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We pair senior engineers with an AI-accelerated delivery model to ship custom software for Richmond's financial-services, insurance, and state-government operators — without the fragile output that gives AI a bad name.
AI changed the economics of custom software. We rebuilt our process around it.
Richmond anchors a strong financial-services, insurance, and government-tech market — home to Capital One, Markel, Genworth, Altria, and the Virginia state-agency ecosystem. Senior hires are six figures, months out, and picked over by Fortune-500 employers, state integrators, and the venture-backed challengers around them. AI changes the math, but only when senior people own the parts AI gets wrong.
On a Richmond financial-services, insurance, or govtech build, AI handles the repetitive 70% — schemas, scaffolding, CRUD, dashboards, glue. The 30% AI gets wrong is the part your bank examiner, state assessor, or compliance lead will absolutely catch: cardholder data accidentally landing in logs, accessibility regressions on a citizen-facing portal, claims-processing edge cases that fail at month-end, and integration with mainframe-era systems AI invents instead of reads. Raw AI output ships those silently.
We build for Richmond operators — financial-services and fintech tools at Capital One-adjacent scale, insurance and claims platforms, state-agency modernization projects, B2B SaaS shipping into mid-market and government 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: form lacks keyboard-trap-free focus management (Section 508 miss) → focus order + accessibility test// ✓ merged: PAN tokenized and scrubbed from logs, audit-logged authentication event with correlation idOn a Richmond financial-services or govtech build, the failure modes are accessibility regressions, cardholder data in logs, and missing auth audit trails. Senior review catches them before a 508 review, a QSA, or a state assessor does.
What we build for Richmond companies.
Fintech & payments platforms
Customer-facing apps, ledgers, and risk pipelines for regulated, data-heavy products.
Insurance & claims platforms
Underwriting tools, claims automation, and broker portals for carriers and InsurTechs.
SaaS platforms
Multi-tenant products with auth, billing, and dashboards — MVP to scale.
GovTech & FedRAMP-ready apps
Citizen-facing services and internal systems built for procurement, accessibility, and audit.
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 in Eastern Time who own architecture, regulated-environment quality, and accessibility — fitting into a West End fintech rhythm, a downtown Richmond enterprise cadence, or a state-agency procurement review — not a junior pool with raw AI output bolted on.
Richmond's senior engineering pool is concentrated around Capital One, Markel, Altria, and the state-agency ecosystem — three-to-six months to hire and quietly poached by remote DMV and coastal roles. An AI-native team gets you shipping this week, flexes monthly, and doesn't need a West End office.
Talk to an engineerTraditional Richmond 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 Richmond teams.
Do you work with Richmond companies?
Do you build to Section 508 / WCAG 2.2 AA for state-agency procurement?
Do you build for PCI-scoped fintech and insurance core systems?
Is AI-built software production-ready?
Will we own the code?
How fast can we start?
Can you work with our existing team?
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Let's build it — Richmond.
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.