What makes Montebay different from other consulting firms?

Montebay is judgment-led, not tool-led. We don't sell software, inflate scope, or hide behind frameworks. Our approach combines senior technical experience with practical automation—using AI and LLMs where they add value, not for novelty. Every engagement is clearly scoped, outcome-driven, and built around trust.

How does the Silent AWS Audit work?

We request read-only access to your AWS environment and conduct a comprehensive review without meetings or disruption. The audit identifies cost inefficiencies, security exposures, operational bottlenecks, and architectural complexity. You receive a clear, prioritized report with actionable recommendations within 5–7 days.

Is the Strategic Cyber Risk Advisory a penetration test?

No. This is not a penetration test, compliance checkbox, or technical testing. It's an executive-level strategic assessment that answers: Where does meaningful risk actually exist? Which risks matter most to your business? Where might assumptions be creating blind spots? The goal is clarity before committing to tools, audits, or spend.

How do you use AI and LLMs in your work?

We apply AI selectively—where it improves clarity, consistency, and efficiency. This includes LLM-augmented operational workflows for ticket triage, incident summaries, and documentation. We also use AI-assisted system diagnostics to identify patterns and anomalies. We don't deploy AI for novelty; every application is designed to reduce cognitive load, eliminate unnecessary manual steps, and deliver measurable operational value.

What's the typical engagement timeline?

Engagements vary by scope. A Silent AWS Audit typically takes 5–7 days from access to report delivery. Strategic Cyber Risk Advisory ranges from 1–3 weeks depending on complexity. Strategic Technical Advisory engagements can be 30-, 60-, or 90-day roadmaps. We provide clear timelines upfront and deliver on schedule.

Do you require long-term contracts?

No. You can start with a targeted assessment, a focused advisory engagement, or a single operational workflow review. We offer ongoing advisory retainers for teams that need continuity, but there's no requirement for long-term commitments. Every engagement is clearly scoped and outcome-driven.

Who typically works with Montebay?

We typically work with founders, executives, technical leaders, and teams navigating growth, transition, or complexity. If you're feeling unclear about where risk actually lives, burdened by manual ops work, or unsure which technical decisions matter most, we're likely a fit.

Can I see sample reports before engaging?

Yes. We provide sample reports for both the Silent AWS Audit and Strategic Cyber Risk Advisory. You can view them on our reports site to understand the format, depth, and clarity of our deliverables before engaging.

Montebay Innovations | Strategic Technical Advisory & AI-Enhanced Systems

Modern organizations don't fail because they lack tools.

They fail because complexity outpaces understanding.

Montebay helps leadership teams see clearly, decide confidently, and act deliberately across technology, operations, and risk.

Clear priorities. Fewer assumptions. Better decisions in 30–90 days.

We combine senior technical judgment with modern automation — including LLM-powered operational workflows, infrastructure-as-code reviews, and observability-driven insights — to reduce noise, surface what matters, and turn complexity into direction.

No hype. No vendor lock-in. No unnecessary tooling.

Just clear thinking and execution.

What do you need clarity on right now?

Select the path that best matches your situation. We'll take it from there.

🔍 Assess Risk & Blind Spots Identify where real exposure exists — and where it doesn't. Outcome: A written risk brief with clear 30–90 day priorities 🤖 Cut Through AI & Automation Hype Understand where AI creates value and where it quietly adds risk. Outcome: Clear go / no-go guidance before committing resources 💸 Reduce AWS Cost & Operational Drag Lower spend and complexity without breaking what already works. Outcome: Actionable cost and efficiency insights within weeks

LLM Automation for Ops

Understand where AI helps — and where it creates risk or waste.

Workflow-level AI assessment
Cost vs value reality check
Clear go / no-go recommendations

→ Explore AI Readiness

AWS Cost & Systems Efficiency

Reduce AWS spend without breaking what works.

Spend pattern analysis
Waste vs necessary cost separation
Practical optimization guidance

→ Request AWS Cost Insight

Proven clarity across complex systems

22% infrastructure cost reduction

40% operational complexity removed

15+ systems rationalized without disruption

A clear path — without disruption

You select a focus area

We assess asynchronously

You receive a written advisory brief

You decide what happens next

No meetings required unless you want them.

No tools deployed. No systems touched. No operational risk introduced.

Start with clarity

If none of the paths above fit cleanly, we'll help you define the right starting point.

🧭 Request an Advisory Brief

Or → Ask a question

What We Do

Strategic Technical Advisory

We help technical leaders identify architectural debt, operational blind spots, and infrastructure misconfigurations — then prioritize what actually moves the needle.

Strategic Technical Advisory

Architecture reviews (microservices, event-driven, serverless trade-offs)
Technology stack decisions (build vs. buy, vendor evaluation)
Cost, risk, and complexity analysis (real numbers, not estimates)
30-, 60-, and 90-day execution roadmaps with clear dependencies

Outcome: technical decisions backed by production experience, not theory.

Cloud & Infrastructure Clarity

Cloud environments often grow faster than governance. We've seen it: orphaned resources, unmanaged IAM policies, and cost anomalies that only show up in retrospect.

We assess AWS and cloud platforms to identify:

Cost leakage (unused instances, unattached EBS volumes, idle RDS clusters)
Security exposure (overly permissive IAM, public S3 buckets, missing encryption)
Operational bottlenecks (single points of failure, tight coupling, missing observability)
Over-engineering (unnecessary microservices, premature optimization, tool sprawl)

Outcome: infrastructure that's simpler, safer, and actually observable.

Request Silent AWS Audit → View Sample →

Cyber & Operational Risk Advisory

This is not a penetration test.
This is not a compliance checkbox.

We provide executive-level cyber and privacy risk assessments that answer:

Where meaningful risk actually exists
Which risks matter most to the business
Where assumptions may be creating blind spots
What leadership should prioritize next

Outcome: clarity before committing to tools, audits, or spend.

Request Advisory → View Sample →

"Not every problem needs automation — but the right automation removes friction without creating fragility."

LLM Automation for Ops Workflows

Ops teams are drowning in signal-to-noise problems: PagerDuty fatigue, log aggregation that doesn't aggregate, and incident post-mortems that take longer to write than the incident itself.

Montebay designs LLM-augmented operational workflows that parse structured and unstructured data — logs, tickets, runbooks, Slack threads — to surface actionable insights instead of raw noise.

We apply large language models selectively, automating the text-heavy and decision-dense parts of operations (triage, summarization, context extraction) while keeping humans in the critical path.

What This Enables

Automated triage: classify Jira tickets, PagerDuty incidents, and Slack requests by severity and context
Intelligent summarization: transform CloudWatch logs, Datadog traces, and incident timelines into executive-ready briefs
Context-aware handoffs: enrich on-call rotations with structured runbook context and historical patterns
Reduced toil: automate the repetitive (ticket routing, status updates) without creating fragile automation chains

Where It's Used

Incident response: auto-generate post-mortems from PagerDuty timelines, Slack threads, and log data
Queue management: route support tickets, ops requests, and infrastructure changes to the right team
Documentation: generate runbooks, SOPs, and architecture docs from code comments and operational knowledge
Executive reporting: transform technical metrics into business-readable operational summaries

How We Approach It

We don't deploy AI for novelty.

Every workflow is designed to:

Reduce cognitive load
Eliminate unnecessary manual steps
Improve clarity and consistency
Deliver measurable operational savings

Outcome: fewer distractions, faster resolution, and systems that scale without scaling headcount.

Explore AI Capabilities →

Execution Support & Advisory Retainers

For teams that need continuity beyond a one-time assessment — someone who understands your stack, your constraints, and your context.

We stay involved to:

Validate execution against priorities (architecture reviews, code reviews, design docs)
Pressure-test decisions as conditions change (scaling events, security incidents, team changes)
Provide senior technical guidance without full-time overhead (async reviews, office hours, strategic check-ins)

Outcome: technical momentum without adding headcount or creating dependency.

About Montebay

How Montebay Is Different

Built by practitioners who've shipped production systems, debugged production incidents, and optimized production costs. We combine senior technical judgment with modern automation to help leadership teams see clearly, decide confidently, and act deliberately.

Judgment-Led, Not Tool-Led

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Senior Experience

Not junior throughput

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Selective Automation

Where it helps — restraint where it doesn't

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Clear Communication

Clear writing, clear thinking, clear recommendations

We don't sell software.

We don't inflate scope.

We don't hide behind frameworks.

We help you see reality clearly — then act.

Built by Practitioners

Real Operating Experience

Informed by real operating experience — on-call at 2am, debugging distributed systems, and making architecture decisions under production load:

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Cloud infrastructure
(AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, serverless)

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Security and risk
(IAM policies, compliance, threat modeling)

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Scaled platforms
(high-traffic SaaS, regulated environments, multi-tenant systems)

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Systems design
(microservices, event-driven architecture, data pipelines)

Our internal products — including Wordflect and Soteria — reflect the same philosophy: simple systems, thoughtful automation, and respect for human decision-making.

Who We Work With

If You're Feeling...

We typically work with technical leaders who understand the difference between theory and production:

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CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical founders

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Engineering managers, platform leads, and SRE teams

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Teams scaling infrastructure, migrating systems, or untangling technical debt

If you're feeling:

Unclear about where actual risk lives (beyond compliance checklists)
Burdened by manual ops work (on-call rotations, incident response, ticket triage)
Unsure which technical decisions matter most (architecture choices, tool selection, team structure)

We're likely a fit.

Example Engagements

Real Results

Small Business AWS Cost Optimization

A small SaaS startup was concerned about rising AWS costs but lacked the expertise to identify optimization opportunities.

What We Did

Silent AWS Audit with read-only access
Identified unused resources and over-provisioned instances
Delivered actionable optimization recommendations

Result: Identified $450/month in immediate savings opportunities, with clear implementation steps delivered in 5 days.

Infrastructure Cost Optimization

A fintech company scaling aggressively was experiencing unexpected cloud cost overruns and lacked visibility into their AWS environment.

What We Did

Silent AWS Audit with read-only access
Identified cost leakage from unused resources
Delivered prioritized action plan in 7 days

Result: Reduced infrastructure spend by 22% in under 60 days, with clear visibility into cost drivers.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Montebay's services, approach, and engagements.

Case Studies

Real Results

See how Montebay has helped organizations solve complex challenges and achieve measurable outcomes.

AWS Cost Optimization

Cloud Architecture

Challenge

A growing SaaS company was experiencing unexpected AWS cost increases with limited visibility into spending patterns and optimization opportunities.

Solution

Conducted a comprehensive AWS audit, identified underutilized resources and inefficient configurations, and provided a prioritized optimization roadmap.

Results

25% reduction in monthly AWS costs
Improved visibility into spending patterns
Clear roadmap for future optimization

Security Posture Assessment

Cyber Risk Advisory

Challenge

A tech startup needed clarity on their cyber risk exposure before making security tooling investments, but lacked internal security expertise.

Solution

Delivered a Strategic Cyber Risk Advisory that assessed access controls, data handling, vendor dependencies, and provided prioritized recommendations.

Results

Clear understanding of risk priorities
Informed security tooling decisions
30-day action plan for highest-impact improvements

Infrastructure Simplification

Operational Clarity

Challenge

An established company had accumulated technical debt and complexity over years, making operations fragile and difficult to maintain.

Solution

Conducted system review, identified critical bottlenecks and unnecessary complexity, and provided a phased approach to simplification.

Results

Reduced operational complexity by 40%
Improved system reliability
Clear path for continued simplification

Case studies are anonymized to protect client confidentiality. All results are from actual engagements.

Our Products

Independent Products Built with Purpose

Montebay Innovations builds and operates a small number of independent products alongside its consulting work. These applications are not client projects — they are owned, maintained, and evolved internally.

Wordflect

A minimalist word puzzle game focused on clarity, challenge, and thoughtful design.

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Soteria

A behavioral finance app designed to help users pause, reflect, and make better financial decisions.

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Start With Clarity

Not every engagement needs a long contract.

You can start with:

A targeted assessment

A focused advisory engagement

A single operational workflow review

📩 Get in touch to discuss where clarity would help most.

Start With Clarity

BUILDING CLARITY INTO COMPLEX SYSTEMS

What do you need clarity on right now?

Strategic Cyber Risk Advisory

LLM Automation for Ops

AWS Cost & Systems Efficiency

Proven clarity across complex systems

A clear path — without disruption

Start with clarity

Strategic Technical Advisory

Strategic Technical Advisory

Cloud & Infrastructure Clarity

Cyber & Operational Risk Advisory

LLM Automation for Ops Workflows

What This Enables

Where It's Used

How We Approach It

Execution Support & Advisory Retainers

How Montebay Is Different

Judgment-Led, Not Tool-Led

Senior Experience

Selective Automation

Clear Communication

Real Operating Experience

If You're Feeling...

We typically work with technical leaders who understand the difference between theory and production:

If you're feeling:

Real Results

Small Business AWS Cost Optimization

What We Did

Infrastructure Cost Optimization

What We Did

Frequently Asked Questions

Silent AWS Audit Request

Contact Information

AWS Environment Overview

Audit Focus

Select an Audit Tier

Boundary Confirmation

Optional Context

Strategic Cyber Risk Advisory Request

Contact Information

Organization Context

Primary Concerns

Scope Confirmation

Select an Advisory Tier

Optional Context

What Clients Say

Real Results

AWS Cost Optimization

Challenge

Solution

Results

Security Posture Assessment

Challenge

Solution

Results

Infrastructure Simplification

Challenge

Solution

Results

Independent Products Built with Purpose

Wordflect

Soteria

Start Your Next Project

Start With Clarity