AI-powered. Human-led.
We build the software
your business runs on.
A founder-led engineering firm, building production software for companies that can't afford to get it wrong.
Built at industry leaders
Selected work
Software our engineers have shipped.
Founding engineer to Series A
Pre-seed to A Scaled through
Crop insurance platform
Fortune 50 Insurer
Developer SDKs and tooling
Standard Infrastructure
Financial platform at scale
$60M Value secured
Real-time sports betting platform
Real-time Live markets
AI agents for the IP sector
$35M Series A
Build vs. hire
One engineer, or a senior team with AI leverage.
Same goal: production software that works. Here is the honest comparison.
A single engineering hire
Months to hire.
one skill set, and the risk is yours if the fit is wrong
- Four-plus months from search to first commit
- One person, one specialty, one point of failure
- Ramp time before anything ships
- You own the hiring, the tooling, and the AI stack
- A year of runway gone if it doesn't work out
- Headcount you carry whether the week is busy or quiet
Automata
Senior from day one.
a founder-led team with AI leverage, built to ship
- Shipping in week one, working demos every week
- A full senior team: product, front-end, back-end, AI
- AI-accelerated delivery, with senior judgment on every call
- Deep experience across fintech, AI, and high-scale platforms
- Scales up for a launch, down between them
- You own all of it: code, infrastructure, and accounts
How we work
We help you decide what to build, then build it.
Plenty of engineers can write code. The harder part is knowing what to build. We help founders, technical or not, turn a vision into a real product, advise on the decisions that matter, and build it, AI-accelerated and senior-led.
Intro call
Bring a finished spec or just a rough idea. We pressure-test the thinking and tell you, honestly, whether we're the right team. You talk to the engineers who'd build it, not a sales rep.
- A rough idea is enough to start
- An honest read on fit, both directions
- The engineers who'd build it, on the call
- A real price and time range within 48 hours
Planning week
One focused week of workshops that turns your vision into a complete, build-ready plan: architecture, roadmap, timeline, and a clear estimate. The plan is yours to keep, and any team can execute it. If you don't think the week was worth it, we refund it.
- A complete build plan you own 100%
- Take it to us or to any other team
- Money back if it's not worth it
Build
We design the screens and build them in weekly sprints, refining as real software reveals what matters. AI gives us leverage; senior engineers make every call. You see working software, not status decks.
- AI-accelerated, human-led delivery
- Product guidance that continues as we build
- Working software demoed every week
- Pay as you go, billed as we ship
- Stop anytime and keep everything
Ship
We launch to production with monitoring, documentation, and a clean handoff to your team. Every line of code and every account is yours, with nothing locked to us. After launch we monitor performance and fix anything that breaks, free, for the first 30 days.
- Production-grade, tested, monitored
- Full documentation and handoff
- You own the code, infra, and accounts
- Free 30-day warranty after launch
Operate & evolve
We stay on as your engineering partner: running what we built, advising on what to build next, and shipping it in the same weekly cadence as you scale.
- We run and maintain what we ship
- A standing partner for what comes next
- New features land as sprints
What we do
One senior team across your whole product.
Every discipline it takes to design, build, ship, and keep improving your product, all from senior engineers under one roof.
Front-End Development
Modern, accessible interfaces built for performance and scale.
Back-End Development
Secure, scalable backends and APIs that hold up under real load.
AI & Machine Learning
LLM features, agents, and automation wired into your product.
Mobile Development
Native and cross-platform apps that feel fast and ship often.
Product Design
Clean, usable interfaces designed by the people who build them.
QA & Testing
Manual and automated testing that validates flows end to end.
What we cover
Your stack, and the AI tools rewriting it.
From the languages your product runs on to the AI coding tools reshaping how software gets built. If your team relies on it, chances are we already ship with it, every day.
The AI coding tools rewriting how software gets built. We build with all of them, and we cover the subscriptions and tokens, so the companies we build for never worry about usage limits or token spend.
Ready when you are
Tell us what you're building.
Thirty minutes with the engineers who'd do the work. Bring the problem you're trying to solve and we'll tell you, honestly, whether and how we can build it.