Discovery call · §A
No discovery gauntlet. No junior reps. The engineer who joins the call has shipped your category to production: plus the department lead from the practice you’d hire us for.
On the call
Senior engineer + dept lead
Length
30 min · video · no obligation
Privacy
NDA on request before the call
If we're not a fit
We say so · route you elsewhere
//Engineered in Dallas · Doha · senior-only since 2018
Pick a topic
Pick the topic closest to your problem. Each card opens the calendar pre-routed to the practice lead and a senior engineer with shipped experience in that category.
8 practices · 16 internal departments
Filter
8/8AI strategy / generative AI
RAG, agentic systems, ML platform, eval infrastructure
→ CORTEX dept lead joins
Custom software build
SaaS, enterprise apps, modernization
→ FORGE dept lead joins
Platform & cloud
AWS / Azure / GCP architecture, IaC, DevOps, SRE
→ FOUNDATION dept lead joins
Enterprise platforms
Dynamics 365, Salesforce, Power BI, ServiceNow
→ ATLAS dept lead joins
Security & compliance
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, AppSec program
→ CITADEL dept lead joins
UI / UX design
Design systems, product UX, accessibility audits
→ CANVAS dept lead joins
Hire engineers
Dedicated team, staff augmentation, embedded engineers
→ Engineering lead + recruiter join
Something else
We'll route to the right department
→ We'll route on our end
Need more depth?
A longer working session with a senior engineer plus the department lead: for architecture review, vendor assessment, or build-vs-buy decisions that need more than 30 minutes.
What you get
Whoever joins the call has shipped your category to production. No SDR triage, no qualifying gauntlet, no junior rep scheduling a follow-up.
CORTEX (AI/ML), FORGE (custom software), FOUNDATION (cloud), CITADEL (security). Whoever maps to your stack joins the room.
We turn down ~30% of inbound projects. If we're not a fit, we'll say so on the call and route you to firms we trust.
How it works
Each step has a published cue. What we expect from you and when, what we commit to and when. No SDR loops, no scope creep, no “let me circle back”.
Tell us the practice (AI / custom software / platform / etc.) and a window that works. We route to the right department; reply within 2 business hours during U.S. / GCC business days.
Diagrams, decks, scribbled notes, anything concrete. We'll spend the first 5 minutes calibrating, then 20 minutes on the actual work.
Architecture review, build-vs-buy guidance, vendor assessment, or scope-pruning, whatever the call calls for. We'll tell you what we'd do if we owned the engagement.
Engage with us, hire someone else, build it internally, or shelve it. Written summary either way within 48 hours.
Discovery call
30 minutes · no obligation · senior engineer