What a Fleet Platform Costs

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:00:00 +0200

The last article said you need a DevOps engineer, in-house or freelance. Before you take that to your CEO, you need to know what it costs.

You must be able to tell him how long he should pay this person before seeing any result. In this article, we will dive into this.

We previously listed five topics a fleet platform gives you: speed, control, visibility, security and compliance.

Figure 1. The same three robots at every stage, with one capability added each time. Before, nobody knows what is running on any of them. By the end, the fleet is reachable, reporting, protected and auditable. The pips under each name are the months that stage takes.

What the five steps cost

Step	What you can do once it’s done	Effort	Who carries it
Speed	Rebuild any version on demand, install it with one command	A month	An engineer you already have, part time
Control	Reach every site remotely, change the robot app there by editing Git, ship a versioned OS image, roll either back	3 to 6 months	Full time
Visibility	See a robot degrading before the customer phones	3 months	Full time
Security	Only builds you approved run; revoke one key remotely	6 months	Full time
Compliance	Answer what ran where, and when from your office	3 months	Full time

Step 1 is small enough to start without approving a budget. You just need pipelines turn green. For that, you need to understand how to build the software and train employees to use the CI/CD workflow.

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What a Fleet Platform Costs

What the five steps cost