boutique consultancy

We help teams build what matters.

Code Atelier partners with startups and growing companies to solve their hardest technical challenges — from architecture to automation to security. Senior engineers, embedded in your workflow, focused on your outcomes.

We're a small team of senior engineers who believe the best work happens when you care about what you're building.

What we do

From strategy to security, we meet you where you are.

Every company's challenges are different. We bring deep expertise across four disciplines — and the judgment to know which one you actually need.

Fractional CTO

Technical Leadership

Your team needs senior technical leadership, but a full-time CTO hire isn't the right move yet. We step in — guiding architecture decisions, mentoring your engineers, and keeping your technical strategy aligned with where the business is going.

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AI Infrastructure

ML & LLM Systems

You've proven the concept. Now it needs to work at scale, in production, every day. We build the infrastructure that turns AI prototypes into reliable products — model serving, fine-tuning pipelines, and everything in between.

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Automation

Workflows & AI Agents

The work that's slowing your team down — the manual handoffs, the repetitive processes, the tools that don't talk to each other — we build systems that handle it, so your people can focus on what actually moves the needle.

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Cybersecurity

Audit & Compliance

Whether you need to pass your first SOC2 audit or just want to know where the gaps are, we run thorough assessments and give you a clear, prioritized plan — not a 200-page report that collects dust.

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How we deliver

Deep expertise. Narrow focus.

Each engagement is scoped to a single discipline, led by someone who's done it before. Here's what that looks like in practice.

01

Fractional CTO

We join your standups, review your architecture, help you hire the right engineers, and make sure your tech strategy keeps pace with your growth. Think of it as a technical co-founder — on your schedule.

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02

AI Infrastructure

From prototype to production: we build model serving, fine-tuning pipelines, RAG systems, and inference optimization. When your AI needs to work reliably at scale, that's where we come in.

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03

Automation & AI Agents

We map your team's most painful workflows, design AI-powered automation, and build systems that run themselves. Then we stick around to make sure they keep running.

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04

Cybersecurity

We audit your systems, find the vulnerabilities, and build a prioritized remediation plan. If you need compliance documentation for SOC2, HIPAA, or ISO — we handle that too.

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How we work

Your team, extended. Not replaced.

We don't hand you a deliverable and disappear. We work alongside your people — in your tools, on your cadence — until the work is done and your team can carry it forward.

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Embedded in your workflow.

Same repo. Same Slack channels. Same sprint. We show up like a colleague, not a contractor — because the best work happens when there's no distance between the people doing it.

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Structured around the work.

Some challenges need a CTO on retainer. Others need a focused eight-week sprint. We figure out what the work requires and build the engagement around that — not the other way around.

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Focused by design.

We work with a small number of clients at a time so we can give each one the attention they deserve. If we take you on, you'll feel it.

Stories

A few of the teams we've helped.

Most of our work is under NDA. Here are some of the challenges we can tell you about.

HEALTHTECH·FRACTIONAL CTO

From zero CTO
to Series B.

A Series A team with funding and vision but no senior technical leadership. We stepped in, redesigned the architecture, hired three engineers, and built the culture that carried them to their next round.

mission complete
ENTERPRISE SAAS·AUTOMATION

40 workflows.
Zero babysitting.

A 200-person company buried in manual handoffs. We mapped every painful workflow, designed AI-powered automation for each one, and gave them back two full-time roles — without cutting a single job.

fully automated
FINTECH·CYBERSECURITY

SOC2 in 12 weeks.
First try.

Investors wanted compliance and the clock was ticking. We ran a full security audit, closed 23 critical vulnerabilities, and built the documentation that got them through on the first attempt.

audit passed
Why us

Relationships over transactions.

Senior from day one

Every person we put on your project has years of hands-on experience in their discipline. You'll work directly with the people doing the work — not a sales team that disappears after kickoff.

Senior practitioners, always

Outcomes you can measure

Before we start, we agree on what success looks like. Clear deliverables, realistic timelines, and honest check-ins along the way. If something isn't working, you'll hear it from us first.

Defined success criteria

Built for the long run

Most of our clients work with us for six months or more. Not because they're locked in — because the relationship keeps delivering value. That's the kind of partnership we optimize for.

Long-term partnerships
Let's talk

Tell us what you're building. We'll tell you how we can help.

No pitch deck, no sales funnel. Just a real conversation about the challenge you're facing and whether we're the right team to help. If we're not, we'll point you to someone who is.

Prefer email? hello@codeatelier.tech