Builders, not advisers
You have shipped systems that other people depend on, and you can own a piece of work from scoping through production without a project manager in between.
Careers
Small team, senior work, no layers. The people who scope an engagement are the people who build it — which is the job, not a perk.
We hire opportunistically rather than to a headcount plan. If you build AI systems that other people depend on, we would like to hear from you whether or not a role is posted.
Who we look for
Four things we screen hard on. Everything else — languages, frameworks, which cloud — we can work around.
Rigorous about measurement
You are the kind of person who asks how we will know it worked before writing the first line, and who is comfortable reporting a number that is worse than expected.
Able to write and to explain
You can take a technical trade-off to a board and to an engineer on the same afternoon, and write documentation someone actually uses.
Willing to say no
The most valuable thing we sell is a straight answer. That sometimes means telling a client, or us, that the thing they want built is not worth building.
The job
What it is actually like. Including the parts that will not suit everyone.
- You own an engagement end to end — scoping, building, and the handover conversation — rather than a ticket queue inside someone else's plan.
- Two or three clients at a time across the firm, so context switching is rare and depth is possible.
- Everything you build runs on the client's infrastructure, which means real production constraints rather than a sandbox.
- Written communication matters here. Scopes, runbooks and readouts are the artefacts, and they are read by people who are not engineers.
- Remote-first from London, with on-site time at clients when the work genuinely benefits from a room.
Hiring
Three steps, about two weeks. We do not run panel loops and we do not ask you to whiteboard an algorithm.
A conversation, not a screen
Forty-five minutes with someone who does the work, about something you have actually built. No take-home before we have both decided it is worth the time.
A real problem, paid
A scoped piece of work resembling a first week on an engagement, done on your own time and paid at our day rate. We discuss it together afterwards.
Meet the people, ask anything
Time with whoever you would be working alongside, including the parts of the job we find frustrating. We would rather you decline than arrive surprised.
No open role that fits?
Send a short note about a system you have built and what was hard about it — that is far more useful to us than a CV. We keep good conversations warm and come back when the work lines up.
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Let’s find out what AI is actually worth to you.
A 30-minute call, no deck. Bring the workflow that frustrates you most and we will tell you whether it is worth automating.
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