AI Engineering
We build AI into your product or operations — and prove it works before it scales.
All AI engineering servicesAI engineering & advisory
AI systems that survive production
We build AI, mobile and platform software for engineering teams who need it working for real users — and we help your own team get good at the tools.
No pitch deck. We'll tell you if we're not the right people.
Teams we've shipped with
- Northwind Freight
- Meridian Payments
- Cobalt Health
- Torchlight Retail
- Kestrel Logistics
- Bramble & Co
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40+engagements delivered
92%of clients return
6 wksmedian time to first production release
4 hrsresponse time, in writing
What we do
Five practices, one delivery team
Most engagements draw on more than one. You get a single accountable practice lead either way.
AI Advisory & Enablement
We make AI land — in your strategy, your tooling, your teams and your risk register.
All advisory servicesSaaS & Product Engineering
We build the product itself — from first release to multi-tenant scale.
All product servicesMobile Engineering
Android-first native work, and cross-platform only where it genuinely saves money.
All mobile servicesPlatform, Cloud & Data
The foundations that decide whether everything above is reliable or expensive.
All platform servicesNot sure which you need?
Most people arrive with a symptom rather than a spec. A scoping call is 30 minutes and usually enough to tell.
Book a scoping callSelected work
What the work looks like
Challenge, approach, result. No adjectives.
Meridian Payments
Cutting manual review on merchant onboarding
- Challenge
- Every merchant application was read by hand. Onboarding took nine days and the queue grew faster than the team.
- Approach
- Document extraction with confidence scoring, a human-review queue for low-confidence cases, and an accuracy benchmark against a labelled gold set before rollout.
- Result
- 71% of applications now clear without a human. Median onboarding fell to under a day.
Northwind Freight
An agent that books the exception loads
- Challenge
- Dispatchers spent their day on the 15% of loads that didn't fit the routing rules.
- Approach
- An agent with scoped tool access to the TMS, human-in-the-loop confirmation above a value threshold, and a full audit trail on every action taken.
- Result
- Exception handling time down by half. Zero unattended bookings above the threshold.
Cobalt Health
Getting Claude Code adopted, not just licensed
- Challenge
- Licences had been bought for 60 engineers. Under a fifth were using them weekly.
- Approach
- Baseline DevEx metrics, repo readiness work, a champion cohort, and hands-on sessions built around their own codebase rather than a generic demo.
- Result
- Weekly active use went from 18% to 74% over one quarter, sustained after we left.
Illustrative placeholders — these engagements are fictional.
How we collaborate
You see the same board we see
Most agency trouble is not bad engineering. It's finding out late. Every Flourisher engagement runs in a shared workspace where the work is visible as it happens.
One workspace
Every message, decision and artefact for the engagement lives in one place — not spread across inboxes and calls nobody minuted.
One senior contact
A named practice lead who is accountable for the outcome, not a rotating account manager. Written response within four business hours.
A shipped log, weekly
What shipped, what slipped, what's next — written down every week. Reading it takes five minutes and replaces the status meeting.
A record you keep
Decisions are written with their reasoning and timestamped. When someone asks in eighteen months why it was built that way, the answer is still there — and it's yours.
We run this in Slack Connect, Linear and Notion by default — or inside your stack if you'd rather not add another tool. Expect it to cost your team about four hours a quarter.
How we work
Four steps, no discovery theatre
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Scoping call
Thirty minutes to work out whether there's a real problem here and whether we're the right people for it. We say no when we aren't.
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Engagement brief
A short written agreement: the outcome, the scope, the timeline, your named practice lead, and what we are explicitly not doing. Nobody starts on a handshake.
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Build in the open
Work runs in the Loop from day one. First production release typically lands inside six to eight weeks — narrow on purpose, so it can argue for the next step.
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Measure and hand over
We define what "working" means before we build it, then instrument it. You finish with documentation, a recorded walkthrough, and a team that can carry it on.
What clients say
In their words
They killed our favourite idea in week two and were right to. The thing we shipped instead was smaller and actually worked.
VP Engineering, Meridian Payments
The weekly shipped log did something I didn't expect — my own board stopped asking me for updates, because I could just forward it.
CTO, Northwind Freight
We'd already bought the licences. What we were missing was someone to rebuild how the team actually worked, and that's the part they did.
Head of Product, Cobalt Health
Illustrative placeholders — these people, quotes and ratings are fictional, and the rating is not sourced from any review platform.
Flourisher Signal
Keep up with AI in five minutes a week
What actually shipped in AI this week, and what it means if you're building real systems. One email, Thursdays, about 800 words. No funding rounds, no hot takes, no recycled press releases.
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Got something you're stuck on?
Thirty minutes, no deck, no obligation. Worst case you leave with a second opinion.
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