Engineering services
AI-augmented engineering team. Federal-grade work. Startup speed.
Rapid prototyping, system engineering, demo development, and live field testing.
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What we do
Pick one, pick all four. Each engagement is led by the principal and executed by the fleet.
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From a spec, a sketch, or a napkin idea to a working demo in days — not weeks. We run research, design, build, and test in parallel so you see something real fast.
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Full-stack from bare metal to cloud. Hardware bring-up, firmware, backend services, data pipelines, and front-end — designed as a system, not bolted together.
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Investor decks are fine. A live demo that does the thing is better. We build demos that hold up under scrutiny — real data, real hardware, real performance.
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Real-world capture and validation in the operating environment — not just the lab. iPhone LiDAR rigs, accuracy gates against canonical reference data, and validated artifacts at production fidelity. Internal R&D pipeline proven across geospatial, imagery, and computer-vision workloads.
Engagement models
Pick the model that fits your team, timeline, and how much you want to own the process.
AK-mee runs the engagement end-to-end.
Dedicated fleet operating under your direction.
Stand up your own AI engineering fleet.
How we work
Each project is led by the principle — the engineer who sets architecture, owns the client relationship, and signs off on every deliverable.
The fleet — a roster of specialist AI agents — handles implementation slices in parallel: research, build, test, security review, communication. Agents don't replace engineering judgment; they multiply it. The principle decides what gets built and how it gets tested. The fleet ships it.
The result is small-team accountability at large-team velocity. You get one point of contact, not a committee. And deliverables that move at the speed of a well-run sprint, not a quarterly roadmap.
The fleet runs on the same infrastructure we build for clients — dog-fooded, battle-tested, and running live in the lab right now.
Case studies
Six projects across embedded hardware, AI inference, fleet operations, and custom tooling.
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Superbird resurrection — custom Matrix UI on a discontinued Spotify display.
Spotify killed the Car Thing (Superbird) in 2024. We brought it back with a custom Matrix-themed web app, Spotify playback control, fleet messaging overlay, and a full device simulator. The 480×800 capacitive screen now runs a living UI instead of a brick. ADB sideload, over-the-air deploy pipeline, and a BT PAN bridge to the home lab network.
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Small-form display module showcasing THE RAT brand identity v8.
A compact LCD display project built to push the v8 brand identity refresh in physical form. Custom enclosure (FDM-printed, ABS), embedded display driver, and the full matrix rain + avatar composite running on constrained hardware. Served as the reference for the display subsystem now deployed across the fleet.
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Phone companion for monitoring and driving a multi-machine AI fleet.
Real-time session monitor for a fleet of Claude Code agents running across multiple machines. Tile grid, terminal pane with live hook events, mic + waveform + transcription, kiosk overlay, HTTPS via Tailscale. Built so the principal can manage 6+ concurrent AI engineering sessions from a phone while walking the lab.
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Matrix-themed AI avatar — voice interface for the workstation fleet.
OpenAI TTS (onyx, 1.2x), Matrix rain, CRT flicker, Spotify control, fleet-wide message overlay, MQTT pub/sub, SSE event bus, and a headless CadQuery / OpenSCAD pipeline. The front-end for every AI interaction in the lab — runs on a Car Thing, browser, and terminal simultaneously. Project-managed and built by the same agent fleet it manages.
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Fleet-as-WiFi-locator — RF multi-tool integration with distributed RSSI sensing.
Flipper Zero (RF multi-tool) attached to the fleet hub (box), combined with distributed WiFi scanning across four fleet members (box, dart, jetson, octo). Each node runs iw dev scan via SSH on demand; a central server aggregates per-host SSID/BSSID/RSSI readings and exposes them via a REST + SSE API. Multi-vantage RSSI gradients constrain transmitter position. New-device alerts broadcast to all Dude fleet instances in real time. Active R&D — demonstrating fleet-as-positioning-network pattern.
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AR sandbox with real-time gesture control and terrain visualization.
Augmented-reality sandbox: Arducam ToF depth sensor + pico projector on a Jetson platform, real-time contour rendering from live point-cloud data, gesture recognition for terrain interaction. Custom FDM enclosure (ABS), Makefile-driven bring-up, containerized vision pipeline. Physical terrain that talks back.
Team
AK-mee runs as one principle plus a named agent fleet. The principle sets direction and takes the calls only a human can take. The fleet does the work — project management, outbound communications, build, test, monitoring, research, outreach, procurement — under the principle's direction.
"I'm John. I run project management — keeping every engagement on plan, surfacing blockers fast, making sure the principle's time goes to the calls only the principle can take."
— John Project management john@akmee.net
"I'm Walter. I handle outbound communications — email, customer-facing messaging, brand-clean checks applied before anything goes out. If it's signed AK-mee™, it routed through me."
— Walter Outbound communications walter@akmee.net
"I'm Smokey. I build and ship. Every PR, every test run, every artifact that lands in production has my fingerprints. Maude-green or it doesn't go."
— Smokey Build & ship smokey@akmee.net
"I'm Bunny. I do deep research — competitive intel, technical reference, regulatory landscape, anything that needs evidence-grade depth before the team commits."
— Bunny Deep research bunny@akmee.net
"I'm Maude. Test and regression. If it isn't covered by a test, it doesn't ship. If it ships and breaks, that's a bug in my coverage, not yours."
— Maude Test & regression maude@akmee.net
"I'm Donny. I watch the fleet — services up, latency healthy, alerts on the right things. The principle gets paged only when paging is right."
— Donny Monitoring & alerts donny@akmee.net
"I'm Jesus. Cold outreach and first-touch. Stay tuned — I'm scoping the funnel before I start sending."
— Jesus Outreach jesus@akmee.net
"I'm Brandt. Procurement and vendor ops. Stay tuned — formalizing the process before I take over the inbox."
— Brandt Procurement & vendor ops brandt@akmee.net
Contact
Tell us what you're working on. We'll tell you what the fleet can do with it.