Isotope/ v0.4.2

Production AIsystems.Shipped in days.

We design, build, and deploy frontier AI for organizations that ship, not study. One pod. Full stack. Native to your vertical.

See selected work
Pod size04
First commit48h
Ship median12days
~/isotope/engage.shv0.4.2 · live
● Active pod · SF-01uptime 14d 06h
01Ship median
0days
From kickoff to production. Across 14 engagements in 2025.
02Velocity multiple
0.0×
Median engagement vs. peer-firm baseline. Measured, not claimed.
03Pod headcount
00people
Design · engineering · ml-ops · domain. No PM layer. No slide deck.
04p95 review
0ms
Async standup latency. Engineering response, not Slack-typing-indicator.

Selected clients

2025 cohort/06
Halide
NEUTRON.AI
fold.
Latimer
// PARALLAX
Sable&Co
# 02 /Solutions

What we build.
Six pillars of AI-era work.

Every engagement maps to one of these six lines. Pick by what you're shipping. Each pillar is a focused capability — not a service menu — and runs through the same pod, the same pillars, the same compressed timeline.

# 03 /Engagement models

Three shapes.
Pick by the work,
not by the hour.

Every engagement is a fixed shape with a fixed end-cap. We choose the model together on the scoping call — based on what you're shipping, not on what's easiest to invoice.

# 01 / ModelFull product
POD·PRODUCT

PODThe full pod assembled for one product.

Four people — eng lead, backend, design/eval, domain. Same names from kickoff through deployment. No PM layer, no hand-off, no offshore arm.

Best for0→1, hard re-platforms
Pod size04 people
RhythmShip median · 12d
BillingFixed monthly
# 02 / ModelScope-locked
D03D07D11SHIPSCOPEFIXED

Fixed-price projectQuoted, scoped, shipped. No change orders.

30-minute scoping call, written scope, target ship date. Price covers the pod for the duration. No hourly billing. No surprises on invoice day.

Best forKnown scope, hard date
Pod sizeSub-pod, 02–03
RhythmFixed end-cap · 5–18d
BillingFixed fee
# 03 / ModelEmbedded
ISOTOPEYOUR TEAM

Engineer augmentationOur engineers integrate with your team.

Pair one or two of our engineers directly into your existing org. They show up in your stand-ups, your Slack, your repo. You get frontier capacity without restructuring.

Best forExisting ML team
Pod size01–02 engineers
RhythmMonth-to-month
BillingPer-engineer monthly
# 05 / Manifesto
We don't study.We don't workshop.We don't partner.We ship.
# 06 /The pod

Four people.
No PM layer.
No agency arm.

The pod that scopes you is the pod that ships you. Each engagement runs with the same four-person unit from first call through deployment. Same names on Slack. Same names on the commit history.

# 01core-0
Aria K.
Eng lead · ml-ops
# 02core-1
Jonas R.
Eng · backend, retrieval
# 03core-2
Mira S.
Design · interface, evals
# 04core-3
Devon O.
Pod ops · domain liaison
# 07 /FAQ

Honest answers.
No throat-clearing.

01What does "ships in days" actually mean?+
Median time from kickoff to production deployment is 12 days across our 2025 cohort. The first commit lands in 48 hours. Discovery and scope lock by day 3. We share the running calendar with you on day 0.
02What kinds of engagements do you take?+
Only AI-era work. Agents in production, custom eval harnesses, latency-critical inference, retrieval over weird data, RLHF tooling. We pass on legacy maintenance, WordPress, and "AI strategy" decks.
03Who is the pod?+
Four people: an engineering lead, a backend / retrieval engineer, a design + evaluation lead, and a domain liaison. Same four on every engagement. No offshore arm. No agency-to-agency hand-off.
04How does pricing work?+
Fixed-fee per engagement. We quote after a 30-minute scoping call. The price covers the entire pod for the duration. No hourly billing. No change orders for things we should have anticipated.
05Do you sign NDAs and DPAs?+
Yes. Mutual NDA on first call. We have standard DPAs ready for HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, and EU GDPR contexts. Custom security review on request.
06What if we already have an ML team?+
We work alongside them. Our engagements are scoped to ship one production-grade system; we don't replace teams, we accelerate them. Knowledge transfer is part of every engagement.
# 08 /Engage

Let's talk growth.

30-minute scoping call. We come prepared. You leave with a written scope and a target ship date — or with an honest "we're not the right firm."

# LocaleSF · Remote
# Slots2 open for Q3 · 1 open for Q4
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