Who you would be working with
A technical firm in British Columbia.
Setosys Technologies builds production software — operational systems, integrations, and AI where it changes the outcome rather than where it demonstrates well. Some of it for clients, some of it with founders, some of it our own.
What we do
We are the technical side of businesses that don't have one.
The work is the same in every direction: understand a real business problem, decide what should be built, build it properly, and put it into production. What changes is who we are doing it with — a business that already runs and needs software it can depend on, a founder with a market and no way to build for it, or a venture of our own that needs someone commercial to take it out.
The commercial side — distribution, customers, positioning, revenue — is deliberately where we partner rather than pretend. We are good at one half of the problem, and we would rather be honest about which half than sell a company two things and be adequate at both.
How AI changes this
AI-assisted engineering. Human-owned architecture.
We agree with the premise that software got dramatically easier to make. We disagree about what that changes.
What AI is good at
Writing the code, once somebody has decided what the code should do. We use it hard, and it is why we can take on work a firm our size otherwise could not.
What it does not do
Decide what should be built, how it should be structured, what happens when it fails at two in the morning, or who is accountable when it does.
Where that leaves you
You can get a first version out of a model yourself. What you cannot get out of one is a system your business can still depend on in three years.
How we work
Three things we don't trade away.
You own the code
Full ownership, no lock-in. You should be able to hire someone else tomorrow and have them pick it up.
Production, not a demo
Error handling, monitoring and failure modes are part of the build, not a phase that gets cut when time runs short.
Say the unwelcome thing early
Including when the answer is that you should not build this, or that we are not the right people for it.
Tell us what you need built.
A real engineer reads it, and you get an honest answer about whether we are the right people — including when we are not.