You see the design and
the number first
Four stages, three pricing models, a written output at every step. Nothing about how we charge should surprise you later.
The four stages
From first call to steady state
- 01
Week 0
Assess
A technical session on what you run today and where the business is heading. You receive a written assessment of risks, priorities and approach.
- 02
Weeks 1 to 2
Blueprint
Target architecture, component choices, monthly running cost and a migration sequence with rollback points. Fixed price, delivered as a document you own.
- 03
Weeks 2 to 8
Build & Migrate
Infrastructure as code, staged cutover, and a rehearsal before anything touches production. Planned downtime is agreed up front, and usually there is none.
- 04
Ongoing
Operate
24/7 monitoring, patching, backup verification and monthly reporting on uptime, spend and capacity. Your named engineer stays the same.
Commercials
Three ways we charge, and that is the whole list
We publish the shape of our pricing because hiding it wastes everybody's time. The exact figures depend on your estate, and you get them before you commit.
Blueprint
Fixed feeBefore any build work
A costed design you own outright: target architecture, component choices, monthly running cost and a migration sequence. If you take it to another provider, it still works.
- Architecture diagram and written rationale
- Itemised monthly running cost
- Migration sequence with rollback points
- Risk register with severity and mitigation
Project
Fixed priceMigrations, builds, rollouts
Quoted from the Blueprint, so the number you approve is the number you pay. Scope changes are priced and agreed in writing before anyone starts work.
- Infrastructure as code in your repository
- Staged cutover with a rehearsal first
- Runbooks for restart, restore and failover
- Handover session with your team
Managed
Flat monthlyOngoing operations
Priced on servers and endpoints under management plus the response time you need. Flat fee, so we have no incentive to leave a problem recurring.
- 24/7 monitoring with a human on call
- Patching, backups and verified restores
- Monthly uptime, spend and risk report
- Quarterly review and improvement plan
Why SixthWest
Four things you can hold us to
- One engineering standard, everywhere you operate
- The same documentation, change control and security discipline wherever your systems run. US contracting, and engineering ready for an audit.
- Fixed prices for defined work
- Quoted after a paid design stage: the number you approve is the number you pay. Managed services are a flat monthly fee.
- Cost control as a deliverable
- Cloud bills grow quietly. We right-size instances, remove orphaned resources and report spend every month. Most first-year clients see costs fall.
- Security built into the base build
- Least-privilege access, tested restores, patch automation and audit logging are standard in everything we deploy, including AI tools.
Best fit
Who we work best with
We do our best work with companies that treat infrastructure as part of the business. Usually at least one of these is true.
- You want infrastructure that is designed, documented and owned by your business.
- You are planning a migration, a new environment or a company-wide AI rollout.
- You need 24/7 operations without building an in-house team.
- You operate across regions and need one engineering standard everywhere.
One named engineer, start to finish.
The person who designed your environment is the person who answers when it breaks.
Two to six weeks, run in parallel, so nothing is switched off before the replacement is proven. We handle the credential handover and close the documentation gaps outgoing providers leave behind.
Project work is fixed-price after the Blueprint stage, so there are no hourly surprises. Ongoing management is a flat monthly fee based on the servers and endpoints under management and the response time you need. You get the number before you commit.
No. Contracts are monthly after an initial term, and everything we build is handed over: infrastructure as code, diagrams, runbooks and credentials in your own vault. You leave with a working system and the instructions to run it.
Yes. We are headquartered in Wyoming, hold active connections into Europe and work with clients worldwide. We deploy into whichever cloud regions your data residency rules require, and monitoring and on-call run 24/7, so your time zone never decides your response time.
Every engineer on your account has at least eight years of production infrastructure experience, with no first-line triage layer in between. SixthWest was founded in 2025 by engineers who had already spent a decade running cloud, server and network estates.
Yes. We advise on the platform, roll it out with single sign-on, data controls and a usage policy, and integrate it with the systems your team already uses. Because we also run the infrastructure, the parts most AI projects stall on are handled from the start.
Monitoring pages an on-call engineer. Priority-1 incidents are acknowledged within 30 minutes, and you get a written report explaining what failed, what we changed and how we stop it recurring.