$ cat manifesto.md

The Peculiar
Manifesto

We are not a vendor. We are not a consultancy. We are architects who happen to ship code.

Why "Peculiar"?

In the world of hyperscale clouds, "peculiar" is a compliment. It means distinct. It means thoughtful. It means refusing to accept "default settings" as "best practices."

Amazon famously prides itself on its peculiar ways—its rejection of PowerPoint, its obsession with customer obsession, its distinct leadership principles. We share that philosophy.

We solve the edge cases. The difficult, non-standard problems that generic consultancies avoid. We engineer solutions custom-fitted to your unique reality rather than blindly following a vendor's playbook.

01

We Choose Complexity

Simple problems do not need us. We exist for the architectures that make senior engineers pause, the migrations that have failed before, the security requirements that seem impossible. If it were easy, you would have done it already.
02

We Refuse to Scale

Growth is not our goal. Excellence is. We deliberately limit our client roster because attention cannot be divided. When you work with us, you get our A-team because we only have an A-team. The person you talk to during the sales process is the same person who will architect your solution and write your Terraform.
03

We Ship, Not Slide

We do not produce 100-page decks that collect dust. We write Terraform. We configure firewalls. We deploy Kubernetes. We tune BGP sessions. Our deliverables run in production, not PowerPoint. At the end of every engagement, you receive a Git repository—not a PDF. (Though we'll happily export one if your executives need something to print and never read.)
04

We Tell You No

If your idea is bad, we will say so. If your timeline is unrealistic, we will tell you. If the project is not a fit, we will decline. We are hired for our judgment, not our compliance. You have enough people who will tell you what you want to hear.

$ echo $BELIEFS

We Believe In

Infrastructure as Code

If it is not committed to Git, it does not exist.

Security by Design

We do not patch holes; we build walls.

Simplicity

The most complex systems require the simplest interfaces.

Ownership

You own everything we build. No lock-in. No proprietary tools.

$ ls certifications/

Certified Across Leading Platforms

We hold professional and specialty certifications across all major cloud, security, and networking platforms.

AWSCloud
Google CloudCloud
AzureCloud
KubernetesContainer
CiscoNetworking
Palo AltoSecurity
(ISC)²Security
Offensive SecuritySecurity

Certifications matter, but experience matters more. Our team has architected infrastructure for Fortune 500 financial institutions, scaled startups to IPO, and recovered organizations from catastrophic breaches.

Does this resonate?

If you're looking for the cheapest option or the fastest timeline, we're probably not the right fit. But if you need something done right—