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Engineering-as-a-Service · Built by builders

High-velocity engineering. No sacrifice.

We are an extension of your team, shipping whatever you need to build. Principal-only engineers, AI-native by default, paid on outcomes, not hours.

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PrincipalOnly engineers in the top 1%. 2 weeksSprint cadence. 24 hrsTicket turnaround. LiveShared Slack and sprint tracker.

§ 02 — What we believe

Four non-negotiables.

Most agencies are built to bill hours. We are built to ship. Every policy below follows from that one decision.

01Hiring

We hire the best.

Other agencies make money by hiring cheap talent and charging a premium. We know one world-class engineer can do more than ten mediocre ones, so we only hire the best.

No juniors · No offshore · Principal-only
02Tools

We use AI. A lot.

We use every off-the-shelf AI tool worth using, and build our own internal tools for the edges where nothing else works.

AI-native workflow · Internal tooling stack
03Pricing

We charge on outcomes.

We charge clients based on what we produce, measured in story points that we define and grade up front. No retainer. No hourly timesheets.

Story-point invoicing · No time and materials
04Compensation

We pay on outcomes.

Our team is paid based on the story points they complete. Engineers, PMs, and partners are aligned on output and speed.

Per-point comp · No hours to protect

§ 03 — Why you need us

Hiring in-house is slow, risky, and extremely important.

The best engineers are harder to find and more expensive than ever. Meanwhile, velocity is the single competitive advantage left.

i.

Perfect-fit hires are mission-critical, but take months to close.

Engineering velocity · AI-native execution
ii.

Top engineers cost more than ever, and the ceiling keeps rising.

Engineering velocity · AI-native execution
iii.

Velocity is the only competitive advantage left. Slow teams lose.

Engineering velocity · AI-native execution
iv.

Unwinding slow habits is extremely hard from the inside.

Engineering velocity · AI-native execution

§ 04 — What we do

We become an extension of your team, building whatever you need.

From greenfield product work to deep internal migrations, we slot into your existing stack and ship against your roadmap.

#ServiceWhat it looks likeTechLead time
001

Application development

Comprehensive full-stack work, from backend APIs and data models to frontend UI and the design systems they sit on.

Next.jsTSPostgresGo
2 wks
002

Fine-tuning models

Model adaptation aligned to your business use case, with evals that prove the system actually got better.

LoRASFTEvalsRLAIF
3 wks
003

Code migration + refactors

Language migrations, version upgrades, and strategic restructuring, done quickly and with tests.

Py2 to 3JS to TSServices
4-8 wks
004

Data engineering + analysis

Warehouse migrations, data cleaning, preprocessing pipelines, and schemas that make the next three years easier.

dbtAirflowSnowflake
2-6 wks
005

Custom agentic solutions

Agents, workflows, RAG pipelines, and AI systems built for your business, not a demo reel.

MCPEvalsObservability
6-12 wks
00+

And more

Flexible software solutions in your tools, your tracker, and your repos. Tell us what is blocking you and we will scope it.

Your stackYour repos
24 hrs

§ 05 — Why work with us

We slot into your workflow, frictionless collaboration.

Same tools. Same tracker. Same standup. No parallel universe of status decks, just tickets in and commits out.

01ⅰ.

Ticket submission

You share the tasks. We break them down, grade them in story points, and commit in 24 hours or less.

Turnaround24 hrs
02ⅱ.

Sprint cycles

Every two weeks, you choose what to prioritize. No politics, just the next sprint list.

Cadence2 weeks
03ⅲ.

Code submission

We commit to the story points inside each sprint, driving predictable velocity you can plan around.

CompletionPer sprint
04ⅳ.

Check-ins

Regular calls to review progress, roadmap, and next steps with the people doing the work.

CadenceWeekly
05ⅴ.

Dedicated team

A technical PM and forward-deployed engineers supporting product and engineering needs end to end.

StructurePM + 2-4 Eng
06ⅵ.

Project management

We work inside Jira, Linear, Trello, or whatever your team already runs.

ToolsYour stack
07ⅶ.

Real-time comms

A shared Slack channel for real-time updates. No weekly status PDFs.

ChannelShared Slack
08ⅷ.

You ship

Code in production, velocity you can point at, and a team that moves at the speed your business needs.

ResultShipped

§ 06 — The stack

Fluent in the modern stack.

We care about shipping in whatever your team already runs, and upgrading you to what is next at your pace.

AI / ML§06.1

Models & agents

  • Claude, OpenAI, GeminiOK
  • MCP + tool useOK
  • Fine-tuning · LoRAOK
  • Evals · BraintrustOK
  • Vector search · pgvectorOK
  • LangGraph orchestrationOK
Application§06.2

Web & services

  • TypeScript · Next.js · ReactOK
  • Go · Python · RustOK
  • Postgres · Redis · SQLiteOK
  • GraphQL · tRPC · RESTOK
  • Tailwind · RadixOK
  • Temporal · queuesOK
Data & infra§06.3

Pipes & platforms

  • Snowflake · BigQueryOK
  • dbt · Airflow · DagsterOK
  • AWS · GCP · VercelOK
  • Terraform · PulumiOK
  • Datadog · Sentry · OTelOK
  • Kafka · NATS · SQSOK

Stay on the right side of history

Disrupt yourself.
Or be disrupted.

The next decade will sort companies into two camps: AI-native, and replaced by one. We build the systems that put you in the first camp.

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