Platform Accelerator
A production-ready developer platform. In weeks, not months.
Skip the 6-month build. We deliver a complete internal developer platform, assessed, proven, and deployed, with your team trained to run it from day one.
The Challenge
Sound familiar?
Slow onboarding
Days or weeks to get a new workload running. Manual steps, tickets, and approvals slow everything down.
Platform sprawl
Disconnected tools, no golden paths, inconsistent pipelines. Every team does it differently.
Bottleneck teams
Platform and DevOps teams are the bottleneck. Developers wait instead of building.
Governance gaps
Security and compliance bolted on too late. You're one audit away from a problem.
How It Works
Four phases. Assess, prove, deliver, evolve.
We meet you where you are. Start with a free 2.5-hour assessment and get a scored report whether you proceed or not.
Rapid Assess
2.5-hour workshop
Platform maturity benchmark across DevEx and Well-Architected Framework. Evidence-based scores, prioritised roadmap, and indicative pricing.
Prove
Targeted engagement
Unblock something specific. Prove value on a defined scope such as a landing zone, golden path, developer portal, or observability stack.
Deliver
~Weeks focused build
Self-service, guardrails, foundations, policy automation. Your production-ready platform goes live with your team trained to run it.
Evolve
Ongoing partnership
Continuous improvement. Expand capabilities, onboard more teams, measure outcomes, or move to managed service.
Proven Results
Trusted by organisations that need platforms to work
Home Office
The UK Home Office needed to enable 700+ developers to self-serve environments across AWS without compromising security or compliance. Their existing platform team couldn't scale to meet demand.
Appvia delivered a Wayfinder-powered platform that reduced deployment times from 8 months to 2 weeks, achieved a 70:1 developer-to-DevOps ratio, and cut hosting costs by 70%.
“Appvia have shown a drive to not just innovate within the service they provide but provide guidance and assistance to other parts of the organisation to promote both product and agile delivery.”
Home Office
Bank of England
Migrated services to Azure, standardised CI/CD, and upskilled teams in Git, Kubernetes, and Helm.
RBC Brewin Dolphin
Built Compliance Assurance Framework integrating NIST, CIS, and client policies through automated enforcement.
ICL
Delivered HPC and transient JupyterHub environments emphasising security, scalability, and automation with DevOps best practices.
Read more →What You Get
Choose your starting point
Three tiers designed to match your maturity, team size, and ambition. Every tier includes training, full handover, and you own everything we build.
- Developer portal with OAuth integration
- Software templates (Java/Spring, Node/React, Golang, Python, .Net)
- Automated workload onboarding (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- CI/CD GitHub workflows
- Observability dashboards and alerting
- Security scanning and vulnerability detection
- Auto-generated documentation and diagrams
- Artefact management
- 2 applications onboarded
- Training and handover
- Everything in Basic, plus
- 10 custom software templates
- 5 custom workload onboarding templates
- Your choice of CI/CD tooling with 8 custom workflows
- Your choice of observability, security, and artefact tooling
- Service catalogue integration
- App customisation
- Everything in Customised, plus
- Cloud platform build-out with landing zones
- Recommended cloud operating model
- Enterprise-scale networking
- Governance through policy-as-code
- Integrated SIEM, CSPM, CWPP
- 2 applications migrated to the platform
Available add-ons for all tiers
ROI Calculator
How much could it save your business?
Discover how much you could save annually with the Platform Accelerator based on your team size and salary data.
Your Team
We deliver alongside you, as one team.
Our team embeds with yours. You learn while doing, absorbing best practices from a wide range of platform projects.
Platform Architect
Full time
Architecture, landing zone design, integration strategy and technical authority.
Platform Engineers
Full time
Infrastructure as code, portal setup, CI/CD integration and environment orchestration.
Engagement Manager
Part time
Owns customer success, defines and tracks ROI metrics, manages delivery cadence and stakeholder comms.
On Demand Access To
As needed
- Security engineers
- Platform engineers
- Cloud architects
- SRE & observability
Why Appvia
We don't just consult. We build.
Every consultancy offers people and process. We also built the products. That product engineering DNA means we deliver production-ready platforms, not recommendations.
We built Wayfinder, our own agentic developer platform SaaS product. We know what works because we ship it ourselves.
Open-source builders. Terranetes and Krane are used in production by teams worldwide.
Wayfinder or Backstage. We recommend the right self-service approach for your team and context, not a one-size-fits-all answer.
SC-cleared, UK-based, ISO 27001. Trusted in regulated and public sector environments.
FAQ
Common questions
What exactly do I get?
A production-ready internal developer platform tailored to your stack: infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, security guardrails, developer self-service tooling, and documentation. The exact scope depends on your chosen tier and assessment findings. You own everything we build.
What happens in the Rapid Assessment?
A 2.5-hour structured workshop that benchmarks your platform maturity across Developer Experience (feedback loops, cognitive load, flow state) and the Well-Architected Framework (security, reliability, cost, performance, operational excellence). You receive a scored report with a prioritised improvement roadmap, example target architecture, and indicative pricing. Yours to keep whether you proceed or not.
Is this right for my team size?
The accelerator is designed for organisations where building internally would take 6+ months and multiple hires. We deliver in weeks with embedded experts and full knowledge transfer. It works for teams from 20 to 700+ developers.
What if we already have a platform?
You don't need to start from scratch. We transition existing workloads into a modern, governed platform through discovery workshops, IDP software templates, and policies in audit mode. We standardise your tools and pipelines without disrupting live services, so you end up with every workload visible in one portal, consistent standards, and developers self-serving within guardrails.
Will this replace my platform or DevOps team?
We work alongside your team, not instead of them. Our goal is to accelerate your delivery, establish the foundation, and enable your internal team with patterns, automation, and knowledge transfer. You own everything we build.
Do you use Wayfinder or Backstage?
Both. Wayfinder is our SaaS agentic developer platform, best for teams who want speed and managed operations with built-in guardrails. Backstage is an open-source developer portal, best for teams who want full ownership and customisation. We recommend the right option based on your assessment, team capabilities, and operational preferences.
How do you measure success and ROI?
We define success metrics upfront during assessment: developer productivity (10% of developers × average salary), cloud cost optimisation (15% of annual cloud spend), and platform team efficiency (50% reduction in ops overhead). We track DORA metrics, developer satisfaction, self-service rates, and time-to-deploy improvements throughout the engagement.
Get Started
Ready to accelerate your platform?
Start with a free 2.5-hour Rapid Assessment. Get a scored maturity report, prioritised roadmap, and indicative pricing. Yours to keep whether you proceed or not.
