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How it works

From first conversation to ongoing ownership.

No big bang, but a new layer every week. Your team keeps building while delivery gets sorted out.

  1. 1

    Discover

    Understand what you build, how you ship today and where it hurts.

  2. 2

    Set up the core

    CI, quality gates and a deployment pipeline. Month 1.

  3. 3

    Grow

    Extend tests, environments and automation. Months 2 and 3.

  4. 4

    Own

    Optimise, and keep adding tests for new features. Month 4 onwards.

  5. 5

    Scale

    Add growth layers where useful: security, IaC and observability.

The Mekova method

Five layers that build on each other. Each layer makes the next one reliable.

  1. MonitorKnow what happens after a deploy.
  2. Deploy / CDPredictable releases, with rollback.
  3. TestThe layer that grows with the product.
  4. CI / GatesNothing reaches main untested.
  5. Git & PR flowThe foundation under every change.

The 4-month rhythm

  1. Month 1

    Build the core

    • CI with lint, typecheck and unit tests as a quality gate
    • First deployment pipeline
    • PR workflow and branch protection
  2. Month 2

    Broaden

    • E2E and integration tests
    • Preview and staging environments per PR
    • Release automation and rollback
  3. Month 3

    Harden and grow

    • Dependency and secret scanning, basic SAST
    • Tackle flaky tests, pipeline performance
    • Extend coverage across new code
  4. Month 4+

    Own and optimise

    • Speed up the pipeline with caching and parallelism
    • Developer tooling and delivery metrics (DORA)
    • Documentation, plus ongoing tests for new features

What continues every week

This fills the fixed day, long after the core is in place. It's written into the contract too.

  • Test coverage keeps pace with new features
  • Fix flaky tests and keep the suite reliable
  • Make the pipeline continuously faster and more stable
  • Keep up with dependency and security updates
  • Weekly improvements from a shared backlog

How it starts

  1. 1

    Conversation

    30 minutes about your product, team and delivery.

  2. 2

    Qualification

    Is the team actively building, and where's the biggest pain?

  3. 3

    Scope

    A short, concrete agreement: Sprint or straight to Partner.

  4. 4

    Start

    A fixed day each week, and the first layer goes in.

Are you actively building, and are releases or tests getting harder?

Then this is exactly the right moment. Tell me briefly how you ship today; you'll hear from me within two working days.

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