The AI development company built from real delivery work

As the client roster grew, so did our own operational complexity. Matching the right people to the right work across a global team wasn’t something a spreadsheet could solve. So we built Project X: an internal system for tracking and allocating talent and resources across every active engagement.

It was the first tool we built to govern our own operations. And it taught us something that would shape everything that came after: the team that runs well builds better.

Clients kept arriving with the same problem: legacy systems that couldn’t move fast enough. Decades of business logic locked in C++, VB, RPG, PHP, and proprietary languages. Too expensive to rewrite by hand, too risky to leave in place.

We built 3PO to solve it. An AI-powered code translator that maps legacy code, understands the logic inside it, and migrates it to a modern stack at a fraction of the time and cost of manual migration. Built once, applied across dozens of engagements.

It proved something clear: when you build AI-assisted tooling for production rather than for demos, it actually works. By the time frontier models started catching up, we had already moved on to the next problem.

Project X governed how we ran. 3PO modernized what clients ran on. DB90 accelerated how fast we delivered. Each one solved a real problem. Each one made the next one possible.

One example of where it was all heading: our own sales proposal process. Previously, consolidating client data and producing a proposal required a design team and weeks of work. Today, a series of AI agents ingests calls and documentation and produces a draft in hours. That’s what running an AI operating model on your own operations looks like.

Aixle is the operating model that brings everything together, structured around three stages: Plan, Execute, Evolve. At every step, governance, visibility, and accountability are built in. Workflow is the first commercial offering built on it: we take one of your high-value processes, redesign it for AI-enabled execution, and turn it into a governed system that gets faster, cleaner, and cheaper to run over time.

Along the way, we open-source the core tools that came out of running this ourselves: Aixle Flow and Aixle Insights, deployable inside your own infrastructure or run by us. The Aixle Sprint is how you enter Workflow: five weeks to two implemented workflows in production.