Three products we built because we needed them. Two services for the work between greenfield and steady state. The team you hire is the same team that operates these platforms in production every day.
Each of the three products below started because we needed it ourselves. Sprintsail deploys our infrastructure, Drydock runs our managed-Kubernetes workloads, Shortlist matches the senior engineers we ship with.
Declare your app as primitives — Function, WebApp, Database, Bucket, Secret, ... — then sail deploy to AWS. When you're ready to leave, sail migrate moves the same app to a managed Kubernetes runtime running open-source operators. Same handler code. No proprietary lock-in. Apache 2.0.
The full cf push developer experience on Kubernetes — buildpacks, routing, service binding — without managing PCF or TAS. Production-ready POC architecture; brought up on demand for customer demos. The platform we use when "compliant managed PaaS" is the hard requirement.
Resume polish is not a skill. Cold-applying is not a strategy. ~2.5 hours of real work — domain assessment, take-home lab, 45-min interview with a senior practitioner in the field — and the credential follows the engineer across every employer on the platform. The talent layer behind every Orion engagement.
Two named practices for the work between greenfield and steady state. Each is run by the team that operates the products above — so when we recommend a pattern, it's the one we've already debugged in production.
The moment your team needs Well-Architected reviews, multi-account guardrails, a real disaster-recovery posture, or a fractional cloud lead — that's where Ark lands. CDK-first, written to be handed off to the team that has to run it after we leave.
Horizontal AI saves time per person. Vertical AI changes what's economically possible in a specific workflow. We build the vertical kind — domain-grounded agents on Bedrock + Claude, evaluation harnesses, retrieval pipelines, and the boring observability that keeps them honest. Two-week spikes; we kill or graduate.
Whether you need cloud architecture, AI development, a managed platform, or vetted talent — let's talk about what you're building.