Teams that need a migration or a cost review, before they search for one.
Kateion gives DevOps, migration and FinOps consultancies a weekly list of companies publicly facing a problem they can solve: a cloud bill that jumped, an outage, a deprecated service or a forced move. Each entry links to the post and explains what happened and why the timing matters.
Free for one week, then from €500 a month. Cancel any time.
Moments we watch for
Bill shock
Deprecation deadline
Forced migration
Repeated outages
Database or runtime end of life
Asking for help
The problem
The best consulting clients announce their problem before they look for a consultant.
A company that just learned its database version reaches end of life in ninety days, or that its bill tripled overnight, needs specialist hands now. Most will first ask peers in public what to do.
Consultancies usually find these clients through referrals, weeks later. Kateion shows you the moment the problem is posted, with enough context to open with something useful.
What you receive
A public post becomes a checked lead, with the evidence attached.
Every entry in your weekly list looks like the card on the right. You read the post yourself, so you know exactly what the company said before you reach out.
BH
Brightwell Health@brightwell_dev
Just found out our managed Postgres version is end of life in 90 days and the upgrade path breaks two of our extensions. Small team, no DBA. Fun times.
Post on X · public
Deprecation78
Brightwell Health
Why now
Hard deadline in 90 days; no in-house DBA
Who
Company account with website
Evidence
Link to the original post
Checked
By a person, before delivery
Example with an invented company. Real lists link to real public posts.
The solution
Find, verify, deliver. Every week.
1
Every day
Find
Kateion watches X, the open web and public forums for businesses at a moment: a price change, an outage, a deprecation, a hire, or a plain “what should we use instead?”.
2
Every post
Verify
Each post is read and scored for fit, timing, intent and confidence. Consumers, jokes and anonymous accounts are dropped. A person checks what is left.
3
Every week
Deliver
You get one short list a week, on the same day. Every entry has the link to the post, why it matters now, and how we know who it is.
Who uses this feed
Cloud migration specialists
DevOps and platform engineering firms
FinOps and cost-optimisation firms
Database and SRE consultancies
What each entry contains
Field
Example
Company
Brightwell Health
Moment
Deprecation
Why now
Hard deadline in 90 days; no in-house DBA
Identity
Company account with website
Evidence
Link to the public post
The rules we work by
Clean by design, so you can use it with a clear conscience.
Public posts only. Only what a business wrote about itself, in public. No private data, no bought lists.
Link, don’t copy. Every entry links to the original post. We quote a line at most.
A person at every contact. Nothing is sent automatically, by us or for you. People write to people.
Removed on request, same day. Anyone can ask to be taken out, and every buyer is asked to honour it.
Moments with a deadline or a cost attached: bill shock, deprecations and end-of-life dates, forced platform moves, repeated outages and teams asking for outside help.
Are these companies or individual developers?
We drop consumers and hobby projects and keep businesses we can identify from what they made public. Every entry says how we know who it is.
How should I reach out?
Under your own name, with one useful point about their problem and no hard pitch. A public reply with genuine advice often works better than a cold email.
What does it cost?
One week free, then from €500 a month. Cancel any time.
Which deadlines and deprecations do you watch?
Runtime and database versions reaching end of life, platform features being shut down, forced plan changes and free tiers being removed: anything that forces a team to move on a date.
Do you find FinOps leads too?
Yes. Teams posting that their cloud bill jumped, or asking how to cut it, are included when they look like businesses that would pay for help.
Can I choose the technologies I specialise in?
Yes. Tell us your stack, for example Kubernetes, Postgres or one particular cloud, and we tune the search so the list matches the work you take on.
How many leads will I get each week?
It depends on what teams post that week, and we only send leads a person has checked. The one-week pilot shows you the real volume for your niche before you pay anything.
Do you contact the companies for us?
No. You decide whether and how to reach out, under your own name, with something genuinely useful. Nothing is ever sent to a business automatically.
Does a person check every lead?
Yes. Software finds and scores candidates, then a person reviews each one. Only leads marked good go into your list, and nothing is ever sent to a business automatically.
What is in each lead?
The company, the moment it is in, why now, how we know who it is, and the link to its own public post, so you can read the evidence before you reach out.
Can I cancel any time?
Yes. The pilot ends by itself. After that you are billed monthly in advance and can cancel at the end of any month, with no notice period.
What if my market is not listed?
Ask for a custom feed. Tell us who you sell to and what makes a company ready to buy from you, and we will investigate what is publicly out there and propose a plan and price.
Kateion uses no Google Analytics, no pixels and no advertising or tracking software. We only see what Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools report about searches, which needs nothing in your browser.