Us
We're operators who needed this to exist. So we built it.
The story
Not because it doesn’t matter, but because of where the engineers were pointed: at the product, the thing customers pay for, with always more of it to build than people to build it. Ops got what was left. A ticket queue, a change request, a place in line behind the roadmap.
So the team improvised. A spreadsheet layer to hold the gap the ERP never fit. Then the tools got easier, someone built something themselves, it worked, and now the business quietly depends on it and nobody wants to touch it.
None of this is a failure of effort. Your ops team has been solving the problem the only way available to them. But it means the most expensive, most human-heavy part of your business, the part that decides what your customers actually experience, runs on things that were never designed, never measured, and are owned by nobody. The most important systems in your company are the least invested-in things you own.
That’s the gap we close. Not more engineering capacity. Product thinking, pointed at the part of the business that has never had any.
Why us
Multi-studio operations with hundreds of people on shifts and thousands of customers walking through the door. A food business shipping across the country from a single fulfillment center, where the wrong ingredient in the wrong box was somebody’s ruined dinner.
Then we became the people who built the software. Not the ones who wrote requirements and waited; the ones designing the systems, shipping the tools, and finding out the next morning whether they held. Most of that engineering went into internal tools, because that’s where the business actually lived.
Different industries, same problem underneath, and the same realization every time: almost none of it needed to be built from scratch.
We know what a schedule looks like when someone gets skipped, and what happens downstream when a handoff breaks. That’s the difference between a tool that gets used and a tool your team works around.
Co-founder
Alexandra built and ran a national fitness business: eighteen studios, hundreds of people on shifts, thousands of customers through the door, and a schedule that never once cared about anyone’s software. She’s since spent years embedded inside AI companies, turning human-heavy operations into systems that run without her.
Co-founder
Emily led product at Plated through its nine-figure acquisition, where most of the engineering went into internal tools because nothing off the shelf survived the operation. Most recently she’s been building the judges: AI evaluation systems that score every piece of work an AI-human platform ships, calibrated against hand-scored ground truth.
How we work
Every engagement is led by one of us, start to finish. The same person who ran your interviews is the person accountable when something breaks at month eight. Around that, we pull in senior product and engineering people we’ve worked with before, sized to what your build actually needs.
You get tier-one talent without paying for a firm that has to keep tier-one talent busy. It also means we say no to work we can’t staff properly, which is the honest version of why we’re not the cheapest option or the fastest to start.
You shouldn’t retrofit your business into someone else’s software. The era of buying a platform and reshaping your operation around it is over.
Not the thing you sell; the thing that delivers it. Nobody remembers the beautiful app when the box ships the wrong ingredients.
Stop buying one-off tools for one-off problems. The tools should fit together, because the work does.
Not just engineering capacity. Someone deciding what should exist and what it should feel like to use. Ops has had ticket queues for a decade. It has never had a product team.
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