NYX Small first step, frozen baseline, firm price.
We have watched enough pilots die in a second procurement cycle to structure the work so that never has to happen.
Three commitments
These are how we work, not aspirations about how we would like to.
Architecture before build
Every program starts with a bounded, fixed-price phase that produces a frozen baseline and a firm price for what comes next. Signing binds that phase only.
The baseline comes first
Before anything is deployed we agree what is being measured, how, and who owns the result on your side.
The entry door is small on purpose
The first step is priced to sit inside the budget authority of the person who actually wants the work done.
How we choose the tools
We build our own silicon. We use it sparingly, and we will tell you when you do not need it.
Our own silicon, where the physics leaves no alternative
Microsecond loops, size and power constrained platforms, and environments with no link home.
- Bounded worst-case timing as a property of the design
- Full stacks measured in single-digit watts
- Air-gapped by design
Integration, everywhere else
Most of the time the constraint is not compute. It is that nobody owns the working system.
- Your silicon, your platform, your program
- Pinned images, maintained version matrix, signed updates with rollback
- Support that absorbs forced migrations instead of passing them to you
We reach for our own silicon only when the loop will not close without it.
Intellectual property, plainly
You own what we build for you. We keep what we bring with us, and we make sure you are never trapped by it.
Foreground. Work built specifically for your program is assigned to you on payment, in your field of use.
Background. What we brought to the program is licensed, with source escrow and defined step-in triggers, so a bus factor or a business change never leaves you stranded.
Tools. Our internal development and orchestration tooling is not a deliverable. It is available under a separate agreement if you want it.
All three are written into the agreement before signature, not discovered during it.
Start here
Two weeks, fixed price, one problem you nominate. A written assessment, a measured baseline, and a scoped proposal with a dated decision point.