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Multi-model orchestration
We use the right model for each step of the work. Claude for one part, GPT for another, Gemini where it shines, open source where it makes sense. Models are tools. The work is choosing them well and combining them.
Coming soon — No Compromise AI
You shouldn't have to choose.
OpenAI and Claude and Google and open source. Speed and quality. Breadth and depth. The AI industry keeps asking businesses to pick a side. We don't.
We use the right model for each step of the work — often more than one — paired with design processes that bring output measurably closer to production-ready than anything the market is currently delivering.
Faster. Higher quality. No compromises.
The compromise everyone else makes
The false choices the AI industry keeps calling strategy
- →Pick a model.
- →Pick a vendor.
- →Pick speed or quality.
- →Pick automation or oversight.
Most AI consultancies hand you a binary and call it strategy. That's how you end up with the wrong tool, the wrong output, and a roadmap built around someone else's product — not yours.
How we work
Architect first. Code second. Then the model decides.
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Proprietary design processes
AI tools ship code fast. Code that looks production-ready until you actually ship it. Our process — including SpecStep, our design-spec system — gives that code the architectural direction it lacks. The result is output that holds up in production.
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Architect-led, not vibe-coded
There is no substitute for a senior architect who has actually shipped enterprise systems. Our Principal Architect has done it for 26 years, including for federal agencies, Fortune 500s, and large global nonprofits, delivered as a subcontractor through prior employers. AI accelerates that experience. It doesn't replace it.
Who's behind this
Run by people who have actually shipped it
Ariel Clausen
CEO
Background in computer programming and networking; runs the business and keeps the wheels on.
Jerold Billings
COO and Principal Architect
26+ years as a senior solutions architect designing and shipping enterprise systems for federal agencies, Fortune 500s, and large nonprofits. 12 years working with AI; 4 years specifically with generative AI. Past project work, delivered as a subcontractor through prior employers and contracting companies, has touched the Library of Congress, Department of Health and Human Services, Peace Corps, Kaiser Permanente, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Past project work has included engagements with
- Library of Congress
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Peace Corps
- Kaiser Permanente
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
We're deliberately model-agnostic and stack-agnostic. We work across frontier models, open source, and your existing infrastructure — without partiality to any of them.
Our design-spec system
SpecStep
SpecStep is the design-spec system we built to give AI the architectural direction it lacks — so the software it ships doesn't fall over in production.
Learn more at specstep.com →Two ways in
Stop compromising. Start shipping.
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