Have us build it for you
A forward-deployed Kestrel engineer embeds with your team, maps your operations, and ships your platform automations — you get the outcomes, your team keeps ownership.
50% of your platform workflows automated in 14 days. Guaranteed.
What we build
Everything ships as Kestrel workflows — plain to read, gated by approvals, and fully auditable. These are the domains most engagements start with.
Incident Response
From detection to remediation — AI investigation, approval-gated fixes, and a postmortem trail for every incident.
- Crash-loop investigation with approval-gated fixes
- Rollbacks on failed deploys with on-call alerts
- Postmortem timelines assembled automatically
CI/CD
The glue between your pipelines and the rest of your stack, wired end to end.
- Deploy, health-check, then promote or roll back
- Failed pipeline triage with AI investigation
- Release notes and notifications to Slack
Infra Provisioning
Governed provisioning across your cloud accounts with IaC, approvals, and access configuration.
- Terraform plans and applies behind approval gates
- Environment spin-up for new services and teams
- Drift detection with corrective pull requests
Developer Requests & Golden Paths
Ad-hoc asks turned into governed, auditable self-service — your golden paths, enforced.
- New-service scaffolding with guardrails baked in
- Database / DNS requests with justification and routing
- Access requests fulfilled automatically on approval
Security
Threat response, IAM guardrails, and compliance checks that investigate and contain before damage spreads.
- IAM and security-group changes behind approval
- Threat containment — block, capture logs, notify
- Scheduled compliance checks with audit trails
…and your platform stack
These are starting points, not a fixed menu. Engagements are scoped to your integrations, your backlog, and the way your team already works.
Browse workflow templatesBuilt for where you are
The same engagement, scoped very differently at each stage of the company.
Seed – Series A
A handful of engineers, no platform team, and ops falling on whoever is closest. Every hour spent on infrastructure is an hour off the product.
What we typically build
- Incident response basics: detect, investigate, alert with context
- Deploy automation with health checks and rollbacks
- The on-call hygiene that makes 2am pages rare
The leverage of a platform team, without the headcount.
Series B – C
A platform team of one or two, and a ticket queue that grows faster than it shrinks. Ad-hoc requests eat the roadmap.
What we typically build
- Golden paths for the requests you see every week
- Self-service with justification and approval gates
- Incident workflows that cut MTTR without adding process
The queue clears; the roadmap comes back.
Series D+
Dozens of teams, each with their own scripts, runbooks, and tribal knowledge. Consistency and auditability now matter as much as speed.
What we typically build
- Standardized workflows that replace script and runbook sprawl
- Approval and audit policies applied uniformly across teams
- Migration off legacy runbook tooling
One governed way to do ops, across every team.
Enterprise
Compliance requirements, procurement, and self-hosted or air-gapped environments. Automation has to fit your boundaries — not the other way around.
What we typically build
- Workflows deployed inside your VPC or air-gapped environment
- SSO, RBAC, and audit mapped to your requirements
- Phased migration from legacy automation platforms
Modern automation that passes your security review.
How an engagement works
Scoped, built, and handed off in weeks — owned by your team.
Scope
Meet your Kestrel FDE
Map your operations, integrations, and backlog
Pick the highest-leverage automations to build first
Build
Your engineer ships production workflows in weeks
Approval gates, audit trails, and guardrails built in
Deploy
Roll out to production alongside your team
Iterate on real usage and edge cases
Hand off
Your team owns every workflow in the builder, CLI, and SDK
We stay on for iterations as your stack evolves
How an engagement works
Scoped, built, and handed off in weeks — owned by your team.
Scope
Meet your Kestrel FDE
Map your operations, integrations, and backlog
Pick the highest-leverage automations to build first
Build
Your engineer ships production workflows in weeks
Approval gates, audit trails, and guardrails built in
Deploy
Roll out to production alongside your team
Iterate on real usage and edge cases
Hand off
Your team owns every workflow in the builder, CLI, and SDK
We stay on for iterations as your stack evolves
Ready to hand off the backlog?
Tell us what your team is drowning in, and we'll scope the automations that clear it — built in weeks, owned by your team.