AI-Native Development · Austin

AI-Native Development
in Austin

Agentic tooling as the primary build method. Architecture and review stay human.

We build for founders in Austin using agentic tools — Claude Code as the primary driver — as the actual engineering method, not a demo trick. The difference from vibe coding: architecture, data model, and security boundaries are decided by a senior engineer, evals run as a CI gate instead of a vibe check, and every commit gets reviewed for the failure modes AI-generated code tends to ship. We're also the team founders call to fix the codebases that skipped this discipline — see Vibe Code Rescue.

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Engagement shape

From

$6,000

Flat price, quoted after 30-min call

Timeline

5–10 days

First production deploy

1

Senior engineer, named

Day 1

Code in your GitHub

$0

Retainer, equity, lock-in

How this works

One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.

One senior engineer plus AI agents now ships ai-native development that used to need a four-person team. Same code quality, half the cost, three-week timelines instead of three months. Built for pre-seed to Series A founders in Austin who need to ship before the next round closes.

The local read

Why ai-native development is hard in Austin

Austin's tech wave brought the SF cost structure with it. 60+ days to fill the role. $310K all-in for the kind of engineer you actually want. And the local agency option is mostly staffing shops billing hourly with a bench problem you'll end up subsidizing.

We're the other thing. One engineer owns your build from spec to deploy. Flat price quoted up front — not by the hour, not by milestone padding. Code in your GitHub from commit one. When the build ends, you walk away clean: no retainer, no notice period, no key-person dependency you didn't sign up for.

Hiring one senior engineer here is a ~$310K year-one outlay and a 60–90 day search. Our ai-native development engagement starts at $6,000 with a first deploy in 5–10 days.

Did you know · Austin

South by Southwest started in 1987 as a music conference. The interactive (tech) track launched in 1994 with around 150 attendees. It now pulls north of 50,000.

Time zone

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We work on Central Time, so we overlap with your in-house team, your investors, and your customers in the same window.

Sectors in Austin

AI and ML toolingDefense techRoboticsB2B SaaSConsumer product

Stack we use

Claude CodeCursorTypeScriptNext.jsCI-gated evals

What you actually get

Concrete deliverables.
Live in 5–10 days.

No discovery phase that bills for itself. No Figma-only delivery. Every item below is something you can open, click, and ship to a user.

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Scoped build (feature, internal tool, or MVP slice) shipped via agentic-driven implementation, human-reviewed every commit

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Architecture, data model, and auth boundaries decided by the engineer — never delegated to the agent

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Evals and automated checks as a CI gate, so AI-authored code can't regress silently

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Full commit history — you see what was agent-drafted versus hand-written, not one opaque squash commit

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Code review pass specifically hunting the failure modes AI-generated code tends to ship

Why us

Why founders in Austin pick us for this

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We're the team founders call when AI-native went wrong (see Vibe Code Rescue) — we know exactly which shortcuts not to take

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Agentic tooling used transparently, with a senior engineer as the architecture and security backstop, not a rubber stamp

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Evals and CI gates from day one, not bolted on after the first production incident

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Same flat-price, your-code-from-commit-one terms as every other engagement — no markup for the tooling

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Founders we shipped ai-native development with

Real founders, real product, real testimonials. The kind of ai-native development work we'd do for you in Austin.

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FAQ

Common questions about ai-native development
in Austin

How fast can you start?

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Most builds begin within seven days of the first call. We don't sell discovery — we go from problem statement to first deploy on the same day-one timeline.

Is the price really flat?

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Yes. After a 30-minute call we send a single number and a scope you can accept or reject. No hourly billing, no change-order games. If we underestimate, we eat it.

Isn't this just vibe coding with extra steps?

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No — the difference is who owns architecture and review. Vibe coding means accepting whatever the agent outputs. AI-native means the agent drafts, a senior engineer decides the data model, auth boundaries, and what actually ships, with evals as a CI gate instead of a vibe check.

Which tools do you use?

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Claude Code as the primary driver for most of the codebase, with Cursor for targeted work when it fits better. Tool choice adapts to the codebase — what doesn't change is that architecture and code review stay human.

Who owns the code?

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You do, from commit one. The repository is created in your GitHub org. Infrastructure is provisioned in your cloud account. We don't host your stack on ours and we don't lock you in.

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