Your Stack
Your Stack is our developer platform. It is built on Backstage, extended with a series of modules that turn it into a single pane of glass over your continuous delivery, and customised to the way your organisation actually works.
We run our entire business on it, every day. We create new templates in hours and customise Backstage around them in a day or so, which is the pace you get when the people extending a platform are the same people depending on it.
Developer portals are a critical enabler of faster software delivery, stronger governance and long-term operational efficiency.
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Your team configures their own workloads in lower environments, and your platform team manages higher environments and sensitive resources. Every service is registered with extensible metadata, so ownership, compliance and auditability come from the catalog rather than from a spreadsheet somebody maintains.
You do not need this
Your Stack is licensed as part of our three phase engagement, and you keep it. But you do not need it in order to work with us, and we would rather say that up front than have you wondering when the platform pitch is coming.
What we would say is that the sequence matters. You can do the portal later. Your solution will make more sense if you walk the three steps, because each one answers a question the next one depends on.
58% of engineering leaders say developer experience is a high priority executive concern.
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The three phases
Phase one, foundations. Catalogued technology assets, integration with your version control system or other identity providers, and basic technology and people discovery. This is the phase where an organisation finds out what it actually has, and who is responsible for it, which is more often a surprise than it should be.
Phase two, automation. A container publish event triggers deployment of workload artefacts to lower environments through ArgoCD or FluxCD, and new projects initialise from standardised templates with customisable build patterns. Delivery stops depending on the person who knows the runbook.
Phase three, the pane of glass. Catalogs managed through custom portal panels, including workload configuration, advancement between environments and environment testing. Then event driven continuous delivery, reacting to events in your environments and CI processes. This is where governance stops being a meeting.
And you own it
A platform you cannot leave is just a different kind of dependency, so the licence is yours and the customisation is yours. If you want us gone, the thing keeps running.
Why a portal at all
Developer portals aren’t just a convenience. They are what turns a set of automated processes into something your organisation can see, own and govern.
It accelerates delivery. Self-service infrastructure and project automation remove the bottlenecks, which brings your time to market down without asking anyone to work faster.
It reduces operational friction. Centralised, searchable access to your technology assets and their ownership means less time lost to debugging and administration, and fewer conversations that begin with asking who owns this.
It improves governance and security. Every service is registered with extensible metadata, so ownership, compliance and auditability come out of the catalog rather than out of a spreadsheet somebody remembers to update.
It helps you keep people. High performing teams stay engaged and productive when their cognitive load is lower and their workflows are not fighting them.
It drives visibility and standardisation. Every service is discoverable, trackable and governed from a single source of truth.
It enables decisions based on something. Rich extensible metadata lets your management track performance, find where workflows are costing you, and improve engineering efficiency on evidence rather than instinct.
Starting a project
This is what project initiation looks like once the platform is in place.
One. An engineer selects and configures a templated project repository in the portal, which triggers the automation.
Two. The repository is created, the service catalog is updated, and a working container is published.
Three. Continuous deployment detects the change to the service catalog and publishes the new service into your development environment.
Four. The new service and its supporting infrastructure launch in development, and the synced state can trigger test suites or whatever else you want to hang off it.
What that means in practice is setup time falling from days to minutes, every project starting with your best practices already baked in, and your engineers spending their time building rather than assembling boilerplate.
Changing something that is already running
The same portal handles changes to live configuration, with the assurance work from our Supply Chain Assurance service layered underneath it.
One. An engineer requests an update to a running configuration through the portal.
Two. For protected environments a human reviews and approves it, and that approval is itself recorded as an attestation.
Three. All dependent attestations are accumulated, an SBOM and attestation set is created, and the set is pushed to your artifact registry.
Four. At the target environment, admission control verifies the SBOM and the attestations before anything is deployed.
Your approvers see a clear visual answer rather than a certificate chain. Green means go, and if any check fails the deployment stops. The same cryptographic requirements that produce that answer are enforced automatically by policy at your cluster boundary, so what your people approved is what is actually protecting production.
Your teams end up understanding your business processes rather than cryptographic signing technologies, you get an at a glance view of your compliance posture, and you can expand how deeply you validate over time rather than having to decide everything up front.