We invest the engineering. You own the market.
We put €50k+ of engineers, platform and security into your firm, for equity or revenue share, never billed hours. We already run 10+ AI products in pharma, legal and finance.
€50,000+ of engineering, invested in your firm - not billed to it.
Every quarter we back a handful of firms that already own demand in their market and are ready to run it on software they own. You bring the domain. We bring the build.
90 days of a funded build
Forward-deployed engineers, the Venture OS platform, security and compliance from day one. Roughly €50k of engineering at our cost, none of it on your invoice.
Your expertise and a decision-maker
One real process worth rebuilding, an owner in the room every week, and the honesty to kill it if the numbers do not work.
We grow together.
Code, models, prompts and runbooks transfer to you. If the first build pays for itself, we talk about building the rest together - as partners or as a venture.
Agency, consultancy, legal, accounting, engineering
Your delivery repeats every month but isn't a product yet. We turn it into software you own, and automate the process work around it.
Pharma, healthcare, finance, public sector, defence
You can't ship a system that fails an audit. Every decision is documented, every agent action logged, compliance built in from the first sprint.
Matt Baskovc, MBAFounder & CEO
- 012 founder exits
- 02$1.2B+ regulated payments scaled
- 03ISO 27001 Lead Auditor · fractional CISO in regulated industries
I read every application. If we co-build, I'm accountable for what ships.
Talk to the founder
Three steps, one team accountable for all of them.
Redesign the foundations
Your data, permissions and decision rights need rebuilding before software can act on them safely. We map yours and hand you the blueprint: the uplift, the human-AI split, the timeline.
Software operates the business, securely and privately
We replace the internal tools that matter with agents and software that belong to you - running on your infrastructure, with no per-use meter, keeping your data and know-how in-house.
Humans operate the AI
The important decisions stay with your team. Your people approve what the system proposes instead of doing the work by hand, so a small team runs a bigger operation.
You fund the build, we deliver it as your technical partner.
We invest our own engineering for equity or revenue share, and become your technical cofounder.
Ventures we co-built and operate
Built with industry leaders on our own stack and our own team, and still co-operated by us today.
“Benchmarked didn’t pitch us a tool. They put engineers next to our team, built the product with us, and we own every line of it. We shipped in weeks what we’d been planning for a year.”
And more, built with partners under their own brand or still under wraps.
Read Impact Studies →AI vendors rent you their model and bill hours. We invest, and you own the code, models and runbooks.
You own the whole system
Code, models, prompts, documentation and runbooks are yours. Handover is a deliverable, not a goodwill gesture.
Cost flattens as you scale
Swap the model layer any time - cloud or your own hardware. No per-seat licence, no token bill that grows with your success.
Skin in the game
We invest engineering for equity or revenue share, so our upside depends on the system still working after we leave.
Built for systems that have to pass an audit.
Security ships with the build, not as a checklist at the end. The same operators who audit regulated environments design yours.
Read our trust page →- Data stays in your environment, under your keys
- No training on your data
- Sovereign EU, on-prem or your cloud
- ISO 27001 & GDPR alignment
- 24/7 SOC
- Penetration testing
- Full audit log
- Swappable model layer
The objections we'd raise if we were you.
Isn't this just another AI wrapper with a nicer deck?
A wrapper resells someone else's model and keeps you on their meter. We hand over the code, the infrastructure and the model layer - you can swap Anthropic for a local model on a Tuesday and nothing breaks. If we disappeared tomorrow, your system keeps running. That's the whole test.
What stops us building this in-house?
Nothing, and some clients should. It takes a platform team, a security function and 12–18 months of learning what not to do. We arrive with that already built and paid for. If you already have a strong platform team, we'd rather sell you the platform than the project.
AI-generated software is unmaintainable. Why is yours different?
Because the code isn't the artifact - the requirement, blueprint and work order that produced it are. Venture OS is both the guiding framework and the tool: it enforces that every module traces back to a written intent and a test, so when something needs to change you change the intent and regenerate, instead of doing archaeology on a prompt someone typed nine months ago. And the platform doesn't run itself - our forward-deployed builders operate it with your team, so the standard holds after handover.
Our data can't leave our environment. Full stop.
Then it doesn't. Deployment runs in your cloud, your on-prem or a sovereign EU region, with your keys. Nothing you give us is used to train a model, and the audit log shows every place data was touched. This constraint is the reason the architecture looks the way it does.
What if the AI gets it wrong in a regulated process?
It will, sometimes - which is why no agent action ships on its own. Gates are human-approved, tests run against the original requirement, and every decision has an owner and a timestamp. You're not betting on the model being right; you're betting on catching it when it isn't.
This sounds expensive.
It's a fraction of the internal software it replaces, and the cost curve flattens instead of scaling with usage - no per-seat licence, no token bill that grows with your success. We'll show you the unit economics before you commit. If the numbers don't work, we'll say so.
Who owns the IP when we're done?
You do - code, models, prompts, documentation, runbooks. In venture mode we take equity instead of margin, so our incentive is that the thing still works after we leave. No escrow games, no licensed core you can't touch.
What happens when your team walks away?
Handover is a deliverable, not a goodwill gesture: documented architecture, runbooks, tests and a trained operator on your side. We stay on as support if you want us. The measure of the engagement is whether you'd be fine if we didn't.
Change the operating model, not just the tooling.
Two minutes to apply, twenty to find out if your firm is a fit. If it isn't, we'll tell you on the call and point you somewhere better.