AI build partner

The engineering
behind your next
AI project.

Agencies and consultancies bring us the scope. We build the system that ships: production AI agents, workflow automation, and the software around them. Your repositories, your client, your name on it.

01 White-label or named
02 Fixed scope per increment
03 Built for handover

Where the work stalls

You sold the system.
Someone has to build it.

A prototype that answers questions is not yet a system that runs inside a client's process. The real work lives in retrieval, tool use, approvals and evaluation.

01

The demo does not survive the client's data.

02

The scope needs an engineer to write it.

03

Hiring for one project does not work.

01 / Capabilities

The parts that make
AI useful.

Four kinds of build, delivered as software your client owns.

01

AI agent systems

Production agents that retrieve the right context, use the right tools, bring a person in when the call is theirs, and produce work that can be checked.

RETRIEVAL / TOOL USE / APPROVALS / EVALUATION
02

Workflow automation

Systems that move work across teams and tools with explicit approvals, clean handoffs, and a record of what happened.

APPROVALS / HANDOFFS / VISIBILITY
03

Data and integrations

Dependable connections between CRMs, document stores, internal APIs, and the systems the business already runs on.

CRMS / DOCUMENT STORES / INTERNAL APIS
04

Product engineering

The web applications, services, infrastructure and operational groundwork that turn an AI capability into software people use.

WEB APPS / SERVICES / INFRASTRUCTURE

02 / How we work

Frame. Build.
Improve.

Three stages, run in that order, on every engagement.

01 / FRAME

Find the constraint.

We start with a written problem statement, a target you can measure, and the smallest system worth building. You can hand that document to your client as it is.

02 / BUILD

Ship the system.

Work ships in short increments against a running system, reviewed against the target rather than a status deck. It is production code from the first increment.

03 / IMPROVE

Measure the work.

Once real work runs through it, the system is instrumented, evaluated and tuned. A system that cannot be measured cannot be trusted with the process.

03 / Agency partnerships

We build.
You keep the client.

Most of our work reaches a client through someone else's engagement. You keep the relationship, the account and the invoice. We take the system.

01 / OUTCOMEYour client

Buys the outcome. Signs with you.

02 / RELATIONSHIPYour agency

Owns the relationship, scope and invoice.

03 / BUILDAterra

Builds the system and hands it over.

Scope arrives as a written problem statement and one measurable target. Code lands in repositories you control. Deploys run on infrastructure your client owns. The result is a system your team can read and operate without us in the room.

When it helps to introduce us, we join the client call as your build partner. When it does not, you never say our name.

How we engage
Subcontracted to your agency, or contracted directly by your client. Your call.
Whose name
White-label as part of your team, or named as your build partner.
How we work
In your project channel, on your board, at your review cadence.
How we scope
Short increments. Each one has a single written target and a fixed price.
What you keep
The repositories, the infrastructure and the intellectual property are yours.
Working hours
We hold our afternoons open so they land on the US morning.

04 / Questions

Before you hand
over a build.

The things we would want settled before subcontracting engineering work.

Can you work under our brand?

Yes, and it is the default. On the client's side we appear as your team: your repositories, your project channel, your review meetings. Where you would rather name us as your build partner, we show up and answer for the engineering.

Who owns what gets built?

You or your client, agreed before the first commit and written into the contract. Code lands in repositories you control and runs on infrastructure you control. There is no Aterra platform to stay subscribed to and nothing licensed back to you.

How do you scope work nobody has built before?

That is what the Frame stage is for. It ends with a written problem statement, a target you can measure, and the smallest system worth building. That document is what you need to quote the work and what your client needs to approve it. If the honest answer is that the system should not be built, we write that instead.

What if the client's data is not ready?

It usually is not. Records are duplicated, documents are unstructured, and the CRM holds three versions of the truth. We treat that as part of the build rather than a surprise raised later, and we say plainly which parts of a workflow cannot be automated until the underlying data is fixed.

What do you not do?

Brand, design systems, paid media, and ongoing helpdesk support. We build software and hand it over. If someone needs to run the system afterwards, we train your team or an operations partner to do it.

Aterra is a new company. Why take the risk?

Because we would rather put that in writing than imply a decade of case studies. Start us on one increment with a fixed scope and a written target. You see the code, the deploy and the evaluation before anything larger is committed. It is how we would want to hire a build partner ourselves.

05 / Contact

Tell us what
needs to move.

One email is enough to start. Describe the system you have sold or the process that is stuck, and we reply with what we would do first.

WHAT TO SEND
01The process or product that is stuck
02What the client has already been promised
03Any date you are working against