Custom software for Baton Rouge — built the AI-native way.
We pair senior engineers with an AI-accelerated delivery model to design, build, and ship custom software far faster than a traditional shop — without the fragile, unreviewed code that gives AI a bad name.
AI changed the economics of custom software. We rebuilt our process around it.
Baton Rouge anchors Louisiana's state-government and petrochemical heartland — home to deep refining-and-petrochemical operations along the Mississippi River, LSU and its research-software ecosystem, and growing B2B SaaS demand. Senior hires are six figures, months out, and picked over by energy operators, state agencies, and the smaller venture-backed bench. AI changes the math, but only when senior people own the parts AI gets wrong.
AI is genuinely good at the repetitive 70% of software work: scaffolding, boilerplate, CRUD, first-draft UI, test stubs, glue code. It is dangerously unreliable at the other 30%: architecture, security, edge cases, and knowing when its own output is wrong. Teams that ship raw AI code learn this in production.
We build for Baton Rouge operators — refining and petrochemical ops platforms, sensor and SCADA pipelines, state-agency modernization projects, LSU-adjacent research-software platforms, B2B SaaS shipping into regional buyers, and modernization of decades-old enterprise stacks. Our model: AI handles scaffolding and the repetitive 70%; a senior engineer owns architecture, security review, and signs off on every change.
AI writes the first draft. A senior engineer signs off.
Every change runs through review for security, tests, and architecture before it ships — that review is the product.
const draft = await ai.generate(spec) // minutes, not daysreview(draft, { security: true, tests: true, architecture: true })// ✗ rejected: late-arriving sensor event overwrites newer state → event-sourced with version + replay test// ✓ merged: audit-logged write on regulated operations, accessibility-tested citizen portal flowOn a Baton Rouge energy or govtech build, the failure modes are late SCADA data, missing audit trails on regulated operations, and accessibility regressions. Senior review catches them before a control-room alarm or a state assessor does.
What we build for Baton Rouge companies.
Energy & operations software
Field-ops apps, sensor pipelines, and asset-management platforms for upstream, midstream, and renewables.
GovTech & FedRAMP-ready apps
Citizen-facing services and internal systems built for procurement, accessibility, and audit.
SaaS platforms
Multi-tenant products with auth, billing, and dashboards — MVP to scale.
Modernization
Move legacy systems onto a modern, maintainable stack — incrementally, no big-bang.
AI applications
Copilots, RAG, search, and agents grounded in your data, with guardrails and evals.
Internal tools & copilots
Operations tooling that replaces the spreadsheet-and-tribal-knowledge workflow.
A senior team that moves at AI speed.
You work with senior engineers who own architecture and quality — not a junior pool with raw AI output bolted on. We communicate in Central Time and integrate with your tools and cadence.
Baton Rouge's senior engineering pool is split between energy operators, state agencies, LSU's research-software bench, and a smaller venture-backed bench — three-to-six months to hire and quietly poached by New Orleans, Houston, and remote roles. An AI-native team gets you shipping this week, scales with your project, and doesn't need a downtown office.
Talk to an engineerTraditional Baton Rouge dev shop vs. AI-native.
| Traditional Agency | DEV.co (AI-native) | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to working software | Months | Days to weeks |
| Cost | Full senior rates, all hours | Lower — AI removes the rote work |
| Code quality | Good (if senior) | Same bar — every change reviewed |
| AI risk | — | Contained by senior review + tests |
| You own the code | Usually | Always — full repo on day one |
| Scales with you | Slow to staff up | Flex up or down monthly |
Common questions from Baton Rouge teams.
Do you work with Baton Rouge companies?
Do you work with industrial / SCADA and state-agency systems?
Is AI-built software production-ready?
Will we own the code?
How fast can we start?
Can you work with our existing team?
Let's build it — Baton Rouge.
Tell us what you're trying to ship. We'll give you an honest recommendation, a timeline, and a fixed quote — and tell you if AI-native is the right fit or not.