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You have a legacy estate you have been putting off
On-prem, colo, Heroku, an older cloud account someone set up in 2017, a Kubernetes cluster the last DevOps lead built and left. You want a date on it.
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You want one named price for the whole thing
Not a time-and-materials rate that drifts. Discovery is two weeks, the number lands at the end of it, and that number does not move unless you change scope in writing.
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Your team is 10 to 500 people
Big enough that the migration is real work. Small enough that one engineer owning it end-to-end is the right shape.
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You want IaC to be a deliverable, not a slide
You leave the engagement with the Terraform, the Ansible, the runbook, and a team that can run it. No vendor lock-in to the consultancy.
Fit · who Hardcut is for
Hardcut isn't
for everyone.
Single specialist, fixed scope, eight to twelve engagements a year. The engagements that go well share a shape. The ones that don't, also share a shape. Better to name both upfront than discover them in week three.
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You need 20 engineers on-site Monday
Hardcut is one specialist. Eight to twelve engagements a year. If you need a body shop, you need a body shop.
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You want a parallel run for 18 months
Hardcut sells the opposite: a single defined window, old system off the night the new one goes live. If parallel-forever is the plan, we are not a fit.
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You are sovereignty-regulated Canadian government
Federal GoC, Protected B / SECRET / TOP SECRET, supply-chain integrity programs. The right answer there is a vendor with the cleared roster, not a solo practice.
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You want the work billed hourly with no ceiling
Hardcut runs fixed-price engagements with named cutover dates. Hourly with no ceiling rewards drift. Drift is what got you here.
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The migration is not the bottleneck
If the real problem is the application architecture, the team, or the contract with the current vendor, a clean cutover does not solve it. Honest about that before week one.
Not sure which side you're on? Thirty-minute call sorts it. Book one →
If you're staring at a migration you've been putting off, let's talk.
Thirty-minute call by default. No deck, no sales engineer, no follow-up sequence. Either there's a Hardcut-shaped engagement here or there isn't, and you'll know which one by the end of the call.