Core
Forward-deployed engineering
An engineer who embeds with your team — on-site or remote — watches how work actually gets done, and builds the fix right there. No 40-page proposal. No handoff to a team you'll never meet.
All systems operationalSee the 3D printing case We keep your IT up.
We keep your IT up.
And automate the tedious parts.
Forward-deployed engineers for small and medium businesses. We embed with your team, find the manual work eating your week, and replace it with systems that just run.
Things we've taken off people's plates
- STL → print-ready plates
- Invoice & PO processing
- Employee on/offboarding
- Backups that are actually tested
- Weekly reporting
- Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace
- Inventory sync
- Uptime monitoring
- Quote generation
- Spreadsheet → database
- CRM ↔ ERP glue
- Patch management
ServicesAn IT team that ships,
An IT team that ships,
not just tickets.
Big companies have platform teams to automate the grind. You have us. We handle the IT that keeps you running and build the automation that gives your people their hours back.
Automation
Workflow automation
Copy-paste between systems, file shuffling, manual exports. If a person does it the same way every week, a script should.
Infrastructure
IT & cloud setup
Networks, identity, devices, backups, and cloud — set up properly once, documented, and boring in the best way.
Glue
Integrations & internal tools
Your CRM, ERP, spreadsheets and that one legacy app — talking to each other. Small internal tools where off-the-shelf doesn't fit.
Reliability
Monitoring & keep-it-up
Alerts before your team notices. Patching, renewals, and the quiet maintenance that keeps everything running.
Security
Security basics, done right
MFA everywhere, sane access control, tested backups, offboarding that actually revokes access. The fundamentals that stop most incidents — without enterprise overhead.
Case study · Additive manufacturingFrom STL to print-ready.
From STL to print-ready.
Nobody touches a slicer.
A 3D printing company was preparing every job by hand: taking customer STLs, fixing them, orienting parts, adding supports and arranging everything on the build plate before a single printer could start. Skilled people were spending their days on drag-and-drop. We built a pipeline that does all of it automatically.
print-prep pipeline automated end to end
- 01IngestSTLs pulled from incoming orders
- 02RepairMeshes validated, holes and flips fixed
- 03OrientBest orientation for strength & support
- 04SupportSupports generated automatically
- 05NestParts packed onto build plates
- 06SliceSliced with the right profile
- 07QueueSent to an available printer
Beforeby hand, every job
- Download each order's STL files
- Open them one by one in the slicer
- Fix broken meshes by hand
- Orient every part by eye
- Add and tweak supports
- Arrange parts on the build plate
- Slice, export, upload to the printer
Afterzero-touch
- Orders land in a folder
- Print-ready plates come out the other end
- Same orientation and support rules, every time
- Operators spend their time printing, finishing and QA
- Output scales with order volume, not headcount
How we workForward-deployed.
Forward-deployed.
Not far away.
The forward-deployed model came from companies shipping complex software into big enterprises. We bring the same approach to businesses with 10 to 500 people: an engineer close to the problem, building as they learn.
- 01
Embed
We sit with your team — in person or on a call — and watch how work actually gets done. Not how the org chart says it does.
- 02
Map the grind
We list every repetitive, error-prone, copy-paste task, and rank them by hours burned versus effort to fix.
- 03
Build & ship
We automate the biggest wins first, in small pieces you can use right away. You see working software in days, not quarters.
- 04
Keep it up
Documented, monitored, and maintained. When something changes, we adapt the automation. You own everything we build.
| Aspect | Typical agency | keepitup |
|---|---|---|
| Starts with | A discovery call and a quote | Sitting next to the people doing the work |
| Delivers | Slide decks and recommendations | Working automation, in production |
| Timeline | Months to first result | Days to first result |
| Who you talk to | An account manager | The engineer building it |
| After launch | A support ticket queue | Monitoring, fixes, iteration |
FAQ
Questions, answered.
What does "forward-deployed engineer" actually mean?
An engineer who works inside your business instead of from a distance. They learn your workflows first-hand, build solutions on the spot, and stay close enough to fix things when reality doesn't match the plan.
We're a small company. Is this overkill?
Usually the opposite. Small teams feel tedious work the most, because every hour of copy-paste is an hour someone isn't selling, building or serving customers. We scope to what's worth automating and stop there.
What kinds of things can you automate?
Anything repetitive with clear rules: moving data between systems, generating documents and reports, processing files (like STLs for 3D printing), onboarding and offboarding, inventory and order sync, scheduled maintenance. If you can describe the steps, we can usually automate most of them.
Do you also handle regular IT?
Yes. Devices, accounts, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, networking, backups, cloud and security basics. Good automation sits on top of solid IT, so we do both.
Who owns what you build?
You do. Code, configs and documentation live in your accounts. No lock-in, no black boxes.
How do engagements work?
Most start with a short embed to map the work and ship the first automation. From there you can keep us on a monthly retainer for ongoing automation and IT, or take it in-house with our docs.
Let's talk
What's the most tedious thing your team does every week?
Tell us about it. We'll reply within one business day with a straight answer on whether it's worth automating, and roughly what it would take.
- No sales pitch
- Talk to an engineer
- Small and medium businesses