Studio · Est. 2022
Engineering for the part of AI that ships.
Stacklink is an engineering studio focused on AI-native software. We design products, integrate intelligence into existing ones, and own the hard parts in between — built on years of shipping production systems before the AI cycle.
Why we exist
Software is getting weirder, faster.
A capable model can now do, in a single API call, work that used to take a quarter. That doesn't make software easier to build — it makes the design problem larger. The questions are no longer just what should this button do; they're what should the system decide on its own, and what it should refuse to.
We've been shipping software since 2022, and the people doing the work have been at it for far longer — through framework cycles, scale events, and every flavour of "this changes everything." We bring that taste to a domain where most teams are still finding their footing.
Three things we believe
No mottos. Three rules.
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We work where the model meets the product. That seam — retrieval, evals, costs, interface — is where most AI features fail or succeed. We treat it as a design problem, not plumbing.
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We sell judgement, not hours. Fixed scopes by default. If we miss, we wear it; if you change scope, we re-quote — quietly, in writing, before doing the work.
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We leave the code and the reasoning. Plain-prose architecture notes go in the repo. The next engineer — yours or ours — should be able to read them and continue.
The model is a dependency. The product is the part you have to design.