Not anti-cloud. Anti-default.
Show us the bill that hurts.
Mid-market teams with real hyperscaler spend. Reardon Systems turns the bill into a workload map, a TCO model, and a pilot that finance and engineering can both defend.
The bill is not the problem. The default is.
Every dollar of steady-state compute you rent by the hour is a dollar you already decided to spend. Every egress charge is a tax on your own data. Every GPU provisioned just in case is margin you will never see again.
And someone in the room will ask the same question: will developers lose velocity?
That question is the whole business. Everything else is arithmetic.
Move the steady beasts off the meter.
Hybrid by design. Keep public cloud where burst and managed services earn their keep. Move steady, data-heavy, and GPU-bound workloads when the unit economics say so — not when the ideology does.
- Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC
- Previews, secrets, environments
- Ship rituals engineers already expect
- Predictable marginal cost
- No egress ransom
- GPU capacity you control
- Data residency and audit
- Cost reports finance can read
Assess → Pilot → Build → Operate.
Each stage is a fixed scope with exit criteria. No big-bang migration. No religious wars. The next stage starts only if the last one earned it.
Bill anatomy, utilization, egress, lock-in risk. Delivered as a workload map, a TCO model, and a pilot plan finance and engineering both sign.
One real workload. Parallel run against baseline. Measured cost and performance on private or hybrid infrastructure. If the numbers don't hold, you stop.
Landing zone, GitOps, previews, secrets, environments, observability, DR. Built on infrastructure you control, scoped to your blast radius.
We run the steady state: patching, capacity, backups, cost reports, quarterly expansion reviews. Optional savings-share when incentives should align — 15–25% of documented savings, capped.
We run what we sell.
You won't be Reardon Systems' first private platform customer. We already are.
Reardon Systems operates its own stack — self-hosted platforms, Tailscale-first access, and selective repatriation for workloads that should never have been metered by the hour. The tools we build for ourselves are the same patterns we sell: private by default, GitOps from day one, and software that keeps working when the environment doesn't cooperate.
SpecOps is our inspection product: a diagnostic scanner for the home.
Onsite defect capture, reports that generate on the same visit, and an app that works in the crawlspace when the signal drops. Live in private beta with home inspection teams.
SpecOps runs on the same private platform patterns we build for clients. It's not a side project. It's the proof that the stack works under real load, with real users, in an environment where downtime has consequences.
See SpecOps →Not anti-cloud. Anti-default. Private where it pays. Public where it bursts.
Questions we get asked.
What does Reardon Systems actually do?
We help mid-market teams selectively repatriate and hybridize workloads: private platforms with public-cloud pace. We also build custom web and mobile software when the product itself is the job.
Is this an anti-cloud pitch?
No. It's an anti-default pitch. Public cloud is the right answer for burst, managed services, and genuinely unpredictable demand. It's the wrong answer for steady-state compute you've already committed to paying for.
Where do engagements start?
With an Assessment. $25K–$50K fixed scope, 2–4 weeks. You get a workload map, a TCO model, and a pilot plan you can defend in the same meeting finance and engineering are both in.
Will we lose developer velocity?
No. Same Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC, previews, and secrets. The substrate changes, not the workflow. If anything about the developer experience regresses, that's a bug we fix before we call the pilot done.
Do you only do repatriation?
No. We build custom software when the product is the job. SpecOps is our own product; we build field and ops tools for clients too.
How do we start?
Show us the bill that hurts. We reply in plain language.
Show us the bill that hurts.
Mid-market teams with real hyperscaler spend. Not startups guessing. Not enterprises buying another transformation program.
We reply in plain language. Infra pass-through stays separate. Optional savings-share when incentives should align.