30 years of pattern recognition, amplified by our own AI tools. Public pricing, fixed-scope outcomes, no drawn-out proposal process. Built for teams who want a Principal Architect who does the work, forward deployed in your accounts and repos, not another consultancy that delegates it.
Pick the engagement that matches where you are, or describe a custom problem and we'll scope it within five business days. Want evidence before spending a dollar? Start with the free scan.
A read-only look at up to five AWS accounts using the same tooling behind Ridgeline. You get a one-page note: the three biggest sources of waste, an estimated monthly savings range, the top Well-Architected risks across the six pillars, and a straight answer on whether a Health Check would pay for itself.
Two-week fixed-scope review of your cloud or AI footprint. Pick one focus at kickoff.
Four weeks of focused Principal Architect time on a specific cloud or AI problem. Scope flexes between planning, delivery, or a mix. We agree which mode on the fit call, before any contract is signed.
Production-ready AI agent, pipeline, or integration on Amazon Bedrock or your preferred provider. Scope-priced based on complexity. Skyform is a registered partner in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network.
Principal Architect on retainer to own the tech vision and pressure-test every cloud and AI decision. Ongoing executive judgment, vendor-neutral guidance, and full accountability for the outcomes you commit to. Async-first, structured around predictable focus time and written deliverables. The value is the judgment, not a meeting allotment.
An annual embedded relationship combining multiple measurable outcomes under one agreement. Quarterly executive reviews, ownership of your cloud and AI roadmap, and accountability for the results across the year. Scoped and priced once we have worked together on a Sprint or Build.
The four core engagements above cover most situations. If yours doesn't fit, describe the problem and we'll scope a fixed-price engagement, embedded advisor arrangement, or hybrid. Same commitments apply: Principal Architect, public pricing, no drawn-out proposal process.
Pick the stage that fits where you are. Execution happens with Skyform, your own team, or a mix. Retain keeps a Principal Architect engaged for ongoing strategy and decisions, with or without a prior engagement.
Forward deployed engineering means the engineer works inside your accounts and repos until the thing runs in production. Palantir coined the term. Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, and Google Cloud now use it for the engineers they embed with their largest customers. Most forward deployed engineers are hired to deploy one vendor's platform. Skyform's is a Principal Architect with 30+ years deep in the weeds of production infrastructure, now applied to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and AI, and he is the person who scoped your work. Architecture Sprint build mode and AI Build are delivered this way.
Work happens in your AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud accounts, your repos, and your pipelines, under a named role you grant and can revoke. Nothing is built in a Skyform sandbox and ported over later.
The Principal who scoped the work is the one in your environment through handover. No delivery team to brief, no rotation to absorb. Your model is your call too: Anthropic, OpenAI, or open models, on Bedrock, Azure, Vertex, or direct.
Every engagement names its outcome, with acceptance criteria, before it starts. Success is the workflow in production, the alarm firing, the cost line moving. For AI work the evaluation suite is built against your real data before any feature.
It ends with your team running it: runbooks, infrastructure as code, the eval or test suite, and a trained owner on your side. You revoke access on the date you choose. Our focus is fractional work, whatever the problem. If you want something closer to a full-time engagement, let's discuss the details.
Health Check and Architecture Sprint sit deliberately under typical enterprise procurement thresholds. Engineering directors and VPs usually have signing authority up to $25-50K without RFP or vendor onboarding, so these engagements start in days, not 90 days.
AI Build and Strategic Partner engagements run through standard procurement, with MSA, security questionnaire, and Net 30 terms ready on request.
Ridgeline is the AI agent we built for AWS cost and cloud maturity intelligence. Lives in Microsoft 365 Copilot, runs on Amazon Bedrock with our practitioner-grounded knowledge base, and reads customer AWS environments through cross-account IAM.
It serves as the reference implementation for the AI Build engagement. Available separately as a hosted product if you want it running against your AWS environment. Architecture briefing →
Common questions from engineering leaders and procurement teams. If yours isn't here, ask on the fit call.
Start with a 30-minute fit call. We confirm scope and send a one-page agreement. You leave the call with a clear next step, whether or not we work together.
Not ready for a call? Describe the problem in plain words. You get a scoped reply, with engagement and price, within five business days.