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// our team
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core engineers · we scale to 10 on demand
// proven delivery
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production projects shipped — and counting
// always reachable
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24-hour team access while your project is live
// time-tested
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years on the market · same core team

Real systems. Not illusion.

// what you actually get

Senior engineers from day one. Every project — 2 to 5 of us, end-to-end. No sales reps, no rotating juniors billed as architects. The people who build your system are the ones you talk to.

We ship working software, not slides — AI, fintech, crypto, telegram bots, full-stack platforms. Production systems that handle real customers, real money, real edge cases.

What we do

// services · 8 things we ship

Each tile below is something we've actually shipped this year. We don't list things we haven't built.

[ 01 ]

ai agents & chatbots

Agents and chatbots tailored to your operations — support, document drafting, internal assistants, escalation flows. Built with proper evals so they fail loudly, not silently.

[ 02 ]

ml on your data

Custom models trained on your own corpus — classifiers, scoring engines, recommendation, anomaly detection. Monitored, versioned, retrainable. No black boxes.

[ 03 ]

full-stack web

Web platforms end-to-end — UI, API, data, infra. Python, React, Postgres, AWS. Every system ships with tests, monitoring, and a runbook you can hand off.

[ 04 ]

architecture rescue

Inherit a system that's choking and bring it back to life — refactors, redesigns, migrations. We take over projects other teams abandoned and ship them to production.

[ 05 ]

startups: mvp → prod

From idea to first paying customers and beyond. Senior engineers from day one — without the cost of a full team. Equity-friendly engagements for the right founders.

[ 06 ]

vibe coding

AI-paired delivery for greenfield products and rapid prototypes. Several times faster than a traditional team — but with tests, docs, and observability. Same quality, half the timeline.

[ 07 ]

qa & load testing

Real QA — manual, automated, and load. Find what breaks before customers do. Regression suites, load profiles tuned to your real traffic shape, and honest verdicts.

[ 08 ]

scrum & delivery

Honest Scrum and Kanban — real sprints, real risk logs, real burndowns. We run the delivery; you keep strategic control. No standup theatre.

Creed

// what we ship · what we won't

we ship, and we measure.

REF: The Agent Company, Carnegie Mellon, April 2025. Top AI agents given the work of a real software company. 76% failure rate. Dominant failure mode: "fake progress" — agents faking completion to hide what was broken.

That's the industry today. We took the name fake progress as a promise: the day we ship a roadmap instead of a working product is the day we fire ourselves.

  • if you need a polished pitch deck — hire a Big Four firm.
  • if you need an "AI strategy memo" — hire a consultant.
  • if you need a system that works next quarter — talk to us.

no inflation. not illusion. just systems that work.

Last projects

// 5 of 10+ shipped · latest first · 2025–2026

A selection from our recent work. Real URLs where the work is public, real numbers from production.

PROJECT 01 :: scorebazooka live

ScoreBazooka

An AI Chrome extension that tells you if a YouTube video is worth your time — in one click.

what it does
summary, fact-check, AI-content detection, tone — full report in seconds
team
2 of us · end-to-end
link
scorebazooka.com
  • six axes: truth, relevance, ad-free, ethics, uniqueness, human-content
  • specialized AI classifiers — not just a wrapper around one model
  • free, with sign-up to keep abuse out
PROJECT 02 :: caemap acceptance testing

CAEMap — The Roerich Expedition Atlas

An interactive map of Nicholas Roerich's 1924–1928 expedition through the Himalayas, Tibet, and Mongolia. Built for the 100-year anniversary.

what it does
2,000+ photos, paintings, and diary entries pinned to the actual route
team
5 of us · full delivery
link
caemap.com · caemap.online
  • over 2,000 historical artifacts, geo-tagged and cross-linked
  • 3D landscape views of remote parts of the route
  • we rebuilt the platform from scratch after the previous contractor abandoned it
PROJECT 03 :: redbus pilot · scaling

RedBus — Route Optimization

A smart routing system for delivery fleets. Saves hours of planning and thousands in fuel.

industry
logistics · fleets · last-mile delivery
stage
10-vehicle pilot done · scaling to 700 (Q1 2026) · launching commercially Q2 2026
  • planning time: 3–4 hours/day down to 15 minutes
  • ~$62k/year saved per fleet, validated on the pilot
  • re-plans in real time when orders change — minutes, not hours
  • scales from 10 to 700 vehicles without rewriting anything
PROJECT 04 :: kunama live

Kunama Translator

A translator and learning app for Kunama — a small African language no big AI model supports.

what it does
English ↔ Kunama translation plus flashcard learning
team
2 of us · end-to-end
link
kunamaapp.com
  • trained from scratch on a corpus we built with native speakers
  • native iOS and Android, works offline in low-connection regions
  • shows that AI can serve language preservation, not just business efficiency
PROJECT 05 :: visitweb live · 9+ years

VisitWeb — built it, sold it, kept shipping it

An ad network with 8 ad formats, 100M+ shows a day, and a custom AI that catches fake clicks before they cost advertisers money.

story
our co-lead built VisitWeb from scratch, sold it, and stayed on as core engineer — still shipping new things into the same codebase nearly a decade later
scale
100M+ ad shows a day · 8 formats · 9+ years running

// inside: AI anti-fraud as a feature

A real-time AI that sits between every click and the advertiser's invoice. Verdict in milliseconds, fakes blocked before they count.

  • 20M events/day · checked in 50ms each
  • 14 signals analyzed: network, behavior, device, context
  • bot traffic dropped from ~12% to ~2% · refunds down ~70%
  • customer happiness (NPS) climbed from 6 to 9 in one quarter

More we've shipped

Chess Academy Online — interactive chess school for beginners. AI sales-call quality control — auto-checks 100k+ calls/month for compliance. RAG agents on enterprise data — search and chat across messy Excels, ERP exports, and knowledge bases. Custom Telegram bots — onboarding, sales, ops, AI assistants for B2B teams. And more under NDA — ask us.