kase/tech an infrastructure & AI practice, Portland

One thing off your plate. Proven before you pay.

Bring us the workflow bottleneck or the platform move your team hasn't had the bandwidth to tackle. The engineer you meet ships the fix to production.

The assessment is free. If the build doesn't deliver the agreed outcome, you don't pay for it.

Book a free assessment 30 minutes, no obligation.
Hours back. Run cost down.
Tracked together before we build. You pay when the drop is real.
AI & automation in production
10% to 100%
regulated calls audited for compliance, reducing a 50-person manual queue to 2 reviewers checking verified LLM outputs
0 manual triage
inbound volume and 6-person queues classified, reconciled, and verified in production
10x faster
application response at 50% lower Azure cost after re-architecting the cloud and AI workload
Platform & infrastructure at scale
2,500+ VMs
migrated across datacenters in one weekend cutover, clearing enterprise compliance gates. Monday worked.
250k to 400k+
concurrent users on a live platform after breaking a hard scaling ceiling
50% fewer outages
across 60 offices as the company scaled from $500M to $1B+ in revenue

What we take on

Two tracks that reinforce each other, both scoped to a measurable outcome.

01 / AI & automation

AI agents and workflow automation

Off-the-shelf AI leaves your team copying context and checking answers. We wire it into your systems: code checks the facts, the model makes the routine calls, and a person stays in the loop where risk is high.

02 / Platform & infrastructure

Platform and infrastructure moves

Application, cloud, colocation, or hypervisor moves forced by cost, scale, or regulation. We evaluate the target that fits your workload and team, test it first, and cut over before your deadline. See the platform model.

Software engineers who build + infrastructure engineers who operate and scale

Production software backed by infrastructure rigor. Every LLM output is verified against source data and business rules before a write, with flagged exceptions routed to a human.

Infrastructure operations accelerated by real code. We use software and agents to translate legacy configs, script cutovers, and strip out repetitive ticket toil after the move.

How it works

Four steps, in order. The first one is free.

1

Assess

We baseline the workflow or platform with your team and put the target outcome in writing.

2

Build

Agents run in shadow mode on live data first; migrations are proven in our lab.

3

Run

We cut over with rollback ready, then operate it for you or hand it off with the runbook.

4

Prove

We track the result against the baseline. If it falls short, you don't pay for the build.

How we're different

The engineer on the first call ships the work.

No sales handoff and no junior bench.

Highest value and lowest risk first.

One bounded problem at a time; the result earns the next step.

We say when not to build.

Stay on what you have or buy off the shelf when the math says so.

Verified outputs, reversible actions.

LLM outputs are checked before any write; migrations move with a tested rollback.

When cost or regulation forces a platform move

When a vendor renewal spikes, cloud spend runs away, or a compliance gate forces an architecture change, you have to move on a deadline. We test the options in our lab and model the long-term run cost so you know whether moving actually pays back.

cumulative spend over time: stay vs re-platform (illustrative)
1 / DecideTrue long-term cost in writing. Sticker price, migration effort, and day-two operations weighed against staying, with the real payback date.
2 / Cut overMoved before your deadline. Proven in our lab first, automated in code, and cut over with a tested rollback.
3 / Hand offYour team runs it without us. Backups, access, monitoring, and runbooks proven before we leave.

Principal engineers only.

We pair software engineers who build with infrastructure engineers who operate and scale. For thirteen years we led architecture and delivery inside mid-market and enterprise organizations. There is no junior bench: the engineer you meet runs discovery, designs the system, and ships it to production.

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