Vertical · Startups & YC
Ship the AI feature without moving anyone off the roadmap.
Startups do not have spare engineers. We build the automation or the AI feature alongside your team, on founder-friendly terms, and hand it over documented well enough to change without us.
What we automate
Where the time goes — and how we win it back.
Ops automation that gives a founder the week back
Onboarding, billing follow-ups, support triage, and investor or customer reporting, wired across the tools you already pay for.
The AI feature inside your product
The model work, the evaluation harness, and the guardrails, built against your codebase and reviewed by your own engineers before handover.
Knowledge assistants for a small team
Retrieval over your documents, tickets, and call notes, so the answer someone needs is not buried in a thread nobody can find.
Fractional AI lead
An embedded lead for teams who need these decisions made well and do not yet need a full-time hire.
Playbooks
Pre-scoped for Startups & YC.
Startup Automation Sprint
One workflow, scoped to two to four weeks at startup rates, with milestone billing.
AI feature build
The AI part of your product, built with your engineers rather than around them.
Each playbook is fixed-fee, scoped from your Opportunity Audit — you pay for the work, not guesswork.
The entry point
Two weeks, flat
YC Automation Kickstart
$6,500
- We audit the operational bottleneck costing your team the most time
- We build one high-leverage automation and put it into production
- We hand over the workflow, the documentation, and the credentials
How we engage
Terms built for a company that is still moving.
Milestone billing
Split across the engagement, so the first payment does not carry the whole risk.
No lock-in
Retainers are month-to-month, and you keep everything we build.
Async by default
A shared channel and working demos, instead of a standing meeting and a long statement of work.
Referral credit
Introduce another eligible founder and you both get credit toward your next engagement.
Sprints, deployments, and retainers for startups are quoted from the audit at startup rates. See how pricing works.
Public or private?
Eligibility is YC-backed in any batch, or venture- or angel-backed before a Series A. Most startup work starts public, because shipping fast matters more than sovereignty on day one — we move a workload private when it earns it.
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