Service

Retained Technical Partner

Senior engineering and architecture available every month, without carrying the cost of a permanent hire.

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Too much work for nobody, not enough for someone

Plenty of businesses need real engineering judgement a few days a month. Not a full-time lead engineer, not a call to an agency every time something breaks, but someone who knows the system, knows the business, and is there when a decision has to be made.

Hiring for that is hard and expensive. Going without it means technical decisions get made by whoever is nearest, or deferred until they become urgent and costly.

What you get

The deliverables, specifically.

An agreed block of time each month

A set number of days, planned with you rather than consumed reactively, so the important work does not always lose to the urgent.

Someone who holds the context

The same person across months. No re-explaining your business every time, and no rediscovery cost on each piece of work.

Architecture and review, not only building

Design decisions, code and vendor review, security and cost sanity checks, and a second opinion before you commit to something expensive.

A clear escalation path

An agreed route and response expectation for when something is genuinely wrong, written down before you need it.

How it runs

From first call to handover.

01

Baseline

We learn your systems, your risks and your roadmap, and write down what we find.

02

Agree the shape

Days per month, what they are for, how work gets prioritised, and how to reach us when it matters.

03

Work the plan monthly

A running backlog of improvements alongside whatever the month brings, reviewed together.

04

Review quarterly

Is this still the right shape? Scale it up, scale it down, or end it. Month to month, no lock-in.

Is this the right piece of work?

A good fit when

  • You depend on custom software but have no senior technical person in-house
  • You have developers but nobody to set direction or review the big calls
  • You want continuity rather than a new agency each time

We will say no when

  • You need someone on site full time. Hire, and we will help you interview.
  • You need 24/7 incident cover. That needs a team, not a person, and we will say so.

Samloryx supports an existing client on a call-out basis under this kind of arrangement. Terms are agreed in writing per engagement and reviewed quarterly.

Other ways we help

AI & Automation Roadmap Sprint

A fixed-scope piece of work that tells you where automation actually pays in your business, and where it does not.

Custom Business Systems

Software built around how your team actually works, rather than a package everyone has to bend around.

Integrations & APIs

Make the systems you already own talk to each other, so people stop being the integration layer.

Legacy Modernisation

Bring an ageing system into the present without stopping the business that depends on it.

Not sure this is the right starting point?

A short call costs nothing and usually makes the answer obvious. If a different piece of work suits you better, we will say so.

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