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AI systems
that ship.

We build the AI. You run the business.
Operator-grade systems, delivered in weeks, not quarters — wired into the tools your team already runs. No slideware. No demos that die. Code you own the day we hand over.

What we build

Four shapes of AI system.

Every engagement is bespoke but fits one of these shapes. We pick the smallest one that solves the problem, then ship it end-to-end.

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AI Copilots

Domain-trained assistants wired into your stack.
SPEC · 01
Custom LLM copilots that know your data, your SOPs, and your customers. Not a chatbot wrapped on ChatGPT — a working teammate that your ops folks actually keep open in a tab.
best for
Support, sales enablement, internal Q&A
typical ship
3–5 weeks · fixed scope
handoff
You own keys, code, prompts, evals
stack
ClaudeOpenAIPostgresVercel

Ingestion & RAG

Document pipelines that actually answer questions.
SPEC · 02
We've seen the RAG graveyard. We build pipelines that ingest real, messy, production-grade documents — contracts, PDFs, scanned docs, CRM exports — and return answers you can cite. With evals. With versioning. With rollback.
best for
Legal, healthcare, finance ops, knowledge bases
typical ship
4–6 weeks
handoff
Full pipeline + eval harness + dashboard
stack
ClaudepgvectorPostgresPythonTypeScript

Agent Systems

Autonomous workflows that hit your APIs.
SPEC · 03
Multi-step agents that do actual work: triage tickets, chase down data, reconcile records, draft and send. Built with tool-use, guardrails, and a human-in-the-loop for anything that touches money or customers.
best for
Ops automation, research, reconciliation
typical ship
4–8 weeks
handoff
Agent source + tool defs + runbook
stack
Claude Agent SDKMCPTemporaln8n

Voice & Realtime

Phone agents, live transcription, realtime coaching.
SPEC · 04
Outbound callers that don't sound robotic. Inbound triage that actually hands off clean. Realtime transcription wired into your CRM. We know why voice AI fails in production — and we fix it before you hear it on a live call.
best for
Sales, support, field service, cold outreach
typical ship
3–6 weeks
handoff
Voice pipeline + CRM integration + dashboards
stack
ElevenLabsDeepgramTwilioLiveKit
How it works

Four steps, no slideware.

A short discovery call, a one-page spec, a 2–6 week build with weekly demos, then a clean handover. Every engagement, same shape.

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01
PHASE · DISCOVER

30-minute call.

We map the problem together. You describe the pain. We ask the uncomfortable questions — what does success actually look like? — and tell you honestly whether we're the right fit. If we're not, we point you to someone who is.

  • No NDAs to start. No pitch deck.
  • You leave with a written summary within 24 h.
  • If there's no fit, we say so.
02
PHASE · DESIGN

One-page spec.

Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed timeline. A single page describing exactly what we're building, the acceptance criteria, and what you'll own at the end. If it won't fit on a page, we scope it smaller.

  • Reviewed together on a 45-min call.
  • Signed via plain email — no legal circus.
  • Change requests welcome; re-priced openly.
03
PHASE · BUILD

Weekly demos, live code.

We build in your stack, on your infra, with your keys. Every Friday you get a working demo, a Loom walkthrough, and a raw repo link. You see the code as it exists, not a polished screenshot from a designer.

  • Shipped in 2–6 weeks depending on scope.
  • Paused instantly if priorities shift — no penalty.
  • Every demo is a potential ship date.
04
PHASE · HAND OVER

You own the keys.

Clean handover: repo, deploys, keys, docs, runbook, eval suite. We walk your team through it until they can operate solo. Then we stick around for 30 days of free bugfix + office hours. After that, you decide if you want us close.

  • Full code ownership — MIT for your internal use.
  • 30 days free bugfix, no questions.
  • Optional retainer for ongoing work.
What you ship

Outcomes, not deliverables.

We sell you a working system tied to a business outcome. Here's the shape of what you walk away with.

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OUTCOME · 01

Your team handles more, faster.

Work that used to route through three humans now routes through one human + a copilot. Your best people stop being a bottleneck and become a leverage point.

OUTCOME · 02

Your SOPs become software.

The Loom your team never watched is now a running system. New hires ramp in days, not months. The process doesn't drift when someone leaves, because the process is the code.

OUTCOME · 03

Your reports write themselves.

Weekly ops reports, sales debriefs, customer summaries — written by the system that already has the data. Your Monday morning becomes reading instead of writing.

Who it's for

Operators. Founders. Ops leads.

We work with people who run real businesses and know exactly what's broken. If you can describe the problem in one sentence, we can scope a fix in one page.

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Founders shipping v2.

Your v1 works. Now you need AI in it before your competitor ships theirs. You don't have time to hire an ML team — you need something shipped in weeks, integrated into the thing you already have.

SEED → SERIES B 1–30 ENGINEERS

Ops leads drowning in manual work.

You've tried to hire. You've tried to document. The work keeps piling up. You know half of it could be automated if you had someone technical who actually understood the domain.

10–500 EMPLOYEES LEGACY STACK OK

Teams who got burned by consultants.

Last time someone promised you AI they delivered a slide deck. This time you want a working system in production with your team's hands on the keyboard. That's the engagement we run.

NO SLIDEWARE CODE YOU OWN
Dispatch log

Notes from the build.

Short operator reports from engagements we've shipped. What we tried, what broke, what we'd do again.

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DISPATCH · 003 2026.03.28

Why your RAG pipeline hallucinates on page 47.

Most RAG failures don't come from the model — they come from the chunker. We walk through a client case where switching chunk strategies cut hallucinations by 68% overnight, and why your eval suite missed it.

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DISPATCH · 002 2026.03.14

Voice AI fails for four reasons. None of them are the model.

Long responses, robotic tone, repetition loops, failure to wait for speakers. We catalog the common failure patterns from 12 voice agents we've shipped, and the exact prompts + settings that fix them in production.

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DISPATCH · 001 2026.02.22

The one-page spec that killed our proposal deck.

We replaced our 18-slide proposal with a one-page spec doc and closed more work, faster. Here's the template we use, why clients prefer it, and the one section we refuse to remove.

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FAQ

Questions we hear
every Monday.

If yours isn't here, the 30-minute discovery call is the fastest path to an answer. No sales funnel, just a conversation.

Q.01 How is this different from hiring an agency? +
Agencies deliver slideware, timelines, and change orders. We deliver working code in your repo, weekly demos, and fixed scope. Our typical engagement is one engineer shipping one system in 2–6 weeks, not a pod of ten people billing hours against a retainer. If your problem looks like an agency problem, we'll tell you to hire an agency.
Q.02 What does a typical engagement look like? +
A 30-minute discovery call, a one-page spec, a fixed price, and then 2–6 weeks of weekly Friday demos where you see the thing work. At handover you get the repo, the keys, a runbook, and 30 days of free bugfix. After that you can put us on retainer or say goodbye — both are fine.
Q.03 Can you work with my existing stack? +
Yes. We bring no stack of our own. If you run Postgres + Rails, we ship in Postgres and Rails. If you run Supabase + Next.js, we ship in Supabase and Next.js. The exception is AI infra — we'll recommend Claude, OpenAI, or open models depending on the task, and defend the choice.
Q.04 Who owns the code? +
You do. From day one. We work directly in your GitHub org, on a branch you can review. When we hand over we transfer ownership and delete our access. No IP holdback, no platform lock-in, no monthly fee to keep the thing running.
Q.05 What happens after handover? +
30 days of free bugfix while your team learns the system. Weekly office hours where you can ask us anything. After the 30 days you can put us on a monthly retainer for ongoing work (rare — most clients don't need it), or just stay in touch and call us for the next one.
Q.06 How much does it cost? +
Fixed price per engagement, scoped to the one-page spec. Most engagements land between $15k and $60k depending on scope and complexity. We tell you the number before you commit to anything. If it's not worth the money, we'll say so on the discovery call.
Ready when you are

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