Services
Custom Build
When the work is too specific for the retainer and too consequential to hand off, we scope it as a bounded build. Fixed fee, fixed timeline, working example at the end. Delivered by the same partner who runs your retainer, with no subcontracted "delivery pod" between you and the work.
Where custom builds earn their fee
Agent integration against a system of record
Custom, permissioned, audited agent access to the tools your team already runs (your CRM, your billing system, your ops workspace, a shared spreadsheet, or a bespoke datastore). Auth, RBAC, and logging are part of the delivery, not an afterthought.
Agent identity and injection hardening
Threat model the specific surfaces (inbound email, shared team folders, agent-to-agent messaging), then ship mitigations. Output includes policy, architecture, and a piloted implementation.
SaaS agent-readiness review
For software vendors: API design, CLI exposure, MCP surface, identity model, and monetization. If agents are a hundred times more numerous than humans, the back end has to be built for them.
How a build runs
- Scope sprint: one or two weeks to agree outcomes, architecture, and acceptance criteria
- Fixed-fee milestones with working examples at each checkpoint (no open-ended burn)
- Identity, access, and prompt-injection review baked into delivery, not bolted on
- Demo cadence every one to two weeks with your operators in the room
- Handover with documentation, playbooks, and the code your team actually runs
What we will not do
- Open-ended transformation programmes. If it needs a dedicated team for twelve months, it is a transformation, not a build.
- Equity-in-lieu or co-founder-in-residence arrangements. Custom builds are paid in cash against milestones.
- Exclusivity clauses that would stop us running the same play for another client. Our reference work is your reference work.
Small enough to finish
Every build is scoped so that stopping after the first milestone still delivers value. That is the point. Big bets that cannot stop are how consulting engagements go bad. Short phases, concrete outputs, published patterns.