AI-native product studio & consultancy

We help engineers and teams turn AI-assisted skill into shipped products and paying clients.

Services first, software second. We solve a real client problem for money, standardize what repeats, then productize it.

AI will never replace you. As long as you know how to use it.

01 Operating model

What we do

Services first, software second. Every product we own started as a client problem someone paid us to solve.

  1. 1

    Solve a real problem, paid

    Start with a client who has money on the line. Ship the fix, not a demo.

  2. 2

    Learn what repeats

    Watch which problems show up across engagements. The pattern is the signal.

  3. 3

    Standardize the pattern

    Turn the repeated fix into a system and a method you can run again.

  4. 4

    Productize

    Package the method into software, templates, a scalable offer.

Productization is the last step, not the first.

02 Consulting

Services

We embed, diagnose, and ship. Five ways to hire us — each scoped to a concrete outcome.

AI Product Engineering

forteams that need a real AI product shipped, fast.

We embed as your delivery team and ship a working AI product — from problem to production, on a fixed scope.

  • Zero to production: scope, design, build, launch
  • Agent orchestration doing the heavy lifting
  • You get a shipped product, not a roadmap

Second Brain as a Service

foragencies & consultants drowning in institutional memory.

A managed, LLM-maintained knowledge base for your scattered data — Slack, Drive, email, call transcripts — that gets sharper every time you use it.

  • One-time build gets you a searchable wiki
  • A monthly retainer per vault keeps it current
  • We run our own company on this — living proof

Integration Layer

forteams whose data is scattered across too many tools.

A read-only mirror of your data and APIs — one place your team and your agents can query, instead of forty.

  • The low-risk first project, fast to stand up
  • Operational apps get built on top once it earns trust
  • One source of truth across every system you run

Scoped Operational Agents

foroperators with one job they keep doing by hand.

A supervised agent that owns one recurring job — one vertical, one task, done reliably.

  • Scheduled API checks, monitoring, and alerting
  • Reconciling client data against a knowledge base
  • Parsing structured results out of messy inputs

Coaching

forengineers going independent.

Land your first paying client as an AI product engineer — guided by two who have done it repeatedly.

  • Package your skills into a buyable offer
  • Find and close your first clients
  • Work effectively with AI in real delivery

03 What we own

Products

The software our services standardized into. StackMap is the flagship; a few more are in the works, not yet public.

StackMap

Live

The map of the AI stack.

A curated knowledge graph of open-source AI & agent repos. Every connection typed and human-reviewed, with the why written down.

Agents 90 Coding Agents 79 Code Intelligence 14 Evals & Testing 13 Gateway 11
Explore StackMap →
StackMap homepage: a searchable, curated map of 344 open-source AI and agent repos
NoIdea homepage: turn your skills into profitable ideas, fast

NoIdea

Live

Turn your skills into profitable ideas, fast.

Describe what you can do; get a validated idea and a ready-to-sell offer package — PRD, pitch, structure.

noidea.one →
autom8n homepage: solve once, automate forever

autom8n

Live

Solve it once, automate it forever.

Describe a workflow in plain English; get a working n8n automation — step-by-step guide plus a ready-to-import JSON template.

autom8n.app →

Skills

Open source

9 installable skills we hand our readers.

autopilotfactorynight-shift launch-daygo-livegraveyard parallel-buildcollect-feedbackcontext-tax
github.com/Ship-With-AI/skills →

04 Books

The AI-Native Series

Four minibooks on Claude Code, one audience per book. The Reluctant Engineer is out now on Leanpub; the other three are in progress. English and Italian editions.

05 Writing

Ship With AI

On Substack. How we actually build with AI — development workflows, side-project acceleration, prompting for code.

Lead the Machine

Agent orchestration — how we run a fleet of agents.

Ship5

Five side-project ideas, twice a week, pulled from real problems.

Subscribe on Substack →

Three promises

  • Never miss a week

  • Always inspect and adapt

  • Keep it real

06 Method

How we work

Four pillars. Proof before price.

How a service becomes software — PANINO

PatternAutomateNormalizeIntegrateNurtureOutput

07 Who we are

Founders

Two senior engineers who ship, break things, and write down why.

Failed continuously ;)

08 Contact

Have a problem worth solving?
Let’s ship it.

hello@shipwithai.xyz