Sage Ideas — a studio that ships production AI and web systems with the receipts to prove it
A two-person studio that builds AI agents, voice systems, and web platforms for founders who measure outcomes — not promises. Twenty productized engagements, transparent pricing, callable references.
Don't take our word. Audit the work.
Every project below ships, serves real users, and has a build log you can read. Open any one to see the architecture, the trade-offs, and what almost went wrong.
Four lanes. Done at depth.
Generalists pitch ten services and ship none of them well. We picked four. Each one has a retainer, a fixed-scope offer, and a portfolio of work we'd show our mothers.
The agencies sold promises.
We ship production systems — and we keep the receipts.
Every change is reversible in 30 seconds — or it doesn't ship.
The person pitching the work is the person typing the code.
References are callable. Names are real. Numbers are audited.
Call the people who've worked with us.
Before you sign, we hand you a list of past collaborators — engineers, founders, ops leads — and you call them. No stock photos. No invented quotes. Their words, their phones.
Engineering lead
Worked alongside on production trading systems for 5+ years. Available for technical reference calls — code quality, on-call discipline, incident behavior.
Founder
Engaged Sage Ideas for a Ship + Operate combination. Willing to talk about scope discipline, timeline accuracy, and what handoff actually looked like.
Open-source collaborator
Co-shipped a developer-tooling project. Available to discuss code review depth, communication cadence, and how disagreements got resolved.
Most engagements run under NDA. Names withheld until written permission lands — no fake logos, no implied endorsements.
Most engagements operate under NDA. Real names + logos appear here only with written permission, replacing the monogram tile in place.
Client outcomes
What happens after the work ships
“Cut our flake rate from 12% to 0.4% in three weeks. The eval suite caught two regressions on day one of running in CI.”
Three lanes. Three slots this quarter.
Productized work, Stripe checkout, fixed scope. Monthly care on retainer. Or a full quarter inside the studio — by application, three slots, no exceptions.