Support

Support & Maintenance

Keeping systems patched, monitored and understood after launch — with a named route to a person who knows how yours is built.

Practice
07
Services
3 in this practice
Sectors
6 served
Engagement
Fixed scope, time and materials, or retained
01The practice

What this covers

Software does not stop needing attention when it goes live. Dependencies acquire known vulnerabilities, certificates expire, data volumes grow past the point the original queries were designed for, and the person who understood the deployment moves on. Support is the work that keeps a system from quietly degrading into something nobody wants to touch. Response times, availability targets and escalation routes are agreed for each engagement and written into the support agreement, because they depend on what the system does and what it costs you when it stops — we do not publish numbers here that would be meaningless applied to yours.

02Services

Inside Support

Each service page sets out the problem it addresses, how we approach it, the process, and what you receive at the end.

  • 01

    Maintenance

    Scheduled work that stops small problems becoming outages

    Ongoing patching, dependency updates, certificate and backup verification, and performance monitoring, carried out on an agreed cadence with a record of what changed.

    • Amazon Web Services
    • Docker
    • PostgreSQL
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
  • 02

    Troubleshooting

    Finding the actual cause, not the nearest plausible one

    Diagnostic work on systems that are failing, slow or behaving inconsistently — including systems we did not build and problems that have already defeated one attempt at a fix.

    • Docker
    • PostgreSQL
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • Python
  • 03

    Managed Support

    A standing arrangement with people who know your system

    An ongoing agreement covering monitoring, incident response, user support and a share of continuous improvement, with named engineers and an escalation route agreed in advance.

    • Docker
    • PostgreSQL
    • TypeScript
    • Kubernetes
    • Node.js

Other practices

  • Web Engineering

    Public-facing sites, storefronts and browser-based applications built to be fast, findable and maintainable by people other than us.

  • Software Engineering

    Applications, platforms and integrations built for organisations whose process no longer fits anything they can buy off the shelf.

  • Mobile Engineering

    Native and cross-platform applications for phones and tablets, built for the conditions that only appear away from a desk — poor signal, a four-year-old device, and an app store sitting between you and your users.

  • Product & Interface Design

    Research, flows, screens and component libraries produced against real content and real constraints, so that what is designed is what can actually be built.

  • Cloud & Infrastructure

    Cloud environments, deployment pipelines, hosting and monitoring set up so that a release is boring, a restore has been tested, and somebody knows when it breaks.

  • Consulting

    Advisory work that ends in a decision you can act on — a costed plan, an architecture you can build against, or a prioritised list of what to fix first.

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Tell us what you need from Support

The project brief takes about five minutes and gives us enough to have a useful first conversation rather than a generic one. If you would rather just ask a question, the short form is there for that.

We read every enquiry ourselves. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and tell you what to look for instead.