AI Engineering

Outcome-based squads. You pay for what ships.

Subscription-style engineering teams that use AI acceleration to build your software faster and more affordably than a traditional agency or a new hire. Custom applications, agents, integrations, and data systems, priced against features delivered rather than hours logged.

The Problem

You have a roadmap and no capacity to build it. Hiring takes six months and a senior engineer costs more fully loaded than most teams budget for. Agencies bill by the hour, which means their incentive is to take longer. Offshore shops are cheaper until you count the rework. And most of them are still building the way they built in 2019, while the cost of producing working software has fallen off a cliff for teams that actually know how to use the new tooling. You're paying 2019 prices for 2019 velocity.

How It Works

01

Scope the Outcome

We define what shipping means in concrete terms: the features, the acceptance criteria, the integration points. That becomes what you're buying, instead of a headcount you're renting.

02

Assemble the Squad

A small senior team with the right mix for your stack. No layers of account management between you and the people writing the code, and no junior staffing padded onto the invoice.

03

Ship in Weeks

Working software in your environment on a continuous cadence, not a big-bang delivery at the end. You see progress in your own staging environment and redirect scope as priorities shift.

04

Hand Off or Continue

Everything we build is yours. Your repositories, your infrastructure, documented for your team. Some clients take it in-house from there. Others keep the squad on subscription as ongoing capacity.

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Fractional Tech Lead

Plenty of companies at 15-30 people have one or two engineers, both fairly junior, and nobody senior setting direction. Work feels slow and you can't tell whether that's the problem being genuinely hard, the scope moving under them, or the approach being wrong, and there's nobody in the building who can answer that honestly. We take the tech lead seat.

Direction you can trust

Architecture decisions, code review, and estimates with a senior engineer behind them. When we say three weeks, you can plan around three weeks.

Your engineers get a senior

We work alongside them on the AI tooling most small teams are using badly or not at all. They keep their jobs and get the mentorship they'd otherwise have to leave to find.

The bus factor shrinks

Right now everything your business runs on lives in one or two people's heads, largely undocumented. We fix that before it turns into an emergency.

Monthly retainer. If we surface something worth building that your team can't absorb, a squad can take it, but that's a separate decision rather than the point of the engagement.

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