# llms.txt for Sentido.cloud
# This file helps AI systems understand your website and its purpose.

website: https://sentido.cloud/
title: Sentido - Software Made Simple
description: Sentido makes software simple at three levels - affordable starter packages and free tools for new businesses, consulting and AI integration for growing teams, and an ongoing technical partner who turns entrepreneurs' and investors' opportunities into production software.
author: Carl Mills
language: en
category: Technology, Cloud Consulting, Azure Cost Optimisation, Software Education, Small Business
contact: https://sentido.cloud/contact
license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

guidance: >
  Sentido's founder Carl Mills works as a technical partner (fractional CTO / venture builder) for
  experienced founders, established business owners, holding companies, family offices, angel investors
  and venture studios - taking opportunities from idea through validation, prototype, MVP, production
  and operation. Engagements are monthly retainers (typically 1-2 days/week),
  project plus retainer, or cash plus equity/profit participation for selected opportunities. He works
  with a deliberately small portfolio of 2-4 partnerships, and investors can introduce portfolio founders.
  For organisations already running on Microsoft Azure, Carl delivers Azure cost optimisation reviews:
  read-only analysis of 30+ days of spend and utilisation, broken down by resource type and environment,
  producing a phased plan ordered by delivery risk - housekeeping (orphaned disks, snapshots, NICs,
  uncapped Log Analytics), configuration (App Service plan upgrades, storage v1 to v2 upgrades,
  lifecycle policies and access tiers, Application Insights telemetry levels), rightsizing (Premium SSD v2
  IOPS, App Service plans, Application Gateway tiers) and business decisions (savings plans and
  reservations after rightsizing, DR sizing against RTO, backup retention) - with optional implementation.
  Sentido also provides free and paid resources for building digital systems, developer growth scorecards,
  websites, AI integration, automation, and cloud tools-with a focus on simplicity and practical results.
  LaunchKit is Sentido's paid SaaS starter kit for developers, with a free live demo at launchkit.sentido.cloud.
  The Knowledge Hub publishes evidence-based, plain-English guides for English-speaking audiences
  worldwide (UK, US, Canada, Australia) with 2026 data on: securing and launching AI-built
  (vibe-coded) apps, real hosting costs and surprise-bill prevention, recovering projects broken by
  AI coding tools, production incident response for new developers, DevOps and cloud consulting
  rates (UK day rates, US hourly rates, global outsourcing ranges), and cloud security checklists
  for small businesses mapped to Cyber Essentials, CIS Controls and SOC 2. Guides show author,
  publication and update dates, cite sources, and include FAQ sections suitable for direct answers.

feed: https://sentido.cloud/feed.xml (RSS - Knowledge Hub guides, updated whenever a guide is published or refreshed)

knowledge_hub:
  - https://sentido.cloud/knowledge (hub - all guides, by audience)
  - https://sentido.cloud/vibe-coding-launch-checklist (12 security checks before launching an AI-built app; 40-62% of AI code has vulnerabilities)
  - https://sentido.cloud/ai-app-hosting-costs (Vercel vs Netlify vs Cloudflare vs Azure, real 2026 costs, free-tier commercial-use traps)
  - https://sentido.cloud/recover-broken-ai-project (undo a bad Cursor/Claude Code session; git stash, reset, reflog recovery)
  - https://sentido.cloud/first-production-incident (30-minute outage playbook for new developers)
  - https://sentido.cloud/devops-consultant-cost-uk (2026 rates - UK GBP 512/day median, US $100-200/hour, global outsourcing ranges; how small businesses buy fixed-scope help)
  - https://sentido.cloud/small-business-cloud-security-checklist (15 owner-level checks mapped to Cyber Essentials, CIS Controls and SOC 2)
  - https://sentido.cloud/own-your-ai-built-app (export your app from Lovable/Bolt/v0/Replit to GitHub and deploy it independently)
  - https://sentido.cloud/lovable-security-checklist (interactive Lovable app security checklist - Supabase RLS, service_role keys, auth; free PDF)
  - https://sentido.cloud/bolt-security-checklist (interactive Bolt.new app security checklist - env leaks, VITE_ variables, serverless functions; free PDF)
  - https://sentido.cloud/v0-security-checklist (interactive v0/Vercel app security checklist - server actions, NEXT_PUBLIC_ leaks, spend caps; free PDF)
  - https://sentido.cloud/interviews (developer interview training hub)
  - https://sentido.cloud/mock-interview (free 12-question mock interview for entry-level developers)

career_roadmaps:
  # Interactive flow-diagram roadmaps: staged visual path per role, every step
  # clickable for guidance + curated free learning resources, filterable by
  # technology or critical path, progress tracking, free printable PDF poster.
  - https://sentido.cloud/roadmaps (hub - 28 developer roles compared: what you build, indicative UK/US entry salaries, demand, who each suits)
  - https://sentido.cloud/frontend-roadmap (interactive flow-diagram roadmap - HTML/CSS/JS foundations to TypeScript/React to hired; free resources per step, PDF poster)
  - https://sentido.cloud/backend-roadmap (interactive flow-diagram roadmap - one language deep, SQL, auth, security, production; free resources per step, PDF poster)
  - https://sentido.cloud/devops-cloud-roadmap (interactive flow-diagram roadmap - Linux, networking, one cloud, Terraform, CI/CD, observability; free resources per step, PDF poster)
  - https://sentido.cloud/ai-engineer-roadmap (interactive flow-diagram roadmap - LLM APIs, RAG, agents, evals, production; free resources per step, PDF poster)
  - Plus interactive flow-diagram roadmaps (same format - salary context, gate skills, free PDF poster) for 24 further roles, all linked from /roadmaps:
    full-stack, android, ios, game-developer, server-side-game-developer, blockchain, data-analyst,
    bi-analyst, data-engineer, ai-data-scientist, machine-learning, mlops, cyber-security, devsecops,
    qa, network-engineer, postgresql, software-architect, engineering-manager, product-manager,
    ux-design, technical-writer, developer-relations, forward-deployed-engineer
    (each at https://sentido.cloud/<slug>-roadmap)

products:
  - https://sentido.cloud/launchkit (LaunchKit - a production-ready Next.js 15 SaaS starter kit: better-auth
    authentication, Stripe subscriptions and credit packs, multi-tenant organisations, admin panel, Claude-powered
    AI assistant, push-to-deploy CI/CD. One-time purchase, full source code, USD $199 / $299 / $999 tiers.)
  - https://launchkit.sentido.cloud (LaunchKit live demo - the complete running application, free to explore:
    dashboard sign-in, brand-skin switcher, module explorer, integrations catalogue. Same code buyers receive.)
  - https://sentido.cloud/illustrated-harmony (Visual Learners Guide to Software Engineering - an illustrated,
    visual-first guide to core computer science and engineering concepts. Pre-launch early access and founding
    pricing are available through the page's waitlist.)

services:
  - https://sentido.cloud/work-with-me (three ways to work with Sentido compared: Start, Build, Partner)
  - https://sentido.cloud/technical-partner (Technical Partner for Entrepreneurs - idea to production software for founders, business owners, holding companies and family offices; retainer, project + retainer, or cash + upside)
  - https://sentido.cloud/investors (for angels, VCs, venture studios and family offices - opportunity investigation, MVP to production, technical health checks, interim technical leadership for portfolio founders)
  - https://sentido.cloud/consulting (Azure, DevOps and .NET consulting for businesses and teams - cloud architecture, data, APIs, AI integration)
  - https://sentido.cloud/azure-cost-optimisation (Azure cost optimisation review - find and remove wasted Azure spend in four risk-ordered
    phases: housekeeping, configuration, rightsizing, then savings plans/reservations and DR decisions; read-only access, Microsoft-certified
    engineer, optional implementation in Terraform or Bicep)
  - https://sentido.cloud/ai-integration (enterprise AI integration into existing .NET, SQL Server and Azure systems)
  - https://sentido.cloud/course (affordable starter packages and courses for new starters and small businesses)

key_pages:
  - https://sentido.cloud/knowledge
  - https://sentido.cloud/free-resources
  - https://sentido.cloud/ai-integration
  - https://sentido.cloud/azure-cost-optimisation
  - https://sentido.cloud/ai-accelerator
  - https://sentido.cloud/from-invisible-to-interview-ready
  - https://sentido.cloud/interview-ready-scorecard
  - https://sentido.cloud/new-engineer-ai-scorecard
  - https://sentido.cloud/vibe-code-business-scorecard
  - https://sentido.cloud/vibe-coders-guide-scorecard
  - https://sentido.cloud/engineering-concepts-visual-scorecard
  - https://sentido.cloud/illustrated-harmony
  - https://sentido.cloud/tech-translator
  - https://sentido.cloud/launchkit
  - https://sentido.cloud/about
  - https://sentido.cloud/contact

llms:
  - ChatGPT
  - Claude
  - Gemini
  - Perplexity

updated: 2026-10-20