Multi-year term as default
Ownership is a commitment, not a rota. Engagements run on multi-year terms with contracted service-level objectives — outcomes you can hold us to, not effort-based billing.
Managed Engineering Ownership Your Distractor,
Your Distractor,
Our Focus.
Every organisation carries work that still matters but drains the people who should be building what's next. We take it on — completely. Anything outside your core — owned by us.
What we take on
If it's pulling you off course, it belongs with us.
We take on anything that competes for the attention your core business needs — whether it's old, new, risky, or just inconvenient. You keep the revenue and the relationships; we take full ownership of the distraction.
- Legacy systems still serving real customers
- Tooling inherited from an acquisition
- Risky MVPs that might pivot, stall, or become obsolete
- Anything that matters but no longer fits your roadmap
The contract shape
A commitment procurement can act on.
Ownership is only worth buying if it's contractual. Four terms define every managed ownership engagement — including the one most providers won't sign.
Contracted SLOs, not effort
Explicit reliability targets in the engagement — uptime, latency, correctness — with performance reported against them. An SRE partner who won’t contract against SLOs is selling effort, not outcomes.
24/7 operations & incident command
Round-the-clock monitoring, on-call and structured incident command — the same reliability discipline as our platform engineering & SRE practice, on every system we own.
The exit clause
Everything code-defined and reproducible — yours to take in-house whenever you choose, written into the contract. A provider who resists that is building lock-in, not infrastructure.
24/7 operations run on the same discipline as our Platform Engineering & SRE practice — the bar is set out in the Always On field guide.
How a system becomes ours
A defined transfer-in, not a leap of faith.
Handing over a system you depend on needs a method you can inspect. Every transfer-in runs the same four stages.
Discovery
We map the system as it actually is — architecture, dependencies, runbooks, the undocumented jobs and the people who quietly keep it alive.
Knowledge capture
Tribal knowledge is written down, tested and owned by more than one person — on our side and yours — before anything changes hands.
Code-defined rebuild
The estate is brought under infrastructure-as-code: reproducible, auditable, with no snowflake servers and no manual steps that live in one person’s head.
Cutover
Ownership transfers on a rehearsed plan with tested rollback — and from that point the system, its reliability and its incidents are ours.
After the deal closes
You've just acquired a company — and inherited its engineering estate.
The hardest dependencies in an inherited estate are never in the architecture diagram: the shared script nobody documented, the licence that doesn't transfer, the job a parent-company employee quietly operates. Finding them is diligence work; running what you keep is ours. We take acquired systems on entirely — discovered, captured, code-defined and run to contracted targets — so the integration plan doesn't stall on the estate nobody wanted.
How we run it
A methodology built around your core, not ours.
We don't just absorb the work — we run it with full accountability, so it never quietly drifts back onto your roadmap.
Own the risk, not just the code
We take full accountability for whatever we inherit — risky MVPs, end-of-life platforms, acquired systems — so the uncertainty never lands back on your team.
Protect your core
Every decision we make is filtered through one question: does this free your best people to focus on the work that actually grows the business?
No key-person dependencies
We cross-train across every codebase we touch so knowledge is never trapped in one person — ours or yours.
Reliability as the deliverable
Systems we own run to explicit targets, with observability, alerting and incident discipline — uptime you can read off a dashboard, not take on trust.
The outcome
Your core, sharper. Your distractors, owned.
Multi-year Contracted term, with SLOs
24/7 Operations & incident command
0 Lock-in — code-defined, yours to take back
Targets are agreed per engagement and reported against — reliability you can read, not take on trust.
Free up your team
Tell us what's distracting you.
Tell us what's pulling your best people off course. We'll come back with a pragmatic plan to take it on — and a clear view of what you get back.
- A defined, four-stage transfer-in
- Senior engineers, day one
- Contracted SLOs and a written exit clause
Let’s talk
Your distractors belong with us.
Whatever's pulling your best people away from core business — hand it over. We'll run it, own it, and give you your focus back.