Automata.

    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.

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    Trusted by venture-backed startupsSenior engineers, AI-acceleratedBoston based

    Built at industry leaders

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    Software our engineers have shipped.

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    TireTutor

    Founding engineer to Series A

    Pre-seed to A Scaled through

    State Farm

    Crop insurance platform

    Fortune 50 Insurer

    Chainlink

    Developer SDKs and tooling

    Standard Infrastructure

    stake.link

    Financial platform at scale

    $60M Value secured

    Overtime

    Real-time sports betting platform

    Real-time Live markets

    Camp

    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
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    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

    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.

    ReactNext.jsTypeScriptVue

    Back-End Development

    Secure, scalable backends and APIs that hold up under real load.

    Node.jsPythonGoPostgreSQL

    AI & Machine Learning

    LLM features, agents, and automation wired into your product.

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    Mobile Development

    Native and cross-platform apps that feel fast and ship often.

    iOSAndroidReact NativeFlutter

    Product Design

    Clean, usable interfaces designed by the people who build them.

    UX/UIDesign SystemsPrototyping

    QA & Testing

    Manual and automated testing that validates flows end to end.

    End-to-EndMonitoring

    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.

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    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.

    01

    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
    02

    Strategy & scope

    Where most shops take an order, we shape the product. We turn your vision into a concrete plan and architecture, then hand you a roadmap, a timeline, and a clear estimate. You don't need to be technical.

    • Your vision, translated into a product plan
    • Straight advice on scope, tradeoffs, and sequencing
    • A roadmap and estimate that are yours to keep
    03

    Design & build

    We design and build in weekly sprints, steering the product 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
    04

    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.

    • Production-grade, tested, monitored
    • Full documentation and handoff
    • You own the code, infra, and accounts
    05

    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

    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.

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    14 years shipping production softwareAI-powered, human-ledBoston based