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Accepting Q2 engagements

The agency built
for the new era

Senior engineers architect and review every line. AI agents draft and build at department scale. You get one team's judgment with a swarm's throughput.

years of experience
15+

years of experience

active repos
11

active repos

human-reviewed
100%

human-reviewed

response time
< 24h

response time

How we work

We architect
Agents execute
We ship

The stack is built for AI from the inside out. Agents run in isolated environments, routed by our own framework, reviewed by a senior engineer before shipping. The math works because we built the tools.

  1. 01

    You bring the problem

    A feature, a bug list, a vague idea, an ambitious roadmap. We read your codebase, ask three sharp questions that surface the hidden assumptions, and come back with a written brief by end of day. Scope, approach, timeline, risks, success criteria. That brief becomes the plan.

  2. 02

    We orchestrate the agents

    Work fans out across a fleet of specialized AI workers — architects, builders, reviewers, debuggers. Each one runs in isolation, briefed on your stack conventions, your code style, your voice. They parallelize across features or go deep on a single problem. No bottlenecks. No handoff chaos.

  3. 03

    Every output flows through us

    Nothing ships without a human reading it. Every PR, every commit message, every deployment decision goes through a senior engineer first. The AI drafts fast. The human judges hard. We catch edge cases agents miss, push back on shortcuts, enforce standards. The AI never talks to your team. You hear only from us.

  4. 04

    You get human-paced delivery

    Commits arrive in human-friendly chunks. PRs land at a pace that lets you review, integrate, and deploy without context whiplash. Daily async updates keep you looped in without eating your calendar. One interface, one contact, one team — with the output of a department running at senior standard.

Nothing reaches you that has not been reviewed by a human.

The AI never talks to the client. That separation of concerns is not a limitation — it is the whole point.

Case studies

Real products
Real constraints
Real ships

Twenty years across e-commerce, AI tooling, audio production, retail infrastructure, internal platforms, and consumer apps. Clients stay anonymous by default. The work speaks.

E-commerce + AI·Enterprise

Wellness e-commerce + AI ops

Built a production-scale pipeline for influencer-driven e-commerce with thousands of products that needed intelligent metadata and categorization. Deployed a custom vision LLM pipeline that classifies content at scale, with human review gates on every low-confidence result.

items classified
7.8k+

items classified

accuracy
96%

accuracy

lower than manual
40%

lower than manual

Specialized APIs·Indie → growth

Audio production tooling

Built a suite of music and audio tools: deep integrations with streaming APIs, generative audio testing for creator workflows, and a dedicated sales surface. Three repositories, one team, one vision. Domain-specific engineering in a vertical most agencies cannot touch.

repos shipped
3

repos shipped

APIs integrated
4+

APIs integrated

team, end to end
1

team, end to end

Mobile + AI·Startup → live

AI-powered consumer music app

An iOS app that turns text messages into AI-generated songs. Multiple music generation API integrations, real-time audio processing, lyrics synchronization, StoreKit subscriptions, A/B testing, and analytics. Live on the App Store with real paying users. From concept to shipped product in weeks.

AI APIs integrated
3+

AI APIs integrated

on the App Store
live

on the App Store

team, end to end
1

team, end to end

Integrated commerce·Custom

Retail commerce + POS sync

Custom e-commerce storefront for a European retail market with real-time inventory sync from a legacy accounting system. Two-way communication, compliant payments, purpose-built infrastructure. Not a template, not a plugin — the right thing for a specific market.

real-time sync
2-way

real-time sync

compliance
EU

compliance

plugins required
0

plugins required

Agency infrastructure·Product

Internal operations hub

The multi-client operations platform we built for ourselves. Task aggregation, live agenda dashboards, AI briefing, human review, deployment orchestration. We eat our own cooking — every process we learned from clients, we automated for ourselves. This is what you get when you hire us.

platforms aggregated
4

platforms aggregated

queue, auto-prioritized
1

queue, auto-prioritized

live dashboards
24/7

live dashboards

Full product engineering·Startup

Consumer product build

End-to-end consumer product from vision to live application. Frontend, backend, infrastructure, monitoring, the whole chain. Novel UX patterns. Careful performance tuning. Live today, users engaging, the team owns every layer. We focus on products that stay live, not features that get abandoned.

stack coverage
100%

stack coverage

in production
live

in production

by the team
owned

by the team

Process deep-dive

From contract to production

Six stages, every feature, every time. It looks like waterfall on paper. It runs like fluid parallelization in practice. You see one touchpoint; the team moves fast; the product ships.

  1. Stage 01

    You grant access

    Contract signed, repo access granted. We start the same day. No onboarding calls. No intake forms. We read your codebase, your data schema, your deployment path, your conventions. By end of day, we know your stack as well as your team does.

  2. Stage 02

    We deliver the brief

    Within 24 hours, you have a written plan. Scope with explicit in/out boundaries. Technical approach. Timeline. Dependencies. Risks with mitigations. A concrete success metric. You review it async and reply when it suits your calendar. One round of alignment, then we execute.

  3. Stage 03

    Agents execute in parallel

    Work spins up. An architect agent drafts the system design. A builder agent writes the code, referencing your existing patterns and style. A test agent writes coverage alongside the feature. Frontend and backend work happen at the same time. No queues. No waiting. Parallelization is the whole point.

  4. Stage 04

    We review hard

    A senior engineer reads the diff line by line. Is the error handling complete? Is the query efficient? Are the tests real or happy-path theater? Do the migrations roll back cleanly? The review is not a rubber stamp. It is judgment. Code is revised until it is right.

  5. Stage 05

    You review and integrate

    A working PR lands in your repo. You can read it, test it locally, merge it on your schedule. No pressure. No deadline on your side. You own the final merge. You own the deployment. We make that as friction-free as possible.

  6. Stage 06

    We monitor the live version

    The feature goes live. We watch errors, logs, performance. If something breaks, we respond within the hour. If a bug emerges, we patch it. A week later, we check in async: is it working as intended? Anything to adjust? If so, we iterate. We do not hand off and walk away.

Internal tooling

We built our own stack

Most agencies bolt AI onto a generic project tool. We built the framework, the dispatch layer, the per-client voice profiles — every piece — so the work flows through one pipeline we control end to end. The process is transparent. The implementation stays ours.

Agent framework

Custom-built

Routes work to specialized AI workers — architects, builders, reviewers, debuggers. Each runs in an isolated environment with a fresh snapshot of your repo. Nothing leaks between tasks. Nothing leaks between clients. No LangChain. No CrewAI. We built the coordination layer ourselves — full control over prompt construction, retry behavior, token budgeting, output validation, failure routing.

Operations hub

Append-only log

Agents coordinate through an append-only task log — every claim, every progress update, every completion is an immutable record. Full decision trail, zero write conflicts, built-in auditability. Tasks flow from any source — ClickUp, Asana, Trello, GitHub — into a single auto-prioritized queue, bidirectionally.

Memory architecture

Tenant isolation

Every agent maintains partitioned memory — interaction history, domain knowledge, workflow definitions — scoped to the agent and the client. No bleed between agents. No bleed between accounts. Context is precise, not polluted. Multi-tenancy from day one, not retrofitted.

Agenda dashboards

Radical transparency

Every project has a live agenda page. Current state, active branches, task queue, what shipped today, what is in review, what is blocked. Updated by agents in real time. Glance at it any time. No status pings. No standups. The answer is always one URL away.

Voice profiles

Tone control

Every engagement ships with a written voice guide the AI loads before drafting anything. Code comments sound like a senior engineer. Commit messages match the culture. The output feels native, not generated. The AI never sounds like an LLM because it never starts from scratch.

How a task flows
BriefWritten in hoursDispatchParallel agentsBuildIsolated worktreesReviewSenior engineerShipLive + monitoredskylab Gate

Nothing moves to Ship without passing a senior engineer review. Every single time.

Capabilities

Full-stack
One team
Same standard

Mobile, web, backend, infrastructure, AI, design — same team, same bar, end to end. Ship to production. Stay live. Owned by humans.

Full-stack web

Next.js, React, Node.js, Python. Postgres, Supabase, Turso. Real applications with real users in production — e-commerce, SaaS dashboards, content platforms, internal tools. Built to production standards from day one, not retrofitted later.

Mobile — iOS + cross-platform

Native Swift for iOS. React Native and Expo for cross-platform reach. Standalone mobile products and native apps grafted onto existing web platforms. App Store, Play Store, TestFlight, internal deployment — we handle the whole chain.

DevOps + infrastructure

AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, NixOS, PM2. CI/CD pipelines that run on commit. Observability that catches problems before users do. Zero-downtime deploys. Migrated databases without downtime. Orchestrated infra for multi-tenant platforms. Deployment is built in from the first commit.

Architecture

Systems that scale to your actual users today, not your theoretical peak traffic someday. Multi-tenant by design. Event-driven where it matters. AI-native where language models augment user value — not just product hype. Architecture that serves the business, not the other way around.

AI integration

Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Perplexity. RAG pipelines on private data. Autonomous agents that make decisions and take action. Evaluation frameworks that measure LLM output quality. Production language models in our stack since 2023. We know the seams where they fail and the patterns that work.

Custom solutions

When no existing tool fits your workflow, we build the right thing from scratch. Internal dashboards that become competitive advantage. Integrations with APIs your competitors do not touch. Private APIs, custom data pipelines, tools built for one team only — and they are better for it.

Manifesto

What we believe

Seven principles. Every commit, every decision, every conversation runs through them. This is not aspiration — it is how we actually work.

  1. 01

    Code is communication

    It speaks to the next engineer who reads it, not just to the machine. We write code for humans first. Clarity wins over cleverness.

  2. 02

    We adapt to you

    Every client is different. Some want speed, some want polish, some need a stack we have never touched before. We do not impose a way of working — we shape ours to fit yours. The process serves the project, not the other way around.

  3. 03

    AI is a tool, not a shortcut

    We constrain AI to the steps where it is reliable and keep everything else deterministic. The model writes code for a structure already decided — it does not decide the structure. A human always reviews. A human always decides.

  4. 04

    Process should be invisible

    You should not see the machinery. You should see one team, one channel, one interface. The complexity stays on our side of the wall.

  5. 05

    Scale without compromise

    More code, more features, more load — should not mean lower quality. We scale the team, not the standard. Senior-engineer judgment on every commit, always.

  6. 06

    Your constraints are features

    A small team, a tight budget, legacy code, weird infrastructure — these are not obstacles. They shape the solution. The best systems are the constrained ones.

  7. 07

    Ownership ends when it is live

    We do not hand off to you and vanish. We deploy it. We monitor it. We respond when it breaks. The product is not done when we leave — it is done when it stays live.

Onboarding

We start the day you sign

The first one to two weeks are a technical onboarding sprint we do not charge for. You sign, grant access, and we start shipping the same day. No scheduling. No six-week discovery phase. No slide decks. No fluff.

  1. Day 0

    Contract signed, access granted

    You sign the contract and grant repo access. We start immediately — no scheduling, no waiting. A senior engineer reads your codebase, surfaces the three questions that matter, and drafts a written brief the same day. Scope, technical approach, timeline, dependencies, risks, success metric. By end of day, you have the plan.

    • Start the same day
    • Written brief same day
    • Honest scope read
    • Technical approach defined
  2. Day 1

    Setup

    Within 24 hours, infrastructure is live. A private workspace isolated to your project. An agenda dashboard you can open at any time — current status, active branches, task queue. Repo access provisioned. CI/CD keys loaded. Our agent fleet briefed on your stack, your conventions, your voice.

    • Private agenda dashboard
    • Repo + infra access
    • Agent fleet briefed on your stack
    • CI/CD pipelines configured
  3. Week 1

    First commits

    By day three or four, the first working PR lands. Not scaffolding. Not a stub. A real, tested, production-grade feature — every commit signed off by a senior engineer. You can merge, deploy, or iterate on it immediately. Live preview environments spin up automatically. You are not waiting for batch releases. You are shipping.

    • Working PRs in days
    • Live preview environments
    • Daily async updates
    • Code review within 24 hours
  4. Ongoing

    Steady cadence

    A pattern settles in. You send a weekly direction sync — priorities, blockers, feedback. We send a daily async update: what shipped, what is in progress, what is blocked. You review PRs when it suits your calendar, not ours. One Slack channel, one email contact, one person who talks to you.

    • Single point of contact
    • Async-first updates
    • Weekly sync (optional)
    • Predictable invoicing

FAQ

FAQ CTOs ask before they hire

Straight answers, no hedging. If your question is not here, email us — we answer the hard ones directly.

  • A freelancer is one person working on a task. We are a small team working on an outcome. A senior engineer sits between every output and you. You get the judgment of a CTO with the throughput of a department. Also: no context loss. Our tooling is built for continuity across months, not days.

When we are not the right fit

We would rather be honest upfront than waste your time. If any of these describe your situation, we are probably not the right team for you.

  • You need 20 engineers on-site in your office.
  • You want to manage the AI agents yourself.
  • You need a fixed-price waterfall contract with no iteration.
  • You want to ship without code review.
  • You need someone to attend daily standups and status meetings.

Ready to ship?

One email gets you a brief. That brief becomes code. That code goes live in days.

Reply within 24 hours. Sign the contract, grant repo access, and we start shipping. A written brief becomes your roadmap.