Support & Managed Services

Someone accountable when the automation breaks at 2am

Support & Managed Services

Ongoing maintenance, monitoring, and iteration for the systems we build and the ones you already run - under a response SLA you can plan around.

Signs This Applies To You

If more than one of these sounds familiar, this is the right service to talk about.

The person who built your automations has left

Small breakages accumulate until the team quietly reverts to doing it by hand

Nobody is accountable out of hours for something the business depends on

Your last supplier answered tickets but never improved anything

Improvement work always loses to whatever is on fire that week

The Problem

Automation and internal software need an owner. Without one, small breakages accumulate until the team quietly goes back to doing it by hand.

Our Approach

A named engineer holds context on your systems, responds inside an agreed SLA, and spends a fixed share of each month improving things rather than only firefighting.

What The Work Covers

Monitoring and on-call

Coverage of the systems we agree actually matter, with alerting tuned so that the person paged has something useful to do about it.

Response under SLA

Written response and resolution targets by severity, reported against every month rather than asserted once in a proposal.

Incident management

A named owner for each incident, customer-facing updates where they are needed, and a written post-incident note for anything that reached a user.

Monthly improvement allocation

A fixed share of every month spent on the backlog: reliability work, small features, and paying down whatever is generating repeat tickets.

Quarterly review

A working session on architecture, risk, cost, and what should be built or retired next, with a written summary you can take to a board.

How It Runs

01.Onboarding

We document your systems, access paths, and escalation contacts, then set up monitoring where it is missing.

02.Steady state

Incidents handled to SLA, with a written post-incident note for anything that reached a customer.

03.Continuous improvement

A fixed number of days each month goes to the backlog, so the system gets better rather than merely staying alive.

04.Quarterly review

A session on architecture, cost, risk, and what should be built or retired next.

Outcomes We Aim For

A named engineer who knows your systems

Defined response times instead of best effort

Small improvements shipped every month

When This Is Not The Right Fit

We would rather say so early than take the work and disappoint you later.

End-user helpdesk, laptops, and device support

Systems we are not given enough access to monitor properly

Open-ended development dressed up as support - large builds get scoped as projects

Covering a platform that is already scheduled for replacement

What You Get

Monitoring and on-call coverage

Guaranteed response and resolution targets

Monthly improvement allocation

Quarterly architecture and cost review


Engagement: Monthly retainer, 30-day rolling

Timeline: Onboarding complete in 2 weeks

Discuss This Service

Typical Stack

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2 wks

To complete onboarding and monitoring coverage

30 days

Rolling term, with no long lock-in

Named

Engineer who holds context on your systems

In Practice

Where Managed Support Earns Its Keep

01.Post-project ownership

Systems we built stay covered after handover, so your team can take them on at their own pace instead of on launch day.

02.Inherited estate

Automations and internal tools left behind by a previous supplier, documented and stabilised before anything gets rebuilt.

03.Holiday and departure cover

Continuity for the period when the one person who understands a system is away, on leave, or gone for good.

04.Fractional platform team

Ongoing engineering capacity for a company too small to justify a full-time platform hire but too dependent on its systems to have none.

Related Work

Where We Have Done This

Retail & e-commerce

One customer record across six systems

Storefront, ERP, helpdesk, email, loyalty, and warehouse each held a different version of the customer. We built the integration layer that reconciled them.


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Questions

Managed Support Questions We Get Asked

They are set per severity in the agreement and reported monthly. A production outage is measured in minutes to acknowledge; a cosmetic bug is measured in business days.

No. We take on inherited systems regularly. Onboarding takes longer because we document first, and occasionally we recommend stabilising something before agreeing an SLA on it.

A fixed number of engineering days each month for backlog work that you prioritise. Unused days do not bank indefinitely, which keeps the backlog moving rather than accumulating.

Thirty days rolling once onboarding is done. A retainer should be kept because it is worth keeping, not because leaving is made painful.

Out-of-hours cover is an option rather than an assumption, priced by the window and severity you genuinely need. Plenty of clients are better served by business-hours cover and honest monitoring.

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