Above The Clouds has been building technology since 2013. We have launched and exited products, scaled engineering teams, and worked alongside founders through every stage of growth.
We also spent years on the other side of the table, assessing other people's technology for the investors about to buy into it. Ninety-plus due diligences teaches you what actually fails: not the exotic problems, the same handful of boring ones, over and over.
What changed in 2026
Agents got good enough to do the volume of the work. Most of the industry responded by shipping prototypes faster. We did the opposite: we kept the engineering discipline that makes software survive contact with production, and put agents underneath it. Test-driven development, architecture decision records, CI/CD, and a senior engineer reviewing every pull request.
That combination is what we now sell through two doors: we build your product with it, or we install it in your team. Either way, you end up owning the factory.
How we work
Cash only, never equity. Everything lives in your repository and runs on your own AI subscription. Your code and your data are never used to train AI models. If we stop working together, you keep the code, the agents and the product brain, and your team can keep shipping without us.