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About
We're a small team of highly skilled engineers who've been around the block. Between us, we've got 40+ years building everything from complex, scalable solutions in consulting, retail and finance, to lean, flexible solutions for VC-backed startups.
Over the last 4 years we dived headfirst into the AI wave. As LLMs evolved from interesting curiosities to capable side-kicks, tinkering and testing gave way to production applications and capabilities.
The more AI initiatives we've seen, the more the same problems appear, costing companies time and money:
- Poor data discipline leading to unreliable RAG
- Overcomplicated frameworks exploding the cost of each new feature
- Weak observability crippling the ability to calculate ROI
- Misaligned contractors taking months to deliver value
Combined, we have a decade of experience implementing AI systems, from serving chat interfaces backed by hybrid retrieval (keyword, vector, graph) across multiple continents, to complex ML-enabled audio ingestion pipelines and agentic web search with custom tool calling.
What sets us apart? We ask the annoying questions upfront. We push back when requirements don't match goals. We don't do surface-level implementations: we build infrastructure, integrations, and systems that scale with you.
We've seen the best, and worst, of outsourced partnerships, learning how to sidestep communication and alignment gaps that can turn a successful engagement into a money pit. We're not here to be yes-people, we're here to build things that work, because if you succeed so do we.
Here's What We've Been Up To.
Hours - AI Researcher
Helped Hours raise $4 million by building its social media platform and AI-led reservation system for hotels and restaurants.
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Building Crypto Trading Infrastructure
A performance-obsessed crypto trading platform where milliseconds matter and speed is the only feature that counts.
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Let's turn your vision into something amazing.
How We Work
Simple answer: however works best for you.
We're not precious about process. Some clients want us embedded in their daily standups. Others prefer to hand us a spec and check in weekly. Both work fine.
For Larger Projects
We set up dedicated communication channels on whatever platform you actually use, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams, carrier pigeon. We'll join your meetings, plug into your workflows, and operate as an extension of your team.
Need us in your sprint planning? Done. Want us reviewing PRs with your internal devs? No problem. We adapt to your cadence, not the other way around.
For Focused Builds
Just need extra keyboards to crush a backlog? We get it. Hand us tickets, point us at your repo, and we'll ship. You stay in control, we stay in our lane, and features get delivered.
What Stays Consistent
Regardless of how we work together:
- Clear communication. You'll always know what's happening and why.
- Quality code. No shortcuts, no technical debt we can't explain.
- Honest timelines. If something's going to take longer, you'll hear about it early.
- Flexible engagement. Need to scale up? Scale down? Change direction? We roll with it.
Bottom line: We're here to make your life easier, not add process overhead. Tell us what works for your team, and we'll make it happen.
Testimonials
They genuinely clicked with our team, jumped into our Slack channels, and contributed like they'd been here from day one. It's rare to find external engineers who mesh that well culturally and technically.
Jacob Marshall
Director of Business Operations
I've worked with the Truecraft team for two years and they became indispensable to how we build. They think like product owners when they need to, challenge our assumptions, and consistently deliver work that ships without drama.
James Cohen
Chief Technology Officer
Truecraft have seen me through early MVP chaos and scaling challenges, consistently delivering quality work without the typical agency nonsense. Honestly, just great guys who want to help you succeed and want to understand what you are building.
Oseh Mathias
Founder & Co-Founder
They genuinely clicked with our team, jumped into our Slack channels, and contributed like they'd been here from day one. It's rare to find external engineers who mesh that well culturally and technically.
Jacob Marshall
Director of Business Operations
I've worked with the Truecraft team for two years and they became indispensable to how we build. They think like product owners when they need to, challenge our assumptions, and consistently deliver work that ships without drama.
James Cohen
Chief Technology Officer
Truecraft have seen me through early MVP chaos and scaling challenges, consistently delivering quality work without the typical agency nonsense. Honestly, just great guys who want to help you succeed and want to understand what you are building.
Oseh Mathias
Founder & Co-Founder
They genuinely clicked with our team, jumped into our Slack channels, and contributed like they'd been here from day one. It's rare to find external engineers who mesh that well culturally and technically.
Jacob Marshall
Director of Business Operations
I've worked with the Truecraft team for two years and they became indispensable to how we build. They think like product owners when they need to, challenge our assumptions, and consistently deliver work that ships without drama.
James Cohen
Chief Technology Officer
Truecraft have seen me through early MVP chaos and scaling challenges, consistently delivering quality work without the typical agency nonsense. Honestly, just great guys who want to help you succeed and want to understand what you are building.
Oseh Mathias
Founder & Co-Founder
They genuinely clicked with our team, jumped into our Slack channels, and contributed like they'd been here from day one. It's rare to find external engineers who mesh that well culturally and technically.
Jacob Marshall
Director of Business Operations
I've worked with the Truecraft team for two years and they became indispensable to how we build. They think like product owners when they need to, challenge our assumptions, and consistently deliver work that ships without drama.
James Cohen
Chief Technology Officer
Truecraft have seen me through early MVP chaos and scaling challenges, consistently delivering quality work without the typical agency nonsense. Honestly, just great guys who want to help you succeed and want to understand what you are building.
Oseh Mathias
Founder & Co-Founder
Pricing
Dedicated engineering capacity$15,000/mo
1 senior engineer working on your product
1 active request at a time
Flexible, evolving scope
Daily async updates (Mon-Fri)
Slack/Discord/Teams integration
48-hour average turnaround per task
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Perfect for: Startups and scale-ups needing consistent engineering velocity without hiring full-time
Example AI Engagements
RAG & Knowledge SystemsDeliver a custom, permission-aware assistant for unified access to all your internal documentation:
- Integrations to retrieve documents from source
- Identify suitable document extraction and enrichment processes
- Design then implement multi-modal storage architecture
- Evaluate and fine-tune retrieval pipelines
Agentic Workflow AutomationDeliver agentic workflows to streamline operations by automating busywork and triage processes:
- Work with your team to map processes, find bottlenecks and define success
- Design and implement workflows that integrate with your existing tools
- Roll out an initial version with human review and clear guard rails to deliver value early
- Measure then improve quality and reliability, increase automation after building trust
AI Product FeaturesDeliver client-facing AI features such as recommendations, data extraction or decision support:
- Define the desired user experience, feature goals and constraints
- Map feature inputs, outputs, expected behaviour, required integrations, review or fallback paths
- Deliver initial version for A/B testing with real users, gather behaviour to inform improvements
- Refine performance and UX in light of feedback, then extend surface area
Representative examples of AI projects we scope, build and iterate on with clients.
Book a Call
Schedule an intro call to learn more about us and figure out how we can work together to bring your vision to life.
Get in touch
I'm always interested in exploring new opportunities, collaborating, or exchanging ideas with like-minded individuals. Feel free to book a call or email me if you'd like to see my portfolio deck or to discuss a potential project.