Continuity. The same senior engineers from the first interview through to the escalation call — because at our size there is nobody else to send.
Founded 2026 · St. Petersburg, Florida
Between us we spent years inside consultancies and platform teams, and the pattern was consistent. Large enterprises get senior engineers who stay through delivery. Everyone else gets a well-written proposal, a partner at the kickoff, and then a delivery team that has never read the assessment.
The work itself is not the hard part. Cloud migrations, retrieval systems, security assessments, and day-two operations are well-understood problems. What mid-market companies cannot buy is continuity — the same people from the first interview through to the 3am page.
So we built the firm around that constraint rather than around headcount growth. Small team, senior only, no delivery tier below the people who wrote the plan. It caps how fast we can grow. That is the trade we chose on purpose.
You are going to find this out anyway, so we would rather set the terms of the conversation.
Not values. Values are unfalsifiable. These are specific enough that you would notice immediately if we broke one.
Every engagement opens with a fixed-fee assessment, and the document it produces is yours to keep, share, or take to another firm. We would rather lose a build to a better-priced competitor than hold a client through information asymmetry.
Infrastructure code, runbooks, decision records, and test suites go into your version control, under your accounts. There is no CloudMind-hosted state backend and no proprietary wrapper. Leaving should be a decision, not an extraction.
Wrong size, wrong problem, or a project where an off-the-shelf product would serve you better. Turning down revenue is cheap for us and expensive for you to discover six weeks in.
Every recommendation carries a cost, a dependency, and the consequence of not doing it. That last part is what makes a roadmap a decision aid instead of a wish list.
A slipping estimate, a discovery that changes the plan, or a mistake we made. You hear it the day we know, not at the next status meeting. This is the commitment most likely to cost us a renewal and the one we are least willing to soften.
Growth past the point where founders can be on every engagement would break the only thing that distinguishes us. When we cannot take work, we will say so and, where we can, point you somewhere else.
There is no second tier. If we grow past the point where that sentence stays true, we will have broken the thing that makes us worth hiring.
Founder · Cloud & Platform
Migration planning, landing zones, cost optimization
[PLACEHOLDER] Prior work: datacentre exits and multi-account platform builds at a named previous employer — to be filled in with real detail and the employer's name.
Founder · Applied AI
Retrieval systems, evaluation harnesses, AI governance
[PLACEHOLDER] Prior work: production retrieval and evaluation systems in a regulated environment — to be filled in with real detail and the employer's name.
Founder · Security
Attack-path assessment, penetration testing, compliance readiness
[PLACEHOLDER] Prior work: offensive security and audit readiness for financial services — to be filled in with real detail, certifications, and the employer's name.
Principal Engineer · Software
Legacy modernization, integrations, API design
[PLACEHOLDER] Prior work: incremental modernization of long-lived production systems — to be filled in with real detail and the employer's name.
We will not dress prior employment up as a CloudMind client roster. These are the kinds of systems the team has shipped elsewhere, and the reference calls go to those employers.
[PLACEHOLDER] Replace each entry with a real, cleared description including the employer name and a contactable reference.
We work on-site across the Tampa Bay area and remotely everywhere else. For assessments we would rather spend the first week in the room with your team — the undocumented systems tend to surface in conversation, not in a questionnaire.
7901 4th St N, Ste 300We are taking on a small first cohort. If the fit is wrong we will say so on the first call — that is cheaper for both of us than finding out in month three.
