The Stoop by Row House Tech · private pilot

The Stoop

The Stoop is our infrastructure practice, turned into software — the front door to cloud environments you own. The same assessment, the same guardrails, the same teardown discipline our engineers apply on enterprise engagements — packaged so your team can drive it. It runs today for our own infrastructure and a small group of pilot users; self-serve accounts open after that.

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The name

Why "The Stoop"?

In a row house neighborhood, the stoop is the front step — the part of the house that faces the street, where you're met before you're let in. That's what this is for your infrastructure: the welcoming, well-lit step up to environments that are unmistakably yours. You come to The Stoop to design, price, and approve; what gets built lives in your own cloud account, as code you own, behind your own keys.

Where it actually stands

Honest status, since you'll ask

We'd rather tell you what's real than run a countdown page. The engine is built and has provisioned and destroyed real infrastructure on both AWS and Azure. What isn't ready is the self-serve front door.

Live and proven: the full build lifecycle — design, security review, cost estimate, approval, provision, drift check, as-built documentation, confirmed teardown — on AWS and Azure.
In private pilot: accounts are opened by hand, for a small number of users we onboard personally.
Not yet: open self-serve signup, published platform pricing, and programmatic access (a REST API exists in preview; an MCP surface for AI agents is on the roadmap).
In the meantime: our cloud & platform practice delivers the same outcome with engineers instead of a portal — and everything they build lands in your account as code you own.

# the stoop — statuslive design → plan → cost → approve → applylive AWS & Azure · your own accountlive drift checks · as-built docs · teardownlive security review on every plan pilot private, hand-onboarded usersnext self-serve accounts & public pricinglater API & agent access · more practices

The idea

Consulting discipline, minus the meeting

Every environment we build by hand goes through the same gauntlet. The Stoop is that gauntlet, automated — so the discipline survives after the engagement ends.

Designed from vetted blueprints

Describe an environment or draw it on a canvas. It's composed from security-reviewed blueprints and a vetted add-on catalog — and you get exactly what you drew, with improvements offered rather than imposed.

Priced and gated before it runs

Every plan is costed before anything is created and checked against a ceiling that can't be waived in the moment. A named human approves each change; destructive diffs are called out rather than buried.

Yours, and reversible

It provisions into your own AWS or Azure through scoped, keyless access you can revoke — no markup on your bill — and one gated action tears an environment down and proves what it destroyed.

Your own account · no markupOpenTofu under the hood — open code you ownTerraform import of what you already runLinux & Windows ServerAs-built export · HTML / PDF / JSONResilience tiers up to multi-region failoverCost estimates on every planSelf-serve accounts — coming

# the patternpractice does it by hand → we learn the shapeshape becomes a blueprint → gates wrap around itblueprint becomes self-serve → you drive it cloud automation first through the piperesilience · security candidates behind it

Where this goes

Cloud automation first. Then more of what we do.

Cloud environments were the obvious place to start: they're the work we do most, the work with the clearest guardrails, and the work where a mistake shows up on a bill within hours.

The intent is broader. Anywhere our practices do something repeatable and rule-governed — recovery rehearsals, posture reviews, cost health checks — there's a version a customer could run themselves, with our engineers available when the answer isn't routine. That's the product we're building toward: not a tool that replaces the firm, but the firm's discipline available at 2am without booking anyone.

We'll ship it the way we ship everything else — one capability at a time, honestly labeled, with the consulting team behind it.

AI & your data

The AI designs the shape. Your data never meets it.

AI drives intake, generation, and documentation — behind a data boundary enforced by architecture, not policy. Your identifiers are tokenized before any AI call and re-injected by script; screening is server-enforced at every entry point; models are commercially licensed and don't train on your content; and the whole boundary is exercised by a live test battery. The same posture we bring to AI governance engagements.

Early access

Want in when it opens?

Put your name down and we'll bring you in as self-serve accounts open. No commitment, no card, no countdown clock — and what you tell us you'd build shapes what ships first. Need it before then? The practice does it with you today.