Team · Operating Model · Hiring

Founder-led. Senior network. Scaling carefully.

We are an honest hybrid: a founder who reviews every artifact, a curated network of senior specialists who reinforce each engagement, and an open hiring roadmap. We tell you exactly who delivers what — and where we're growing.

Who delivers your engagement today

Founder-led with a vetted operating network. Every engagement at $30k+ involves at least 2 of the roles below. We tell you who's on your project in the SOW.

Founder & Lead

Victor Gless-Krumhorn

Founder of AI-Native Agency. Owns Discovery, architecture decisions, and final quality review on every artifact. Background: cross-border banking (UBS Group AG), platform engineering (Jaikin), Université Paris Dauphine — PSL.

Full bio + LinkedIn + GitHub →

Operating Network

Senior AI Engineer (fractional)

Production AI workflow architecture, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, multi-LLM routing. Brought in for every Build engagement.

Day-rate contract, 2-3 days/week per engagement

Operating Network

Compliance & Risk Counsel (fractional)

HIPAA / FINRA / GDPR / UAE PDPL / EU AI Act review. Sign-off on DPA + audit log spec before production deployment.

Hourly retainer, scoped per engagement

Operating Network

Senior Ops Lead (fractional)

Reviewer queue calibration, operating cadence design, SLA governance. Active on every engagement during Run.

Day-rate, weekly during Run phase

Operating Network

Trusted External Reviewers

Independent reviewers from our personal network of senior AI engineers. Pulled in for adversarial eval set design on healthcare + financial-services engagements.

Per-engagement honorarium

We're hiring

Open positions, posted honestly. If you know someone who fits, intro to [email protected].

Hire by Q4 2026

Senior AI Engineer (full-time)

8+ years shipping production ML / LLM systems. Experience with eval harnesses, audit-grade governance, regulated industries. Will own the technical delivery on Build engagements.

Hire by Q1 2027

Operations & Delivery Lead (full-time)

5+ years running operations at a mid-market SaaS or services firm. Will own client-facing delivery, reviewer queue SLAs, weekly KPI reporting, and quarterly attestation cadence.

Public roadmap

Where we are. Where we're going. Updated quarterly. If a milestone slips, we update this page within 30 days.

  1. Q2 2026 (now)

    Founder-led delivery. Senior specialist network engaged per project. 16 production AI workflows shipped to date. Discovery + Build run by Victor with fractional reinforcement.

  2. Q3 2026

    SOC 2 Type II readiness assessment kicked off. Open positions posted publicly. Active hiring conversations with 4-6 senior engineers from our network.

  3. Q4 2026

    First full-time Senior AI Engineer onboards. Capacity grows from 6 to 12 concurrent engagements.

  4. Q1 2027

    Operations & Delivery Lead joins. SOC 2 Type II audit begins. Capacity at 18 concurrent engagements with full-time owner on every workflow.

  5. Q3 2027

    Target: 6-person team, 30+ live engagements, SOC 2 Type II certified, $3M+ ARR.

How we operate

Four principles we apply on every engagement. Not aspirational — operationally enforced.

Founder reviews every artifact before delivery

Until we're 6+ people, the quality bar is enforced by Victor reading every SOW, every architecture decision record, every audit log spec before it leaves the door. This caps capacity but guarantees quality.

We name our limits openly

Below $15k we redirect to free tools. Above $100k we require manual scoping. Government work needs procurement-aware proposals. Healthcare and financial services need our specialist compliance reviewer on retainer.

No vendor referral fees, ever

We pick the model architecture (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini) based on what fits your workflow — not on who pays us a kickback. If the right answer is a SaaS platform (Glean, Copilot, Cresta), we'll tell you and help you procure it without taking a cut.

Every engagement ships handover-ready

Prompts, evals, code, runbooks, audit log spec — all yours at exit. Run is month-to-month with no notice period. We're a partner you can replace at will; that's how we earn the right to stay.

Ready to scope your project?

Start an AI Project

Two doors, same SOW. Book a 30-min call with Victor for high-touch scoping, or send us a brief if you already know your scope.