M-01IN PRODUCTION
Product engineering
Full-stack web products, shipped to production — not to a staging graveyard. We own the build from first commit to first customer.
AI-NATIVE SOFTWARE STUDIO — UNITED KINGDOM
Mander — we build the software you can't buy.
When off-the-shelf runs out, you need a build partner — not a body shop. Mander is one senior engineer directing an orchestrated fleet of AI agents: fixed scope, studio-grade output, production from week one.
Most studios sell hours. Mander sells working systems — scoped in writing, built by the person who scoped them, and running in production before the invoice clears.
No discovery theatre. No junior bench billed at partner rates. No handoff to a delivery team you've never met. The engineer on the first call writes the code, reviews the agents' work, and carries the pager.
THE ENGINEER ON EVERY CALL
Austin Mander
FOUNDER — ENGINEER — FRACTIONAL CTO
Fractional CTO of an AI company-intelligence platform used by institutional research teams. Austin scopes every build, directs the agent fleet, reviews every line it writes, and carries the pager after launch. When you book a call, this is who answers — and who ships.
THE QUALITY CONTRACT
Agent-built, engineer-signed
Q-01
Every line reviewed
Agents draft; the engineer reads, rewrites, and signs every merge. Nothing ships on machine confidence alone.
Q-02
Gates, not vibes
Tests, typed contracts, and CI review gates on every change — the same discipline running in production for clients today.
Q-03
You own the repo
Your GitHub org, your infrastructure, your keys — from the first commit, not the final invoice. Walk away any time; it still runs.
SPEC SHEET
What we build
M-02MEASURED
AI systems
Retrieval, agents, evals, guardrails — LLM features that survive contact with real users. Measured before shipped, monitored after.
M-03IN CODE
Interface design
Design engineered directly in code. The demo is the spec — what you approve is what deploys, to the pixel and the millisecond.
M-04ON CALL
Platform & infra
Cloud architecture, data pipelines, observability. Boring by design — the 3 a.m. page reaches the engineer who built the system.
THE PROCESS
Four passes, one pair of hands
Discover
WEEK 1A week inside your operation — or your codebase. We leave with the real problem, not a slide deck about it.
Specify
WEEK 2A fixed-scope build spec with acceptance criteria you can hold us to. Price and date on the same page.
Build
WEEKS 3–8One senior engineer directing a fleet of coding agents on production infrastructure. A working demo every Friday, no exceptions.
Run
ONGOINGWe ship it, instrument it, and run it until your team can. Then we hand over the keys — documented.
OFF THE PRESS
Recent builds
CASE 01
FINTECH Company intelligence platform AI news and company intelligence for institutional research — ingestion, enrichment, hybrid retrieval, and agent-delivered briefings. Fractional-CTO engagement, live with pilot clients. 0% ANSWERS RIGHT ON A MEASURED BENCHMARK CASE 02
INSURANCE Foresight — living portfolio intelligence A knowledge base that reads an investment portfolio continuously and answers before the meeting. Built for a global insurer's investment office, agent fleet on the build. SHIPPED CONCEPT → WORKING CIO DEMO CASE 03
GTM Deep-sourcing CRM An agent-driven CRM that researches prospects like an analyst, not a scraper — sourcing, enriching, and drafting outreach in the founder's voice. Built for a B2B founder's outbound motion. IN USE DAILY, IN A LIVE SALES MOTION
FINTECH Company intelligence platform AI news and company intelligence for institutional research — ingestion, enrichment, hybrid retrieval, and agent-delivered briefings. Fractional-CTO engagement, live with pilot clients. 0% ANSWERS RIGHT ON A MEASURED BENCHMARK CASE 02
INSURANCE Foresight — living portfolio intelligence A knowledge base that reads an investment portfolio continuously and answers before the meeting. Built for a global insurer's investment office, agent fleet on the build. SHIPPED CONCEPT → WORKING CIO DEMO CASE 03
GTM Deep-sourcing CRM An agent-driven CRM that researches prospects like an analyst, not a scraper — sourcing, enriching, and drafting outreach in the founder's voice. Built for a B2B founder's outbound motion. IN USE DAILY, IN A LIVE SALES MOTION
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SENIOR ENGINEER, EVERY CALL
2×
EVERY CHANGE REVIEWED — AGENT DRAFT, ENGINEER SIGN-OFF
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HANDOFFS — THE SCOPER IS THE SHIPPER
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FROM CALL TO FIRST WORKING DEMO
TWO BUILD SLOTS PER QUARTER — NEXT OPENS SEPTEMBER
Tell us what you can't buy.
A 30-minute scope call with the engineer who'll do the work — no deck on either side.
You leave the call with a straight answer: what it takes to build, roughly what it costs — or that you shouldn't build it. If there's no build worth doing, we'll say so in the first fifteen minutes.