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Platform & support
with less translation.

The care after launch: speed, security, accessibility and a team that answers when it matters.

The remit

What this division
is accountable for.

  • Issues detected before customers report them
  • Performance and accessibility that do not decay
  • A verified, rehearsed restore path
  • A named senior engineer who knows your system

Launch day is the start of the interesting part. Everything that determines whether a digital investment holds its value happens afterwards, in months where nothing dramatic occurs and small amounts of attention compound.

This division exists for that period. Updates applied, performance defended with budgets in CI, accessibility maintained rather than re-audited annually, security hardened before an incident rather than during one.

It also holds our white-label practice, where the client is another agency and the deliverable is quiet, senior capacity under someone else’s brand.

How this is bought

Three engagement
shapes.

Most clients start with the first and decide about the others once there is evidence on the table.

01

Health assessment

1–2 weeks, fixed price

A baseline across performance, security, accessibility, dependency risk and access control, with findings ranked by consequence and a costed remediation list.

02

Remediation programme

2–6 weeks

The ranked list worked through, with automated gates added in CI so the same problems cannot quietly return two releases later.

03

Care retainer

Ongoing, monthly

Updates, monitoring, verified backups, defined response times, an improvement allowance and a quarterly technical review with a prioritised action list.

How the work runs

Four stages, visible throughout.

01

Assess

A baseline across performance, security, accessibility and dependency risk, with findings ranked by consequence.

02

Stabilise

The urgent items closed first: exposed surfaces, failing checks, missing backups, unpatched dependencies.

03

Automate

Budgets, scans and alerts moved into CI and monitoring, so regressions are caught by machines rather than customers.

04

Review

A quarterly session on what changed, what is drifting and what deserves next quarter’s attention.

A good fit when
  • Nobody has updated the CMS or dependencies in a year
  • A client security questionnaire has arrived and you cannot answer it
  • Search Console is flagging Core Web Vitals as needing improvement
  • Your previous agency has moved on and taken the context with them
Probably not us if
  • You want a penetration test certificate without fixing anything underneath
  • You need 24/7 follow-the-sun operations cover
  • The application is beyond economic repair and needs replacing

We would rather point you to a specialist in the first conversation than sell you our second-best skill.

Questions we get asked

Platform & support, answered.

Typically four business hours for a critical outage, one business day for a functional defect, and a scheduled slot for improvements. The exact commitment goes in the agreement — a vague promise to be responsive is worth nothing at 9am on a Monday.

Yes, after a short onboarding audit so we can run it locally, understand the deployment path and record the risks we find. Occasionally that audit concludes the honest answer is a rebuild, and we say so rather than billing to maintain something unmaintainable.

No. You hold the accounts and pay providers directly at cost while we manage the configuration. Marking up infrastructure creates an incentive we would rather not have, and it makes leaving harder than it should be.

No. Overlays cannot repair heading structure, unlabelled inputs or keyboard traps, they frequently interfere with a user’s own assistive technology, and they have not prevented litigation. We fix the underlying markup at component level.

A better brief starts here

Bring us a platform & support problem.

Bring us the hard thing. We will bring a point of view, a senior team and a clear next step.

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