Case studies
What changes when the desktop moves
Three teams, three different constraints — onboarding speed, data residency and idle GPU spend.
A distributed engineering team replaced laptop shipping and manual toolchain setup with a template workspace that boots in under a minute.
The constraint
Every contractor needed a provisioned laptop, a VPN profile and a day of toolchain installs before their first commit. Source code left the perimeter on unmanaged devices.
What they did
Northsketch published a Developer template with their toolchain baked in, shared it with the engineering team, and granted contractors browser-only access. Sessions are metered per minute so short engagements cost proportionally.
9 min
Time to first commit
0
Devices shipped
-38%
Monthly compute spend
“The workspace is the onboarding. We send a link, they work, and nothing lands on a laptop we do not control.”
A pinned-region workspace let analysts run heavy models on managed capacity while data never crossed the tenant boundary.
The constraint
Modelling datasets could not leave the EU, but analysts needed compute far beyond their laptops during quarter close.
What they did
Region-pinned Data templates with per-tenant isolation. Any indexing or intelligence runs inside the tenant boundary; the control plane only sees metering and lifecycle events.
None
Data egress from region
-61%
Quarter-close model runtime
Per-minute ledger
Audit evidence
“Our auditors asked where the data lives and where the compute runs. For the first time both answers were one line long.”
A post-production studio dropped fixed GPU workstation leases for on-demand creative workspaces billed by the minute.
The constraint
Six leased GPU workstations sat idle most of the month but were saturated during delivery weeks.
What they did
Creative GPU templates launched on demand, with recordings used for client review instead of exporting proxies. Session clips carry bookmarks so a supervisor can jump straight to a note.
-84%
Idle GPU hours billed
Same day
Client review turnaround
6
Workstations retired
“We stopped paying for machines to sit in a rack looking busy.”
Names are anonymised pilot engagements from the SisiDesk alpha programme. Figures are drawn from the participants' own before-and-after measurements.