We take over your existing application and move it onto reliable, secure, documented infrastructure, so it can keep evolving without starting from scratch.

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Your product is in production and it runs, but its technical foundations worry you. Technical debt piling up, a deployment that rests on fragile steps, infrastructure nobody has really hardened. You may recognise yourself in one of these situations.

Every release is a tense moment: build run locally, files pushed to the server by hand, fingers crossed while you watch the logs. No documented procedure, no reproducible step, just a sequence of actions only one person knows. The day they go on holiday, fall ill or leave the company, your whole product becomes untouchable.

Fixes are applied live on the application, with no staging branch, no tests and no way back. Every intervention becomes a gamble: a fix meant to solve one bug introduces three more, and you only find out once your users are affected. Over time, nobody dares touch the code any more and the product freezes.

The code is there, it runs, but it's impossible to understand without its creator. No document explaining how it's configured, just a black box that works as long as nobody touches it… until the day the server restarts and nothing responds. You own an asset you no longer control, and that you couldn't hand to another provider as it stands.

If one of these situations rings true, that's actually a good sign: your product grew faster than its foundations. It's simply time to bring them back up to standard — and that's exactly where we come in.

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A startup with a product that isn't solid enough to scale?

You moved fast, and you were right to. Today users are pouring in, the team is growing, and the shortcuts taken early on are becoming friction.

  • Foundations that take the load
  • Technical credibility when it counts
  • The freedom to scale

What we bring : You strengthen your foundations without breaking your delivery rhythm or pausing development for weeks.

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Putting your application back on healthy foundations isn't one more technical expense: it's what unlocks everything your product couldn't do until now.

When an application drags or goes down, the cause isn't only in the infrastructure. A saturated server, a page taking ten seconds to load, errors as soon as there are too many visitors: the symptom shows up on the server side, but the real origin is almost always in the code.

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They see the server go red, so they add more server

More power, one more machine. It masks the problem for a few weeks, it inflates your hosting bill, and the problem comes back. Or they send you back to your developers: "the server is fine, the issue is in your code". And there you are, refereeing a ping-pong match between two teams while your production stays stuck.

Why it means better quality Because incidents are resolved faster and for good: we treat the cause, not the symptom, and we don't inflate your hosting bill to compensate for something we could have fixed in the code. That's what makes us credible where a classic infrastructure provider hits its limits: we don't just maintain a server, we understand the application running on it.

We industrialise your application to make it reliable, reproducible and easy to evolve. In plain terms: we replace manual steps and finger-crossing with a tooled chain where every step is automated, tested and reversible.

We set up containerisation (Docker)

We wrap your application and everything it needs to run — its dependencies, its configuration — into a container: a self-contained box that behaves identically everywhere. No more "it works on my machine but not on the server": your application becomes portable and reproducible from one environment to the next, and moves from one host to another without a rewrite.

Our goal is never to rebuild everything, but to start from what exists and put it back on solid foundations. No blank page, no big bang, no pause in your business.

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Four pillars we commit to from day one: security, backups, sovereignty and your autonomy.

Security without the weight

We start by looking at where the holes are: we scan your code and your infrastructure for known vulnerabilities and exposed data.Then we lock down access — rotating credentials, two-factor authentication on sensitive accounts, a review of roles so everyone only reaches what they actually need. Finally we protect your application from abuse with rate limiting, which blocks bots before they reach your users.None of this turns your app into a fortress that's painful to use: it's invisible to you and to your users.

Backups that are actually tested, and continuous monitoring

We back up your data and configuration every day, on every project. But having backups isn't enough: almost nobody tests them, and many companies discover on the day that theirs were corrupted or impossible to restore. Here, restoration is genuinely tested.On monitoring, we built our own agent: load, memory, disk space and response times are measured continuously, so we catch problems before they become outages.

Hosting in France, with no captive platform

Your application runs on a server that belongs to you, hosted in France with European providers (OVH, Scaleway, Hostinger). Your data doesn't leave the country and doesn't pass through servers subject to foreign legislation — something we formalise in a contractual data processing agreement.And because your application is containerised, it moves from one host to another without a rewrite. If needed, we can even self-host: we did it for one training client's video conferencing, with a sovereign Jitsi instance entirely under their control.

Your autonomy, with nothing held back

It's the number one fear when a provider has already let you down: swapping one dependency for another. We hand over everything — the code, the infrastructure, all the credentials, and clear documentation explaining how it all works.We walk you through how to deploy, where the backups are, how to restart the system. Nothing stays on our servers.So you can continue alone, hand the project to another provider, hire in-house, or keep us alongside you: it's a choice you make freely.

From first contact to going live, a clear method where you stay in control
at every step.

  1. The free audit

    Step 1

    We review your code and your infrastructure, and give you our analysis within a week. You then know what works correctly and what will need to change, with no commitment.

    The +Your credentials stay protected: wherever possible we work read-only, with a confidentiality agreement offered as standard.

  2. Diagnosis and costed proposal

    Step 2

    We give you a clear picture — what's fragile, undocumented or exposed — and the resulting upgrade plan, with precise costing.

    The +You decide fully informed, before committing a single euro.

  3. Securing and industrialising

    Step 3

    We clean up the foundations: backups, separate environments, automated deployment, monitoring. This is where your application goes from fragile to reliable and able to evolve.

    The +We always start from what exists: no blank page, no big bang, no business downtime.

  4. Rolling out new features

    Step 4

    Once the base is healthy, we pick up development of your new features, documented and low-risk.

    The +On sound infrastructure, every change becomes fast and reversible.

  5. Full handover

    Step 5

    We hand everything over: the code, the infrastructure, the credentials and the documentation. Nothing stays with us — you fully own your product.

    The +Your credentials stay revocable at any time, at every stage of the engagement.

  6. Ongoing maintenance

    Step 6

    If you want, we stay alongside you for monitoring and future work. If not, you leave with everything you need to carry on alone.

    The +It's a choice, never a constraint designed to keep you.

From first contact to going live, a clear method where you stay in control
at every step.

Step 1Step 2Step 3Step 4Step 5Step 6

The free audit

Step 1

We review your code and your infrastructure, and give you our analysis within a week. You then know what works correctly and what will need to change, with no commitment.

The +Your credentials stay protected: wherever possible we work read-only, with a confidentiality agreement offered as standard.

King PactNCP

From a stressful, improvised release process to a reliable, reproducible and fully documented deployment chain.

Context
King Pact and NCP had working applications whose releases relied on manual, fragile steps. Deployment was artisanal, nobody could reproduce it identically, and the smallest mistake could bring everything down.
Challenge
Turning that risky process into a reliable, easily reproducible one, without starting from scratch. And on NCP, making the client fully autonomous and owner of their product by the end of the engagement.
What we put in place
We containerised the application with Docker so it behaves identically everywhere, separated the development, test and production environments, secured the whole setup (nginx, SSL certificates) and automated releases. Today an approved change deploys on its own, with no third party involved.
Result
No more hand-rolled deployments and stressful releases: every delivery is now calm and reproducible. On NCP, the entire codebase was handed back to the client at the end of the engagement, with all credentials rotated and a data processing agreement signed before go-live. The product is reliable, and the client fully autonomous.
See how we make releases reliable

In the interest of honesty, we'd rather be clear about our scope. Knowing how to say no to what isn't our job is also what guarantees we're genuinely good at what we do.

Built your product with no-code or AI?

Bubble, Lovable, Webflow, AI-generated code: we have a dedicated offer to make what you've already built reliable, explained without the jargon.

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Answers to the questions we're asked most often about application managed services.

Docker, GitHub Actions, nginx, PostgreSQL, SSL management and our in-house monitoring agent. We adapt to the technologies you already use rather than imposing ours, and we're comfortable working in heterogeneous environments.

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