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[02]Work

We'd rather show you.

Two eras on this page. What we're building now runs on Neural Ops, our agent platform. That's the method we'd point at your problem. Behind it sits a decade of enterprise systems built the traditional way: ordering at stadium scale, connected hardware in the field, fleets of devices monitored from a browser. The old work proves the engineering. The new work proves the speed.

[01]Current · built on Neural Ops

How we build now.

Three products, one engine. Neural Ops plans the work, writes and reviews the code, runs the infrastructure, and ships, with senior engineers owning architecture and every quality gate. It's why a team this size ships a background-GPS safety app and a full construction platform at the same time.

v2 design preview
BlueHelm v2 design preview, Talk sheet: a conversation with the boat's onboard AI. Asked which seacocks should be open before leaving the dock, it answers from the vessel's own systems guide.
BlueHelm v2 design preview, home screen: Welcome back, Captain over open water, with an Anchor Watch Armed card reading Anchor Holding with drift, wind, and tide, the next trip to Catalina Island, and a calm-through-4-PM conditions summary.
BlueHelm v2 design preview: the home screen with live anchor status, and the Talk sheet, an onboard AI that answers from the vessel's own systems guide.
Live

BlueHelm

A boating safety and navigation app: anchor monitoring on the chart, trip charting with live float plans, and one-tap man-overboard alerts. The v2 redesign now in build adds forecast-based Travel Windows, waypoint route charting, and Your Boat, a beta AI assistant that answers from the vessel's own systems guide.

The problem
Boaters juggle a patchwork of aging hardware, scattered apps, and guesswork for the moments that matter most: dragging anchor at 2am, reading the week's forecast, charting a passage, a person overboard with no float plan on file.
What we built
A cross-platform mobile app built around the moments that matter on the water. Anchor Watch runs background drift detection and now lives right on the chart. Trips share a live float plan with the people ashore who need it and log every voyage across all your boats, and one-tap man-overboard SOS shares your last known position. The v2 redesign, in build now, adds a Travel Window that turns the week's marine forecast into a glanceable read, waypoint-by-waypoint route charting, and Your Boat: a beta AI assistant that answers questions about your specific vessel from its own systems guide.
Where it is
v1 is live on Google Play; Apple App Store pending. Shown here is the approved v2 design, whose own line for it is 'the app that knows your boat', in build now and planned for submission to both stores next. The first product in a wider nautical suite.
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BlueHelm v2 design preview, Conditions: a Travel Window card reading Good to go now with a color-coded hour strip, over current temperature, wind, tide, wave, and water readings.

Travel window

BlueHelm v2 design preview, Trips hub: Plan a trip and Track now doors, an upcoming Catalina trip with float plan filed and a green weather window, and past voyages.

Float plans

BlueHelm v2 design preview, Navigate: a plotted route with numbered waypoints on a nautical chart, live wind and tide chips, and the helm bar with speed.

Routes

Three more v2 design screens: the Conditions travel window, the Trips hub with float plans, and route planning on the chart.
blueprint · capture pending
Construction OS · Scope AI: interface blueprint; product capture coming.
In development \u00b7 under NDA

A construction platform

The platform a general contractor runs their business on, from the first opportunity through closeout. In active development with a live beta \u2014 and described in outline only, because the client hasn't approved more.

The problem
Construction runs on spreadsheets and 20-year-old software, in tools that don't talk to each other. The cost isn't the licensing \u2014 it's the re-keying, the version drift, and the decision made on a number that was already stale.
What we built
One platform covering the operation end to end, rebuilt on a modern stack rather than ported, with AI applied where it changes an outcome. It's the largest thing we have in flight.
Where it is
Active development, live beta. No client name, screens, or numbers here \u2014 we don't publish those without written approval, and on this engagement we don't have it.
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blueprint · capture pending
Neural Ops · Console: interface blueprint; product capture coming.
Our engine

Neural Ops

The agent platform that runs CKS itself, and the one we stand up inside client companies.

The problem
A studio claiming to be AI-native has to actually be one. The work of planning, building, shipping, and operating software can't be a deck. It has to run.
What we built
Four layers of agents (product & delivery, engineering, infrastructure & ops, intelligence) under one orchestration, with senior engineers reviewing and owning quality. It plans work, ships code, runs ops, and surfaces what matters.
Where it is
Runs CKS day to day, including the site you're reading. Offered as a platform we deploy and operate inside your company.
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Capabilities

What we build for clients.

The case studies are the proof; this is the range. Most client work takes one of six shapes, all of it AI-native from the first commit, all of it owned by you.

01

Internal tools & operating systems

The software your business actually runs on: the workflows, dashboards, and back-office systems your team lives in every day. We replace the spreadsheets and the duct-tape with something built for how you actually work. The construction platform above is this shape, at full scale.

02

AI workflow automation

Put agents on the repetitive work inside your operation: intake, triage, data entry, follow-ups, reporting. Not a chatbot bolted on the side: agents wired into your real processes, with your people in charge of every call that matters. If a task eats hours and never needed a human, it's a candidate.

03

Legacy system integration

Connect and modernize the 20-year-old software you're stuck with. We bridge to what you can't replace yet and replace what you can, in stages, without a rip-and-replace gamble. Your operation keeps running the whole time.

04

Customer & vendor portals

The outside-facing systems your clients and partners touch: log in, submit, track, pay. Secure, branded, and tied cleanly into the systems behind them, so a customer's request lands in your workflow, not in someone's inbox.

05

Mobile & device-connected products

Apps and IoT, from idea to the app store. Native-feeling mobile, hardware and sensor integration, real-time data: the parts most shops treat as exotic. BlueHelm, above, went from concept to Google Play exactly this way.

06

Dashboards & decision systems

Turn your data into something you can act on: the metrics, alerts, and views that actually drive a decision, not another report nobody opens. We start from the calls you need to make, then build the system that feeds them.

The honest footnote

More case studies as they ship. We'd rather show you work that's real than a wall of logos that isn't.

And if your project doesn't fit neatly into a row above, that's the call. Tell us the problem and we'll tell you what's worth building, and what isn't.