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Squash Apps — CTO-led custom software & AI development
Bay Area · AI & RAG specialist · Founder-led

AI development for SF founders
at a third of agency cost.

RAG, copilots, document intelligence, agentic workflows. Deployed into your AWS / Azure / GCP. CTO-supervised pods at $10k/month per engineer — vs $250–$350/hr at most SF agencies. PT-aligned daily syncs. USD invoicing.

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SF / Bay Area focus

The work we ship for Bay Area founders.

RAG over private data

Vector DB selection, chunking strategy, evaluation harness, hybrid search. Pinecone, pgvector, Weaviate or in-database — depending on stack.

Production AI copilots

Slack / Teams / in-product copilots with proper guardrails, observability, cost controls and PII redaction.

Agentic workflows

Multi-step LLM agents with tool use, function-calling, OpenAI / Anthropic SDK choice, and per-step evaluation.

AI MVP in 2–6 weeks

Fixed-scope AI MVPs from $25k. We evaluate against your real data before go-live.

Enterprise-grade Next.js

B2B SaaS dashboards, multi-tenant architectures, OAuth, billing, role-based access. Most SF AI products are also a SaaS.

Founder-led delivery

Srijith reviews architecture in person at quarterly Bay Area visits. No account managers, no PM-shaped fog.

Talk to our Bay Area team

Brief us on your SF / Bay Area project.

Reply same business day. Free AI use-case review on the first call.

  1. 1
    Tell us your brief
    What you're building, AI use case, timeline and stack.
  2. 2
    Free AI review in 24h
    Feasibility, ROI, architecture sketch, ballpark cost.
  3. 3
    Meet in SF on the next visit
    We travel quarterly — happy to align the next trip around your kickoff.
  4. ✓ No sales pressure✓ Reply in 24h✓ NDA available

No sales pressure. We respond within 24h or refund nothing because it’s free.

Frequently asked questions

Do you have a San Francisco office?

No — our two offices are the Coimbatore engineering hub and the Dubai Silicon Oasis MENA office. Srijith is in the Bay Area about once a quarter for client visits. For Bay Area engagements we run PT-aligned daily syncs and travel for kickoff and quarterly reviews.

Why work with you vs a local SF agency?

SF agencies typically charge $250–$350/hr per senior engineer. We charge $10k/month all-in for a senior engineer at 6–10 years of experience, CTO-supervised. The trade-off: not in your building. The win: same delivery quality at a third the cost, with no body-shop turnover.

AI work specifically?

Most SF engagements with us are AI — RAG, copilots, document intelligence, agentic workflows. We deploy to your AWS / Azure / GCP, evaluate with your data, and instrument production guardrails.

Time-zone overlap?

PT-aligned daily standups (typically 9am PT). The engineering work runs overnight in IST and lands on your desk for the morning review. Most clients prefer this — it's asynchronous by default with a synchronous safety net.

Do you take YC-batch / accelerator-resident engagements?

Yes. We've worked with YC-batch and Techstars-backed founders. We can sign your standard accelerator-friendly MSA and respect the IP-assignment expectations that follow.

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