Funding to lower your upfront cost. Senior engineers on every engagement.
Cloud-native application development, data services, and managed services. Senior engineers on every engagement. AWS funding programmes where eligible: MAP Lite, MVA, OLA, POC, MMP, and VMP, applied to reduce your upfront investment.
This page is for UK mid-market businesses choosing an AWS partner. SMB describes engagement size and pace rather than a named D55 sector specialism; our sector experience sits in Energy, Transport and Logistics, and Maritime. The pattern described below is drawn from cross-sector mid-market work and from the SMB-relevant elements of our named-sector engagements.
If the fit is right, an SMB-specific case study will follow. For now the page is honest with you that the proof set is cross-sector mid-market work rather than SMB-themed.
Mid-market businesses choosing an AWS partner usually face the same set of pressures.
Large global system integrators set out engagement models that assume in-house programme management offices, hundred-person change teams, and twelve-month assessment phases. Your business has none of those things and can’t fund them.
Vendor pitches dominate the conversation, and the strategic question of what your cloud or data work is for sits underneath unanswered. You’re asked to choose between answers before the question is even settled.
Hiring senior AWS engineers full-time into your team is expensive and slow. Outsourcing wholesale to junior contractors loses the engineering judgment that makes the difference.
Mid-market businesses don’t need enterprise overhead, enterprise pricing, or enterprise pace. You need senior people who can make decisions in the room, an engagement model that matches the size of the work, and access to AWS funding programmes that reduce your upfront investment where they apply.
The strategic conversation comes before the technology choice. The Funded Data Strategy Diagnostic, one structured morning financed directly by D55, exists for that purpose at the data end. The equivalent at the application or migration end is a scoping engagement that uses AWS funding where eligible.
AWS funding programmes that apply most often at mid-market scale: MAP Lite for smaller-scale migrations, MAP for larger ones, MVA (Modernisation Viability Assessment) for Microsoft workloads, OLA (Optimisation and Licensing Assessment) for in-flight cost work, POC (Proof of Concept) for use-case validation, MMP and VMP for Microsoft modernisation. We handle the application and compliance for you so the funding actually lands.
Short scoping, small senior delivery teams, decisions made in the room rather than in a steering committee. No enterprise programme management overhead. The engagement adapts to your pace, not the other way round.
Solutions architects, DevOps engineers, data engineers, and security specialists. Direct access to the engineer doing the work, not a tier-one ticket queue. The cost difference compared to the large global system integrators usually shows up in the day rate; the substantive difference shows up in how your decisions get made.
Engagements are designed to leave your team able to own and evolve the platform after we step back. The aim is a clean hand-back when the engagement’s done, not a long retainer.
Most engagements begin with a short scoping call to identify whether your right next step is a Funded Data Strategy Diagnostic (when your data and AI plan isn’t yet settled), a paid scoping engagement (when the plan is already clear), or an AWS-funded assessment (when the work is migration or modernisation).
From there, delivery is incremental: small, well-scoped pieces of work that earn the next conversation with you, rather than a single multi-month assessment that has to be sold up front.
Our engagement set is mid-market UK by description, even where the named sector specialism is Energy or Maritime. The work translates: a central data platform built for a mid-market UK energy supplier uses the same architectural pattern as a central data platform for a mid-market UK business in another sector.
The clearest pattern proof in our set is Bryt Energy, where a fragmented SaaS estate was consolidated into a central data platform on AWS. The same shape of work, applied to your mid-market business in another sector, would follow the same architecture (build above the systems, not between them) and the same delivery rhythm (senior team, skills transfer, AWS-native services).
A sector-specific SMB case study isn’t yet published; the pages above link to the existing sector case studies, which describe the underlying work and outcomes.
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