✳ THE STUDIO

Small, senior, meant to stay small.

Four partners and a rotating bench of eight. If you hire us, partners do the work — not account managers.

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Dani Abebe

FOUNDER · ENGINEERING ex. Andela · Stripe · MIT

Builds the hard parts. Previously staff engineer at Andela. Spends weekends on slow-cooked doro and faster React.

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FOUNDER · DESIGN ex. Linear · Cash App · AAU

Makes interfaces for non-deterministic systems. Wrote our house style. Doesn't believe in drag-and-drop.

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PARTNER · AI RESEARCH ex. Meta AI · Addis Ababa Uni.

Runs the research track. Published on low-resource NLP. Has opinions about tokenizers that will outlast this decade.

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PARTNER · STRATEGY & OPS ex. ALIMA · McKinsey · LBS

Keeps engagements on the rails. A decade in healthcare ops. Will ask the question nobody wants to ask.

Plus 8 engineers, designers, and researchers who rotate through the bench. We hire slowly. If that sounds interesting — work@earendel.et.

✳ HOW WE WORK

Two weeks. We read your code, talk to your users, and write a short memo. You keep the memo whether we continue or not.

WEEK 0–2

A working thing on your data, in your stack, behind a feature flag. Not a Figma. A deploy link.

WEEK 2–5

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Evals, guardrails, observability, docs, runbook. The unsexy work that separates a demo from a product.

WEEK 5–10

Your engineers own it. We run a 2-week shadow period, then we're on call for 90 days at no charge.

WEEK 10–12

✳ FAQ

Kazanchis, Addis Ababa. By appointment. We travel for kickoffs — two trips included in any engagement.