Fixed-Scope Engagements
Predictable, milestone-based pricing for modern websites, cloud foundations, data lakehouses, and FinOps optimizations. Senior Australian engineering with zero hidden surprises.
Small Business Website
Ideal for: Australian small businesses, professional service firms, and trades looking for a fast, modern, and credible online presence that ranks well on Google and converts visitors without legacy WordPress headaches.
What Is Included
- 5–8 page modern Next.js 16 + Tailwind CSS site engineered for high speed, clean typography, and mobile-first responsiveness
- Production SEO fundamentals: JSON-LD schema markup, XML sitemap, robots.txt, and optimized OpenGraph social meta tags
- Australian cloud hosting setup with automated HTTPS/SSL, high-performance Nginx caching, and reliable uptime
- Privacy-first analytics and conversion-optimized contact/inquiry form with anti-spam honeypot security
- Rapid 2-week delivery with direct senior architect collaboration and zero outsourced code
What Is Excluded
- Ongoing proprietary copywriting or professional graphic photography
- Complex multi-vendor ecommerce marketplaces or custom ERP integrations
- Third-party domain registration fees and ongoing hosting subscription fees
💡 Architect Note: Built with the same modern stack we use for enterprise clients—no bloated WordPress themes or slow page builders.
Production Azure Landing Zone
Ideal for: Mid-market to enterprise Australian organisations deploying greenfield workloads or migrating core data estates into Azure with strict compliance, security, and governance requirements.
What Is Included
- Enterprise-scale management group hierarchy and subscription topology
- Hub-and-spoke virtual network with Azure Firewall / NVA routing rules
- Custom Azure Policy baseline enforcing CIS Azure Benchmarks and Australian data sovereignty
- Microsoft Entra ID RBAC roles, PIM privileged identity integration, and emergency access accounts
- Infrastructure as Code repository in modular Bicep or Terraform with automated GitHub Actions CI/CD
What Is Excluded
- Application workload source code refactoring or proprietary code modernization
- Third-party software licensing fees (e.g. specialized firewall vendor licenses)
- Ongoing managed cloud operations beyond the post-deployment warranty period
Microsoft Fabric Analytics Proof of Concept
Ideal for: Enterprises seeking to validate Microsoft Fabric, eliminate slow overnight batch ETL jobs, and evaluate Direct Lake query speed against live business data before committing to full migration.
What Is Included
- OneLake storage foundation and Medallion Lakehouse (Bronze, Silver, Gold) structure
- Automated ingestion pipelines for up to 3 core operational or transactional data sources
- PySpark cleansing and delta table transformation notebooks
- Gold semantic star-schema model with Direct Lake Power BI connection
- Executive analytics dashboard demonstrating sub-second query performance without cache refresh lag
- Knowledge transfer session and Fabric capacity sizing recommendation
What Is Excluded
- Organisation-wide legacy data warehouse decommissioning
- Production Microsoft Fabric F-SKU capacity licensing costs
- Complex historical data backfills exceeding 5 years of transactions
Azure Infrastructure & FinOps Cost Review
Ideal for: Organisations spending over $10,000/month on Azure who have experienced cloud spend creep and require senior architectural review to uncover 20% to 40% immediate savings without degrading performance.
What Is Included
- Comprehensive audit of Azure consumption, idle resources, and orphan managed disks
- Reserved Instance (RI) and Savings Plan coverage optimization analysis
- Right-sizing recommendations across compute (VMs, App Services, AKS, Fabric)
- Storage tiering optimization (Hot to Cool/Archive lifecycle management)
- Architecture cost hotspots identification (network egress, unattached IPs, oversized gateways)
- Detailed executive report with quantified savings roadmap and prioritized implementation backlog
What Is Excluded
- Direct implementation of destructive resource deallocations without customer sign-off
- Direct renegotiation of customer Microsoft Enterprise Agreements (EA)
How Custom Engineering Projects Are Quoted
For unique digital products, complex cloud migrations, or multi-platform architectures, we follow a transparent four-stage scoping methodology.
Initial Architecture Discovery
We conduct a collaborative technical review with your engineering leadership to analyze existing codebases, infrastructure dependencies, data volumes, and security constraints.
Technical Specification & SOW
We draft an exhaustive Statement of Work defining architecture diagrams, component specifications, acceptance criteria, milestone deliverables, and timelines.
Fixed Milestone or Sprint Model
Depending on project certainty, we structure delivery either as milestone-gated fixed payments upon agreed technical deliverables, or dedicated bi-weekly engineering sprints.
Direct Senior Execution
You work directly with lead software and cloud engineers. All code, configuration scripts, and documentation belong 100% to your organisation with zero intellectual property lock-in.
Transparent Answers on Pricing and Commercials
Common questions about our fixed-scope milestones, cloud consumption billing, and engagement models.