Managed App
We keep it running so you can keep building.A named engineer who knows your codebase, alerting that reaches a person, verified restores, and a written report every month.
From $499
Per month, no long-term contract
- Timeline
- Month to month
- Deliverables
- 7 items
- Starts with
- A free call
Production engineering, without the headcount
Ongoing monitoring, updates, backups, security patching, and continuous optimization. A production engineering team on retainer, without the headcount.
A production app needs someone to watch it, patch it, restore it, and notice when it gets slower.
- What we need from you
- Access to the production environment, a shared alert channel, and an agreed escalation contact on your side.
- What you keep
- Every account stays in your name and the monthly written report is yours to forward without editing.
What being managed means week to week
Monitoring that nobody reads is not monitoring. These are the practices behind the retainer, in the order they usually save someone.
- 01
Alerts that reach a person
Uptime and error thresholds tuned to your app so pages mean something, routed to an on-call engineer with an escalation path you approved.
- 02
Patching on a cadence, not on panic
Dependency and platform updates applied on a regular schedule, with advisories monitored in between.
- 03
Restore drills, not backup checkboxes
Backups are restored into a scratch environment on a schedule and the restore time is recorded.
- 04
Cost and performance reviewed monthly
Query times, error rates, and infrastructure spend are compared month over month, and you get a written report with one or two concrete optimizations.
Everything in the engagement, listed
No line items appear on an invoice that were not on this list first.
- 24/7 uptime and error monitoring with real alerting
- Dependency and security patching on a regular cadence
- Automated backups with periodic restore drills
- Monthly performance and cost review
- Incident response with a defined response window
- A named engineer who knows your codebase
- Priority support channel on Slack or Discord
What is different when we are done
Someone is watching
Alerts reach an engineer, not an empty inbox. Most incidents are handled before your users write in.
It stays fast
Performance and cost are reviewed every month, so slow drift gets caught while it is still cheap to fix.
Your time goes to product
You stop context-switching into infrastructure and go back to building the thing customers actually pay for.
How the work runs
Month to month, start to finish. You know what is happening at every stage, and nothing moves to production without you.
- 1
Onboard
We document your stack, set alert thresholds, and confirm the escalation path with you.
- 2
Instrument
Monitoring, logging, and backup verification are wired up properly, not just switched on.
- 3
Operate
We patch, watch, and respond, and you get a written monthly report on what changed and why.
- 4
Improve
Each month we bring one or two concrete optimizations rather than waiting for something to break.
When Managed App is the right next step
Book this if any of these are true
- The app is live, people depend on it, and nobody currently owns production.
- You have developers who build features but no one who wants to carry a pager.
- An outage would cost you real revenue or a customer relationship.
- You want a monthly report you can forward to a board or a co-founder without editing it.
Start somewhere else if
The app is not deployed yet, or it is not yet safe to leave running.
Get it production readyYou want to know how much operational risk you are carrying today.
Start with the audit
Still unsure? Say so on the call. We would rather point you at the cheaper step than sell you the bigger one.
Managed App, answered
No. Plans are month to month and you can cancel any time.
Anything that makes the app unavailable, incorrect, or unsafe for your users.
Yes, and that is a common setup. We handle production and infrastructure while your team owns the product code.
Hand production to someone whose job it is
From $499 a month, month to month, with a named engineer and a defined response window.