For startups
Ship an AI product without betting the roadmap.
We are the senior AI product team you needed to hire, starting next week. We scope narrow, ship weekly, and build with a boundary layer so no early architecture decision becomes an eighteen-month migration.
If you recognise any of these
Four situations that bring startups to us
You raised on an AI thesis
The deck promised a product. Now it has to exist, work, and survive real users, inside a runway that does not tolerate a nine-month rebuild after the wrong architecture choice.
You are pre-hire on senior engineering
You need someone who has actually shipped this before, and you need them next week, not after a six-month hiring cycle for a team you are not yet sure you permanently need.
The prototype impressed people
It also lied about latency, cost, and reliability. Closing the gap between a notebook and a product is where most of the actual engineering lives, and where most timelines break.
Every provider is “the best” this month
OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models, three new vector stores. You need an architecture where the model of the month is a config decision, not a migration.
How we help
Four things a scoped engagement actually gets you
AI pilots in weeks, not quarters
One narrowly scoped workflow, real integrations, an evaluation harness, and a human gate. You get a working system on real traffic, and a clean decision point on what to build next.
Founding-engineer-grade builds
Full application frontends, backends, model orchestration, and infrastructure: designed as one system, shipped as increments, documented so your first two hires can pick it up.
A boundary layer you own
Contracts, evals, and provider routing between your product and the model world, so switching providers is a config change, not a strategy pivot.
Investor-ready proof
Weekly demos of working software, architecture worth writing about, and an evaluation harness that turns “does it work?” into a number with a history.
How we think about your constraints
Three rules we hold for teams with real runway pressure
One workflow, done properly
Beats three demos every time. It earns the trust that funds the rest: investors, customers, and your own team included.
Cut features, never evals
You can add the second feature later. You cannot retroactively trust a system that was never measured.
Boring infrastructure is a moat
Small senior teams need infrastructure that does not surprise them at 2 a.m. We run our own products on the same boring stack we recommend to yours.
Proof for startups
Products we built the way we build yours
RocketJob: an AI job-search platform and application service
A resume-tailoring engine with versioning and pixel-faithful PDF output, a content platform built for search, and a human-in-the-loop application service, engineered by Vision Nexera for RocketJob.
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Our productRepo Fixer: an autonomous-dev platform for repository maintenance
An agent that reads a failing repository, plans a change, opens a reviewable pull request, and never merges without a human.
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Reading
Two articles worth ten minutes each
August 18, 2026
Build vs buy for AI features: a framework for non-hype decisions
Buy the capability, build the workflow. Raw model intelligence is a commodity you should rent from providers; the way that intelligence meets your data, your process, and your users is where differentiation lives, and it is the part worth building. Most 'build vs buy' confusion dissolves once those two layers are separated.
August 18, 2026
How much does it cost to build an AI agent?
A scoped production pilot (one workflow, real integrations, an evaluation harness, and a human-in-the-loop gate) typically lands in the low-to-mid five figures in USD. Multi-workflow production deployments run higher. The price is driven far more by integrations and the reliability bar than by anything to do with the model.
Next step
Get the senior team on the problem this week.
A scoping call ends in a written scope, an honest estimate, and a clear next stage, or a straight “not the right fit,” which we say when it applies.
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