2026
Dashen Bank
A retrieval-grounded copilot for 4,200 branch staff.
Compliance-aware search over 14 years of policy docs. Bilingual, cited, with red-team evals run weekly.
4,200
BRANCH STAFF SERVED
AI PRODUCT STUDIO — TAKING PROJECTS FOR Q3
We ship AI-native products.
With teams who mean it. Strategy, design, and engineering under one roof — we embed for 8–16 weeks and leave you a product, not a demo.
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✳ THE POINT
Most agencies will build you a demo. We embed with your team for 8–16 weeks and leave you with a working product, the evals to trust it, and the engineers who understand every line.
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DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS & RESEARCHERS
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ENGAGEMENTS & PRODUCTS IN FLIGHT
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LIVE SITES ON OUR PLATFORM
✳ SERVICES
Eight things
we do, end-to-end.
Every engagement pairs a designer, an engineer, and a strategist. No layer-cake handoffs. Keep scrolling →
AI strategy & roadmaps
Where AI actually earns its keep in your product — and where it doesn't. Ends with a prioritized, costed plan.
RAG & knowledge systems
Search your company actually uses. Retrieval, ranking, citations, evals — the boring parts done right.
Agent systems
Workflow agents with guardrails you can audit. Tools, memory, eval harnesses, human-in-the-loop.
AI-native product design
Interfaces for non-determinism. Streaming, uncertainty, undo, trust. We've shipped more than we've designed.
Data infrastructure
Pipelines, vector stores, feature stores, observability. The plumbing that makes AI reliable in production.
Training & workshops
One-day intensives for product and engineering teams. No slides about the future — working on your stack.
Embedded engineers
Senior AI engineers and designers inside your squad, 3–6 months. Same calendar, same standup, same Slack.
Earendel Sites
Our product: an AI website platform for businesses that need a site, not a CMS.
✳ SELECTED WORK
Shipped, not shelved.
2026
Confidential · Logistics
Invoice reconciliation agent, 8 languages.
Every action is reviewable, reversible, logged. Human-in-the-loop by default.
$2.1M
ANALYST HOURS / YR RECOVERED
2025
Earendel Sites
A website generator for real businesses.
Our own flagship. Restaurants, clinics and shops live in production. Our playground for AI UX.
400+
SITES IN PRODUCTION
2025
Zemen Insurance
Claims triage across 14,000 monthly cases.
A tiny model doing the boring work, not the expensive one.
−68%
FIRST-RESPONSE TIME
2025
Confidential · Fintech
Eval harness & guardrails for a user-facing chat.
2,400 labeled conversations, 60 adversarial suites, weekly regression dashboard.
60
ADVERSARIAL SUITES
2024
Addis AI Lab
Amharic tokenizer & instruction-tuned release.
The tokenizer most Ethiopian AI companies are now quietly using. Apache 2.0.
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APACHE 2.0
✳ OUR PRODUCT — EARENDEL SITES
Websites, done properly.
Tell us about your restaurant, clinic, or shop. We research, write, design, and ship a proper website in 48 hours — then you edit it in the portal we built. No templates. No drag-and-drop slop.
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✳ HOW WE WORK
Four phases, no fog.
i WEEK 0–2
Diagnose
Two weeks. We read your code, talk to your users, and write a short memo. You keep the memo whether we continue or not.
ii WEEK 2–5
Prototype
A working thing on your data, in your stack, behind a feature flag. Not a Figma. A deploy link.
iii WEEK 5–10
Harden
Evals, guardrails, observability, docs, runbook. The unsexy work that separates a demo from a product.
iv WEEK 10–12
Hand off
Your engineers own it. We run a 2-week shadow period, then we're on call for 90 days at no charge.
MINIMUM ENGAGEMENT8 weeks · from $64k
TEAM SIZE2–4 seniors, no juniors billed
TRANSPARENCYShared Linear · weekly written update
✳ TEAM
Small, senior, meant to stay small.
✳ WRITING
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Let's build something real.
A short, honest description of the problem is enough. We reply within two business days — with a proposed call, or a straight no.
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