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What a Cloudflare retainer actually includes

Workers, D1, R2, auth, webhooks, and who answers the phone when error rates spike — spelled out without platform buzzwords.

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It's not "serverless consulting"

A retainer covers hosting we operate, monitoring we watch, and feature work that fits in the sprint. It is not open-ended ticket hours.

Included every month

  • Uptime and error rate review
  • Dependency and security patches on Workers
  • Reasonable feature requests (scoped in Friday demo)
  • Incident response when your customers notice before you do

Not included

  • Rewriting a legacy codebase we didn't build — that needs discovery
  • Marketing campaigns — different skill set, same crew if you want

Why one bill

Splitting infra and app vendors created the five-vendor problem our clients hired us to escape.