The Angelic Warrior, in flight

Angelic Assignments

A senior platform IC at FTE cost, against a fractional one for a six-month outcome.

The customer's question is not "is your technology good". It is "what does it cost me not to hire".

The assignments

Architecture review and stack migration. Custom toolkits for the systems you integrate, and automation for the lines between the boxes. Training and knowledge share for like-minded infrastructure engineers.

1Which services are actually offered?

The current copy lists architecture review and stack migration, custom toolkits and automation, and training. Are these three services, or one engagement delivered three ways? The page is stronger if a reader can tell from the page alone what to ask for.

2How does an assignment run?

The shape of the work. Fixed window, specific outcome, fractional — but what happens in week one, and what does the team have at the end? Is the engagement hands-on throughout, or is there a handover? The outcome the customer pays for is declarative infrastructure with a sub-30-second feedback loop, plus brownfield migration that makes existing systems inspectable.

3What does it cost?

The hardest question on the page and the one the persona says the customer is actually asking. Day rate, fixed fee, or a price per outcome? A fraction of an FTE is the framing that works, but is there a number underneath it?

4What does the customer have to bring?

Access to the systems, a senior engineer on their side who can make decisions, a willingness to change things. Being honest about what an assignment needs from the client is a credibility move, not a weakness.

5What does 'fractional' mean in practice?

Two days a week for six months, or two weeks before leaving? And what is the alternative the customer is weighing — a hire, a consultancy, or doing nothing? The comparison that wins the assignment is usually 'not hiring', not 'not hiring a consultancy'.

6Why not just hire?

The counter-argument, stated better than they would state it. A hire is a year of commitment bought in the hope of a year of output. An assignment is a specific outcome, bought for exactly as long as it takes to reach it. Is that the answer, or is it something else?

7Who is a good fit, and who is not?

Naming who should not hire is unusual and credible. Teams with no existing platform capability, teams who want a build-and-handover team, teams who need the same person for five years — say plainly which assignments you will turn down.

8What happens after?

The retainer, the handover, the training that leaves the team able to run it themselves. If there is a shape after the assignment — a fractional arrangement, a support contract, nothing — say what it is.

9Where do Infrastructure Angels fit?

Training and knowledge share for like-minded infrastructure engineers is in the current copy but not on the site yet. Is that a service you sell, a community you run, or a way of describing the customers themselves?

10The one call to action.

One URL, and it should be the email. The worked example uses angelic.hosts@consultant.com. Confirm it, and confirm there is no second route on the page.