Approxee
The virtual F5 contractor

Your F5 contractor, on subscription.

Approxee is a virtual F5 contractor. You subscribe, you send your requests: builds, WAF/ASM policies, upgrades, provisioning and troubleshooting. And they get done properly, with everything documented.

How Approxee works: you queue requests; Approxee, your virtual F5 contractor, works them across your F5 environments and delivers each one configured, verified and documented.
A deliberate constraint: Approxee serves a maximum of three subscribing clients. Quality doesn't scale, so we don't pretend it does.
What Approxee is

The expert pair of hands you route work to.

F5 Certified Solution Expert (401) F5 certified since 2012 OWASP Member 30+ years application experience 100+ contracts in 10 years Ready to go next day
The engineer

A 401-certified F5 engineer, on subscription.

Your requests are executed one at a time. Each one is logged and documented. Start in days, not after an 8-week hiring cycle. Pause and return as needed and as projects dictate.

Your control

Expert hands, on your terms.

You keep ownership of your estate and set the priorities. Approxee is the senior pair of hands that executes each request, finishes it, and documents it.

How it works

Three steps, and the work gets done.

Subscribe

Pick the bundle that matches your requirements, then subscribe through your preferred agency or supplier, on the procurement channel you already use. Monthly, or commit longer for less. No new vendor to onboard, no recruitment, no interviews.

Pass work in

Work with Approxee just as you would an existing contractor. Pass work in the way that suits you: RDI, RDP, email, a call, Teams or Slack. BAU changes, architecture or project delivery all sit in one queue, on your priorities, reorder any time.

Work gets done

Queue as many requests as you like, there's no limit. Approxee works one at a time, each one finished, verified, and documented back to you.

Subscription bundles

Four bundles. Each higher bundle includes everything in the previous one.

Prices shown are the monthly rate. Commit longer to pay less; full pricing (monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly) is on the Subscription Services page.

SDR
Standard Delivery & Reporting
LTM
£12,150 /mo
Standard 6-month rate · or £13,500 monthly
LTM + Network and System
  • Project / Design Work
  • Operational Work
  • LTM VS optimisation
  • LTM failover troubleshooting
  • LTM iRules
  • LTM failover and app HA
  • LTM AS3 integration
  • LTM HA testing and optimisation
  • AVR analytics
  • Routing
  • VIPRION / VELOS
  • Cloud provisioning
Full details
≈ £552 / €647 per day, standard rate
Most subscribed
EDS
Essential Delivery & Security
LTM ASM
£14,310 /mo
Standard 6-month rate · or £15,900 monthly
Everything in SDR, plus ASM / aWAF
  • New Policies
  • Application Onboarding
  • Policy Build / Tuning
  • Policy to Blocking
  • Signature Upgrades
  • OWASP Compliance
  • Emergency Mitigation
  • Full Entity Management
  • Logging / SIEM
  • Existing Policy Reviews
  • Security Recommendations
Full details
≈ £650 / €762 per day, standard rate
GDF
Global Delivery & Firewall
LTM ASM GTM AFM
£14,850 /mo
Standard 6-month rate · or £16,500 monthly
Everything in EDS, plus AFM and DNS / GTM
  • Firewall Policy & Optimisation
  • Network DDoS Protection
  • IP Intelligence & Threats
  • Firewall Incident Investigation
  • Firewall Rule Base Review
  • Wide IP & Pool Management
  • Global Traffic Management
  • DNS Monitoring & Failover
  • Topology & Load-Balancing
  • DNSSEC & DNS Security
  • GTM / DNS HA Troubleshooting
Full details
≈ £675 / €791 per day, standard rate
UDS
Unified Delivery & Security
LTM ASM GTM DNS APM SWG SSLO
£15,390 /mo
Standard 6-month rate · or £17,100 monthly
Everything in GDF, plus APM / Access, SWG and SSLO
  • Remote Access VPN
  • VIP Access / MFA / 2FA
  • SAML / OAuth / OIDC
  • Access Policy Design
  • Endpoint Posture Checking
  • Portal Access & App Tunnels
  • Explicit & Transparent Proxy
  • TLS Inspection & Decryption
  • Security Service Chaining
  • APM / SSLO Troubleshooting
Full details
≈ £700 / €820 per day, standard rate

Market rates, better value. The same monthly cost as bringing in a contractor, for a service a contractor cannot match.

  • No recruitment or interviews
  • Start in days, not months
  • Pause when you are quiet
  • One fixed price, no expenses or IR35
  • A 401-certified engineer, every request documented

Why EDS? It is the bundle most teams subscribe to: the full LTM delivery core plus ASM / aWAF, covering the public-facing applications most estates protect first.

These are guide prices. Each monthly figure is the maximum for a full month. Approxee bills per available day, so any weeks not worked are not charged and the actual month can be lower. See the availability calendar for the next six months.

Full pricing Prices in GBP, per month, exclude VAT.
Why subscribe instead of hire

The contractor cycle, without the cost of it.

Start in days, not months

We provide our CV and references, and run a technical onboarding meeting focused on your requirements. Work begins within days of subscribing.

Pause when you're quiet

Give a week's notice before month-end. Bank the months you've paid for but not used.

Come back anytime

We retain your designs and architecture, never your passwords. No second onboarding.

Direct access to the engineer

A 401-certified F5 engineer by email, phone or Teams, or RDP into your environment if you provide it. Not a ticket portal or an account manager.

One fixed monthly price

No day-rate creep, no expenses, no IR35 questions. One line item, budgetable a year out.

Documented, and explained

Each change is written up in Markdown, and closed with a handover or explainer session if you need one. Store it with Approxee or push it to your own docs portal. Your estate records improve month by month.

Three slots, ever

Approxee serves a maximum of three subscribing clients.

Ever. Quality doesn't scale, so we don't pretend it does. When the slots are full, the waitlist opens. We never run two BAU services concurrently.

Talk to Approxee

A 30-minute call. No obligation.

You describe the estate and the pain; we tell you which bundle fits and whether a slot is open. No discovery fee, no obligation.

hello@approxee.euEmail the engineer directly.
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