Custom automation infrastructure
Queues, schedulers, webhooks, retries and observability, the plumbing reliable automation needs.
- Engagement
- Phased build with a support retainer after go-live
- Typical timeline
- 8–12 weeks
- Starts with
- A full inventory of your existing automations, including the ones nobody admits to owning.
Two hundred automations live across Zapier, Make and a few scripts on somebody’s laptop. Last month one of them changed silently, and it took nine days to notice the invoices had stopped going out.
Automation that still works at ten times the volume.
What we build
Concrete artefacts, handed over and documented.
- 01
An automation platform you own: workflows defined in code, reviewed and versioned in Git like any other software
- 02
Queues, scheduling and retry semantics sized for your volume, with the guarantee that a job runs once
- 03
Separate development, staging and production environments, so a change is tested before it reaches a customer
- 04
Observability treated as part of the build: every run traced, every failure alerted, cost and duration visible per workflow
- 05
Secrets and access control held properly, rather than pasted into a shared no-code account by whoever built it
- 06
Migration of your existing automations, ordered by how much damage each would do by failing
What changes
Automation stops being a per-task subscription bill that grows with your volume
Changes can be reviewed, tested and reverted, which a shared no-code account cannot offer
Silent failure ends: every workflow reports whether it ran and what it produced
How it runs
- Weeks 1–2
01Inventory and case
Every existing automation catalogued with owner, volume and blast radius, next to what you currently pay in tool fees.
- Weeks 3–8
02Platform
Runtime, environments, observability and access control, with two real workflows migrated as proof rather than a demo.
- Weeks 9–12
03Migrate
The rest moves in risk order, each running in parallel until proven, then the old accounts close.
Chosen per project. Named here so you can see the shape of it.
- Temporal
- Postgres
- Redis
- AWS
- Sentry
- Grafana
Questions we get asked
Tell us the outcome, not the tooling.
Send us the situation you are in. We will tell you which discipline it belongs to, what we would do first and what it costs, including when the answer is to wait.