The pitch was the whole technical operations department.
Not another hosting company. Not a consultant who showed up, fixed one thing, and left. A startup would hand us the systems behind its product and we would keep them running.
The list got long quickly: web servers, load balancers, authentication, storage, firewalls, deployment, source control, monitoring, backups, and support when something broke at a terrible hour.
Most of those pieces already existed. The problem was making them work together without hiring a room full of specialists. We thought the answer was software. Build the glue once, use it across customers, and give every company a cleaner way to see what was happening.
The target is a company stuck in the middle. It has outgrown one developer and a cloud account, but it is not ready to build a full infrastructure team.
Monk Networks will package the whole thing.
The executive summary describes individually packaged components that can be combined into a scalable infrastructure managed by us. To the customer, we are a managed-services company providing round-the-clock support, monitoring, and technical expertise. Underneath that service, our open-source components and software glue are supposed to make deployments faster and more reusable.
The initial customers are small and medium-sized growth companies that want to focus on product and brand instead of building an operations department. The plan is to bridge the gap between basic cloud services and an internal enterprise infrastructure team.
This is still a plan. We have been building software in spare time, but the email contains projections rather than revenue and a product list rather than a launched service. Today I sent the summary and cost worksheet out for review.