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GartnerOur engineers join your standups, work in your codebase, and ship production code. Not a 200-page strategy doc. First workflow live in 30 days. You own everything we build.
Every agent is custom-built for your workflows, your data, and your team.
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Every engagement includes a dedicated senior AI engineer, PhD evaluation oversight, and a project lead as your single point of contact.
President & Chief Implementation Officer
CPA and former Barclays CMBS originator who led AI adoption across a major bank's CRE group. Built production AI systems including underwriting agents, IC memo automation, and asset management tools.
CTO & Co-Founder
AI/ML executive and engineer. Kaggle Top 1% ML Engineer. Founded Ratio (backed by CRV, Vela Partners, Incubate Fund). Previously built AI at Motion (YC '20) and Viz.ai.
Head of Data Science & ML
PhD in Machine Learning from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Published researcher in ML optimization algorithms. University lecturer. Top of class in Mathematics & Computer Science.
SHFA builds and implements production AI systems for businesses. We handle the full lifecycle — scoping, engineering, deployment, and ongoing maintenance — so your team gets working AI, not a slide deck.
An embedded AI engineer is a senior engineer who joins your team directly. They attend your standups, work inside your codebase, and ship production code alongside your existing staff.
We don't consult. We build, advise, maintain, and scale. Traditional firms hand you a strategy document and walk away. SHFA engineers stay embedded until the system is live, adopted, and compounding. You get working software, not recommendations.
Healthcare, real estate, financial services, law, accounting, and back-office operations. We also work with service businesses and trade businesses — plumbing, roofing, and field service companies automating scheduling, quoting, dispatch, and documentation.
First production workflow in 30 days. Not a prototype — a live system running in your environment.
You do. All code, models, and documentation belong to the client. No vendor lock-in, no licensing fees.
Common builds include underwriting automation, anomaly detection, lease abstraction, contract review and redlining, client intake, clinical documentation, AP processing, and scheduling and dispatch automation for field service businesses.
Schedule a call. If you're asking that question, you're ready.
We take on a limited number of engagements each quarter.