Custom software, data and AI
Modern systems, shipped in increments.
MACHfirst builds and modernizes the software enterprise teams depend on — AI rollouts, composable web platforms, and product leadership when you need it.
What we do
Four practices, one senior team
We work as an embedded partner, not a staffing line item. Every engagement starts with a short, fixed-fee assessment and ends with your team able to carry the work.
AI Strategy & Rollout
We find where AI actually earns its keep, then ship it into the workflows your team already uses — with the guardrails your risk and legal teams need.
- Opportunity assessment and use-case ranking
- Evaluation harness before you buy a platform
- Pilot to production, with governance in place
Custom Web Development
Composable, API-first front ends built to be handed over, not held hostage. Design, build, and a clean handoff to your team.
- Greenfield application development
- ERP and back office integration
- Performance and accessibility as requirements, not extras
Application and Data Modernization
Move legacy systems onto a modern architecture in increments, without a rewrite freeze or a big-bang cutover.
- Two-week assessment with a written plan
- Strangler-pattern migration, release by release
- Runbooks and enablement so your team can carry it
Fractional CPO
Senior product leadership on a fraction of a headcount. Roadmap, prioritization, and the hard calls, alongside your team.
- Roadmap and operating cadence
- Discovery and prioritization your team can repeat
- Hiring and coaching your permanent product lead
Why teams call us
Increments, not big bangs.
We start with a two-week assessment, name the risks out loud, and hand you a plan you own — whether or not you keep us for the build.
6 wks
Median time to first release
4
Practice areas
100%
Senior-only delivery
2 wks
Assessment to plan
How we work
Assess, ship, hand over
No phase ends in a deck. Each one ends in something running.
Assess
Two weeks with your team and your code. We read the system, interview the people who run it, and write down what we find.
Ship
Senior engineers in your repos and your standups, releasing in increments — first release by week eight.
Hand over
Runbooks written for your on-call engineer, and a team that can carry it without us.
They shipped in ten weeks what our last vendor scoped for a year — and left us able to maintain it.
VP Engineering · National retail group
Book a call
Tell us what’s in your way.
One call, 30 minutes, with the person who would lead the work. No SDR, no discovery deck.
- devops@machfirst.com
- +1 (555) 014-2200
- Remote-first · US Central
Before you write
- We do not staff-aug. Every engagement is a team with an outcome.
- Assessments are fixed-fee, and the plan is yours either way.
- If the work does not need us, we will tell you on the first call.
Start with a two-week assessment.
We map your stack, name the risks, and hand you a plan you own.