TechEquity RAD · For Independent Professionals
Ship Like
a Team
of Ten.
Production-grade Google Cloud infrastructure,
deployed by one person in an afternoon.
You already know what to build. RAD removes the part that never made it onto the invoice —
writing the same Terraform for the same database, the same ingress, the same secrets and the
same CI wiring, on every engagement. Pick the application, choose the project, deploy.
You keep the infrastructure, the state and the client.
190+ Applications
Cloud Run & GKE
Your GCP Project
300 Free Credits
190+
Applications in the catalogue
The infrastructure was never the billable part. Stop building it twice.
Your Rate Is Fixed.
Your Setup Time Isn't.
An independent professional sells hours. Every hour spent on infrastructure that is identical
across clients is an hour sold at a discount — and the discount compounds, because the same
work recurs on the next engagement, and the one after that.
3
Typical days to stand up
a production-shaped stack by hand
~20 min
RAD build time for the
same deployment
$2
What those 20 minutes
cost you in credits
The work is real, but it is not differentiated. A managed database, a private
network, an ingress with TLS, secrets that are not in the repository, a build pipeline, sane
IAM. Every client needs it. No client will pay a premium for it, because it looks identical
to what the last supplier delivered.
Where the hours actually go
Day one
Project, billing, APIs, IAM. Enabling services, sorting out
who can deploy what, and discovering which org policy blocks the thing you need at the
worst possible moment.
Day two
The application's actual infrastructure. Terraform for the
database, cache, storage, network and ingress. Most of it copied from your last project,
then edited until the provider stops complaining.
Day three
Everything that only shows up under load. Certificates,
health checks, restart policies, log routing, the memory limit that was fine in staging.
Every engagement
All of it again, for a different client, in a different
project, with a slightly different opinion about naming.
What this costs a solo practice
Three days of unbilled or under-billed setup on a two-week engagement is roughly
30% of the delivery window spent on work no client selected you for. On a
fixed-price contract it comes straight out of margin.
Why the usual answers don't fit
A platform team is not an option for one person. A managed PaaS solves the deployment but
takes the infrastructure — and the client relationship that comes with it. A personal
Terraform library helps until the provider version moves.
A Catalogue You Deploy From,
Not a Platform You Move Onto.
RAD deploys real Terraform into a real Google Cloud project. It is not a hosting layer, it does
not proxy your traffic, and it does not sit between you and your client's cloud bill. What it
removes is the authoring, not the ownership.
Step 01
Choose the application
190+ applications and platform modules, most available as both a Cloud Run and a GKE variant.
Step 02
Choose the project
Your own GCP project, your client's, or a RAD-managed one.
Step 03
Answer what matters
Basic mode asks only the mandatory variables. Advanced exposes everything.
Step 04
Deploy
Terraform applies, outputs land in your hands, roughly 20 minutes later.
Your project
Bring your own GCP project. Your billing account, your
organisation's policies, the full region list. RAD deploys into it and steps back. The
client's cloud spend never touches RAD.
RAD-managed
No Google Cloud account needed. RAD creates a guardrailed
project with a spending cap and a policy set, in one of eight geographies. Ideal for a
demo, a proof of concept, or a client who has not opened a cloud account yet.
No lock-in, by construction. Every deployment is Terraform. The state lives in
Cloud Storage, the outputs are yours, and a deployment that RAD created keeps running exactly
as it is if you never sign in again.
Basic or Advanced
Basic asks only the variables a deployment cannot
proceed without, and charges build time alone. Advanced
opens the full variable set and adds the module fee. Start in Basic; move to Advanced when a
client needs the knobs.
Eight geographies
RAD-managed projects place resources in the cheapest verified region on each continent —
including africa-south1, the only African region — so data residency and
latency are a menu choice rather than a migration.
A sample of the catalogue
PostgreSQL
Ghost
Keycloak
Gitea
n8n
Matomo
Directus
Elasticsearch
Outline
Ollama
LiteLLM
OpenWebUI
Zammad
Documenso
Appsmith
Plane
RAGFlow
Uptime Kuma
Snipe-IT
EspoCRM
Redis
Shlink
Synapse
+ 158 more
Catalogue as at August 2026 — 350+ deployment options across 190+ applications and platform modules, most published in both Cloud Run and GKE variants.
Priced in Credits,
Metered Like a Utility.
Ten credits cost one dollar. You are charged for build time actually consumed, plus a module fee
in Advanced mode. There is no seat licence, no minimum term, and nothing to cancel if you stop
deploying for three months.
300
Credits at signup
$30 of deployments before you enter a payment method — enough for roughly a dozen Basic
deploys, or a full multi-module solution.
100
Credits every month
$10 a month, awarded whether or not you spend anything. Awarded credits refresh monthly;
they do not accumulate.
∞
Purchased credits never expire
Credits you buy stay yours indefinitely. Buy for a project this quarter and spend them
on the next one.
| Charge | Applies to | Credits | USD |
|---|
| Build time | Every deployment, metered per hour of actual build | 60/hr | $6.00/hr |
| Module fee — S | Advanced mode · 70 modules | 40 | $4.00 |
| Module fee — M | Advanced mode · 86 modules | 75 | $7.50 |
| Module fee — L | Advanced mode · 102 modules | 110 | $11.00 |
| Module fee — XL | Advanced mode · 57 modules | 175 | $17.50 |
| Module fee — XXL | Advanced mode · 27 modules | 300 | $30.00 |
A typical Basic deploy is about 20 minutes of build — 20 credits, or $2.
The same application in Advanced mode adds its band fee. A mid-band application deployed with
the full variable set therefore costs around $9.50 all-in, once.
| Plan | Per month | Credits | Effective rate | Saving |
|---|
| Pay as you go | — | — | $0.1000 | — |
| Starter | $20 | 210 | $0.0952 | 4.8% |
| Pro | $75 | 825 | $0.0909 | 9.1% |
| Business | $250 | 2,875 | $0.0870 | 13.0% |
| Scale | $600 | 7,500 | $0.0800 | 20.0% |
Subscription credits are purchased credits and roll over. Pay-as-you-go top-ups are always available at the standard rate; a plan is a discount, not a gate.
Three Ways RAD Pays You Back,
Not Just Three Ways It Saves You Time.
The time saving is the obvious argument. The less obvious one is that RAD gives an independent
professional two revenue lines that normally require a company behind you.
- Setup measured in minutes of build time rather than days of authoring
- The same stack, reproducibly, for every client
- Quote fixed-price with confidence, because the variable part is gone
More of the engagement spent on what the client hired you for.
- Publish your own Terraform module into the RAD catalogue
- Earn 25% of the revenue every time someone deploys it
- You set the module's fee band; you keep the repository
The niche integration you have built five times becomes an asset.
- 15% agent commission on the accounts you introduce
- 10 credits per successful referral, up to 10 referrals
- No exclusivity, no quota, no reseller agreement to sign
Recurring income from clients you were going to advise anyway.
When you would rather not do it yourself
Assisted deployment — Cloud Run · $500
Our engineers configure and deploy the module with you, on your project, and hand over a
working environment. Priced as a fixed service fee, separate from credits.
Assisted deployment — GKE · $1,500
The same, for a Kubernetes-based deployment where cluster shape, networking and workload
identity need deliberate decisions rather than defaults.
Start without talking to anyone. Sign up, take the 300 credits, and deploy
something real into a project you control. If it does not save you a day on your next
engagement, you have spent nothing.
01
Create an account
300 credits, no payment method, no sales call. Deploy your first module the same day.
radmodules.dev →
02
Publish your module
Bring a Terraform module you already maintain and earn 25% of what it makes.
sales@techequity.cloud →