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Ship software at the speed of AI.

We build custom software, cloud platforms, and AI agents, and place the senior engineers to run them, with AI woven through every step. Senior-team quality, at startup speed.

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✓ spec drafted · 7 stories

✓ branch feat/checkout-api

✓ 23 files changed · 401 tests pass

→ PR #142 opened, awaiting human approval

A real flow from Cascade, the open-source agent we build and run ourselves.

2×
Faster delivery
48h
To a proposal
10d
To first hire
5
Open-source tools

Works with the stack your team already runs

GitHub GitLab Bitbucket Azure DevOps Jira Linear
What we do

Four ways we help you ship, under one roof.

Build the product, run the cloud, add the AI, or staff the team. Each engagement runs on the same AI-augmented pipeline, so you get more, sooner.

Software Development

Full-stack web and mobile products built by small senior teams, with AI accelerating design, code, and review.

  • Web & mobile apps
  • APIs & backends
  • Modernization

Cloud & DevOps

Cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD that ships safely and scales without surprises.

  • AWS / GCP / Azure
  • IaC & pipelines
  • Observability

AI & Agentic Solutions

Custom agents wired into your operations, triage, review, retrieval, automation that pays for itself.

  • Workflow automation
  • RAG & integrations
  • Customer-facing AI

Engineering Talent

Pre-vetted engineers who already work AI-augmented. Skip the 90-day ramp. Direct, contract, or contract-to-hire.

  • Senior full-stack & ML
  • Agent engineers
  • Fractional CTOs
Why ThinkNext

We don't sell AI. We deliver outcomes using it.

Anyone can put "AI" on a slide. We've shipped production systems with it for years, and built our own operations around it. That's how we deliver more, in less time, for less money.

01

AI-native, not AI-bolted-on

Planning, coding, review, and QA all run AI-augmented, that's the productivity edge.

02

Senior engineers only

No bait-and-switch. The engineer in the demo is the engineer on your project.

03

Fixed-scope, fixed-price options

Predictable budget for predictable work. T&M only when scope is genuinely open-ended.

04

Transparent by default

Shared Slack, issue tracker, and repo from day one. You see the work as it happens.

How we compare
Comparison criteria Traditional agency ThinkNext
Spec phase 4+ weeks of meetings 48-hour proposal
First shippable code Week 8 Week 1
Code review Human only, 1-day SLA AI + human, hours
Pricing model Time & materials only Fixed-price options
Communication Weekly status meeting Live in Slack & repo
Who builds it Junior staff after pitch Same senior team
How we build

From idea to shipped, with AI at every step.

The pipeline we run for every project: engineers in the driver's seat, AI doing the heavy lifting, humans approving every merge.

  1. STEP 01 Human

    Listen

    A real conversation. We understand your goals before quoting anything.

  2. STEP 02 AI + Human

    Specify

    AI drafts the technical spec from our notes. We refine it with you in 48 hours.

  3. STEP 03 AI + Human

    Build

    AI pair-programs with senior engineers, faster code, with the judgment to catch what's wrong.

  4. STEP 04 AI + Human

    Review

    Layered AI review catches bugs and security issues. Humans approve every merge.

  5. STEP 05 Continuous

    Ship

    Continuous deployment, monitored in production, iterated weekly on real usage.

Typical cycle time: idea → live in production = 2 to 4 weeks
Open source

We ship the AI tools we wish existed.

Every project is open source, MIT licensed, and self-hosted, built to solve a real problem we hit on client work. Together they form a complete agentic SDLC stack, and we dogfood them on our own engagements before asking anyone else to.

Cascade

flagship
beta · 0.1.0

Meeting recording in, tested pull request out. Three on-ramps, 5 LLMs, 4 VCS providers, 8 languages. Humans approve every gate.

$ pip install cascade-agent
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Relay

beta · 0.1.0

Label an issue, get a tested pull request. Autonomous, runs in your CI. The hands-off cousin of Cascade for well-scoped tickets.

$ pip install relay-agent
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Sentinel

beta · 0.1.x

Point it at a URL: the agent explores, generates a Playwright plan, runs it, and reports failures, visual regressions, a11y violations, and API findings.

$ pip install sentinel-agent
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Tribune

alpha · 0.1.0a1

AI PR review. Point it at a pull request: it fetches the diff, reviews with your LLM, and posts inline comments and a verdict. GitHub + GitLab today.

$ pip install tribune-agent
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Beacon

alpha · 0.1.0a1

Production-to-dev bridge. Pipe log/error events in; Beacon clusters them, summarizes each with your LLM, and files one issue per cluster. Optional Relay handoff.

$ pip install beacon-agent
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What we believe
AI should accelerate experts, not replace them.
Every line of code we ship has a senior engineer's name on it.
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Get launch posts when products ship

A quiet email list, about two emails a month, no marketing fluff.

Let's talk

Have a project? Tell us about it.

We respond within one business day. Fixed-price proposals in 48 hours. No "discovery sessions," no 6-week sales cycles.

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