Platform engineering for Series A–B SaaS

Ship 4x faster on infrastructure that just works.

Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD set up right in 6 weeks — without hiring a full-time platform engineer.

Free 45-min call · No sales pitch

38%

Lower cloud bill

99.99%

Uptime

<12 min

To deploy

99.99% Uptime

-38% AWS Spend

4.2m Deploy Time

Trusted by Series A–B SaaS teams

Series B FinTechHealthcare AIDevTools SaaSLogistics PlatformInsurTechVertical SaaS

// THE SERIES A–B INFRASTRUCTURE WALL

Your platform is held together with bash scripts, tribal knowledge, and hope.

What got you to $2M ARR will actively break you at $10M ARR. Right now, your highest-paid product engineers are losing 30% of their sprint capacity babysitting flaky pipelines and debugging IAM permissions.

SYMPTOM · CARD 01

The "Only Dave Knows" Bus Factor

ClickOps changes in the AWS console, undocumented EC2 instances, and terrifying Friday afternoon deploys that require your CTO on standby.

RISK: 4.5 hrs/wk lost per engineer to environment drift

BLUEGRASS FIX

100% codified OpenTofu/Terraform modules with automated PR drift detection and ephemeral preview environments for every branch.

SYMPTOM · CARD 02

The Silent 40% AWS/GCP Margin Leak

Over-provisioned RDS clusters, idle NAT Gateways, unattached EBS volumes, and zero autoscaling because nobody wants to touch production.

WASTE: $6,500–$28,000/mo burned on idle compute

BLUEGRASS FIX

Karpenter node right-sizing, Spot instance orchestration for stateless workloads, and automated FinOps anomaly alerts in Slack.

SYMPTOM · CARD 03

Enterprise Security Deal Blockers

A Fortune 500 prospect hands you a security questionnaire or SOC2 audit, and your VPC network segmentation, secrets management, and RBAC aren't ready.

IMPACT: 60–90 day enterprise sales cycle delays

BLUEGRASS FIX

Hardened CIS-benchmarked clusters, zero-trust Tailscale/WireGuard mesh, automated secret rotation via External Secrets Operator, and audit-ready logs.

// PRODUCTIZED PLATFORM ENGINEERING

Fixed-scope infrastructure sprints. Zero hourly billing games.

Hire us for a surgical 4-to-6 week buildout—we hand you the keys, full documentation, and team training—or keep us embedded on a fractional retainer.

FIXED SPRINT · $14,500 · 3 WEEKS

Sub-10-Minute CI/CD & Ephemeral PR Previews

We rebuild your sluggish, flaky build pipelines from scratch. Parallelized test runners, Docker layer caching, automated database migrations, and a dedicated live URL spun up automatically for every pull request.

GitHub Actions / GitLab CI overhaul
ArgoCD GitOps continuous delivery
Automated rollback on error-rate spike

main · #4821running…

lint + test

build image

argo sync

canary 10%

FIXED SPRINT · $24,000 · 5 WEEKS

Turnkey AWS EKS / GKE Platform-in-a-Box

Everything you need from Kubernetes without the operational nightmare. Multi-AZ high availability, Karpenter sub-minute autoscaling, ingress controllers, cert-manager, and developer-friendly Helm/Kustomize templates.

Multi-environment EKS (Dev/Stage/Prod)
Karpenter spot/on-demand autoscaling
Zero-downtime rolling & canary deploys

karpenter · nodepool/default6 nodes

FIXED SPRINT · $9,500 (OR 25% OF YR 1 SAVINGS)

30–50% Cloud Bill Compression — Guaranteed

We audit every line item of your AWS/GCP bill, eliminate zombie resources, re-architect data transfer bottlenecks, right-size RDS/ElastiCache, and implement Savings Plans without degrading performance.

100% ROI Guarantee: If we don't find at least 2x our fee in annual savings, you pay nothing.

FIXED SPRINT · $16,000 · 4 WEEKS

100% Terraform / OpenTofu Codification & Compliance

We import your existing legacy “ClickOps” cloud resources into clean, modular, version-controlled Terraform/OpenTofu state with least-privilege IAM, VPC isolation, and SOC2/HIPAA control mapping.

  + aws_vpc.core
  + module.eks["prod"]
  ~ aws_iam_role.ci  (least-priv)
Plan: 14 to add, 3 to change, 0 to destroy.

ONGOING RETAINER · $7,500 / MO · CANCEL ANYTIME

Your Dedicated Principal Platform Team on Slack

Get an entire senior platform engineering studio for less than 40% of the fully-loaded cost of one full-time DevOps hire. Dedicated Slack channel, weekly architecture syncs, continuous cost tuning, and 24/7 PagerDuty escalation support.

// EXECUTION PROTOCOL

From chaotic cloud to self-healing platform in 3 deterministic phases.

We don't drop a 90-page PDF on your desk and wish you luck. We write the code, migrate the workloads, and train your engineers.

// FIELD TELEMETRY

Measured in dollars, minutes, and nines.

$4.2M+

Annualized Cloud Spend Eliminated

Average Reduction in CI/CD Build Times

Production Kubernetes Clusters Architected

0 Days

Average Time to Positive Cash-Flow ROI

CASE STUDY 01 · SERIES B FINTECH SAAS · 38 ENGINEERS

Cut AWS spend from $44,000/mo to $23,800/mo while shrinking deploy times from 47 minutes to 6 minutes.

BEFORE

AWS spend$44,000/mo

Deploy time47 min

TopologyStatic EC2 + NAT sprawl

AFTER

AWS spend$23,800/mo

Deploy time6 min

TopologyEKS + Karpenter Spot

“Bluegrass paid for their entire engagement in the first 22 days from AWS NAT Gateway and Karpenter savings alone. Our product engineers haven't touched a YAML file in four months.”
— VP of Engineering, Series B FinTech

CASE STUDY 02 · SERIES A HEALTHCARE AI SAAS · 18 ENGINEERS

Migrated from fragile Heroku/ECS scripts to a HIPAA-compliant, multi-AZ EKS platform in 4 weeks—unblocking a $650k enterprise contract.

BEFORE

PlatformHeroku + ECS scripts

ComplianceNot HIPAA-ready

AvailabilitySingle AZ

AFTER

PlatformMulti-AZ EKS

ComplianceHIPAA control-mapped

Availability99.99% SLA

“We were quoted 6 months by a recruiting agency to hire a Lead DevOps Engineer. Bluegrass had our entire Terraform + EKS stack running in production before we even finished interviewing candidates.”
— CTO & Co-Founder

INTERACTIVE DIAGNOSTIC APP · 3 MINUTES · NO CREDIT CARD

How much of your cloud bill is pure waste? Find out in 180 seconds.

Benchmark your infrastructure across Velocity, Reliability, Cost Efficiency, and Security against 200+ Series A–B SaaS teams. Get an instant estimated dollar-waste calculation and a custom 90-day remediation roadmap.

Launch Cloud Waste & Maturity Scorecard

PLATFORM MATURITY · BG-2025-4821

GRADE B

RECOVERABLE VALUE

$142,000/yr

// OBJECTION HANDLING

Ship 4x faster on infrastructure that just works.

Your platform is held together with bash scripts, tribal knowledge, and hope.

The "Only Dave Knows" Bus Factor

The Silent 40% AWS/GCP Margin Leak

Enterprise Security Deal Blockers

Fixed-scope infrastructure sprints. Zero hourly billing games.

Sub-10-Minute CI/CD & Ephemeral PR Previews

Turnkey AWS EKS / GKE Platform-in-a-Box

30–50% Cloud Bill Compression — Guaranteed

100% Terraform / OpenTofu Codification & Compliance

Your Dedicated Principal Platform Team on Slack

From chaotic cloud to self-healing platform in 3 deterministic phases.

Deep-Dive Telemetry & Architecture Audit

Parallel Clean-Room Buildout

Cutover, Runbooks & Handoff (or Retainer)

Measured in dollars, minutes, and nines.

Cut AWS spend from $44,000/mo to $23,800/mo while shrinking deploy times from 47 minutes to 6 minutes.

Migrated from fragile Heroku/ECS scripts to a HIPAA-compliant, multi-AZ EKS platform in 4 weeks—unblocking a $650k enterprise contract.

How much of your cloud bill is pure waste? Find out in 180 seconds.

Questions CTOs ask us.

Ship 4x faster on infrastructure that just works.

Your platform is held together with bash scripts, tribal knowledge, and hope.

The "Only Dave Knows" Bus Factor

The Silent 40% AWS/GCP Margin Leak

Enterprise Security Deal Blockers

Fixed-scope infrastructure sprints. Zero hourly billing games.

Sub-10-Minute CI/CD & Ephemeral PR Previews

Turnkey AWS EKS / GKE Platform-in-a-Box

30–50% Cloud Bill Compression — Guaranteed

100% Terraform / OpenTofu Codification & Compliance

Your Dedicated Principal Platform Team on Slack

From chaotic cloud to self-healing platform in 3 deterministic phases.

Deep-Dive Telemetry & Architecture Audit

Parallel Clean-Room Buildout

Cutover, Runbooks & Handoff (or Retainer)

Measured in dollars, minutes, and nines.

Cut AWS spend from $44,000/mo to $23,800/mo while shrinking deploy times from 47 minutes to 6 minutes.

Migrated from fragile Heroku/ECS scripts to a HIPAA-compliant, multi-AZ EKS platform in 4 weeks—unblocking a $650k enterprise contract.

How much of your cloud bill is pure waste? Find out in 180 seconds.

Questions CTOs ask us.

Why shouldn't we just hire a full-time Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer?

Do you lock us into proprietary tools or managed wrappers?

Which clouds and tech stacks do you support?

How much time does my engineering team need to invest during a sprint?

How does the 100% ROI Guarantee on the FinOps Cloud Cost Sprint work?

Can you help us pass SOC2 Type II, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 infrastructure audits?

What happens on the free 45-minute Platform Foundations Audit call?