One problem at a time. Six to twelve weeks.
Atelier Ops engagements adopt a single platform-engineering problem — a stalled architecture decision, a snowflake pipeline, an SLO program that never landed — and hand it back as an ADR, a paved road, and a named owner inside your team. Built by craftspeople, on a fixed shape every time: discovery → ADR → build → handoff.
- Typical reply < 1 business day
- Audit-ready by default
How we work
Decisions you can audit. Roads you can leave.
Four commitments we make on every engagement — the parts we refuse to bend on.
- Decision records as deliverable. Every change ships with an ADR — what we picked, what we rejected, and the trip-wires. Your future team can read the why.
- Isolated client workspaces. Each engagement runs in its own Paperclip company. No shared secrets, no shared tooling, no shared blast radius.
- Paved roads, not platforms. We hand off opinionated, narrow tools you can keep or replace — never a coupled platform you can't leave.
- Compliance evidence, not pageantry. SOC 2 / ISO controls produced as an honest by-product, not a slide.
What we take on
Six disciplines. One at a time.
Architecture, DevOps, SRE, SecOps, MLOps, and internal developer platforms — each adopted as one engagement under the same four-phase contract. See what fits →
- Architecture
- DevOps
- SRE
- SecOps
- MLOps
- Platform
What we'd hand back
What a finished engagement looks like, in numbers.
Typical ranges from a paved-road engagement — deploys 4–10× baseline, deploy lead time ↓60–90%, change failure rate < 5%, MTTR ↓70–95%. Real engagement metrics ship with the engagement, on your own audited dashboard.
Writings
Reasoning, in public.
No client logos. We earn trust the slow way: by writing down what we believe and being wrong in public when we are.
Paved roads vs platforms: what we learned getting it wrong
Why we now ship 'narrow opinionated tools' instead of 'broad coherent platforms', and the four times we relearned this lesson the expensive way.
ReadSLSA L3 without buying a SaaS
A self-hosted attestation pipeline using sigstore, GitLab CI, and zero new vendors. With the YAML, the trade-offs, and the postmortem.
ReadError budgets that don't lie about themselves
Most SLO programs fail by Q3 because they were never tied to a real consequence. Here's the contract template we use that survives the second budget burn.
ReadGet in touch
Have a problem worth our attention?
One email. We reply within a business day with either a scoped engagement, a referral, or a clear no.