What we build, and how you buy it.
StarkSphere Labs is a technical services provider. We take on four kinds of engineering work — AI and agents, backend and distributed systems, cloud and infrastructure, and product builds — and deliver them into your repositories and your cloud. If a build falls outside what we have actually shipped, we will tell you rather than learn on your budget.
Four things we build, all the way to production.
AI & agent engineering
LLM features, autonomous agents, and retrieval pipelines built as production systems — with the evaluation and observability that tell you they still work next month.
What you get
- Agents and tool-use systems wired into your real tools
- RAG and retrieval pipelines over your own data
- Evals, guardrails, and prompt regression tests
- LLM observability, tracing, and cost tracking
- Model and provider selection, with a migration path off either
Typical stack
Backend & distributed systems
High-availability services, event-driven architecture, and data models that hold when traffic, data, and users multiply.
What you get
- API and service design, from contract to deployment
- Event-driven and queue-based systems
- Performance, latency, and load engineering
- Data modelling, schema design, and safe migrations
- Reliability work: retries, idempotency, graceful degradation
Typical stack
Cloud, infrastructure & DevOps
Right-sized cloud architecture as code, with the pipelines, monitoring, and cost line a small team can actually operate.
What you get
- AWS architecture, review, and hardening
- Infrastructure as code, with no click-ops left behind
- CI/CD pipelines and a release process people trust
- Monitoring, alerting, and on-call runbooks
- Cost review: what you are paying for and why
Typical stack
Product & platform builds
Data model to UI, delivered as a working product you can put in front of users, not a pile of half-finished tickets.
What you get
- MVPs and v1 platforms, taken to launch
- Internal tools, admin panels, and dashboards
- Integrations across the tools you already run
- Full-stack feature delivery on an existing product
- Technical due diligence and codebase audits
Typical stack
Three ways to buy the same engineering.
The work is identical. What changes is how it is scoped and billed. No open-ended retainers, and if none of the three is the right fit, we will say so on the first call.
Model 01 · Where most engagements start
Fixed-scope build
A defined deliverable with milestones and a price agreed up front, built and handed over.
How it runs
We agree the scope and milestones in writing before any code is written, then bill against those milestones as they land. Scope changes are re-quoted, not absorbed silently and invoiced later.
Best for
A system you can describe: an AI feature, a backend rebuild, a cloud migration, an internal platform, an MVP that has to reach users on a date.
Delivered documented and deployed, and explained to whoever runs it next.
Commercials
Model 02
Ongoing engineering partner
A monthly retainer for continuous delivery when the roadmap keeps moving and the system needs people who already know it.
How it runs
A standing block of senior engineering capacity against a roadmap you set, reprioritised as often as you need. Same engineers month to month, so the context does not reset.
Best for
Teams past the first build who need continuous delivery, plus the reliability, infrastructure, and performance work that never makes it onto a product roadmap.
Commercials
Model 03
Embedded engineer
A senior engineer (8+ yrs, big-tech and fintech background) working inside your team rather than alongside it — your Slack, your standups, your repo.
How it runs
One named engineer, accountable to you, making the technical decisions a founding hire would make: architecture, hands-on shipping, and help hiring the team that comes after them.
Best for
Founders who want the engineering seat filled inside the company rather than the work delivered from outside it, and non-technical founders who need a technical counterpart.
Not a contractor and not an agency bench: one named senior engineer, for as long as you need them.
Commercials
No ramp-up month. Something real ships in the first week.
Week 0
Scope on paper
A 45-minute call, then a written scope: the deliverables, the milestones, the assumptions, and what falls outside. You approve it before anyone writes code.
Week 1
Access and first commit
Repo, cloud, and context on day one. A read of what exists, the sharp edges named, and something real merged by the end of the week.
Every week after
Demo against milestones
A working demo, not a status deck. You see exactly which milestone moved and what is next, in your own repository.
Several of our builds run on infrastructure we wrote and maintain ourselves, rather than a vendor subscription you inherit. See the products →