Cloud Bill Sanity Check
Send us one month of cloud billing and we will tell you what looks wrong and what it would save to fix.
Timeline: 3 working days
₹999
GST included
Pick One of These Tools
Describe a choice you are stuck between and we write up which one we would pick for your situation, and why.
- Price incl. GST
- ₹300
- Timeline
- 2 working days
- Deliverables
- 5 listed below
Overview
About this service
the database or the database. a cross-platform mobile framework or two native apps. Build the admin panel or buy one. These arguments run for weeks internally because both sides are partly right, and the answer depends on facts about your team that no blog post knows. Tell us the options, your constraints and who has to maintain the result, and we write up a recommendation with the reasoning, the strongest argument against it, and the conditions under which we would change our mind.
Deliverables
What you receive
- 01 A clear recommendation, named rather than hedged
- 02 The three or four factors that actually decided it for your case
- 03 The strongest honest argument for the option we did not pick
- 04 The conditions that would change the answer, so you can revisit it later
- 05 A rough note on switching cost if you choose wrong
Benefits
Why it is worth doing
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A decision made this week rather than argued for another month
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A written rationale you can attach to the decision record
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An honest account of the trade-off rather than a vendor preference
Process
How the work is carried out
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1
Describe
You set out the options, the constraints and who maintains it afterwards
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2
Question
We come back once if a decisive detail is missing
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3
Recommend
A written answer of roughly a page, sent by email
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4
Debate
One round of pushback answered, because disagreement is useful here
Best suited to
- Teams deadlocked between two defensible options
- Founders choosing a stack they will live with for years
- Managers who need a written rationale to put in front of a board or client
What we need from you
- The options you are choosing between and why each is on the list
- Your team size, existing stack and who will maintain this in two years
- Any hard constraint such as budget, compliance or an existing contract
You can share these from your order page after checkout. The timeline starts once they are received.
FAQ
Questions about this service
Push back and we will engage with it properly. Sometimes you know something that changes the answer, and we will say so.
We name our own bias where it exists. Several of these end with a recommendation we do not build on.
Up to four. Beyond that the shortlist itself is the problem and we will say so.
Have a question before you order?
Tell us about your project and we will confirm whether this service fits, or suggest a better option.
This is a professional service delivered remotely; nothing is physically shipped. See the Delivery Policy and Refunds & Cancellation for how delivery, delays and refunds are handled.
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