Tekton
Your Databricks, built right and kept right.
Tekton builds and manages your Databricks platform on Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, with security and cost controls in place from day one. Your team approves every change, and the platform stays yours.
- Controls in place from day one
- Every change approved and recorded
- Spend with an owner
PLATFORM INSIGHTS
ILLUSTRATIVE
Environments
Development
in line
Production
private
Weekly assessment
41
passed
3
to review
1
unknown
Daily drift check · 06:00
Daily drift check · 06:00
YOUR CALL
A storage setting changed outside the approved process. Keep it or undo it? Nothing changes until an owner decides.
Budget · 14:12
ALERT
Finance reached 80% of its monthly budget. The spending approver has been notified.
New team · 09:40
READY
Data Science has its own space. Catalog, access and budget are set up to your standards and approved.
Release · 11:05
VERIFIED
A production change was applied and read back. 12 checks passed. 1 couldn’t be confirmed, so it’s flagged for review.
Spend by project · month to date
Budget alert at 80% · next assessment Monday
One system, five specialties
- Cloud & network
- Security & identity
- Data governance
- Safe delivery
- Cost & operations
Where you start
There is no single starting line. Start from where you are.
Some teams are setting up Databricks for the first time. Others inherited a platform nobody fully understands. Wherever you are today, there’s a clear first step.
01 · LAUNCH
We need to build it right.
Getting started
02 · ADOPT
What did we inherit?
Already live
03 · SCALE
How do we grow safely?
Many teams
04 · OPTIMIZE
What should we improve?
Mature platform
01 · Launch · Build confidently
Day one shouldn’t become year three’s problem.
Go from a cloud account to a governed Databricks platform, ready for its first real workload. Tekton puts the security, access and controls in place from the start, so you aren’t assembling each piece by hand. Start small with a serverless setup and add more as your needs grow.
What you get
A governed platform, ready for the first real workload.
What Tekton takes care of
- Separate development and production environments, with private connections for production
- Secure storage, encryption and service identities between your cloud and Databricks
- Data catalogs, ownership, groups and permissions set up once, consistently
- A reviewed, step-by-step path for every change, plus budgets and alerts
02 · Adopt · Regain clarity
Already live? See it clearly before anything changes.
Tekton starts read-only. It maps your workspaces, catalogs, access and billing into a clear, evidence-backed picture, including the things it couldn’t confirm. Then you decide what to keep and what to fix. Adoption is a conversation, not a takeover.
What you get
A clear view of what you have, and a reviewed plan for what to change.
What Tekton takes care of
- See what exists: workspaces, identities, catalogs and access
- An assessment of security, access and usage, with owners for each issue
- Unknowns shown as unknowns, never guessed
- Keep what works, fix what matters, with a plan you approve first
03 · Scale · Empower teams
Each team gets its own lane. The company keeps the guardrails.
Turn central platform work into a repeatable way to bring on new teams and projects. Risk, Finance, Operations or Data Science each get their own space, with shared standards and clear ownership. Releases follow the same safe path every time.
What you get
Repeatable onboarding, without giving up control.
What Tekton takes care of
- A catalog, access and budget for each team or project
- Short-lived credentials for releases, instead of long-lived keys
- Policy checks and a human approval before production
- A clear record of every release and its result
04 · Optimize · Improve with proof
Make cost decisions on evidence, not promises.
As your platform grows, Tekton links spend to projects and owners, finds idle resources and spend nobody owns, and builds fair before-and-after comparisons. Nothing changes until your team decides.
What you get
Accountable spend and decisions you can back up.
What Tekton takes care of
- Spend broken down by project and accountable team
- Idle projects, unused catalogs and spend with no owner
- Native budgets and alerts in Databricks
- Savings options with their risks, compared like for like
You don’t have to go through the stages in order. Start with the problem you have today.
How it works
Your platform keeps changing. Its controls keep up.
Every change follows the same six steps, whether we’re setting up your platform or looking after it afterwards. Tekton does the engineering. Your team keeps the decisions.
The Tekton cycle: discover, assess, decide, plan and apply, verify, monitor, with your team’s decision at the centre.
01
Discover
Tekton reads what exists today, without changing anything.
Look first
02
Assess
It checks security, access, cost and gaps, and says plainly what it couldn’t confirm.
Find the gaps
03
Decide
Your team chooses what to keep, change or leave alone. Each owner gets one clear request.
You decide
04
Plan + apply
Tekton prepares a plan you can review. Only a confirmed plan is applied.
Change safely
05
Verify
It reads the result back and records what passed, and what it can’t prove.
Prove it
06
Monitor
Daily checks catch any change made outside the approved process, and a weekly assessment looks wider. Then the cycle starts again.
Stay in line
Built for trust
Tekton prepares the change. Your team authorizes it.
The safeguards are built into the software. They don’t depend on someone remembering to be careful.
01
Look before touching
Discovery is read-only. It can’t quietly change anything in your environment.
02
Review every plan
Every change is checked, classified by risk and laid out for review before it happens.
03
Name every decision
A person confirms the exact change. Deleting or replacing anything needs explicit sign-off.
04
Check honestly after
Verification records what passed, and what it couldn’t prove, so gaps stay visible.
On the record
Every change leaves a record: what was planned, who approved it, and what happened.
Cost and accountability
As Databricks grows, spend needs an owner.
Tekton links platform usage to projects, teams and budgets, and finds the spend nobody owns. When you want to go further, it builds the evidence for savings decisions step by step, and you make the call.
Spend by owner · illustrative
19% of spend has no owner
- Risk38%
- Finance25%
- Operations18%
- Data Science0%
- No owner19%
Tekton traces spend nobody owns back to a team, and your team confirms it.
42, 30, 21, 4, 3
Owners found for {found}% of spend
Owners found for {found}% of spend. {left}% left to review.
01
Approved evidence
Read-only cost data you choose to share
02
A fair baseline
Cost, coverage and what’s still unknown
03
Options to review
Candidates, with their risks and limits
04 · Your call
Authorized change
A separate decision before anything runs
05
Like-for-like after
Unit cost and service compared fairly
No automatic workload changes · No promised savings figures · If the evidence is unclear, we say so
Put the savings to work.
Money Tekton helps you find on the platform can fund the next business use case, delivered with Praxis.
Tekton
→
Savings
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Praxis
The Overstand system
A governed platform is only half the story.
Tekton gets your Databricks platform ready, governed and easy to maintain. Praxis builds on it, turning approved business goals into finished, tested work you can prove.
Together they cover the whole Databricks journey, from the first cloud account to business results, and each keeps its own clear job.
Praxis
Business results
From business goal to proven result
Tekton
The platform
Ready, governed and maintainable
Databricks
Your data platform
On Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
What’s included
Everything a governed platform needs, in place.
Whether we start from a new cloud account or a platform you already run, this is what Tekton sets up and keeps checking.
- Separate environmentsDevelopment and production, each with its own network, storage and controls
- Private productionPrivate connections for the production environment
- Secured storageEncryption, service identities and controlled access between your cloud and Databricks
- Central governanceCatalogs, ownership, group permissions and workspace isolation
- Controlled deliveryReviewed changes, approval gates, and planning kept apart from release
- Problems fixed properlyDeployment issues diagnosed, fixed and tested before release
- Cost visibilityAssessments, budget alerts and an Insights dashboard
- Drift handledChanges made outside the process are found, and your team decides what stays
Working with us
Your platform should outlast the engagement.
Our team uses Tekton to set up or repair your platform, with your approval at every step. After that, you choose how it’s looked after. Either way, it runs on your own cloud and Databricks, whether Tekton is there or not.
First · We set it up
Our engineers brief Tekton. Your team makes the calls.
We gather what’s needed, coordinate approvals and run Tekton for you. Your team decides anything that matters: access, spending and what goes to production.
We own delivery and coordinate resolution within our agreed scope.
- Assess
- Set up
- Hand over or manage
See how our engineers brief Tekton
See the engineer brief
How our engineers brief Tekton
ILLUSTRATIVE
@tekton Set up Databricks on AWS with separate development and production environments, secure networking and storage, data governance and an Insights dashboard. Agree the budget and approval limits with the client first.
Before I build, these need an owner: regions, network ranges, access groups and budget limits. I’ve sent each team one request.
Plan ready for review: 2 environments, private networking for production, governed catalogs and budget alerts.
Then · You choose what happens next
Option A · Handover
YOU RUN IT
We hand it over and step away
- Your platform, plus a guide to running it
- Tekton’s workflows switched off and our access removed
- Your team runs Databricks directly, with nothing of ours to depend on
- Come back any time: Tekton finds what changed, and you decide what to keep
Option B · Managed platform
TEKTON STAYS ON
Tekton keeps looking after it
- Daily drift checks and a weekly assessment
- Approved changes and maintenance, through the same approval gates
- Spend tracked by team, with budget alerts and cost reviews
- Only the access you agree to, and nothing more
Either way, nothing changes without your approval.
Questions
What leaders ask us first.
Does Tekton stay on after setup?
Only if you want it to. Choose a Handover, where we step away, or a Managed platform, where Tekton keeps looking after it. Both options are set out above.
How quickly can we start?
Start with a conversation about where you are today. Tekton’s first step is read-only: it looks at what you have, or what you need, without changing anything. From there we agree a plan and a timeline with you up front. How long the rest takes depends on your starting point and how quickly the key decisions can be made on your side.
What stops a bad change from reaching production?
Approval gates are enforced by the software. Tekton confirms that every change matches a reviewed, authorized plan, and deleting or replacing anything needs explicit sign-off. Testing, permissions and good review still matter, so we set those up with you. Every infrastructure change goes through Terraform, the industry-standard tool your engineers already know.
What if someone changes something outside the process?
A daily check compares your platform with its approved design, and a weekly assessment looks wider. Findings arrive as issues for your team. Tekton reports the change and doesn’t undo it on its own. Your team decides what to keep, and any fix goes through the normal approvals. These are scheduled checks, not real-time monitoring.
Is there a record of what was changed and who approved it?
Yes. Tekton keeps the configuration history, the reviewed plans, approvals, results and verification checks. For regulated organizations, we agree on how long records are kept and where they’re archived as part of the engagement.
Which clouds does it work with?
Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. Tekton needs access to the cloud services it sets up, so it isn’t designed for fully offline environments.
What do we need to have ready?
We recommend a white-glove start: we prepare the setup, spot what’s missing and coordinate approvals. You provide:
- Your cloud and Databricks accounts, and a code repository
- A platform owner, a security contact, an identity administrator and someone who approves spending
- Decisions on regions, environments, access and data residency
- Budgets, alert recipients and approval limits
- Who looks after the platform once it’s live
We do the preparation. The legal, security and spending authority stays with you.
Book a demo
Where are you on the journey?
Start with the platform you have. Build the one your business needs. Tell us where you are, and we’ll show you what Tekton does with it.