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A consultancy built around one question.

Could your team keep running this without us? Every decision we make on an engagement is answerable to that question - the architecture we choose, the code we write, and the documentation we leave behind.

Why one team

Why the practices sit together.

Cloud infrastructure, security posture, application code, and data systems are usually sold separately and almost never fail separately. A latency problem turns out to be a query plan. A failed audit turns out to be a deploy process. An AI feature that will not ship turns out to be a data pipeline nobody trusts.

Splitting that work across vendors means the boundaries between them become your problem to manage. CodeCirrus keeps all of it under one team so the diagnosis and the fix come from the same people.

We work with engineering teams that have real systems in production and real constraints around them - not greenfield projects with unlimited runway.

Principles

What we hold to.

Working software over status decks

Progress is visible in the repository. If a week goes by without something reviewable, that is a problem worth raising rather than a phase to sit through.

Boring where it counts

We reach for proven tools in the load-bearing parts of a system. Novelty is reserved for the places where it actually buys something you need.

You own what we build

No proprietary wrappers, no lock-in to us. Infrastructure ships as code in your repositories, and every engagement ends with a handover your team can act on.

Honest scoping

We will tell you when a project is smaller than you think, when it is larger, and when the thing you asked for is not the thing that will help.

How we work

How an engagement runs.

  1. 01

    Assess

    We start by reading the system as it actually is - architecture, delivery pipeline, security posture, and the constraints your team is working under. You get a written assessment with prioritized findings, whether or not we do the work.

  2. 02

    Plan

    Findings become a sequenced plan with effort, risk, and dependencies made explicit. Quick wins get separated from structural work, so you can decide what to fund and what to defer.

  3. 03

    Build

    We implement in reviewable increments against a shared board. Infrastructure lands as code, changes ship behind CI, and you can see progress in the repo rather than in a status deck.

  4. 04

    Hand over

    Every engagement ends with runbooks, architecture notes, and a working session with your engineers. The goal is that we could stop tomorrow and your team would keep running it.

Let's talk about your system.

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