I build cloud and AI infrastructure for small companies that need it to work properly, without the cost or ceremony of an enterprise engagement.

I’m Jim Morrish. I’ve spent twenty-five years running production systems, a good part of them in financial services and telecoms, where an outage costs real money within minutes. That teaches you to design for the bad day by default: the traffic spike, the failed deploy, the region that disappears. I now apply that experience at a size where one person can do the whole job.

What I do

Most of my work starts with AI inference. Teams that have shipped an AI feature on a frontier API often find that the bill grows faster than the usage that justifies it. I set up inference that costs what the workload deserves. That might be open-weight models on European infrastructure such as Scaleway or OVHcloud, routing through OpenRouter, or a mix of both behind a single gateway. Sometimes the right answer is to stay on the API you already have and stop paying for tokens you don’t need. I’ll tell you which.

Underneath that sits ordinary infrastructure that has to be right: cloud accounts, networks, CI/CD, observability and a deploy process nobody is afraid of.

Service Price Duration
AI Inference Setup £4,000–10,000 2–4 weeks
Cloud Health Check £1,500–2,500 1 week
Platform Build £8,000–15,000 3–5 weeks
Fractional Platform Engineer £1,200–2,500 a month Ongoing

Each range depends on scope: the size of the estate, how many environments, and what already exists. After a short call I quote a single fixed figure before any work starts. That’s the price you pay. I don’t sell day rates for this work.

How I work

The simplest thing that works. I will talk you out of Kubernetes if you don’t need it, and out of self-hosting a model if the API is cheaper at your volume. Smaller work is fine if it’s the right work.

Everything in code, everything documented. You get Terraform, pipelines and a written handover your own engineers can run. You shouldn’t depend on me, and that’s the point.

Specific numbers. If I say something will save money, I’ll show the calculation, and say where it doesn’t hold.

Reachable afterwards. A small monthly retainer keeps me on hand for when something breaks or the next decision comes up.

Who I work with

  • Development agencies and product studios that need infrastructure depth without hiring for it
  • Seed to Series A startups outgrowing their first cloud account or their first AI bill
  • Established small businesses with legacy estates and cloud bills nobody can explain

I work remotely, and I’m happy to meet in person around Bristol, Bath, Oxford, Cheltenham and Swindon.

Credentials

Google Professional Cloud Architect. Hands-on with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, GCP and Linux in production.

Get in touch

The quickest start is a 30-minute call: tell me what you’re running and what worries you about it.

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