Peak Readiness Review · Black Friday 2026
Make 27 November boring.
A two-week, remote review of your capacity, alerts, runbooks and on-call plan, finished before your change freeze. You get a prioritised fix list in week one and a go/no-go checklist for the day.
How the two weeks run
| When | What happens | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | 20-minute kick-off. You give read-only access to monitoring, cloud console and ticketing. | A shared plan and dates |
| Days 2–5 | We review load-test results, scaling limits, alerting, third-party dependencies and the last two peaks' incidents. Two 45-minute interviews with your team. | A risk-rated fix list by day 5, so your team can start straight away |
| Days 6–9 | We write or tighten runbooks for your five likeliest failures and tune alert thresholds for peak load with you. | Runbooks and alert changes, ready to use |
| Day 10 | 60-minute readout and a 30-minute game day on your top failure scenario. | Go/no-go checklist for 27–30 November |
Book by 13 November to finish by 25 November, before most change freezes.
What we look at
- Forecast versus tested capacity, and the first thing that breaks
- Database connections, queues, rate limits and cloud quotas
- Payment, fraud, search, CDN and other third parties in the checkout path
- Business alerts: orders, checkout errors, payment success
- On-call rota, escalation contacts and decision rights
- Rollback, feature flags and ways to degrade gracefully
What we don't do: change your production systems, provide on-call cover, or touch payment card data. You stay in control; we make sure you are ready.
Price
Launch price for the first two clients
€3,000 €2,400 fixed, excluding VAT
In exchange, a two-line testimonial after the readout if you were happy. One environment and one team; larger set-ups get a fixed quote after the call.
50% to start, 50% on the readout. Card, SEPA transfer or USDC stablecoin.
Next step
Book a 20-minute scoping call
Tell us your platform and your forecast. You get a fixed proposal within one working day during November. Write to [email protected].
Free
Not ready to talk? Score yourself first.
30 checks, four weeks out to the day itself. Takes ten minutes.
Questions
Is two weeks enough?
Yes, because we focus only on what matters for one peak: capacity, alerting, runbooks and decisions. You get the fix list after five days, so your team has time to act before the freeze.
Do you need access to production?
Read-only access to monitoring, the cloud console and ticketing. We never change production and never see payment card data.
We are a gaming or gambling platform. Does this apply?
Yes. The same review works for a game launch, a big tournament or a sporting event. For gambling we work with licensed operators only.
What if Black Friday has passed?
The review works for any peak: a launch, a sale, a seasonal spike. Write to us with your date.