Reno, NV · Custom Software + AI

Custom software for Reno — 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.

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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.

Reno anchors the largest tech and manufacturing market in Northern Nevada — home to Tesla's Gigafactory in nearby Sparks, a deep mining and logistics ecosystem, a steady Bay Area relocation pull, and growing B2B SaaS demand. Senior hires are six figures, months out, and picked over by manufacturing employers, Bay Area transplants, and the venture-backed challengers around them. 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 Reno and Northern Nevada operators — manufacturing and shop-floor apps, logistics and distribution platforms, mining-tech tools, B2B SaaS shipping into mid-market buyers, AI-first companies racing competitors, 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

1const draft = await ai.generate(spec)          // minutes, not days2review(draft, { security: true, tests: true, architecture: true })34// ✗ rejected: concurrent shop-floor write without atomic update → CAS + retry + concurrent-write test5// ✓ merged: ordered-event reconstruction for late supply-chain events, idempotent supplier-EDI handler

Every change

AI velocity + human judgment

tests + security review built in

you own 100% of the result

On a Reno manufacturing or supply-chain build, the failure modes are concurrent-write races, out-of-order supply-chain events, and non-idempotent supplier EDI. Senior review catches them before a missed lot or a line stoppage does.

What we build for Reno companies.

Manufacturing

MES, IIoT & production software

Shop-floor systems, plant analytics, and supplier portals that connect old machines to new tools.

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.

Modernize

Modernization

Move legacy systems onto a modern, maintainable stack — incrementally, no big-bang.

Internal

Internal tools & copilots

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

Web

Web apps & portals

Fast, custom applications and customer portals on a modern stack.

Senior, on-shore, AI-accelerated

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 Pacific Time and integrate with your tools and cadence.

Reno's senior engineering pool is split between Tesla-Gigafactory-adjacent employers, regional manufacturing, and a growing remote-coastal contingent — three-to-six months to hire and constantly recruited by Bay Area roles. An AI-native team gets you shipping this week, flexes monthly, and doesn't need a downtown Reno office.

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Traditional Reno 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

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 Reno teams.

Do you work with Reno companies?

Yes — we serve Reno and Las Vegas companies with senior, on-shore engineers in Pacific Time. Most collaboration is remote-first, with on-site available for kickoffs and key milestones.

Do you work with manufacturing, supply-chain, and shop-floor systems?

Yes — we've built supplier portals, factory-floor apps, and supply-chain visibility tools that connect old machines and ERP systems to modern UIs. We design for the data realities: late, partial, and sometimes contradictory.

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 — Reno.

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.

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