productivity got taxed by someone else's architecture. When a CRM vendor force-migrated a Golden Valley MN business to a bad cloud provider, contract entry jumped from 30 seconds to 3–4 minutes — a 6–8× throughput collapse. Lance was in the seat, diagnosed the math, and translated the hidden cost into dollars the owners could see. Read the full case →
Included
- Cost & usage audit (CUR / Cost Explorer / Linode / Railway)
- Dead-service and zombie-resource roundup
- Reserved & spot strategy with break-even math
- Self-host vs. managed comparison (e.g. Postgres vs. RDS)
- Written report with prioritized savings & risk per item
- Optional monthly review retainer
04 / Custom SaaS & AI
Build the thing. Or the thing that reads your things.
We build production SaaS platforms end-to-end — auth, payments, search, AI — on stacks you can hand to your next engineer without a shrug.
RAG systems over your own documents. Semantic search over your own catalog. Event ingestion, pattern detection, report generation. Everything we build for clients, we've built for ourselves first (see: askbrad.app).
Patterns we ship
- RAG pipelines on pgvector + Ollama or OpenAI
- Document ingestion & extraction (OCR, parsers, LLM chunking)
- Semantic search over private corpora
- Scheduled report generation & alerting
- Stripe / subscription billing & auth
- Admin dashboards & internal tools
Engagement models
Pick the shape that fits your quarter.
Fixed-scope build
Defined milestones, weekly demos, PR-first reviews. Best for redesigns and net-new builds.
Fractional CTO / staff engineer
Monthly retainer, predictable hours. Architecture decisions, code review, vendor calls — all the senior eyes your team doesn't have on staff.
Not sure which fits? That's what the discovery call is for.
Free 30 minutes. You leave with a recommendation, not a sales pitch.
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