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AI operations engineering

Build it. Automate it. Run it.

A senior engineering team for AI automation, web platforms, and the cloud infrastructure beneath them — accountable from first design to daily operations.

100%

engineers hired for current fluency — nobody learning on your budget

From $15k

fixed-scope pilots — the price doesn't move unless you change it

7

days from free AI audit to a costed roadmap

0

unreviewed AI publishes — a human approves every word that goes out

Engineer working at glowing monitors in a dark studio

How we hire

Production AI built by engineers who stay current — not by résumés.

The industry sells years of experience as quality. But the engineers shipping the best AI systems today aren't the most tenured — they're the most fluent: agents, evals, modern stacks. We hire for what engineers ship now.

  • Fluent, not tenured.

    Current-stack fluency is the hiring bar. Tenure no longer proxies competence — fluency with today's tooling does.

  • Judgment included.

    Fluency wins speed; judgment keeps systems alive at 3am. Every build ships with evals, monitoring, and a runbook.

  • The team you meet is the team that ships.

    No bait-and-switch, no handoffs. Named engineers on your kickoff call, vetted by a paid production-style review.

Meet the studio

AI AutomationContent PipelinesDevOps & CloudWeb DevelopmentManaged Infrastructure & SecurityLLM IntegrationCI/CDMonitoringAI AutomationContent PipelinesDevOps & CloudWeb DevelopmentManaged Infrastructure & SecurityLLM IntegrationCI/CDMonitoring

// Production stack

The stack we ship on.

Not slideware — the infrastructure, data, and automation tooling our engineers run in production every week.

LLM INFRASTRUCTURE

Hosted and self-hosted model serving, tuned for cost and latency.

RAG SYSTEMS

Retrieval pipelines over your docs, with eval harnesses that catch drift.

KUBERNETES

Production clusters with GitOps deploys and autoscaling that behaves.

AWS

Cloud architecture, hardened IAM, and spend kept under control.

TERRAFORM

Infrastructure as code, reviewed with the same rigor as app code.

VECTOR DATABASES

Embeddings at scale — tuned recall, sub-100ms search.

AGENT FRAMEWORKS

Multi-agent workflows with human-in-the-loop gates where it matters.

Free AI audit

We find the work you shouldn't be doing.

Seven days. We scan your workflows, measure the manual hours, and hand you a costed automation roadmap. Yours to keep — even if you never hire us.

  • 01We interview your team and map the 14 highest-friction workflows.
  • 02We measure the manual hours and price what automation returns.
  • 03You get a ranked roadmap: biggest win first, fixed quote attached.
seiko-audit — findings.log
$ seiko audit --scope operations
✓ scanned 14 workflows across 3 teams
✓ flagged 9 automatable tasks (61% of manual hours)
! content publishing: 22 hrs/week on copy-paste
! deploy pipeline: 3 manual gates, 2 outages/quarter
→ estimated savings: $184,000 / year
→ full roadmap in 7 days. free.
# illustrative demo — real audit figures are measured on your workflows

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Question 1 of 2

What eats most of your team's time?

How we work

Simple process. No black boxes.

Four steps from first call to handover. You see working software every week — never a status deck.

  1. Days 1–7 · Free

    Audit

    We map your three biggest automation wins in 7 days. The roadmap is free and yours to keep.

  2. Week 2 · Locked price

    Fixed quote

    Scope, price, and timeline in writing before we write a line of code. No change-order games.

  3. Weeks 3–6 · Demo every Friday

    Weekly sprints

    Demo every Friday in your time zone. You approve direction while it's cheap to change.

  4. Launch + 30 days

    Handover & support

    Docs, training, and 30 days of support. Your team owns everything after we leave.

See the full process

Engagement blueprints

What we'd build for you.

Engagement blueprints from our senior team's shipped work — how we'd run these engagements for you. The full playbook, phase by phase, is on the Work page.

Engineers reviewing an automation pipeline dashboard on large monitors

Engagement blueprint · AI automation

AI content pipeline for a B2B marketing team

A five-person marketing team producing good content — but each asset takes weeks from brief to published, and the backlog of unwritten topics keeps growing. We'd build a pipeline grounded in their documents, with human approval on every publish decision.

≤ 48 hrssuccess criterion: brief to published
30 / mosuccess criterion: same team, same headcount
0success criterion: unreviewed publishes

See the playbook

Our own content engine

The one case study that's real: the supervised pipeline that runs this site's content. Live since September 2026 — a human approves everything, a named engineer keeps it honest.

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We build intelligent motion

The standard

MIT’s 2025 GenAI research found ~95% of enterprise pilots show zero measurable P&L impact — most were built to demo, with no named owner after launch.

“Anyone can demo an AI workflow. We build the kind that survives production — evals before launch, a human approving every publish, and a named engineer on call.”

Read the Production Standard

Senior delivery

Senior engineers. Proven methods.

You're not buying our learning curve. The engineers who scope your engagement are the ones who build it — senior people, named on your runbook, on call when it matters. Fixed pricing, production-grade methods, and a playbook we run the same way on our own systems — because we do.

Delivery model

Built for your time zone. Not against it.

We shift our working hours to yours. Standups happen in your morning, not your midnight — full overlap with your business day, wherever your team sits.

The usual outsourcing story

Farmed out

  • Standups at midnight, your time
  • Junior devs doing the work, seniors on the invoice
  • Weeks of silence, then surprises
  • Change orders for every small fix
The Seiko way

Embedded

  • Working hours shifted to cover your business day, daily
  • Engineers who stay current — the team you meet is the team that ships
  • Demo every Friday; the board is always open
  • Fixed quotes. No change-order games

Engagement models

Three ways to start.

Start free. Scale when the numbers make sense. Every model runs on engineers fluent in today’s stack.

Free AI Audit

Free

Seven days. Three automation wins. One costed roadmap.

  • Workflow scan across your team
  • Measured savings estimate
  • You keep the roadmap either way
Start free

Managed Delivery

Fixed quote

We own the outcome end to end. You approve milestones.

  • Scope and price locked up front
  • Weekly demos, no surprises
  • 30 days of post-launch support
Get a quote

Fit check

Honest about fit.

We will tell you on the first call if we are not the right team. Here is the short version, up front.

We are a fit when

  • Repetitive work is eating hours you could spend on growth
  • You want engineers, not account managers
  • Someone on your side can answer questions weekly
  • You would rather start small and prove it first

We are not a fit when

  • You need the cheapest bid, not the best outcome
  • You want a large team managed entirely for you
  • No one on your side can own decisions week to week
  • You need it live by Friday — we do not do rush miracles

FAQ

Asked often. Answered straight.

Automation guesses are expensive. We spend seven days measuring your actual workflows, then hand you a ranked, costed roadmap. You keep it either way — if the audit doesn't change how you see your workflows, we've done it wrong.

Engineers hired for current fluency. Every engineer passes live coding, system design, and a paid trial project before touching your systems. The people you meet on the first call are the people who do the work.

Our working hours are shifted to cover your workday. Standups land in your morning, questions get answered same-day, and Friday demos run live — never as a recording.

You get a fixed quote after the audit — no hourly meters running. Most pilots ship in 4–6 weeks, and we size them so the first win covers the pilot's cost.

All 14 questions

Free · 7 days · yours to keep

Stop paying for work a machine should do.

Get the free AI audit. Seven days, three wins, one roadmap — yours to keep.

No sales calls. No obligation. No junior handoffs.