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Cincinnati, OH · Custom Software + AI

Custom software for Cincinnati — built the AI-native way.

We pair senior engineers with an AI-accelerated delivery model to ship custom software for Cincinnati's consumer-products, fintech, and healthcare operators — without the fragile output that gives AI a bad name.

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Senior-only engineering · AI-accelerated delivery · you own 100% of the code

AI changed the economics of custom software. We rebuilt our process around it.

Cincinnati anchors a strong consumer-products, fintech, and healthcare market — with deep enterprise engineering demand from P&G, Kroger, Fifth Third, Cincinnati Children's, and a growing B2B SaaS scene. Senior hires are six figures, months out, and picked over by Fortune-500 employers and the venture-backed challengers around them. AI changes the math, but only when senior people own the parts AI gets wrong.

On a Cincinnati consumer-products, fintech, or healthcare build, AI handles the repetitive 70% — schemas, scaffolding, CRUD, dashboards, glue. The 30% AI gets wrong is the part Fortune-500 procurement, your bank examiner, or compliance team will catch: SSO claim assumptions on a nested AD group, cardholder data accidentally landing in logs, PHI access without audit trails, and integration with mainframe-era systems AI invents instead of reads. Raw AI output ships those silently.

We build for Cincinnati operators — consumer-products and retail platforms shipping into P&G- and Kroger-scale ecosystems, fintech and banking tools, healthcare and provider-side platforms, B2B SaaS shipping into mid-market 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.

Show, don't tell

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.

delivery.tstypescript
const draft = await ai.generate(spec)          // minutes, not daysreview(draft, { security: true, tests: true, architecture: true })// ✗ rejected: PAN logged in plaintext on an error path → tokenized + scrubbed + log-content test// ✓ merged: SSO group-claim handling for nested AD groups, audit-logged PHI access with reason capture
Every change
AI velocity + human judgment
tests + security review built in
you own 100% of the result

On a Cincinnati consumer-products or fintech build, the failure modes are cardholder data in logs, SSO assumptions, and missing audit trails. Senior review catches them before procurement, a QSA, or a HIPAA review does.

What we build for Cincinnati companies.

Commerce

eCommerce & marketplaces

Storefronts, marketplaces, and merchant tools built for conversion and scale.

Fintech

Fintech & payments platforms

Customer-facing apps, ledgers, and risk pipelines for regulated, data-heavy products.

Healthcare

Healthcare & HIPAA-ready apps

Patient-facing portals, clinician tools, and care-coordination platforms built to HIPAA from day one.

Product

SaaS platforms

Multi-tenant products with auth, billing, and dashboards — MVP to scale.

AI

AI applications

Copilots, RAG, search, and agents grounded in your data, with guardrails and evals.

Internal

Internal tools & copilots

Operations tooling that replaces the spreadsheet-and-tribal-knowledge workflow.

Senior, on-shore, AI-accelerated

A senior team that moves at AI speed.

You work with senior engineers in Eastern Time who own architecture, enterprise-grade quality, and integration with legacy systems — fitting into a downtown Cincinnati Fortune-500 cadence, a Mason fintech standup, or a Blue Ash SaaS PR review — not a junior pool with raw AI output bolted on.

Cincinnati's senior engineering pool is concentrated around P&G, Kroger, Fifth Third, and Cincinnati Children's — three-to-six months to hire and quietly poached by remote coastal roles. An AI-native team gets you shipping this week, flexes monthly, and doesn't need a downtown office.

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Traditional Cincinnati dev shop vs. AI-native.

Traditional AgencyDEV.co (AI-native)
Time to working softwareMonthsDays to weeks
CostFull senior rates, all hoursLower — AI removes the rote work
Code qualityGood (if senior)Same bar — every change reviewed
AI risk—Contained by senior review + tests
You own the codeUsuallyAlways — full repo on day one
Scales with youSlow to staff upFlex up or down monthly
2–3×
faster than traditional development
1 wk
to a working prototype
100%
code ownership at handoff
30 days
post-launch support included

Common questions from Cincinnati teams.

Do you work with Cincinnati companies?
Yes — we serve Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland companies with senior, on-shore engineers in Eastern Time. Most collaboration is remote-first, with on-site available for kickoffs and key milestones.
Do you ship into Fortune-500 procurement and security review?
Yes. We've shipped into procurement-driven environments where security review, SOC 2 / SOC 3 expectations, and vendor risk assessments are gating. We support the documentation your security and procurement leads need without it becoming the project's bottleneck.
Can you integrate with our SSO, ERP, and core banking systems?
Yes. We've built into Azure AD/Entra, Okta, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Fiserv, and a long list of more obscure enterprise integrations. We treat your existing identity and system-of-record as the source of truth — not something to work around.
Is AI-built software production-ready?
Yes — when a senior engineer reviews every output, adds tests, and hardens it. The horror stories come from shipping raw AI code unsupervised. We don't, and we support what we ship.
Will we own the code?
100%, from day one. We deliver to a repository you control — no proprietary platform, no lock-in.
How fast can we start?
Usually within days. A short scoping call defines the build, the timeline, and a fixed quote.
Can you work with our existing team?
Yes — we augment in-house teams, review their work, and set standards, or run the build end to end. We flex to how you work.

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Let's build it — Cincinnati.

Tell us what you're shipping. We'll give you a senior engineer's read, an honest timeline, a fixed quote, and tell you whether AI-native is the right fit for your build.

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