We’re a small applied-AI studio. You can hire us to build a product, to embed as your senior engineer for the long haul, or just to tell you honestly where AI fits. Most engagements start with a free 15-minute call to figure out which one you actually need.
For founders and operators who need a working system in market, not a prototype. We design the architecture, ship the MVP on a fixed scope, and stay on to operate it. PollyStop, Portera, Train Your Brain, and Daily Neon all started here.
For organizations with a real platform and no senior engineer who owns it. We embed for a year or more, run the roadmap, manage the stack, and answer for the system end-to-end. A flat monthly retainer with capped hours — one client per slot, so it stays deep.
Two days of looking at what you've got, two pages of what's worth doing about it. A $500 written assessment or a $1,000 half-day workshop. No sales pitch attached — the deliverable stands on its own, and the fee rolls into a project if we keep going.
For teams that want something concrete before committing to a build or a retainer. Both produce a deliverable you can take to your board — and the fee rolls into a project if you decide to keep working together.
We sit with you, look at how your team actually works, and write you a short report the next day. Two or three places AI could help, with rough costs, in plain language. Useful for taking to a board or a leadership team.
Four hours together — in person if you're nearby, on a call if not. We walk through your operation, then write you a plan you can act on. Includes a check-in call a month later. No pitch attached.
For companies that already have AI somewhere and want to build operational agents — systems that run on schedules, claim work race-safely, run skills, and report back. Not a chatbot. The kind of fleet that runs a studio’s marketing or a product’s content pipeline without a human watching.
This is the rarest thing we do, and we do it because we run one ourselves. There are short writeups in the lab if you want to see how it’s wired before you call.
The kinds of things we’ve shipped — for our own products and for clients. If any of these is work your team is carrying right now, that’s a good place to start a conversation.
Your information belongs to your organization. That’s obvious to us — but it’s not always how technology companies work. A lot of the new AI tools quietly use your data to train themselves. We don’t do that, and we don’t work with services that do.
Everything we build runs on systems you control. Only the people you say can see something can see it. We keep a record of who’s done what, so there are no surprises. And if you ever decide to stop working with us, we hand it all back — no holding anything hostage.
For anything sensitive — customer records, member data, anything that shouldn’t be public — we treat that as a rule, not a preference. If something isn’t meant to be searchable, it isn’t.
If you want the longer technical version, we’re happy to walk through it. But the short answer is: your information stays yours.
Fifteen minutes will tell us both whether to keep going. If you’re better off ignoring the AI hype entirely, that’s a useful answer too.
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