Cloud and AI engineering
for teams that can't
afford to get it wrong.
We build three production platforms — Sprintsail, Drydock, Shortlist — and run them ourselves. When you hire us for cloud architecture or vertical AI, you work with the same engineers who ship and operate that stack every day.
The platforms we sell
are the ones we run.
Sprintsail
is our opinionated TypeScript IaC SDK. Nine application primitives, two
runtime targets — AWS and the Sprintsail Runtime — and one workflow:
sail migrate moves a stack between them without rewriting
handler code. Apache 2.0. It runs the infrastructure behind everything
else on this page.
Drydock
is managed Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes — the full cf push
developer experience, backed by Korifi (CNCF) and our own operators. We
run the Kubernetes workloads we won't trust to a third party. Free
lightweight tier for POCs; production tier when you're ready.
Shortlist is the verified hiring platform we built for ourselves and opened up. Candidates earn a Verified credential through a graded assessment, a hands-on lab, and a 45-minute session with a senior engineer in their field. The talent layer behind every Orion engagement.
We don't recommend what we don't run.
Production AI is a stack, not a single model.
Orion builds across the nine layers — infrastructure to governance — with the evaluation discipline that keeps the system honest after the launch demo is over.
Read the playbookThree ways to get cloud and AI work done. Pick one on purpose.
| Capability | Orion engagement | Typical consultancy | SaaS vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operates a production platform | — | Yes, but rents the IP to you | |
| Same engineers from scoping to operations | Handoffs to junior team | — | |
| Source-available IaC SDK (Apache 2.0) | — | — | |
| Verified senior talent on day one | Via Shortlist | Bench-staffed | — |
| No proprietary lock-in | Depends | — | |
| Cloud and AI under the same engagement | — | Single domain only | |
| Government / WOSB eligible | Sometimes | — |
From first conversation to running production.
One team, one timeline. We scope, build, operate, and hand off — or stay on as operators if that's the deal. No rotating consultants, no hidden subcontractors.
A working session with the engineers who would do the build. We tell you honestly whether we can help, what it would take, and what we would not do.
CDK-first cloud architecture, Sprintsail primitives where they fit, vertical AI on Bedrock + Claude. Everything is reproducible from source.
We run the platform in production with you for as long as it takes for your team to take it over. Observability, on-call, and incident review included.
Documented runbooks, source-available IaC, and a verified engineer through Shortlist if you want one on staff. No vendor lock-in either direction.
Honest answers to the questions we get most.
Is there vendor lock-in? +
sail migrate. Drydock runs Korifi (CNCF) — you can self-host if you want. Anything we operate, you can take over.Will we own the IP? +
How is this different from a regular cloud consultancy? +
Who actually does the work? +
Do you take fixed-price work? +
Government contracts? +
Notes from the engineering team.
Sprintsail Is Live — Deploy Production Apps in Under 60 Seconds.
Horizontal Scale or Vertical Depth: the AI choice every leader needs to make.
Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes — the managed PaaS for secure, compliant workloads.
Shortlist Is Live — a verified talent pipeline that kills resume theatre.
We don't recommend what we don't run.
Every platform on this site was built because we needed it ourselves. We do not market what we have not operated through a real outage.
How we engageTell us what you're shipping.
And what's in the way. We will tell you honestly whether we can help, what it would take, and which of our engineers would run the work.