Start with an audit you can approve this week.
A small, fixed fee and a defined finish line. You get a written plan you keep whether or not you hire us. If you go ahead within 30 days of the readout, the full fee is credited against the first milestone.
Choose your starting point
| Offer | For | Duration | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture audit | Funded startups with AI or backend problems: latency, cost, reliability, enterprise readiness | 10 business days | $6,000 · £4,800 · €5,500 |
| Real-time scaling audit | Products with live rooms, sessions, chat or multiplayer that struggle under load | 10–12 business days | $7,500 · £6,000 · €6,900 |
| Workflow discovery sprint | Operations teams with document-heavy, manual processes | 2 weeks | $5,000 · £4,000 · €4,600 |
Founding-client programme: our first three clients get 25% off in exchange for a case study(named or anonymised, your choice) and occasional reference calls.
Two ways we work with you
Production rescue, for funded startups
You have users, a deadline, and a backend that wasn't built for either. We audit the system, fix the critical path, and leave your team with an architecture they can own.
- Real-time scaling: WebSockets, Redis, server-authoritative state, reconnects
- LLM latency and cost: async pipelines, caching, model routing
- Enterprise readiness: tenant isolationEach customer's data is kept apart, so one customer can never see or change another's., roles, audit logging
Custom AI workflows, for operations-heavy businesses
Your team re-keys documents, chases status in spreadsheets and triages email by hand. We turn one bottleneck into a system with explicit states, confidence-scored AI extraction and a human review queue. It can run on private or local models when confidentiality matters.
What the architecture audit covers
- Kick-off and access. Mutual NDA, then read-only, time-limited access to code, infrastructure and observability. Three short interviews with the people closest to the system.
- Critical-path review. We trace the requests, jobs and state transitions that matter most to your users and your costs.
- Written report. A risk register ranked by impact and likelihood, a target architecture diagram, quick wins that take under a week, and a fixed-price milestone plan with acceptance criteria.
- Readout. A 60-minute session with your team. Questions answered in writing for a week afterwards.
What the real-time scaling audit adds
A load-test harness built and run in your staging environment, with your written authorisation. You get a measured baseline of concurrency and latency, and an analysis of where and why the system breaks. We never test production or any system you haven't authorised.
What the workflow discovery sprint covers
- Process mapping with the people who do the work today.
- An extraction test on 50–100 anonymised sample documents, or on documents covered by a data processing agreement.
- An accuracy report, and an ROI model: minutes saved × volume × cost.
- Deployment options (cloud, private or local models) and a fixed-price pilot plan.
Terms
- Payment: 50% on signing, 50% at the readout. Invoiced in USD, GBP or EUR.
- Your IP and your data stay yours. Access is revoked when the engagement ends.
- We only start once an engineer is free to begin within 10 business days, and we'll tell you the start date before you sign.
Book an audit
Send us a few lines about the system and your deadline. An engineer replies within one business day to arrange a 30-minute call, and a written proposal follows within 24 hours of that call.
Or email support@sirendesk.com.