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Croft Client App Hosting Sprint (5-7 days)

A five to seven day delivery sprint that stands up one client's AI-built app on Croft's private server, wires monitoring and MCP diagnostics, and hands over a documented hosting layer the agency can bill against a retainer. Time: 5-7 days.

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Croft Client App Hosting Sprint (5-7 days)

A five to seven day delivery sprint that stands up one client's AI-built app on Croft's private server, wires monitoring and MCP diagnostics, and hands over a documented hosting layer the agency can bill against a retainer.

Prerequisites
  • Client app already built by chatting with Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor and confirmed to run on Croft's runtime
  • A Croft Solo ($24/month) or Team ($99/month) subscription provisioned before day one
  • Client's external tool credentials ready for one connector, such as Stripe or HubSpot
  • Named agency contact who owns alert escalation and client communication during the sprint
  • Written scope naming the single app, its connector, and the monitoring surfaces in play
Execution Timeline
  • 1.Deploy the client's AI-built app to Croft's private server and confirm the runtime starts clean
  • 2.Verify error auto-grouping, response-time profiling, and 7-day log search return data on a test failure
  • 3.Record baseline throughput and failure-rate charts for the handover doc
  • 1.Connect the client's AI assistant to Croft over MCP so it can read errors, metrics, and logs
  • 2.Run one deliberate failure and confirm the assistant surfaces the grouped error with its stack trace
  • 3.Note any MCP scoping limits that affect which team members can query diagnostics
  • 1.Wire the agreed external connector (Stripe or HubSpot) into the deployed app
  • 2.Confirm shared data flows between the client's Croft apps where the plan allows it
  • 3.Test slow SQL tracking against one real query the app runs in production
  • 1.Configure alert emails and health checks for the client's on-call recipient list
  • 2.Set roles and permissions on the Team plan if more than one client staffer will touch the app
  • 3.Document the escalation path from Croft alert to agency responder
  • 1.Run a full failure drill: break the app, let Croft group the error, and have the AI assistant propose a fix
  • 2.Confirm automatic backups and zero-downtime deploys behave as expected on a redeploy
  • 3.Capture screenshots of the monitoring dashboard for the client-facing runbook
  • 1.Train the client on the Croft dashboard basics: logs, errors, alerts, and response-time views
  • 2.Hand over the runbook and the MCP setup notes so their assistant can keep diagnosing
  • 3.Agree the retainer scope for ongoing monitoring and escalation
  • 1.Close out the sprint with a written monitoring baseline and open-issue list
  • 2.Confirm the client can share the app with their intended users within plan limits
  • 3.Schedule the first monthly review against Croft's 7-day log retention window
$24/month Solo or $99/month Team, plus 20 hours of agency setup billed at the agency's own rate5-7 days
ROI Logic

The tool cost is $24/month on Solo or $99/month on Team, so a single client retainer covers the subscription many times over once the sprint is billed. The margin comes from the 20 hours of setup and the recurring monitoring retainer, not from reselling the seat. Agencies that stack three or four client apps on one Team plan spread the $99 across the book and keep the delivery hours as the real revenue line.

Deliverables
  • Client app running on Croft's private server with error grouping, logs, and alerts live
  • MCP connection so the client's AI assistant can read errors, metrics, and logs
  • Monitoring runbook covering alert routing, escalation, and the 7-day log window
  • Connector integration notes for the wired Stripe or HubSpot tool
  • Retainer scope document for ongoing Croft monitoring and escalation
Definition of Done

The client's AI-built app runs on Croft, a deliberate failure is grouped and diagnosed through MCP by the client's own assistant, and the client has signed the monitoring retainer.

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