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Find out what it takes to make your team AI-native

Most transformations don't fail on model quality — they fail when a rushed rollout breaks a working process and stalls delivery for months. Discovery maps what's safe to transform, what needs prep first, and what's revenue-critical and off-limits — so you move fast without breaking what works.

3-week fixed sprint

3-week fixed sprint

You own every deliverable

You own every deliverable

NDA-first

NDA-first

Senior engineers & architects who've done this before

Senior engineers & architects who've done this before

What's actually on the table

If you're still weighing whether AI-native is worth the disruption, this is the size of the prize.

Delivery speed, structurally changed

Not autocomplete shaving minutes off a task. When AI operates with real context on your system, work that took a sprint lands in days, and work that waited on a specialist gets unblocked without one. A different throughput ceiling — and once your team crosses it, the old pace is hard to justify.

Delivery speed, structurally changed

Ship like a bigger team than you have

Understaffed, over-scoped, hiring frozen — AI-native engineering is how a lean team delivers like a larger one. Not by replacing engineers, but by pulling them off the low-leverage work that eats their week.

Ship like a bigger team than you have

Turn tribal knowledge into company property

Your most valuable context lives in a few people's heads, and walks out the door when they do. AI-native development forces that knowledge into a durable, structured form the whole org can build on. Knowledge stops being a person you can't afford to lose and becomes an asset the company owns for good.

Turn tribal knowledge into company property

The teams waiting this out aren't playing it safe — they're widening
the gap their competitors are already closing.

You've bought the tools. You've hit the ceiling. Now the pressure is to move — fast, and without breaking a delivery process that already works.

Discovery gives you the shortest safe path: a plan you can put in front of a board, and a number you can put in front of a CFO.

Built for teams that need AI fast, and can't afford to break their pipeline

If any of these sound like your engineering org, this is for you.

You don't trust AI output enough to scale it

AI produces real work, just not reliably enough to trust at scale. Discovery finds what's blocking reliable output on your codebase, and what it takes to fix it.

You don't trust AI output enough to scale it

You've hit an AI ceiling on your core code

AI helps on small tasks but stalls the moment it touches core logic. Discovery shows what's transformable, what needs prep, and what to leave alone.

You've hit an AI ceiling on your core code

Your AI tools have plateaued

Big gains on the small stuff, little on the complex work that matters. Discovery finds the structural gap you're paying for, and whether it's worth closing.

Your AI tools have plateaued

You need a plan the board will back

Before you reorganize or commit budget, you need a plan you can defend. Discovery hands you one — in a shape that holds up to a CFO.

You need a plan the board will back

You can't afford a two-year rebuild

No rebuild from scratch, no two-year initiative. Discovery finds the highest-leverage moves for your context, not a generic playbook.

You can't afford a two-year rebuild

Your team is split on A

Adoption is uneven, standards inconsistent, no one owns the direction. Discovery maps where AI is actually working across your team, and what a consistent, org-wide way of working would take.

Your team is split on A

Six deliverables. All yours to keep.

No slideware. No "best-practices library" we hold the rights to.

Operational map of your delivery pipeline

How work actually moves from request to release. Where friction concentrates, which paths are revenue-critical, which points carry the highest leverage.

Codebase readiness assessment

Where AI-native development is viable today, where it needs prep, where legacy debt requires bounded rework. Prioritized by leverage and risk.

Context & specification audit

What documentation exists, where it lives, what's stale, and what must be captured — including the context in people's heads that never made it into a doc.

Transformation roadmap

A sequenced plan for 90 days, six months, and beyond. Each step earning the next. Runnable with your team, with us, or with anyone.

Cost & effort model

Engineer-months by workstream, P50/P90 timelines, where the risk sits. The cost of doing it — and of not. Numbers your CFO can work with.

Go / reshape / no-go memo

A board recommendation in three paragraphs. "Start now," "fix these first," or "not ready — here's what to do instead." We've said not yet before and will again.

How a Discovery sprint runs

Three weeks. Three stops.

The front door to our AI-Native Engineering methodology, focused into a fixed three-week engagement.

  1. Week 1Human + AI

    Ecosystem mapping

    Codebase walkthrough, tooling inventory, docs/comms audit, stakeholder interviews, observation of current AI use. → We know the operational reality on the ground.

  2. Week 2Human + AI

    Depth analysis

    Subsystem assessment, reverse-engineering feasibility test on one real feature, documentation-form validation, cost model buildout. → We know what would actually work in your context.

  3. Week 3Human

    Synthesis & delivery

    Roadmap assembled, memo written, all six deliverables prepared, 90-minute leadership working session. → You have a plan you can act on — with us or without us.

The same stack we install, in the room from day one

AI development environments

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Claude Code
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Cursor
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Coder
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Codex

Models

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OpenAI
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Azure
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Gemini
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Qwen
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DeepSeek

Context orchestration

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MCP servers
Custom skill libraries
Persona-driven prompt frameworks
Internal spec-driven-development toolkit

Evals & observability

Custom eval harnesses
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LangSmith
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Helicone
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Promptfoo

Codebase intelligence

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Tree-sitter analysis
Custom reverse-engineering harness
Semantic code search

Free 30-minute
architecture review

Before any paid engagement, we’ll spend 30 minutes pressure-testing your AI architecture or vendor proposal — no slides, no pitch. Often that’s enough to surface the next move.

Because the details decide everything

The operational reality isn't the diagram on the wall

A transformation has to be calibrated to how you actually run, not how you see yourself. Discovery closes that gap.

The operational reality isn't the diagram on the wall

Context is the constraint — not code generation

Almost every AI ceiling is a context problem, not a model problem. Discovery diagnoses which context is missing, latent, or recoverable.

Context is the constraint — not code generation

The right answer might be "not with this codebase — yet"

Some codebases are ready, some need prep, some are too far out. We'd rather tell you in week three than month nine.

The right answer might be "not with this codebase — yet"

Either side should be able to walk

A phased contract protects both parties. No one's committed beyond what's been earned.

Either side should be able to walk

The team in the room is the team that does the work

Senior AI engineers in the room

The same people who'd run your transformation, not consultants relaying notes.

Senior AI engineers in the room

We've installed this in production

Real infrastructure, not a theoretical framework.

We've installed this in production

18 years of engineering depth under the AI

Most "AI failures" are ordinary engineering failures. The engineering underneath is what holds up under production traffic.

18 years of engineering depth under the AI

AI-accelerated, and you can see it

Six weeks of consultant time compressed into three weeks of senior engineering time.

AI-accelerated, and you can see it

Domain depth where it matters

Ad-tech, fintech, healthcare, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, regulated workflows.

Domain depth where it matters

Falsifiable deliverables — and you own them

No exclusivity, no lock-in.

Falsifiable deliverables — and you own them

Independent perspective

We'll tell you "not now" when the honest read says so. That's what makes the "yes" worth trusting.

Independent perspective

Two ways to work with us. You choose after Discovery, not before.

Discovery only

fixed three-week sprint, deliverables you own outright, take them anywhere.

Discovery only

Discovery + transformation

If it green-lights and you continue with us, we install the methodology with the roadmap already agreed.

Discovery + transformation

Let’s build something
great together.