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Applied AI · Applied SaaS Engineering

Production-grade SaaS,
built to your requirements.

AI-engineered enterprise software, built end-to-end — research-led, by domain experts who've actually run the systems.

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Studio

An engineering studio for AI-engineered enterprise software.

We design, build, and operate custom enterprise systems end-to-end — one team across the full stack, from first spec through ongoing operation.

01

Bespoke builds.

Built to your team, your workflows, your governance — not stitched on top of a template, not assembled from a stock studio.

In practice
No starter kits.
02

End-to-end execution.

Discovery, build and on-going operation under one team — production architecture, security, integrations, audits.

In practice
Same hands. Full SLAs.
03

AI-engineered architecture.

LLM and ML, woven through the system so it sees structure problems — not duct-taped onto a product as a novel feature.

In practice
Native, not retrofitted.

The Reality

The 90% you don't see is what fails in production.

AI prototypes ship the demo. Enterprise software is everything underneath — and it doesn't write itself.

The demo
4
things you'll see
Production
12+
things in production
What the demo shows~10% of the system
UI & interactions
Core happy path
Read flows
One-user state
Prototype ends here
What enterprise actually requires~90% of the system
✓SSO & Identity01
✓Role-based access02
✓Tenant isolation03
✓Audit trails04
✓Data residency05
✓Encryption & key mgmt06
✓Observability07
✓Rate limits & abuse08
✓Error & edge handling09
✓Backups & DR10
✓Lifecycle migrations11
✓Incident response12

What we build for you

Production-grade systems for the work your team actually does.

Six common surfaces — each engineered to your domain, your data, your governance.

Operations Dashboards

Real-time KPIs, drilldowns, decisions where work happens.

Employee Portals

Single pane for the people doing the work. Welcomes, requests, approvals.

Workflow Automation Tools

Maker-checker logic, approvals, audit-logged orchestration.

Data & Reporting Dashboards

Numbers leadership actually trusts. Cuts you can defend.

System Integrations

Plumbing between SAP, Workday, Salesforce and the rest of the stack.

Compliance & Audit

Controls evidence captured at the source. SOX, ITGC, SOC 2 ready.

Engineered in, by default
Audit trailCompliance by designSecurityObservabilityTenant isolationLifecycle

Process

How we work

Collaborative. One team, every step.

Discover

01 / 03 · 2 weeks · fixed scope

We meet where you're working, map architecture, run discovery sprints, and surface what's actually built — and what's missing.

Build

02 / 03 · 8–20 weeks · milestoned

We prototype fast, then harden — running in your terms. With deep production attention to security, logging, integration. Tested under load.

Operate

03 / 03 · ongoing · optional

Deployment, monitoring and continual improvement. Complete on-call, SLA-backed support. Audit reviews. We stay if you want us to.

FAQs

What buyers ask us before signing.

The questions that come up in nearly every first call — answered directly.

Eight to twenty weeks for the build, depending on scope and clarity of inputs. Small engagements can target 4-week windows. Medium 12 weeks. Large 20 weeks. The optional Operate phase runs from six months onward.
We start with a discovery sprint, map where it lands on the production grid, and rebuild what needs to be rebuilt.
A written architecture proposal, milestone plan, fixed price, and a no-obligation decision point.
Yes. We pair with internal engineering, transfer knowledge throughout, and document for operators — not just for the next vendor.
An engineering firm. We ship software. The strategy and consulting are in service of that.

Have a question outside the box? We're here for larger programs. hello@innerhat.com

Start here · The discovery sprint

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What you get
  • ✓ System architecture & technical proposal
  • ✓ Scoped build path with fixed price
  • ✓ Compliance risk assessment
  • ✓ No-obligation, signed handoff
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Two weeks · Fixed scope · Fixed price
By the end of week two you have a fixed-build package — or you don't.

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