Geneva · Tokyo · HCMC · Melbourne

Move the needle. We design, build, and ship the software you can’t afford to get wrong.

Haystack is an AI-native software agency. Japanese-quality engineering, AI agents in every production step, senior teams across Asia-Pacific — delivered with the discipline of an enterprise vendor and the velocity of a startup.

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What we ship

Custom systems

Bespoke platforms, web and mobile applications, and integrations — designed for your business, built for the next decade.

AI & agents

Production-grade AI agents, RPA, computer-vision, and LLM systems wired into the workflows that actually move revenue.

Digital transformation

End-to-end DX programs: replace manual operations with measurable automation across ERP, CRM, and supply chain.

Trusted across regulated enterprises and venture-backed startups

Enterprise
Manufacturing
Healthcare
Finance
Logistics

What we do

Five pillars. One delivery team.

Most agencies pick a lane. We cover the full surface area — from greenfield product engineering to enterprise transformation programs — with the same senior team and the same quality bar.

Service 01

System Development

Bespoke platforms, web and mobile applications, and integrations — designed, engineered, and operated to the standard your business depends on.

Service 02

Digital Transformation

Replace manual operations with measurable automation. We re-engineer the workflows that drain your margins.

Service 03

AI, IoT, Cloud & Big Data

Production AI agents, predictive systems, IoT telemetry, and cloud-native data platforms — built to ship, not to demo.

Service 04

Blockchain & Web3

Smart contracts, custody, on-chain settlement, and Web3 applications with security-first architecture.

Service 05

IT Operations

We don’t walk away at launch. Managed operations, SRE, and 24/7 support keep the system running and improving.

How we build

Top engineers × AI = superior products.

AI agents handle the keystroke-heavy work at every stage. Senior engineers make the judgment calls. The result: speed without the slop, quality without the bureaucracy.

Phase 1

Business Analysis

  • AI drafts user stories, PRDs, data models
  • Senior BA reviews, refines, validates scope
  • Output: locked PRD & specs
Phase 2

Architecture & Design

  • AI generates system options, API specs, UI mockups
  • Architect selects stack, finalizes prototype
  • Output: approved tech stack & design
Phase 3

AI-Assisted Build

  • AI generates boilerplate, components, unit tests
  • Engineers code-review, refactor, harden
  • Output: clean source & unit coverage
Phase 4

Rigorous Testing

  • AI writes test scripts, predicts edge cases
  • QC team runs exploratory, perf, security
  • Output: test report & quality metrics
Phase 5

Acceptance & Release

  • AI generates deployment scripts & release notes
  • Client UAT, final approval, go-live support
  • Output: shipped product & ops handover

Inside Haystack

AI-native production. Human judgment.

AI agents do the keystroke-heavy work. Senior engineers do the thinking. Here’s the production system that lets us move with conviction.

Coding agents

AI-pair on every PR

Production-grade LLM coding assistants generate boilerplate, components, and tests. Senior engineers review, refactor, and harden — no code reaches main without two human signatures.

Automated QC

Test scripts written for you

AI predicts edge cases from the spec and authors automated test scripts. QC engineers run exploratory, performance, and security testing on top — evidence-based releases, every time.

Architecture copilots

Design before code

System options, API contracts, and UI mockups generated upfront so the architecture is settled before a single line of production code ships.

Ops automation

Runbooks that run themselves

Generated deployment scripts, observability wiring, and incident runbooks. The handover document is a system, not a PDF.

Senior advisors

Architecture review on the hard problems

For systems that can’t be wrong — regulated data, on-premise AI, mission-critical operations — senior advisors join the architecture review before code is written and stress-test the production design before launch.

  • Lead engineers from enterprise-grade AI deployments across regulated sectors
  • Architects with production track records in fintech, manufacturing, and healthcare
  • Specialists in LLM safety, RAG architectures, and on-premise AI for sensitive data

Why it matters

Speed without slop. Quality without bureaucracy.

Most agencies pick one: fast and rough, or slow and polished. We use AI to remove the floor on velocity and keep senior engineering judgment as the ceiling on quality. The two compound.

  • AI agents embedded at every production stage — not bolted on as a marketing layer
  • Senior engineering review on every commit, every architecture decision, every release
  • ISO/IEC 27001 controls across the production estate, audit-grade by default

Beyond the stack

What’s next

We continuously evaluate emerging coding agents, autonomous QC pipelines, and on-prem LLM tooling. If something compresses the time-to-shipped without compromising the quality bar, it lives in our kitchen before it touches yours.

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Testimonials

Operators who’ve shipped with us

Most agencies pitch a senior, then ship juniors. Haystack pitched a senior and the same engineer was on every standup for ten months. The system landed on time and we extended the contract.
Operations DirectorGlobal packaging group
We needed an AI assistant for our internal knowledge base — on-prem, audit-trail, zero hallucinations. Three vendors said it was impossible. Haystack shipped a pilot in six weeks.
Head of ITRegulated enterprise · EU
The discovery call was a senior engineer asking sharp questions, not a sales rep reading a slide. That was the moment we picked them. Eight months later, the product is in production and growing.
Co-founder & CTOSeries A startup · Silicon Valley

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