Sprint Studio / Capabilities / Site care

Keep it live. Keep it patched. Keep it shipping.

The unglamorous half of running a website or web app — maintenance, security patches, version updates, the small changes that pile up — handled by the engineers who shipped it. Or by us, on a site somebody else shipped, after a one-week onboarding audit.

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Three things, treated seriously.

Maintenance, security, and updates aren't a single line on an invoice — they're three different bodies of work with three different cadences. We do all three properly, or we don't do them.

Maintenance

The boring work that stops your site degrading. Done monthly, logged in writing, so nothing piles up to the “it's now a rescue” moment.

  • Dependency updates (npm / pip / system)
  • Framework upgrades on a planned cadence
  • Broken-link sweeps
  • Performance audit + budget enforcement
  • Accessibility fixes (a11y regressions)
  • Database housekeeping & backups verified
  • Asset / image optimisation passes

Security

Patches against disclosed vulnerabilities, regular sweeps for the things that haven't been disclosed yet, and a real incident path when something does land. Auth audited, headers honest, CSPs real.

  • CVE scanning across the dependency tree
  • Security patches applied within agreed SLA
  • SSL renewals, auth audits, header reviews
  • CSP + permissions-policy reviewed quarterly
  • Backups tested, not just taken
  • Incident response path with named on-call
  • Pen-test remediation when commissioned
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Updates

The small changes that don't warrant a sprint engagement — copy, imagery, a new page, a tweaked form, a new integration. Done within the month, scoped from the request.

  • Copy & image swaps
  • New marketing pages / landing pages
  • Form changes & integrations
  • Small feature additions
  • Analytics / tag changes
  • Content publishing & SEO tweaks
  • CMS configuration & user permissions

Three plans. Pick the one that fits.

Monthly retainers, paid in advance. Cancel with 30 days' notice, no minimum term beyond the first month. Unused hours roll forward up to one month so you don't lose what you paid for.

Baseline

Watchtower

For sites that mostly just need to keep running. Patches landed, dependencies current, uptime watched, monthly note.

from £600 / mo
≈ 3 hours / month · 30-day notice
  • Uptime monitoring + alerts
  • Dependency & framework patching
  • Security CVE scanning
  • Monthly summary in writing
  • Backups verified monthly
  • Incident path: 8h response, business hours
Active product

Active care

For products with real users and continuous evolution. A senior engineer on call alongside the small-change allowance, with a structured roadmap conversation each month.

from £4,800 / mo
≈ 32 hours / month · pod-light · roadmap call
  • Everything in Care & updates
  • Monthly roadmap call + planning
  • AI feature evolution & eval drift watch
  • Quarterly pen-test remediation budget
  • Out-of-hours support window (agreed)
  • Incident path: 1h response, 24/5

When something does go wrong

Real incident response. Not a ticket queue.

Every care plan comes with a defined incident path: the channel, the on-call name, the SLA. The same senior engineer who knows your codebase — not a triage team three contracts down.

We'll write a one-page post-incident note within 48 hours of resolution. Plain English, what happened, what we did, what we're changing so it doesn't happen again. You can show it to a board, a regulator, or a customer with no rewrite.

Watchtower8h · business
Care & updates4h · business
Active care1h · 24/5
P0 / data loss30 min · 24/7
Post-incident note48h, written

What care covers

  • Sites & web apps we built — enrolled at handover
  • Sites we didn't build — after a one-week onboarding audit
  • Maintenance, security, and update work as scoped above
  • Incident response within the SLA on your plan
  • One named senior engineer + designer on call
  • Monthly written summary of everything we touched

What care isn't

  • A help desk for your end users — that's a different product
  • Hosting, SaaS, or domain bills — charged at cost or to your accounts
  • Major redesigns or new product lines — those become a fresh engagement
  • Native-mobile, desktop, or backend-only systems — we build for the browser
  • An unlimited-hours retainer — hours are scoped per plan
  • A way to keep us cheap once we've shipped — we'll say if you'd be better off in-house

Got a site that's due a patch?

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