ClicOh · 2021–22 · DevOp
Deploys from 3h to 45 min
- Downtime −60% in the first quarter
- Incident resolution: 2 days → 4h
- Session 5: devs asked to implement QA on their own
- 18 months later: the culture still holds
Pattern: DevOps Adoption Journey
A technical-business decision you want to think through better. Or a team that's lost the thread with the business. I work on both.
I'm external. I don't diagnose or impose — I create the conditions for you or your team to reach the conclusions on your own. For one decision: Sparring (90 min, €150). For a team: Boring Room or Facilitation Program, we'll set up a discovery call. The D4S framework you can try free below.
Bringing a team, not an individual decision? Book a discovery call — Boring Room or Program, depending on your case.
Entry, escalation, depth.
Three productized formats. The first is for you alone. The other two are for when you already have a team and the decision isn't only yours.
Entry · 90 min · from €150
Sparring
Solo builder, 90 minutes, one technical-business decision — a direction to validate, a plan that needs to be hit, or thinking out loud. Prerequisite: the free D4S diagnostic. You leave with real math on your case, the decision made, and a defendable memo.
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Escalation · 1–2 days · team on-site
The Boring Room
When the decision is no longer only yours. Your engineering team in a room — paper, no screens — leaves with three named blockers, three concrete moves, and a one-page memo defendable the next day.
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Depth · 8–12 weeks
Deep facilitation
Eight 90-minute sessions. Async in between. Charter, KPI Tree, NO-list, 90-day plan. Guarantee: if session five doesn't show value, full refund.
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D4S — four filters and a Skip default
The tool I use inside every Boring Room and every program. Not sold. Not certified. Try it on a decision you're weighing before you book a call.
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Differentiation
Differentiation customers actually feel.
Would they mention it in a review?D
Dollars
Impact on revenue, cost or runway you can model.
Can you defend the math out loud?D
Delight
UX improvement users notice.
Or is it just developer experience?D
Defense
Protection against an identified, plausible risk.
What's the concrete threat?What happened in rooms like this.
Four engagements where the patterns I now apply were forged. I was an employee or contractor at these companies, not external yet. The numbers below are verifiable.
GoJiraf · 2022–23 · Senior DevOps Manager - Solutions Architect
50× scale at 1.6× cost
- USD 1.5K/mo at 1K users
- USD 2.5K/mo at 50K users
- Unnecessary Kubernetes replaced with boring tech
Pattern: Technical Business Enablement
Hubbing LATAM · 2021–24 · Senior DevOps Consultant
+8 months of runway
- B2B SaaS startup in LatAm
- Cost-aware DevOps decisions
- Terraform / Docker / cloud security / observability
Pattern: Technical Business Enablement
Birjam · Solutions Architect
99.95% uptime through 40× spikes
- Online lottery platform
- Downtime cost: USD 15K/h during draws
- Resilience tested under real load
Pattern: resilience / SRE
30 minutes. No pitch. No slides.
You bring the decision that won't close. I bring the pattern: what teams like yours did when they hit this wall, what unblocked them, what sank them. If there's no fit, I'll say so on the call.
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D4S is a decision framework for founder-CTOs at Seed–Series A. Four filters — Differentiation, Dollars, Delight, Defense — and a Skip default.