Technical maintenance for a fixed monthly fee
Your application deserves a developer’s eye, every week.
When the big development phase is over, someone still needs to keep the code up to date, spot risks early and make the small improvements. Without you having to hire a developer or buy an hour bank.
Continuous technical maintenance and small improvements. Fixed monthly fee, no reserved hours.
The development project ends. The need for care does not.
A business system can work perfectly today and still become harder to maintain with every passing month. Libraries age, integrations change and small bugs are left lying around. Often you do not need a full-time developer, but you do need someone who looks after the system regularly and deals with what matters.
This service is meant to fill exactly that gap between a finished development project and a full development team.
An experienced developer’s eye, every week
I follow up on the application’s technical health, keep dependencies and the production environment up to date where that is part of my responsibility, improve tests and handle well-defined bugs and improvements. Changes are analysed, quality-assured and released with care.
Keeping the technology current
Updates to frameworks, libraries, security dependencies and the build chain.
Spotting problems early
Checking relevant alerts, error trends, tests and technical health.
Improving a little at a time
Small adjustments and bug fixes that fit within continuous maintenance.
Delivering with quality
Analysis, tests, review and safe releases, not just produced code.
The aim is that maintenance should hardly be noticed.
I use AI agents as an aid in the work, for example for analysis, tests and code review. Nothing is delivered without human oversight: I review and take responsibility for every change.
Maintaining the production environment depends on agreed access and clearly allocated responsibilities. I do not automatically take over hosting, operations or incident management.
Fixed monthly fee. Shared incentives.
You get a long-term technical contact who works preventively. I get a reason to make the system more stable and easier to maintain, instead of billing more hours every time something breaks.
We set priorities together. I plan when the work is done. The monthly fee is not an hour bank, not reserved development capacity and not a promise of a certain number of features per month.
Fixed monthly fee. Scope and price are set after an initial technical review.
What the service is, and is not
Included
- Preventive technical maintenance
- Updates and security hygiene
- Small bug fixes and improvements
- Reasonable quality assurance and releases
- Joint prioritisation and a short monthly summary
Not included
- On-call cover, helpdesk or guaranteed response times, not even during office hours
- Guaranteed uptime or restoration time
- Reserved hours or guaranteed development capacity
- Larger features, extensive rebuilds or unlimited small changes
What counts as “small” is judged by the whole delivery: analysis, implementation, tests, quality assurance, release and risk, not only by how quickly the code can be written.
Larger development needs can be handled as a separate project with a supplier of your choice. I can contribute technical knowledge if circumstances allow, but I do not promise extra capacity.
We start by getting to know each other
Technical review
Together we assess whether the application and expectations fit the service. A bounded initial review can be done at no separate charge by agreement. An in-depth documented audit is ordered separately.
Three-month establishment
We start with a paid monthly agreement for three months. I get to know the codebase, the environment and your ways of working while we try out the collaboration in practice.
Continue if both want to
After three months we decide together. If both want to continue, we agree on a long-term collaboration with a clear notice period in full calendar months. Otherwise the period ends without automatic renewal.
Is it right for me?
Answer a few short questions about your application and your needs. You get a guiding assessment straight away.
The quiz runs only in your browser. Your answers are not saved and are not sent to any server.
The result is guidance, not a technical assessment or an offer.
Frequently asked questions
Is it an hour bank?
No. The monthly fee gives no right to a set number of hours, no reserved capacity and no carrying hours over between months.
What happens in an outage?
The service includes no on-call cover, no guaranteed response time (not even during office hours) and no guaranteed uptime. I can improve alerts, releases and documented recovery procedures, but incident management needs to be owned separately.
Can you build a large new feature?
Not within the monthly fee. Larger features, rebuilds and migrations are handled as a separate project, with me or another supplier of your choice.
What happens after three months?
We both explicitly choose whether to continue. If we do not, the collaboration ends without automatic renewal, with an orderly handover of the existing material.
Who is responsible for hosting and backups?
We agree on that separately. Maintaining the production environment depends on defined access and allocation of responsibility, and I do not automatically take over operations or business continuity.
Have an important application that needs a bit more care?
Tell us briefly about the system and what you would like to stop worrying about. We can start by seeing whether the service fits, without promising more than either of us can deliver.