Ship in days.Not quarters.
One framework. Every golden path your platform team needs to stop rebuilding from scratch. Prove it to yourself below.
estimated savings
your current approach vs. scaffold
time to ship
15 wks
platform overhead
$900K
pain points
- × Terraform module drift
- × Custom Backstage plugins
- × Org-wide golden path rework
time to ship
6 days
platform overhead
$0
what you get
- ✓ One-command golden paths
- ✓ IDP scaffold in hours
- ✓ Zero plugin maintenance
// problem → solution
The exact problems
you're already living.
You're maintaining six Backstage plugins nobody wants to own.
Every new service needs a plugin. Plugins break on Backstage upgrades. The engineer who wrote them left. Now it's your problem at 11 PM.
One config file. Zero plugins to own.
Scaffold ships a composable IDP layer that reads your existing service catalog. No plugin authoring, no version lock-in, no 11 PM pages.
Every new team rebuilds the same golden path from scratch.
Payments team did it in Q1. Auth team did it again in Q2. Now Infra is doing it for the third time. The golden path is 47 Slack messages and a Notion doc nobody updates.
Golden paths that actually propagate.
Define once in Scaffold. Every team inherits the path. When you update the standard, every service gets the diff — no Slack threads required.
Developer productivity is flat while headcount climbs.
You added 30 engineers last year. DORA metrics didn't move. Each new hire inherits the same broken toolchain. Onboarding takes three weeks and ends with a ticket to the platform team.
DORA metrics — last 4 quarters
deploy freq: flat
Day-one productivity. Self-serve infrastructure.
New hires run `scaffold init` and have a running service in 20 minutes. Platform team stops being a bottleneck. DORA metrics move within the first sprint.
// feature comparison
How Scaffold stacks up against
what you're already evaluating.
No hand-wavy claims. Feature-by-feature, methodology linked below.
| Feature | Scaffold this page | Backstage Spotify OSS | Humanitec commercial | DIY / Glue your current |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero-config golden paths | ✓ | ✕ | partial | ✕ |
| Setup time | < 1 day | 4–8 weeks | 2–4 weeks | 12+ weeks |
| Plugin maintenance burden¹ | none | high | medium | extreme |
| Self-serve developer onboarding | ✓ | partial | ✓ | ✕ |
| Multi-cloud IaC abstraction | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Golden path versioning | ✓ | ✕ | partial | ✕ |
| Built-in DORA metrics | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Upgrade path managed | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Estimated annual overhead² | $0 | $180K+ | $120K+ | $340K+ |
¹ Plugin maintenance burden measured by avg eng-hours/month to keep toolchain current across major version upgrades. Methodology →
² Annual overhead includes eng time for maintenance, upgrades, and onboarding at $180K blended eng cost. How we calculated this →
// real teams. real deploys.
The numbers after the clean build.
2,400+
services scaffolded
across production orgs
340+
platform teams
using golden paths
9 days
avg. time to ship
down from 14 weeks
4.7×
deploy freq lift
median DORA improvement
We onboarded 12 new services in a single sprint. Before Scaffold, that would've taken the platform team the entire quarter.
Marcus Osei
Staff Platform Engineer · Meridian Financial
I killed our entire Backstage plugin backlog in two days. Zero regressions. The team stopped paging me about plugin failures.
Priya Krishnamurthy
SRE Lead · CloudBridge Labs
Engineering VP asked why deploy frequency tripled. Answer: platform team stopped being the bottleneck.
Tobias Reinholt
Principal SRE · Nordstern Systems
integrates with the stack you already run
// open source quickstart
Stop rebuilding.
Start shipping.
Free forever for open-source teams. Enterprise support available. No email gate on the tool — just scaffold init and you're running.
From npm install to first production deploy: 20 minutes.