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PRAGMATIC AI SOFTWARE CONSULTANCY

AI should be actionable.Outcomes over hype.

We create software powered by AI to solve real business problems and drive results.

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Accelerate Legacy Modernization with AI
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Embedded AI Fluency ACCELERATOR for software teams

Stop guessing whether AI is making your team better

Most AI initiatives stall between executive ambition and what teams can ship. The gap between how you work and how you could work widens every month. Our deep dive AI Fluency Accelerator focuses on creating real capability that compounds, not training that's forgotten in a week.

What's included:

  • Assess: Each team member is assessed against the AI Fluency Matrix to establish a clear baseline on six dimensions, then continuously throughout
  • Pair: Senior consultants embed with your team on work that matters for hard-won experience through doing to build capabilities
  • Improve: We incorporate what we observe back into the approach
  • Graduate or expand: When a team reaches level 3 they graduate and our consultants can move to the next cohort, carrying forward what they've learned across teams

The accelerator is modeled towards focused work on one team at a time. Contact us for pricing.

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ACTIONABLE AI SPRINTs FOR SOFTWARE TEAMS

Build quality software faster, with AI approaches that work for your team.

A few engineers are doing remarkable things with AI. Most treat it like autocomplete. Some aren't touching it. The gap between your best AI users and everyone else is widening. The usual signals—seat counts, survey scores, anecdotes—don't tell you why or what to do about it.

We offer two actionable AI sprints to make forward movement towards your business goals, both available at a fixed rate of $25,000 for two weeks.

AI Traction Sprint

Measure the gap and start closing it on live work to get traction faster:

  • Capability baseline: where each engineer lands on our AI fluency rubric, scored through real interaction rather than self-report
  • Opportunity map: prioritized list of where AI would move the needle, plus a "not now" list
  • Live proof: one high-impact opportunity worked alongside your team, so the gap closes on real code
  • 90-day path to capability: measurable targets tied to the rubric, checkpoints, and visibility mechanisms that compound gains

AI Proof Sprint‍

Pinpoint the highest impact area for AI and build a working example:

  • Baseline and opportunity map: AI capability read, prioritized list, and a "not now" list
  • Live proof: one top opportunity solved with AI
  • Curated workflows: skills, agent patterns, and automations that clicked, documented for reuse
  • 90-day path to capability: measurable targets, pilot checkpoints, and visibility mechanisms to compound early wins

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ACCELERATE LEGACY APPS WITH AI

Untangle legacy systems fast with AI, and make them more maintainable.

Are legacy systems not moving as fast as the business needs, but your team can’t dedicate enough time to renovating them?

Our experienced software and product consultants combine AI tools with technical expertise to accelerate legacy software:

  • Faster onboarding in legacy apps via AI analysis and documentation
  • Accelerate Rails upgrades with AI driven source code changes
  • Rapidly identify complexity hotspots in codebases to prioritize improvements
  • Automated test suite design and development made even faster to characterize functionality
  • Clean up AI slop messes and tech debt (it happens!)

We dive in to clean up the funky stuff, and guide your team on leading practices to avoid creating nightmare codebases in the future. AI tooling is paired with sound judgement from pattern matching across hundreds of clients to make your legacy modernization and Rails upgrades faster, easier, and trustworthy.

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We work with a bunch of AI models, tooling, and techniques. And we’ll meet your team where they are, using your AI tools and processes.

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Pragmatic AI approaches that work

We enable smart investments in AI initiatives, rapid AI product validation, and agentic AI software development—focused on real business goals and customer needs

  • Make better decisions with data
  • Stop wasting time on AI for AI's sake
  • Move faster, without regret
  • Never compromise on quality or safety
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Quality you can’t generate: AI is only as good as your constraints

AI changed the cost structure of software. It didn't change the value structure. The value is no longer the code you write. It's the taste, judgment, and constraints you encode into the system that shapes what AI produces.

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Anyone can code: Software Is having its Ratatouille moment

Gusteau said it best: "anyone can cook", and now, "anyone can code." LLMs and agentic coding are the Remy to our Linguini. Our job isn't to guard the kitchen—it's to help others cook something worth serving.

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