Ordnami is an AI operating partner. A small team embeds with yours and builds the software your business has been waiting on, then leaves your team shipping at the same pace.
Call us when the software your business needs keeps slipping to next quarter. We work with CEOs and leadership teams, from founder-led companies to public ones.
Leadership teams that know what they need built and cannot wait another quarter for it.
Software and tech-enabled companies whose roadmap keeps slipping.
Insurance, staffing and HR outsourcing, healthcare and senior care, and other firms where people do the work.
Something else? If the problem is software and someone at the top owns it, tell us.
Agensy spent more than nine months with a software development company and never got a working beta live. Here is what changed when they switched to Ordnami.
Agensy
Care management platform for home care
“This speed and quality of the product produced by Ordnami was beyond my wildest dreams. I never thought I would be able to launch my own software like this.”
We proved the model on our own company before selling it. Everything here was built with the same system we bring to clients, by teams small enough to fit at one table.
An Austin marketing technology company, bootstrapped since 2016. In January 2026 it went AI-first across every team. Revenue is up 25.4% year over year with less than half the team, the same teams finish about seven times as much work each month, and revenue per person has more than tripled.
| Also shipped | What it is | Built by | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
 SYNT | E-commerce push platform for Shopify and Miva stores, with AI that rewrites every automation each week | 2 people | Client stores earned 5.5x to 31x their plan cost |
 Only In Forum | Private planning app for CEO peer forums: meeting dates, calendar feed, reminders, verified members | Ordnami | Launched August 2026 |
 The Elevated Stag | Client CRM for a bespoke clothier: measurements, orders, fittings, client care, and email, built for the iPad | Ordnami | A year of sales for 121 clients, matched to QuickBooks to the cent |
 TheAIXC | The AI Exchange, in-person and online sessions where operators learn to build with AI | Ordnami | Our teaching ground for the Academy |
Nobel laureate Michael Kremer's O-ring theory shows that when work depends on many steps done well together, one weak step lowers the value of every other one, and strong people produce the most next to other strong people. In software, the slowest handoff sets the pace for everyone behind it.
Kremer, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993
Three people who run AI-first companies, and the AI agents that work alongside them. Every agent answers to one of us.
Chief Executive Officer
Nearly two decades as a CEO, COO, and founder. Has led a company through an AI-first turnaround and knows where software moves revenue.
LinkedIn profile for Emerson Smith
Chief AI Officer
Builds AI and data systems that hold up at scale, from machine learning serving 400 million predictions a day to tooling for 1,500 A/B tests a year.
LinkedIn profile for Michelle Mayes
Chief Innovation Officer
Computer scientist and cloud architect with a decade leading engineering innovation. Designs systems that stay fast and secure at billions of messages a month.
LinkedIn profile for Mitchell TaylorPam AI agent
Chief Product Officer
Turns rough requests in Slack, Asana, or Linear into specs and build tickets your team can work from.
Reports to Michelle Mayes
Sage AI agent
Head of Client Success
Sends status updates, tracks every open request, and flags risks before a deadline slips.
Reports to Emerson Smith
Ward AI agent
Security Officer
Reviews every change for vulnerabilities and leaked secrets before it can ship.
Reports to Mitchell Taylor
Mira AI agent
Head of Learning
Runs bootcamp exercises on your team's real work and coaches people between sessions.
Reports to Emerson Smith
Otto AI agent
Chief of Staff
Runs Pulse: shows where work waits and who needs help, coaching first.
Reports to Michelle Mayes
Four steps, with a written price before any work starts.
Tell us the problem, the systems involved, and what a good result looks like.
Within one business day, you get the scope, the timeline, and the price in writing.
Builds ship in 2 to 4 weeks. Ongoing engagements put software in production within 30 days of getting access to your systems.
Keep us on for the next build, or take over the code with full documentation.
If working software is not in production within 30 days of getting access to your systems, the next month is on us.
Tell us what you needClear prices up front. Complexity, speed, and timeline set where a project lands, and your price is fixed in writing before any work starts. We do not bill by the hour.
Launch
One problem solved in 2 to 4 weeks: a client portal, an internal tool, a reporting dashboard.
$10,000 to $25,000Typical build, at a fixed price set before work starts
Operators
An embedded team ships your backlog every week alongside your people, and shows you where work slows down.
From $25,000 a monthOne flat fee for an embedded team. Cancel with 30 days' notice
Academy
CEO intensives and hands-on team bootcamps, taught from a live P&L by people running AI-first companies.
From $5,000 per sessionPlus expenses, for a CEO intensive or a team bootcamp
Rather run the system yourselves? The platform behind our team is available per seat. See how it works
The questions to ask any build partner, answered up front and put in writing.
What we build for you is yours, assigned to you in writing and kept in accounts you control. Our platform and methods stay with Ordnami.
Keep us on to maintain and improve what we built, priced to what the software needs. Or run it yourselves.
Ongoing work ends on 30 days' notice. We hand over the code, documentation, and access so your team, or anyone you choose, can carry on.
More on how we think and work: our approach.
Most builds land between $10,000 and $25,000 at a fixed price, depending on complexity, speed, and timeline. Operators starts at $25,000 a month for an embedded team, about what a single senior engineer costs once salary, benefits, and recruiting are counted. Training sessions start at $5,000 plus expenses. The price in your written plan is the price you pay, and we do not bill by the hour.
Launch builds are scoped to ship in 2 to 4 weeks. Operators engagements put working software in production within 30 days of getting access to your systems, or the next month is on us.
Staffing decisions are always yours. What we show you is where work waits. In most software teams a task spends more time waiting on a review, an answer, or a fix than being worked on, so one slow step sets the pace for everyone behind it. AI helps people at every level, and newer team members often gain the most, so we train the whole team first.
You do. Code we write for you is assigned to you in writing and kept in accounts you control. Our platform and methods stay with Ordnami, which is how they keep improving for every client.
Sometimes. The build has to be paid for, there has to be a committed first customer, and the scope has to fit. We do not take ownership in place of payment.
Hourly staffing, strategy work without a build, or projects where nobody inside the company will own the result.
Mostly Claude, deployed in secure cloud environments, plus whatever fits the job. Each client's data is kept separate and used only for that client's work.
Describe the project you have been waiting on. We read every message and set up a short conversation. Within one business day of that conversation, you get the scope, the timeline, and the price in writing.
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