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So, contract work for running infrastructure? "Managed DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure As a Service" is a very buzzywordy and bloated way to describe that. It almost sounds like a parody.

Why not just: "We build and maintain IT infrastructure for your company"

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Well, the general IT term include services like printers, faxes, office phone systems, WiFi, etc. I wanted to clarify we specifically focus on cloud infrastructure.

It's not "as a service", it's "as a contractor"

I actually intentionally structured and publically list pricing which is against what nearly every other consulting or enterprise sales company does. Pricing is uniform across all clients, and each client belongs to a given plan. I'd say our model fits a service more than traditional consulting.

On one hand I think price transparency is nice to see.

But on the other hand this really is a consulting business, they are tough to run, and there might be something important to learn from why consultants do not publicly list prices. The difference between feast or famine might be making sure to capitalize on one fat client in a quarter or even year.

If it helps you can think of it as a hybrid, something like "productized contracting". These folks are in the same space but use a different pricing structure:

https://www.rackaid.com/pricing/

It is an interesting business that I think lots of small and medium sized businesses would use. I've been exploring ideas for a more granular "productized contracting" offering myself.

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