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We pair senior engineers with an AI-accelerated delivery model to ship custom software for San Diego's biotech, defense, and telecom operators — without the fragile output that gives AI a bad name.
AI changed the economics of custom software. We rebuilt our process around it.
San Diego is the country's largest biotech and defense-tech cluster outside the DMV, with a deep telecom heritage (Qualcomm), a fast-growing SaaS scene in Sorrento Valley and downtown, and serious life-sciences capital. Senior hires are six figures, months out, and picked over by biotech, defense primes, and a rotation of venture-backed challengers. AI changes the math, but only when senior people own the parts AI gets wrong.
On a San Diego biotech, defense, or telecom build, AI handles the repetitive 70% — schemas, scaffolding, glue, dashboards, lab-data UI. The 30% AI gets wrong is the part your validation, security, or regulatory team will absolutely catch: e-signatures missing under 21 CFR Part 11, audit trails that don't cover a PHI access, integration boundaries on the unclassified side of a contract, and assumptions about radio or low-power constraints AI doesn't understand. Raw AI output skips those silently.
We build for San Diego operators — biotech and pharma companies digitizing lab and trial workflows, defense and aerospace contractors shipping into milestone schedules, healthcare and clinician tools, and B2B SaaS scaling to regulated buyers. 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: validated change shipped without e-signature (21 CFR Part 11 miss) → e-sig + reason + audit-logged// ✓ merged: PHI access reason captured on every read, cleared/uncleared boundary diagrammed and enforcedOn a San Diego biotech or defense build, the failure modes are missing e-signatures, audit-trail gaps on PHI, and boundary leaks between unclassified and classified work. Senior review catches them before a validator or a security officer does.
What we build for San Diego companies.
Biotech & lab software
LIMS extensions, trial-management tools, and AI for research pipelines, validated for regulated environments.
Defense & national-security software
Mission tools and analytics built for the security, classification, and integration standards your contracts require.
Healthcare & HIPAA-ready apps
Patient-facing portals, clinician tools, and care-coordination platforms built to HIPAA from day one.
AI applications
Copilots, RAG, search, and agents grounded in your data, with guardrails and evals.
SaaS platforms
Multi-tenant products with auth, billing, and dashboards — MVP to scale.
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 Pacific Time who own architecture, compliance posture, and code quality for regulated work — fitting into a La Jolla biotech, a Sorrento Valley defense subcontractor, or a downtown SaaS rhythm — not a junior pool with raw AI output bolted on.
From La Jolla to Carmel Valley to downtown, senior engineers are split between biotech, defense, and Qualcomm — and increasingly drawn into remote coastal roles. An AI-native team gets you shipping this week, scales monthly, and doesn't compete with biotech-scale comp packages.
Talk to an engineerTraditional San Diego 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 San Diego teams.
Do you work with San Diego companies?
Do you work with regulated bio / defense environments?
Can you separate cleared from uncleared work cleanly?
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 — San Diego.
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.