60 minutes with a senior engineer currently migrating SMB workloads off hyperscalers onto dedicated EU Kubernetes — real customers, real bills, in flight right now. Bring your cloud, observability, or K8s bills, leave with a written 1-page plan and concrete cuts to make this quarter. $497.
No fluff, no vague 'cloud roadmap consultation'. Here's the deliverable.
Live working session over Cal Video, Google Meet or Zoom. You drive — your bills, your stack, your blockers. Recording is yours.
After the call you get a written plan with concrete cuts (named services, dollar estimates, sequencing). What to fix this quarter, what to defer, what to throw out.
If we agree there's a bigger build worth doing — migration, observability rebuild, cluster rip-and-replace — that's a separate conversation after the action plan lands.
Specific. Bring real numbers, get real cuts.
AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Vercel. We line-item what's load-bearing vs what's lazy default. Most teams find 30-60% in the first pass.
Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb, Splunk. The Grafana LGTM stack does 80% of what they do at 5-10% of the cost. Migration paths are concrete now.
EKS/GKE/AKS bills, control-plane sprawl, dev-cluster waste, vendor lock-in surface. Bare-metal Kubernetes is a real option once you cross $5K/mo.
Three buyer shapes get the most value out of one hour.
You suspect 30-50% of the bill is fat. You don't have the in-house SRE time to find it. The CFO is starting to ask uncomfortable questions.
Datadog → Grafana, EKS → bare-metal, Vercel → self-host. You want a senior gut-check before you commit 6-12 weeks of engineering time.
Per-seat pricing, per-event pricing, per-GB egress, per-host APM. You want a concrete escape plan, not 'consider open source'.
Numbers, not narrative.
Rajesh Medampudi founded Simbotix in 2014. Production track record across cloud-cost engineering, vertical software for SMBs (Frappe-based ERPs), and self-hosted Kubernetes on dedicated European infrastructure. Active customer work includes dedicated-bench hosting for production SMB workloads and a vertical ERP in production at 87% role-test coverage across six departments.
The Founder's Hour exists because most cloud-bill / observability / K8s questions deserve 60 minutes of senior engineering thinking, not a 6-week scoping engagement. If you're at a real decision point, this is the cheapest sane way to de-risk it — and usually pays for itself in the first month's savings.
One number. No tiers. Cheaper than one engineer-day.
Same playbook. The expensive defaults (managed Postgres, managed Redis, vendor APM, vendor logging, per-seat licensing) repeat across every cloud. Bring whichever bill hurts most.
No. Self-hosting is one tool, not the answer. Some workloads (auth, email, payments) belong on managed providers regardless of cost. The plan tells you where the line is for YOUR stack.
Yes. Same Founder's Hour, different agenda. Bring an ops-systems question instead of a cloud-bill question — works the same way.
Yes. Up to 4 people on the call. Recording works regardless. Bring whoever has the bill and whoever has the access.
If after 10 minutes I can't help — full refund, no questions. If we go the full hour, no refund (you got the time).
Yes — pay in Bitcoin and get 40% off ($298 instead of $497). Reply 'BTC' to your invoice email and a Lightning/on-chain link is sent. Payment must be on-chain confirmed before the call.
No. If we agree on a follow-up engagement, that's a separate conversation after the action plan lands. The hour is paid for solving — not for selling.
Worst case: $497, you get an hour with a senior engineer + a written action plan. Best case: you find $5-50K/month in cloud cuts that pay for the hour 100x over.
