AI-accelerated software engineering
Build the right software. Keep it moving.
Engineers who listen first, simplify hard, and ship alongside your team.
Better People, Better Software.
We hire for soft skills first; the hard skills can be trained. Our hiring principles are published, so you can hold us to them.
Autonomous
The team manages itself. You only ever manage the goal. Problems reach you early, while there is still room to act, and the work keeps moving without you chasing it.
Perceptive
Never argue with a technical person again — we hire the ones who listen before they build. Most of what you need never fits inside the ticket; the team hears the request underneath and answers the person who wrote it.
Craftsman
Code still running untouched years into production. Stability is the deliverable. The build stays small, every part earns its place, and what ships holds together under real use.
Your context comes first.
Your business context comes first. We listen until the goal is clear, then find the smallest sound solution that leaves you free to change direction later.
Understanding
We learn from the people the work touches. You bring the business context; we make sure the software answers it.
Simplification
We look for the smallest solution that solves the problem without narrowing what the business can do next.
No lock-in
You have the source from day one. We prefer your infrastructure and replaceable tools, so your product never depends on keeping us around.
The team your work needs.
Bring us a product to build, a team that needs reinforcement, or an engineering organization that needs a steady technical lead.
Outsourced team
A hand-picked engineering team that communicates clearly, owns delivery, and can work across the common stacks and services your product already uses.
Startup partner
Help recruiting and training your first engineers, setting up the engineering practice, and bringing the product to life without a large team upfront.
Fractional CTO
Practical engineering leadership for diagnosing team problems, setting a clear technical direction, and getting delivery moving with the people you have.
Bootstrapped and scalable senior teams.
We staffed multiple small and scalable teams that have successfully bootstrapped ideas into profitable startups without requiring the usual astronomical payroll of a full Scrum team.
A customer-service agent built by one junior and one machine-learning engineer, running across web chat, LINE, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp in 80+ languages.
See how we built it →Three engineers built an enterprise fleet platform covering dispatch, live GPS, maintenance, payroll, accounting, and photo OCR.
See how we built it →StoriorA character-creator platform that keeps thousands of artist-uploaded images fast, even with multiple creators running at once.
See how we built it →Honda OBSA rescue team that brought an online booking project back to shipping on time and on budget.
See how we built it →Social Security OfficeA time-limited intervention that restored trust and fixed failures affecting millions of benefit users.
See how we built it →Mechanical standards, through AI
Our open-source Accelerated Coding Environment (ACE) carries what our engineers learn from one project into every other project through the shared PRODIGY9 Coding School. It is how we apply the same engineering standards mechanically, from the first day of every build.
See how ACE works →$ ace status school prod9/school · 10 skills linked · no drift $ ace explain general-coding general-coding ← prod9/school @ main provenance verified · trace complete