The studio
Small group of engineers.
One delivery model.
Five years of receipts.
NexaLife AI is a software studio. We engineer the parts of your platform that other vendors won't touch — and we stay until they run.
— What we believe
Five principles
we don't bend on.
— 01
We don't sell hours.
We sell outcomes that show up in production. Time-and-materials engagements are still our default — but we measure ourselves on what runs at 3am, not what billed last week.
— 02
Senior, by default.
No pyramid. No "can we put a junior on this?" Every engineer in the studio has shipped systems that someone, somewhere, still depends on. Average tenure: 11 years.
— 03
Architecture before code.
We propose three viable paths — costed, with risk and time-to-value — before the first PR. The path you choose is the path we ship. No surprises.
— 04
Reversible at every step.
Feature flags, dual-writes, shadow-reads. A cutover that can't be rolled back has been planned wrong. We plan it twice.
— 05
Knowledge transfer is the deliverable.
When the squad rotates off, your team is stronger than when we arrived. Pairing, ADRs, runbooks — handed back clean, not abandoned.
— A short history
Five years of engineering
the parts that matter.
— 2021
Studio foundedThree engineers in a Mission flat, building bespoke trading software for hedge funds.
— 2022
AI practice formedPre-LLM work on RAG and evaluation harnesses for regulated industries.
— 2026
AI Agents OrchestrationAnthropic, OpenAI, Google, and your fine-tunes — routed by cost, latency, and policy.