Development
Components, templates, workflows, integrations, Content Fragments, Edge Delivery blocks. Written upgrade-safe: no deprecated APIs, no /libs overlays, nothing that breaks on Adobe's release cycle.
AEM Support on Demand
AEM work arrives in waves — a release, an incident, a service pack, an upgrade somebody scheduled for you. Headcount does not arrive in waves. It arrives every month, at the same price.
The three options you have today
There is nothing wrong with any of them when the roadmap is full. The problem is that AEM roadmaps are almost never full twelve months a year.
Calculator
Three numbers. Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is stored — the maths runs in your browser. All figures in euro, because that is what we bill in.
In-house salaries, or contractors on an hourly rate.
Developers and architects who work on AEM, not the whole digital team.
Gross salary plus employer cost, tooling and management overhead — what the person actually costs the company.
What you pay per hour, billed whether or not there is AEM work that week.
Be honest here — count the tickets, releases and incidents that actually happen, not the capacity you hold.
What the hours are spent on
Components, templates, workflows, integrations, Content Fragments, Edge Delivery blocks. Written upgrade-safe: no deprecated APIs, no /libs overlays, nothing that breaks on Adobe's release cycle.
Pipelines, environments, failed deployments, quality gates that will not go green, content copies between environments, and the release nobody wants to run on a Friday.
Production incidents, dispatcher and cache behaviour, Oak indexing, memory and query problems, replication that stopped, authoring that got slow after the last content load.
Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse budgets, index and query tuning, asset pipelines, licence and environment cost, and an upgrade-readiness read before you commit to a date.
How it runs
Version, hosting model, what is custom, what hurts. You leave with our read of it in writing whether or not you buy anything. Most people find that part useful on its own.
One senior who learns your codebase and stays your contact. Work comes in through your tracker or ours, whichever you prefer. We reply within one business day; a production incident starts the same day.
Every hour tied to a ticket, and the log is yours to read at any time. No minimum, no subscription to cancel. A quiet month is a small invoice.
Rate
Senior AEM engineers. No retainer, no monthly minimum, no prepaid block to buy, nothing to cancel. A quiet month is a small invoice, and a month with no work is no invoice at all.
A larger, scoped project — a 6.5 migration, an Edge Delivery build, a replatforming — is quoted as a fixed price instead, with the delivery risk on us. Hourly is for the work that cannot be scoped in advance.
Where this does not work
You genuinely have full-time AEM work. If the calculator puts you above the break-even line month after month, a team of your own is cheaper and better. We will say that on the call rather than after the first invoice.
You need someone in the room. On-site presence, a security clearance, or a contract that requires a local legal entity — that is not us, and pretending otherwise wastes a quarter of your time and ours.
You want the cheapest hour on the market. There are offshore rates well below ours. They are real. What they do not include is a working day that overlaps yours and an architect who has done this migration before.
Who you would be working with
An Adobe Silver Solution Partner working exclusively on Adobe Experience Cloud. Nineteen AEM programmes delivered in automotive, media, retail, travel, financial services, healthcare and manufacturing — most of them behind another agency's brand.