COG-AI · INDUSTRIAL COGNITION SYSTEMS — EST. 2026

CUSTOM AI PROGRAMS ENGINEERED.

We design, train, and deploy custom AI programs on Claude, Codex, and Gemini — from air-gapped local rigs to cloud fleets to robots on the factory floor.

FRONTIER STACKS
CLAUDE · CODEX · GEMINI
PROGRAMS SHIPPED
60+
DEPLOY TARGETS
LOCAL · CLOUD · EDGE
FLEET STATUS
NOMINAL
01 / PLATFORMSFIG. 02 — FRONTIER STACKS

THE STACKS

We build on all three frontier stacks — and pick the right engine for your problem, not the fashionable one.

STACK 01

CLAUDE

ANTHROPIC PLATFORM

Agentic systems and deep-reasoning programs on the Claude family — Claude Code, MCP toolchains, and tool use in production.

VENDOR
ANTHROPIC
BEST FOR
AGENTS · REASONING
TOOLING
CLAUDE CODE · MCP
DEPLOY
API · BEDROCK · VERTEX
START A BUILD →
STACK 02

CODEX

OPENAI PLATFORM

Autonomous coding fleets on Codex and the GPT family — generation, review, and CI wired into the repos you already run.

VENDOR
OPENAI
BEST FOR
CODE AUTOMATION
TOOLING
CODEX CLI · API
DEPLOY
API · AZURE
START A BUILD →
STACK 03

GEMINI

GOOGLE PLATFORM

Multimodal programs on Gemini — long-context analysis, vision, and native reach into the Google Cloud estate.

VENDOR
GOOGLE DEEPMIND
BEST FOR
MULTIMODAL · CONTEXT
TOOLING
GEMINI CLI · AI STUDIO
DEPLOY
VERTEX AI · API
START A BUILD →
02 / PROGRAMSFIG. 03 — PROGRAM INDEX

WHAT WE BUILD

Custom AI programs, end to end — scoped like engineering projects and delivered with documentation, evals, and an off switch.

PRG-01FULL-STACK DEVOPSCI/CD · IAC · SRE

Delivery pipelines with AI in the loop — CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and agents on call for incident response.

PRG-02LOCAL MODEL TRAINING & DEPLOYMENTFINE-TUNING · QUANTIZATION · ON-PREM

Fine-tune and serve open-weight models on your own hardware — air-gapped, private, and entirely yours.

PRG-03CLOUD DEPLOYMENTAWS · GCP · AZURE

Production inference at scale — autoscaled, monitored, and cost-metered from day one.

PRG-04ROBOTICSVISION · CONTROL · ROS 2

Perception and control for machines that move — vision models, sensor fusion, and safety interlocks that hold.

PRG-05AI-NATIVE APPLICATIONSAGENTS · RAG · MCP

Products designed around the model rather than bolted onto it — agents, copilots, and autonomous workflows.

03 / PROCESSFIG. 04 — DELIVERY LINE

HOW WE BUILD

Every engagement runs the same instrumented line. A scoped problem goes in — a verified, documented production system comes out.

0+
PROGRAMS SHIPPED TO PRODUCTION
0
FRONTIER STACKS — CLAUDE · CODEX · GEMINI
0.0%
UPTIME — MANAGED DEPLOYMENTS
0DAYS
SCOPE TO FIRST PILOT
04 / FIELD REPORTSFIG. 05 — DELIVERED WORK

PROOF OF WORK

Three engagements, reported the way we run them — problem, build, measured result. Client names withheld under NDA.

RPT-011STATUS: DELIVERED SECTOR: AUTOMOTIVE T1STACK: LOCAL + EDGE DURATION: 9 WEEKSLINE: PRG-02 / PRG-04

Defect detection on a moving line

PROBLEMManual QA sampled 4% of parts and still missed paint and weld defects. Escapes were costing six figures a quarter.
BUILDFine-tuned an open-weight vision model on 90K labeled frames, quantized for in-cabinet edge GPUs — air-gapped, 120 fps, wired into the existing PLC stop circuit.
MEASURED RESULT
RECALL 99.2%ESCAPES −63%PAYBACK 5 MO
RPT-014STATUS: DELIVERED SECTOR: INSURANCESTACK: CLAUDE DURATION: 12 WEEKSLINE: PRG-05

An agent fleet for claims operations

PROBLEMClaims intake ran on 40 adjusters copy-pasting between five systems. Cycle time averaged 11 days.
BUILDClaude agents with MCP connectors into the policy, imaging, and payment systems — every action logged, every payout human-approved.
MEASURED RESULT
CYCLE TIME −71%THROUGHPUT 2.9×AUDIT TRAIL 100%
RPT-019STATUS: DELIVERED SECTOR: FINTECHSTACK: CODEX DURATION: 6 WEEKSLINE: PRG-01

Code review at merge velocity

PROBLEMA 30-engineer platform team was the bottleneck on its own monorepo — review latency averaged 26 hours.
BUILDA Codex review fleet wired into CI: pre-review on every PR, regression hunts on the diff, human reviewers kept for design calls.
MEASURED RESULT
THROUGHPUT 2.4×REGRESSIONS −38%REVIEW LAT. 3 H
05 / ENGAGEMENTFIG. 06 — RATE CARD

ENGAGEMENT MODELS

Three ways to put the crew on your problem. Fixed scopes, visible pricing, no discovery-call theater.

TIER 01

PILOT

SCOPED PROOF

One hard problem, one instrumented build. A working system and an eval report in weeks, not quarters.

DURATION
2–4 WEEKS
TEAM
2 OPERATORS
DELIVERABLE
PILOT + EVAL REPORT
PRICING
FROM $18K
FILE INTAKE →
TIER 02

PROGRAM

FULL DELIVERY

Design to production on the delivery line — architecture, build, evals, deployment, and a documented handover.

DURATION
8–16 WEEKS
TEAM
3–5 OPERATORS
DELIVERABLE
PRODUCTION SYSTEM
PRICING
FROM $75K
FILE INTAKE →
TIER 03

RETAINER

MANAGED OPERATIONS

We keep the fleet hot — monitoring, evals on every model revision, cost tuning, and an operator on call.

CADENCE
QUARTERLY
SLA
99.9% · ON-CALL
DELIVERABLE
UPTIME + UPGRADES
PRICING
FROM $12K / MO
FILE INTAKE →
06 / OPERATORSFIG. 07 — CREW MANIFEST

THE CREW

Custom AI is a people business — these are the operators who hold the wrench on your build.

OPR-01

DAN BARRON

SYSTEMS ARCHITECT · AI OBSESSED

Native-AI specialist and command line warrior. Architects the system, ships from the terminal, and is openly, incurably in love with Rust.

NATIVE AI · SYSTEMS DESIGN · CLI
RUSTACEAN — BORROWED, NEVER MOVED
OPR-02

JOE SIMONE

DATA ANALYST · “JOEY JSON”

Set out to isolate kernels and accidentally built a whole operating system. It works. Enjoys the casual relationship between machine learning and automated stock trading.

AKA “CORPO JOE” — EX-SPECTRUM
KERNEL ISOLATION · ACCIDENTAL OS
07 / DOCTRINEDOC. 08 — RATIFIED 2026

WHAT WE BELIEVE

Intelligence isn't magic. It's machinery — and machinery can be engineered, measured, and trusted.

P-01PRECISION OVER POETRY+

Every claim our systems make is a part with a tolerance. We publish the spec sheet and the failure modes, not the sizzle reel.

P-02MEASURED, NOT MYSTICAL+

If it can't be benchmarked, it doesn't ship. Cognition is an engineering discipline, and we run it like one — gauges on everything.

P-03FAIL LOUD, NEVER SILENT+

COG systems are built to know what they don't know — and to say so before you find out the hard way.

P-04HUMANS HOLD THE WRENCH+

Autonomy is a setting, not a destiny. Every program we ship has a handle, a gauge, and an off switch — and the off switch works.

08 / CONSOLETTY/01 — LIVE WIRE

INSIDE A BUILD

A live session on the COG line — or flip to DIAGNOSTIC and let the shell spec your build in four questions.

COG-SHELL v2.4 — TTY/01
$ cog init --program ai-native --stack claude
▸ COG-SHELL v2.4 // workspace provisioned
▸ scaffolding agents — claude code + mcp toolchain linked
> deploy the inspection model to the plant-floor robots
▸ building [██████████░░] eval: PASS — 99.2% defect recall
COG: Pushing to the edge fleet — 14 units updated, rollback armed.
COG: Fleet is live. Vision at 120fps, safety interlocks verified.
▸ local: 4×GPU · cloud: autoscale 0→64 · retention: none
09 / INTAKEFORM 09 — REQUEST ACCESS

PUT THE MACHINE
TO WORK.

Tell us what you're up against. We reply within one business day — with an engineering opinion, not a sales deck.

FORM 09 — INTAKEEST. RESPONSE: 1 BUSINESS DAY
FIELDS 01 · 02 · 05 REQUIRED