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Deployments for the team where one person wears the DevOps hat.

If your release process is two people, a hand-drawn diagram, and a shell script nobody admits to maintaining - Jaws Deploy is built for that team. Real environments, real release history, zero platform team required.

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The team we built this for

You are probably the person reading this because you are the deployment person. There is no separate platform team. There is no internal developer platform group. There is just a small group of engineers who all secretly believe they are the one keeping production alive on Friday afternoons.

That team does not need a 90-page architecture diagram. It needs a deployment tool that pays for itself in the first sprint and gets out of the way.

What the first week actually looks like

This matters more than the feature checklist. Most platforms describe what's possible at month six. Here is what a real small team gets done in the first five working days.

The first five days

Day 1 - signup to first deployment Create a workspace, install one agent on a staging box, create a project, deploy a hello-world package. Realistically: 45 minutes.

Day 2 - model your environments Add Dev, Staging, Production. Tag your existing servers. Move the connection string out of your script into a scoped variable. Cry a little. Continue.

Day 3 - first real release Hook your existing CI to call the Jaws Deploy API after a successful build. Create a release. Deploy it to Staging. Watch the live log instead of refreshing a CI tab.

Day 4-5 - promotion and rollback Promote that exact release to Production. Realize you can deploy the previous release with one click. Sleep better on Friday.

What you stop owning

The pitch is not "new features". It is "things that used to be your problem are now somebody else's problem." That is the small-team value proposition.

// Stuff that stops being on your plate

The maintenance tax disappears

The custom deployment script - Jaws Deploy steps replace 80% of it. The remaining 20% lives in a versioned step template, not a deploy.ps1 nobody reviews.
The artifact server - the built-in package feed is just there. No second service to monitor, patch, or apologize for.
The 'which version is in staging?' question - the deployment history answers it in two clicks.
The rollback procedure - re-deploy the previous release. There is no procedure. That is the procedure.
The audit trail - every deployment leaves a record. When somebody asks 'who deployed what when', you have an answer that does not start with 'let me grep CI logs'.

// Pricing reality check

We did the math so you don't have to argue with finance.

Small teams get murdered by per-target pricing. Jaws Deploy's plans are flat at the small end: a free tier that is actually usable, then a single Professional plan that includes a useful machine count. You will not get to month two and discover the bill scales with the number of pods.

Free tier covers proving the workflow with a real project.
Professional plan covers most small teams permanently.
No per-target tax. No 'platform fee'. No enterprise-only features you actually need.

What stays in your control

The risk with any deployment platform is the lock-in conversation six months in. We have opinions about this, and they show up in the product.

// Owned by you

The deployment definition

Steps, variables, secrets, environments - all editable, exportable, scriptable. Want to spin up a clone for testing? The REST API is right there.

// Owned by us

The control plane

We host it, we update it, we keep it alive. If you ever need it on your own infrastructure, Jaws Deploy Stack is the same product, self-hosted. No migration.

The shape that scales

The single best thing about starting with Jaws Deploy as a three-person team is what happens at thirty people. The model does not break. The environments you defined on Day 2 still work. The release process you set up still works. New team members read the deployment history and learn how things ship, instead of asking the one person who remembers.

That is the bet - that the workflow you build now should not be the one you replace at scale.

// What this is not

It is not an internal developer platform. It is not a Kubernetes management plane.

Some products in this space try to be your entire infrastructure layer. Jaws Deploy is a deployment automation tool. It does deployments very well, talks nicely to everything else, and lets you build the rest of your stack the way you want. The narrowness is the point.

If you need Kubernetes operators and service mesh management, this is not that product.
If you need a way to make 'deploy this artifact to that environment' boring and reliable - that's our entire job.

A short and honest list of who should not buy this

To respect your time:

// We are not the right tool when

Be honest about fit before the trial

Your team has zero servers and ships everything as a single GitHub Actions workflow to a single PaaS. CI is enough. Save your money.
You need a full GitOps controller that reconciles cluster state from a repo. Different shape of problem.
Your deployment requirements include orchestrating thousands of microservices across multiple clouds with traffic-shifting. We are good. We are not that product.
You enjoy maintaining your bash deployment script. That is a real preference and we respect it.

How to evaluate this in an hour

Spin up a free workspace. Connect it to a project you already ship. Do one real deployment to a non-production environment. That is the entire evaluation.

If it took longer than an hour, tell us where it broke - we genuinely want to know. The small-team experience is what we measure most carefully.