— 03 / How we engage

Four ways to work with us.

We take on a small number of engagements each year. Every one starts with an operator problem, not a technology looking for a home. Here's what we build, and how.

Service catalogue

What we build.

01

Custom AI applications

End-to-end products with language models at the core — internal tools, operator consoles, customer-facing apps.

  • Grounded retrieval over your data
  • Cited outputs, human-in-the-loop edits
  • Evals, guardrails, observability from day one
  • Shipped on Vercel · Postgres · Claude / OpenAI / Gemini
4–12 week fixed-scope builds
02

Agents & automation

Durable workflows that move tasks off spreadsheets and inboxes — safely, with audit trails and stop-switches.

  • Workflow orchestration (Vercel Workflow / Temporal)
  • Long-running agents with tool-use and memory
  • Approval gates for anything that touches money, contracts, or customers
  • Replaces 20–40 hours/week of repetitive ops work
Scoped automations from 2 weeks
03

Product engineering

Full-stack product work for founders who want one team to own the build — design through deploy.

  • Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind
  • Postgres / Neon, Vercel Blob, Clerk auth
  • Design system + component library included
  • Handover with docs, tests, and runbooks — not a black box
Discovery → MVP → steady-state partnership
04

Operator advisory

Short engagements for teams who have a product but need a second set of eyes on the AI or architecture.

  • Codebase + AI stack review
  • Model selection, prompt / eval strategy
  • Hiring support for your first engineers
  • Written report + working-session pair — no PowerPoint
1–3 week engagements
Engagement process

From first call to production.

01

Intake

A 45-minute call to understand the operator problem, current systems, and what shipping actually looks like. We'll tell you if we're the right studio — or who is.

02

Scoping

A written proposal: milestones, deliverables, price, and the riskiest unknowns called out up front. Fixed-fee when we can, T&M when the unknowns are real.

03

Build

Weekly demos in a live staging environment. You use the product on your data from week two. No three-month dark-room builds.

04

Handover

Production deploy, runbook, documentation, and a 30-day stabilization window. You own the code. We stick around only if you want us to.

— Who we work with

Founders. Operators. Practitioners.

Our best engagements are with people who know their domain cold — accountants, brokers, educators, lawyers — and need software that respects the work. If you're shopping for a vendor who'll say yes to anything, we're not it.

If this sounds like the kind of work you need — let's talk.