Services

Service Plan

Our flagship service for organisations building their business on Rails. Service Plans deliver continuous updates, improvements, and optimisations for your Ruby on Rails apps.

• Unlimited one-to-one access
  Get advice via our project management system, online chat, email, and phone; all with business-hours response.
• Initial application review
  Your Service Plan plan includes our initial Application Review service.
• Ongoing maintenance and updates
  Security updates, third-party integrations, and Rails upgrades.
• No more quotes and budget creep
  Pay a simple fixed monthly price for unlimited requests.
• No more time-draining meetings
  Everything handled through our simple project management system.
• Continuous Improvement
  We'll always be improving and optimising your applications code as we work on it.
• Simple Project Management
  We use a simple card-based project management tool, to communicate with you and manage your project asynchronously.

Service Plan Pro

Everything in our standard Service Plan, plus development of new features for your applications. Designed for organisations who need more than just maintenance.

• Everything in Service Plan
  Ongoing updates, maintenance, and continuous improvement, simple project management, and unlimited one-to-one access.
• Feature Development
  We'll work to develop new features and functionality for your application, ensuring it's not only well-maintained, but always moving forwards to meet the needs of your customers and business.
  
  We operate a "single-track" development pipeline, so we'll work on one feature at a time to completion, before moving on to the next. You can reprioritise features any time your plan is active.

Adviser Plan

Our Fractional CTO Adviser Plan service delivers monthly strategic-level advice and support for business leaders and senior teams. Regular reviews, strategic planning, and software product architecture, with unlimited access via online chat, phone, or email.

• Unlimited one-to-one access
  Get strategic level technical advice and support via our project management system, online chat, email, and phone; all with business-hours response.
• Initial application review
  Your Adviser Plan includes our initial Application Review service.
• Regular one-on-one calls
  to discuss technical strategy and implementation.
• Reviews and auditing
  of code committed by your team.
• Assistance for your development team
  in debugging issues, planning features, and applying best-practice development techniques.
• Proof-of-concept and demonstration code
  to help your team, and tackle complicated requirements.

Consultation

Using our expertise in Ruby on Rails and other core technologies, we will help you and your organisation with all stages of digital product planning, prototyping, and development; or even just fixing a one-off code bug!

• Phone or Video Call
  A one-to-one call with to discuss your project and ask us anything on development strategy, architecture, database design, infrastructure, best practice, and more...
• Actionable Advice.
  After your call, you'll receive an email summary of our notes, and recommendations for next steps.

Consultations can be booked as required, or retained on an ongoing monthly basis according to the needs of your organisation.

Application Review

A one-time, in-depth audit for your Ruby on Rails application and architecture.

• We'll carry out a full review
  of your code, security, hosting and infrastructure, and adherence to best practice.
• You'll receive a complete, jargon-free report
  of our findings, and recommendations for improvements in security, best practice and optimisation.