Systems & agents
The Lead
“Point me at the fortress.”
Wires the whole thing together: tool-using agents that actually finish the job. Allergic to demos that fall over on a real user.
the cast ↓
The nirds vs. the pigs.
Big corporations throw billions at tech and still leave small businesses behind. The nirds are the ones with the slingshot, putting that firepower back in reach of the little shop. The pig is the giant in the glass tower. The nird is small, sharp, and aimed straight at it.
what we doAI integration as a service.
The nirds
the ones with the slingshotAngry nerds, not birds. Each one owns a slice of AI integration as a service end-to-end, and is frankly a little angry about how the giants do it. This is the crew, drawn.
RAG & retrieval
The Retriever
“If it can’t cite it, it doesn’t say it.”
Digs the right answer out of your own messy data and makes the model prove where it came from. Will fight you for one more point of recall.
Evals & infra
The Gatekeeper
“We can’t measure it? We don’t ship it.”
Builds the test that catches the regression before your users do. Golden sets, CI gates, the unglamorous work that decides whether it survives.
Local inference
The Homesteader
“Your data never leaves the building.”
Squeezes capable models onto the hardware you already own. Private, predictable, and free of the per-token bill the giants love.
We’re always hiring
You?
“Senior, curious, allergic to slop.”
The chair’s warm. If you’ve shipped real systems and you’d aim them at the right target, say hi.
The pigs
the giants in the glass towerNot evil, exactly. Just enormous, well-funded, and convinced that more budget is the same thing as a better answer. They are what the nirds aim at.
Big-budget vendor
The Whale
“We’ll throw another billion at it.”
Confuses spend with progress. Sits on a mountain of budget and ships features the corner shop will never afford or need.
Platform lock-in
The Landlord
“Per seat, per token, per breath.”
Rents you a cage with a great view. Easy to move in, impossible to leave, and the meter never stops running.
All sizzle
The Megaphone
“It’s AGI-powered, synergistic, web-scale.”
Ships a press release and a waitlist. Long on adjectives, short on anything that survives contact with a real customer.
the whole idea, in one picture
Small slingshot. Big glass tower.
The giant’s fortress is made of money and marketing. It is also made of glass. One well-aimed nird is all it takes to give a small business a fair fight.