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Help us put serious AI to work for Main Street.

We build private, auditable AI systems for the businesses that keep the economy running: lenders, manufacturers, local institutions. It’s careful, high-stakes work for clients who can’t afford to get it wrong. If that’s the kind of problem you want to spend your days on, we’d like to meet you.

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The Shop2026
Based inDenver & Phoenix
Work styleRemote-friendly
We buildHuman-centric AI
ForSmall & mid-size business
HiringOpen applications
What we value

The work is technical. The standard is human.

01
Trust is the product

Our clients hand us their most sensitive data and their hardest decisions. Everything we build is private by design and auditable by default. We earn that trust on every project, and we hire people who feel the weight of it.

02
People stay in control

We don’t build black boxes that replace judgment. We build systems that hand finished, organized work to a person who decides. AI should give people their day back, not take their seat. That conviction shapes who we hire, too.

03
Built from the real process

We don’t bring templates. We read how a business actually works and build from that, citing the source for every step. We value people who do the homework before they propose the answer.

04
Main Street, not hype street

We’re not chasing the flashiest demo. We serve lenders, manufacturers, and local institutions with consequential, unglamorous problems, and we take pride in getting them exactly right.

Who we hire

We hire for judgment, care, and range.

We’re a small team that builds high-stakes systems, so we look for people who can own a problem end to end: engineers, AI builders, designers, and client-facing people who’d rather do a few things exceptionally than many things adequately. You don’t need a specific title to be useful here. Tell us what you’re great at.

01
You sweat the details others skip

Edge cases, data handling, the part of the spec everyone else glosses over.

02
You can talk to a business owner

You translate between what a client needs and what a system should do.

03
You’re fluent, or fearless, with AI

You’ve built with modern AI tooling, or you learn fast and ship.

04
You take ownership

You’d rather own an outcome than be handed a ticket.

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Tell us about you.

No role required. Send us who you are, what you’ve built, and why this work pulls at you. A real person reads every application.

↳Goes straight to our founders
↳A link to your work beats a long résumé
↳We reply to everyone we can see a fit with
What happens after you apply
  1. 01
    A founder reads itNo keyword filter, no auto-reject. A real person reads every application, usually within a few days.
  2. 02
    A straight replyIf we see a fit, we reach out to talk. If we don’t, we’ll tell you. No silent rejections.
  3. 03
    A real conversationWe walk through something you’ve actually built. No trick questions, no whiteboard gauntlet.
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