Performance & scale
Find the real performance bottlenecks, establish baseline metrics and implement proportionate improvements for your next stage of growth.
Your project investment
From £3,000
Starting price · GBP
Final price agreed after we confirm your scope.
Built for your next step
Performance problems rarely come from a single source.
Slow database queries, inefficient APIs, poorly designed background jobs, external services, infrastructure limits, caching strategy, application architecture, and frontend behaviour can all affect customer experience.
We investigate the real bottlenecks and engineer improvements based on evidence.
Measure agreed performance baselines, identify bottlenecks and compare selected improvements using before/after measurements where technically appropriate.
Inside the engagement
Inside the engagement
We investigate important application workflows and backend execution.
We examine relevant query behaviour, indexing, data access, and connection patterns.
We investigate latency across internal and external service calls.
We review relevant compute, memory, networking, containers, serverless services, or other resources.
We determine where caching could meaningfully improve performance.
We review queues, jobs, workers, and asynchronous workloads.
We identify potential limitations around simultaneous usage.
We identify third-party services contributing to latency or instability.
Where appropriate, we improve metrics and instrumentation so bottlenecks can be measured rather than guessed.
Inside the engagement
Inside the engagement
We do not recommend expensive infrastructure changes merely because growth is expected.
The objective is to understand where actual bottlenecks exist and make proportionate engineering decisions.
A clearly defined scope
Deliverables depend on the agreed engagement scope.
Performance assessment
Bottleneck analysis
Baseline metrics
Architecture recommendations
Prioritised optimisation plan
Selected engineering improvements
Infrastructure recommendations
Monitoring improvements
Before/after measurements where technically appropriate
Production load testing requiring specialised infrastructure or significant third-party consumption may be scoped separately.
From first conversation to handover
We understand your product, current technology stack, business priorities, known problems, and desired outcome.
Define the systems, repositories, access, review areas or implementation work, deliverables and acceptance criteria for your engagement.
Assess the agreed product areas, document evidence and carry out any engineering improvements included in scope, with regular progress reviews.
Walk through findings and completed work, confirm next priorities and hand over the agreed documentation and recommendations.
The details that matter
A few things to know about scope, timing and working together.
The displayed prices are indicative. We agree a defined scope, acceptance criteria and a project quote before work starts. Requests beyond that scope are estimated separately.
A product or operations contact, access to the agreed systems and documentation, representative test data, and timely feedback. We confirm access and integration dependencies before scheduling delivery.
The target delivery window is 3–6 weeks, starting once scope, access and dependencies are ready. Third-party approvals or changes to the agreed scope can affect timing.
We hand over the agreed deliverables and documentation with a walkthrough for your team. Further features, monitoring and ongoing maintenance can be scoped as a separate engagement.
Prices are indicative GBP project ranges. Final scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria and price are agreed before work starts. Timelines assume defined scope, available technical access and compatible third-party integrations. Vendor, infrastructure, regulatory and licensing costs are excluded.
Let’s make progress
Identify the real bottlenecks before they become customer problems.