Senior engineering for live systems.

Ask Prometheus what to fix first.

Modernisation, MCP tooling, production AI, and scale fixes for teams that need useful answers before a sales call.

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Prompt-first diagnosis

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Tell Prometheus where the system is stuck.

Ask about platform debt, MCP servers, AI workflows, scaling issues, Cloudflare architecture, or startup MVP tradeoffs. The answer will map the likely engagement path and first practical move.

The pressure

The system has to move.

No grand rewrite. Improve the product people already use.

What we look for

The expensive part is rarely the code alone.

It is the release path, the unclear ownership, the missing contracts, and the places where every change has to be negotiated twice.

01

The platform slows every product decision

Architecture debt turns simple changes into negotiation.

02

Scale pressure is no longer theoretical

Latency, queue drift, cloud spend, and incidents are visible.

03

AI work is stuck outside the product

Useful agents need contracts, auth, evals, and review paths.

04

The team cannot pause delivery

The answer has to work beside maintenance and roadmap work.

Focus areas

Choose the constraint worth moving first.

The work starts where platform risk, team pressure, and business urgency overlap.

Modernisation

Risk map to release plan

MCP development

Tool contracts with auth

Scaling

Cost and latency fixes

Platform modernisation

Refactor the live platform

Untangle the parts that block delivery, then release improvements in controlled slices.

MCP development

Ship MCP tools with product boundaries

Build MCP servers, tool APIs, auth checks, and telemetry that fit the way your product actually works.

Scaling issue resolution

Stabilise performance and cost curves

Trace slow paths, brittle jobs, cache misses, and cloud waste. Fix what changes the operating curve.

Agentic AI systems

Turn AI into reviewed workflows

Connect models to data, tools, approvals, and operations with stable inputs and checked outputs.

Team enablement

Raise the engineering operating standard

Give the team practical patterns, review loops, and AI coding workflows they can keep using.

Process

A controlled way to change a live system.

Evidence first. Small releases. Clear ownership.

01

Diagnose

Map the constraints, failure modes, cost pressure, and delivery dependencies.

Evidence before opinion

02

Frame

Turn the diagnosis into a release path the product team can actually absorb.

Architecture as a sequence

03

Build

Ship bounded changes across the platform, MCP tooling, AI workflows, and infra.

Small releases, visible impact

04

Enable

Document the operating model, train the team, and hand over ownership cleanly.

No hidden dependency

Outcomes

Premium work should lower the operating load.

Delivery, reliability, cost, ownership, and AI safety have to improve together.

Delivery gets lighter

No delivery freeze

Modernisation proceeds beside the roadmap.

Cleaner contracts

Boundaries become explicit enough to test and change.

MCP-ready tools

Agents get safe access to the right systems.

Production AI

Prompts, tools, evals, review, and monitoring work together.

Operations get clearer

Less scaling pressure

Slow paths, incidents, and cost growth get practical fixes.

Lower cloud waste

Edge, queue, cache, and storage choices become intentional.

Stronger teams

Engineers inherit patterns they can defend and extend.

Sharper roadmap

Work is prioritised by risk, impact, and urgency.

Founder acceleration

Build the proof without making the future expensive.

For selected founders, we shape the MVP, build the critical product surface, and leave the architecture ready for real users.

Selective cash and equity work when the product deserves senior engineering from day one.

Proof sprintSelected projects
Idea to scoped MVP
Prototype design and build
AI and MCP feature path
Investor-ready roadmap

Have a system that needs senior hands?

Bring the constraint. We will identify the smallest move that changes the delivery curve.

Contact

Describe the constraint.

Share the product, platform, MCP, AI, or scaling pressure. We will reply with the next practical step.

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