The team

Senior practitioners —
not a staffing agency.

A small, independent team of senior engineers, organized around the three layers of our stack. The same person who scopes your audit does the work and hands it over. No bait-and-switch, no junior hand-off, no one you've never met touching your systems.

Meet us on a call See the practice leads

How the team is organized

One team per layer of the stack we own.

We don't sell bodies by the hour. The team mirrors the architecture: a practice for the product, one for the substrate beneath it, and one for the bedrock that holds everything up. Each is led by a senior who's accountable end to end.

Layer 01 · Product

AI-Native practice

Grounding, evaluation, guardrails, and human review for production AI.

Layer 02 · Substrate

Foundations practice

APIs, databases, and legacy modernization — the AI-ready substrate.

Layer 03 · Bedrock

Run & Assure practice

Infrastructure and independent security audit. Vendor-neutral.

The practice leads

The people you'll actually work with.

Three senior leads, one per layer. Whoever scopes your engagement is the one who delivers it — you'll know their name, and they'll know your system.

  
  AI-Native lead 
Michael Brennan
Principal, AI Engineering
Production AI — grounding, evals, and the kind of systems they've shipped.
 LLM appsEvalsGuardrails 
  
  Foundations lead 
Kevin Zhao
Lead Engineer, Platform
APIs, data, and legacy modernization experience.
 APIsPostgreSQLSymfony / Vue 
  
  Assurance lead 
Simone Carter
Security & Audit Lead
Infrastructure, security audits, and vendor review.
 AuditLinuxVendor review 

What makes us different

Small on purpose. Senior by default.

The thing a staffing agency can't promise is the thing that matters most: that the person who understands your system is the same person who keeps it running.

You meet who does the work

No bait-and-switch. The senior who scopes it delivers it.

Independent & vendor-neutral

We audit third parties without conflict — including ones you already use.

You keep control

Documentation, credentials, and code stay yours. No lock-in by design.

No junior hand-off

The seniority you talk to in the first call is the seniority that touches your systems — every time, not just at the pitch.

Direct, not through a manager

You talk to the engineer doing the work, not an account layer relaying messages back and forth. Fewer games of telephone, fewer surprises.

Accountable to the scope

Every engagement starts with a written, agreed scope. The person who signs it is the person you can hold to it.

Built to hand back

We work so you're never dependent on us. Structured handover means the docs, credentials, and code are always yours to take elsewhere.

No queue, no bot

Talk to the engineer,
not the account manager.

When you reach out, a senior engineer replies — not a bot, not a sales queue. Start with an audit or just a 15-minute call, and meet the person who'd actually do the work.

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Senior practitioners —not a staffing agency.