PNS
Phuongnamsoft
Stage 03

Care & Growth Retainer

Launch is the middle of the project, not the end. The retainer reserves a block of our capacity each month and spends it on whatever protects and improves the product — with a written report showing where it went.

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At a glance
Monthly fee US$2,500–10,000
Initial commitment 3 months
Reporting Monthly
Roadmap review Quarterly

Where the hours go

RELIABILITY Keeping it up

Monitoring, incident response, dependency updates, backups verified rather than assumed.

SUPPORT Answering the team

Defect fixes, user questions escalated by your staff, and the small changes that unblock a workflow.

ANALYTICS Seeing what happens

Instrumentation, reporting, and reading the numbers with you so the backlog reflects reality.

IMPROVEMENT Making it better

The prioritized roadmap: new capability, workflow refinement, performance, technical debt paid down.

Tiers

Three levels of reserved capacity

Pick the level that matches how much the product still needs to change. Moving between tiers takes one month's notice either direction.

Care The product works and rarely changes
US$2,500/mo
Monitoring and incident response Security and dependency updates Defect fixes Monthly service report
Care & Growth The product is still evolving
Most clients
US$4,000–6,000/mo
Everything in Care Reserved improvement capacity Prioritized product backlog Analytics and reporting Quarterly roadmap session
Product partner We are effectively your product team
US$8,000–10,000/mo
Everything in Care & Growth Continuous delivery of new capability Architecture and technical direction Monthly roadmap session
What the retainer is
Reserved capacity, held for you whether or not you use all of it A prioritized backlog you set with us each quarter A written record of what was done and what it cost An agreed response time for incidents
What it is not
Unlimited support or an open-ended change budget Hourly staffing under a different name Cover for work that belongs in a new Build 24/7 on-call coverage

A month, in practice

WEEK 1 Backlog set

Priorities confirmed against the quarterly roadmap and anything urgent from last month.

WEEK 2–3 Delivery

Improvements shipped in small releases, with reliability work absorbed as it arises.

WEEK 4 Report

Where the hours went, what changed for users, what is queued next.

QUARTERLY Roadmap

A working session on outcomes, priorities and whether the tier still fits.

Already have a product that needs looking after?

We take on retainers for systems we did not build, after a short technical review to confirm we can support it responsibly.

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