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How we work

What it is actually like to hire us

Three engagement models, one delivery discipline, and a first call that tells you something useful even if you never hire us.

Engagement models

Scoped build

Best when: A defined system with a deadline

We scope the workflow, draw the agent boundary, and ship it. Fixed scope, named engineers, a number we agree to be measured against before any code is written.

Embedded team

Best when: Ongoing capacity alongside your engineers

We join as your engineering team rather than a ticket queue: standups, your board, your review process. You keep direction; we bring the delivery discipline.

Discovery & audit

Best when: You are not sure what should be built yet

A short engagement that maps the workflow, finds where judgment-plus-lookup work actually sits, and tells you what is worth automating and what is not. Ends in a plan you own, whether or not you build it with us.

What happens when you book

01

Book

Pick a time. Thirty minutes, no pitch deck, no discovery questionnaire to fill in first.

02

Talk

You describe the constraint. We ask the questions that decide whether it is an agent problem, an engineering problem or neither.

03

Get a written view

Within two working days: what we would build, roughly what it takes, and the risks we would worry about. Yours to keep either way.

What we commit to

Senior engineers on the call

You talk to the people who would do the work, not an account manager who hands you off afterwards.

A number before we start

Every engagement is scoped against a measurable outcome. Every case study we publish carries the number it was held to.

A kill switch on every agent

Nothing autonomous ships without a human override, a decision log and a defined boundary of what it may decide alone.

Plain answers about fit

If your problem is not one we are the right team for, we will say so on the first call rather than three invoices in.

Not sure which applies to you?

Answer three questions and we will point you at the closest work we have delivered.

Question 1 of 3

What are you starting from?

The four-step discipline behind every engagement is on the methodology page, 4 steps, applied the same way whatever the stack.

Book a free discovery call

Thirty minutes with the engineers who would do the work, not a sales call. Bring a workflow you want automated or a system that keeps breaking, and we will tell you plainly whether we are the right team for it.