Engineering
Intelligence.
AI systems that hold under production pressure.
We build agents and the data infrastructure that feeds them — with governance from day one.
Direct contact with a principal engineer.
From nightly batches to event-driven detection.
We replaced nightly batch detection with a Kafka event pipeline for a healthcare provider. Model reasoning enriches flagged alerts; the compliance team reviews them.
Read the healthcare case
Who We Work With
Technical leaders — from funded founders to enterprise platform teams — where architecture mistakes are expensive.
- ✓Technical founder, CTO, or VP Engineering with a system already underway and real delivery pressure
- ✓Team that needs principal-level architecture judgment beyond ticket execution or project management
- ✓AI-core product where agent reliability, RAG quality, data infrastructure, or observability are real constraints
- ✓Buyer willing to act when the best recommendation is a narrower build path
How Teams Engage
Choose the entry point that fits.
Production AI Readiness Review
Fixed-fee diagnostic for one live or near-live system. Get a Production Boundary Diagnostic that ranks risks, missing evidence, and the next safe decision.
Scoped Build Sprint / Delivery Pod
One defined workflow, architecture through deployment. For teams stuck between AI strategy and production change, AW can run a scoped build sprint or place a principal-led delivery pod around the workstream.
Stabilization Sprint
Bounded rescue for systems already straining. Scope lands in days; corrective engineering starts immediately.
Embedded AI Advisory
Ongoing architecture counterpart for teams making active design decisions. Monthly cadence, async review between sessions.
Engineering in Practice
Client engagements and internal builds, with their methods and limits.
Agent Output Validation
An internal competitor-research workflow uses Pydantic schemas to produce structured, diffable reports for human review.
Read the caseCode Retrieval Quality
An internal codebase-analysis agent combines syntax-aware chunking, retrieval, and reranking, with source references developers can check.
Read the caseBatch-to-Streaming Detection
A healthcare engagement replaced nightly batch detection with a Kafka event pipeline and model-enriched alerts for compliance review.
Read the caseDocument Governance
An enterprise engagement classified corporate documents by category and sensitivity, with confidence scores and flagged cases for human review.
Read the caseWhere we go deep
The technical systems behind the work.
AI Agents & Autonomous Systems
Agent systems with checkpoints, approvals, and production-grade observability.
Data Engineering
Real-time pipelines, CDC ingestion, and event systems that hold up under load.
Advanced RAG Systems
Retrieval systems, evaluation loops, and production-grade grounding.
ML & Data Science
Models turned into monitored production systems.
Vector & Graph Databases
Retrieval and knowledge infrastructure for AI-native applications.
Full-Stack AI Applications
From inference endpoint to interface, with deployment and operational guardrails in place.
Strategic AI Architecture
Architecture review, suitability decisions, and governance framing before build compounds around the wrong pattern.
What We Keep Seeing Go Wrong
The failure mode is usually architecture drift: too much novelty, too little operational discipline.
Agents
Teams reach for multi-agent orchestration when a deterministic workflow or a single structured-output step would be cheaper, safer, and easier to operate.
Data
Streaming systems are introduced late, after product logic has already been built on brittle APIs, manual exports, and undocumented schemas.
Observability
Teams monitor infrastructure while decision quality, checkpoint failures, retry behavior, and tool-call boundaries stay invisible, so failures look random.
Delivery
Architecture review is skipped to move faster, then the team spends the next two months undoing stack choices that were wrong in week one.
How We Work
Every engagement leaves behind explicit decisions, review criteria, and rollout checkpoints. Our methodology codifies what we learned shipping production systems.
Technical Discovery
We audit your current stack, identify constraints, and map the clearest path from prototype to production.
1-2 daysDiagnostic & Recommendation
Production Boundary Diagnostic and a direct recommendation: readiness review, architecture review, stabilization sprint, scoped build, or a clear signal to pause.
5 business daysBuild & Ship
Weekly deployments to staging. Code reviews, CI/CD, observability baked in from day one.
2-12 weeksHandoff & Review
Handoff with runbooks, dashboards, and explicit ownership. Your team owns the system fully, with ongoing review support only where it improves decision quality.
OngoingProduction-Ready
AI Agents
A Developer's Guide to Building Scalable, Reliable & Observable AI Agents
Our operating model is published.
Igor Bobriakov authored Production-Ready AI Agents. The same operating discipline, checkpoints, observability, and failure handling, shows up in every system we ship.
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Tell us about your system, the decision ahead, and the constraints. We will review the context and recommend the next step.
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