Understand your software.
Then run and grow it with confidence.
You set the direction. Our team and its agents do the work, and an engineer signs off before anything goes live. Your business counts on this software. It deserves a team behind it.
A lot of software got built fast in the last two years. Almost none of it came with someone accountable for what happens after launch.
One builder or freelancer holds all the context. Requests pile up. Nobody can say what’s fragile or what a change will cost. The owner becomes the project manager by default. That isn’t a you problem. It’s a missing layer.
The builder moved on.
The software is live and the business depends on it. One freelancer or one developer held all the context, and now requests pile up with nobody to take them.
It’s built, but it isn’t live.
Finished or half-finished, it’s been “almost there” for months. The plan for next year depends on it, and nobody is moving it forward.
You’ve become the project manager.
You write the tickets, chase the updates, and guess at what a change will cost. Nobody can tell you what’s fragile. You run the business, and lately you also run the software.
What the new way of working looks like
You set priorities, someone on your team confirms things are done right, and the software keeps improving on a steady cadence. In control, out of the weeds.
Build. Run. Grow. We stay after launch.
Building software is the part everyone talks about, and it keeps getting easier. What almost nobody offers is someone accountable for what happens next: keeping it running, keeping it safe, and making it better on a schedule you can plan around. That is the part we specialize in.
Build
Anyone, us includedSomeone builds it: a freelancer, a builder, your own team, maybe you. This part is getting faster and cheaper every month.
Run
CloudburstDeployments, updates, security patches, and a real answer when something breaks. Ticket-sized changes handled on a steady cadence. The software stops being the thing you worry about.
Grow
CloudburstA queue of improvements moving every two weeks, with someone owning the backlog so you don’t have to. The software starts pulling its weight in the plan.
You set the direction. Our team and its agents carry it out.
Running your business on software you didn’t write takes more than good intentions. It takes a process you can see.
You drive the roadmap.
Priorities are yours. We bring the technical perspective, and we’ll tell you when a change costs more than it’s worth.
People and agents, one queue.
Ticket-sized work moves through agents. Anything needing judgment gets a named engineer. You see both in the same workspace.
Staging before production, every time.
You see it on a preview first. Production gets it when you say so.
Your data and code stay yours.
Your GitHub, your database, your accounts. Nothing moves onto ours.
How it works
Owner’s Manual
$1,500 · one week
Six plain-language documents about your software, each reviewed and signed off by a Cloudburst engineer. Enough to answer any question a buyer, partner, or new developer asks you. Ends with a recommended path — run it yourself, an Adoption Sprint, or straight to Operate — and a firm quote for our work. Hosting and third-party services are billed by their providers, not folded in.
Guarantee: Read your Owner’s Manual. If your software doesn’t finally make sense to you, don’t pay — and keep the manual.
Adoption Sprint
from $3,500
We take over delivery and prove it: codebase in hand, first fixes live in production, your team set up to review and approve work. Firm price quoted in your Manual. Some products skip this step entirely.
Guarantee: If the agreed updates aren’t live in production by day 14, you don’t pay — and you keep everything.
Operate
from $1,500/month
One flat monthly number, two-week cadence. Three tiers: at Run you bring ticket-sized changes, at Grow you bring us tickets, at Scale you bring us priorities and we handle the rest. No hourly rates, no overages, no surprises.
Operate — from $1,500/month
One flat monthly number, two-week cadence. No hourly rates, no overages, no surprises. Three tiers, and the difference between them is simple: who owns the backlog, how much moves at once, and how fast we respond. You always own requirements and sign-off.
Run
from $1,500/month
You bring
Ticket-sized changes
You write the change in your live workspace, review it on a preview, and a Cloudburst engineer reviews and deploys. Deployment pipeline, dependency updates, and security patches included. Anything that needs design or architecture gets a fixed-price quote.
Response: Next business day, by email.
Grow
Flat monthly fee, quoted after your Manual
You bring
Tickets
You bring us tickets. One larger piece of work in flight at a time, released twice a month, with Cloudburst handling QA. Tech debt moves as one steady stream alongside it. A monthly check-in keeps priorities straight.
Response: Same business day, in a shared Slack channel.
Scale
Flat monthly fee, quoted after your Manual
You bring
Priorities
You bring us priorities and we handle the rest, including the things you’d never think to ask for. We own the backlog. Tech debt, upgrades, and security are in the price. Two streams of work at once, weekly releases, bi-weekly meetings, and a quarterly roadmap.
Response: Two hours in business hours, a named engineer, and an emergency line.
Every tier includes a live workspace with access to your database and code: track activity, get answers, brainstorm what to build next. Your code, data, and backlog stay portable at every tier. Hosting, databases, and third-party services aren’t included: you pay those providers directly, and the accounts stay in your name.
In their words
“They didn’t just build what was asked — they asked the right questions, challenged assumptions, and helped refine the vision.”
Accelerated Care SolutionsTriaTech, after-hours nurse triage
“A company is more than its technology. There are many decisions and factors that go into building a company and Cloudburst is interested in understanding and impacting all of those things.”
Thompson AderinkomiCEO, Nice Healthcare
We run our own software this way.
Cloudburst is a product studio. The products we build and run ourselves use the same workspace, cadence, and review that your software gets. A selection of both:
Yours next?
We’ve run software the way an owner has to.
Cloudburst is a Minneapolis product studio, run by friends who’ve known each other since second grade. We’ve started companies together, funded them with our own money, failed at some and scaled others. Through Monkey Island Ventures we still start and back companies of our own, and through Builderhood, an online community, we spend time with people building software for their own businesses.
That’s why we run software the way an owner would. It has to make money, not only work. It has to survive the person who built it leaving. And someone has to be able to tell you, plainly, what’s fragile and what a change will cost.
We run our own software on the same system we bring to you. Take a real vacation. Leave your laptop at home.