AI-native software agency

AI agents and agentic systems, shipped to production.

We scope your AI project before you sign, build it in weeks, and run it month-to-month. Senior engineers only. Terminate anytime.

Founded 2018 in Kuala Lumpur. AI-native since 2026.

Three engagements. One lifecycle.

One front door. Pick the engagement that matches where you are.

Discovery

1–2 weeks · fixed fee

Find out what's worth building — before anyone signs a build contract.

Outcome

Problem framing, architecture sketch, build-vs-buy call, effort and cost estimate, eval and guardrail outline. Delivered as a written report, with a live walkthrough on request.

When to pick this

You have an AI idea and want a senior team to pressure-test it before committing budget.

Build

4–16 weeks · milestone-based

Production AI software, shipped against fixed milestones.

Outcome

One or more agents in production, integrated, evaluated, instrumented. Milestones gate on a working demo, an eval pass-rate, and written sign-off — never on hours.

When to pick this

Discovery is complete (with us or in-house) and you're ready to ship.

Run

Monthly · terminate anytime

Embedded senior pod that owns the agent after it ships.

Outcome

Weekly review, prompt and model refresh, eval-set maintenance, on-call coverage. 30-day notice to pause or stop — no annual lock-in.

When to pick this

Something is live and you want the people who built it to keep running it.

What “AI-native” actually changes.

Traditional dev shop ScalingWorks (AI-native)
Engagement model Time-and-materials or open-ended retainer Discovery → Build → Run, each phase fixed-scope
Timeline to production 4–9 months from kickoff 4–10 weeks to a thin-slice in production
Quality model Reviews vary by team and reviewer Versioned prompts, labelled eval set, eval pass-rate gates merges
Observability Logs after the fact Audit logs, reviewer queues, KPIs reported weekly from day one
Exit Multi-quarter notice, knowledge walks out the door 30-day notice. Code, prompts, evals, and runbooks are yours
Who builds it Mixed seniority, rotating Senior engineers only, no offshoring the agent core

Built like a product, reported like one.

Every Build and Run engagement runs on a weekly cadence. You see the same artifacts every Friday.

  • Working demo of what shipped this week (Loom or live).
  • Eval results against the labelled evaluation set — pass-rate, regressions, drift.
  • Prompt and model changelog — what changed and why, versioned.
  • KPI report against the metrics agreed in Discovery.
  • Next-week plan with the next merge gate named.

Modern AI infrastructure, picked for production, not hype.

Agent runtime Claude Agent SDK, MCP (Model Context Protocol), a custom harness for orchestration, eval, and audit.
Engineering TypeScript / Node, Python, React, mobile (Android, iOS), Kubernetes on AWS / GCP / Azure.
Eval and observability Labelled eval sets, prompt versioning, audit logs, reviewer queues.

No long-tail contracts. Ever.

We treat client lock-in as a smell. Every engagement — Discovery, Build, Run — terminates on 30 days' notice. You keep the code, the prompts, the eval sets, and the runbooks. If it isn't working, you should be able to walk.

Have an AI project? Let's scope it.

30 minutes. No deck. We'll either tell you what we'd build and what it would cost — or that you don't need us yet.

Book a 30-min AI Discovery call Email hello@scalingworks.asia