They have a person who has seen the problem before. Simbotix takes the engagements where the answer is judgement, not a licence — scoped directly with our founder, delivered by our founder, with a name on the door.
If your problem is on this list, you don't need software. You need someone who has already been wrong about it a few times and knows why.
Your infrastructure spend is climbing faster than your usage, and the invoice tells you the total without telling you the cause. Somebody needs to open it, find where the meter actually runs, and tell you which line items are load-bearing and which are drift.
It runs. Nobody can say why it runs, what happens when the primary goes, or whether the backups restore — because nobody has tried. That isn't a feature request. It's an audit.
Off a platform that has outgrown you, or onto one before a deadline you don't control. The risk isn't the technology. It's the cutover, the reconciliation, and the week afterwards.
Every vendor you've called wants to sell you the closest thing they already have. Your problem is genuinely the shape it is, and it needs to be designed rather than matched.
An architecture, a quote, or a contract that is about to become a three-year commitment. An hour of adversarial reading before signing is cheaper than a year of regret after.
Not hours. Not a headcount. A result you can point at.
You talk to the person doing the work. There is no layer between the person who scoped it and the person who delivers it, because they are the same person. If it goes wrong you know exactly who to call — and that person cannot forward the email to a team.
We scope to an outcome and quote the outcome. An hourly rate would invite you to compare us to a rate card, and a rate card is the wrong instrument for work whose value is measured in what it prevents. What a fix is worth depends on what it is costing you now — so that is the conversation we have.
Every engagement ends in something durable: the findings, the decisions, the reasoning, and the runbook. If you never work with us again, you still own the thinking. We are not trying to make ourselves load-bearing.
One engagement at a time. That is the honest constraint of work genuinely done by one senior engineer rather than staffed out, and it is the reason the work is good. If we are booked, we will say so and tell you when.
Simbotix is the front door for the whole family. Half of a good answer is knowing which door you actually want — so here is the routing, plainly.
We would rather send you to the right door for free than sell you the wrong thing well.
Two numbers, and an honest account of what kind of number each one is.
A telemetry platform handling roughly 6 TB a day across fifteen departments, run on managed Kubernetes for about $15K a month — against a commercial vendor's quote of roughly $120K a month for the equivalent. An 85–90% reduction against that quote, with no measured performance cost.
What kind of number this is: delivered in a prior senior engineering role, not for a Simbotix client. The comparison is against a written vendor quote — a projected alternative — not against a bill that was previously paid.
A current-generation 16-core / 128 GB dedicated server rents for roughly one-fifth of the nearest on-demand instance from a major cloud — which ships with half the memory — before storage, egress, or the managed-Kubernetes control plane.
What kind of number this is: both figures are public list prices, reproducible by anyone. The full working is published, including the cases where the move does not pay off.
And the honest half. That second piece is on our founder's own site, and it argues against the migration for most teams — the compute gap is real, but capturing it costs senior engineering time, and below a certain spend the hours cost more than the hardware saves. We link it because the reasoning is the product. If a number only works when nobody checks it, it isn't proof. Read the analysis →
Every engagement is scoped on a call. We don't publish a price, because we have never once seen a problem in this category that a price list described correctly.
Thirty minutes. You describe the problem. We tell you honestly whether it is ours, one of the studios', or nobody's — some problems are best left alone for another quarter.
What we will do, what you will have at the end, what it costs, what it does not include, and what would make us stop.
One engagement at a time, with a standing line to the person doing it.
Findings, decisions, reasoning, runbook. Yours to keep.
Thirty minutes, no charge, and a straight answer about whether we're the right people for it.
