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We'd rather show you.
We're early and selective, so this is a short list, but every one was built with the same AI-native process we'd point at your problem. The proof is that it ships.
v2 design preview
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 — BlueHelm's 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.
Travel window
Float plans
Routes
A construction operating system
The system a general contractor runs on, from estimating through closeout, with AI reading the risk in every scope.
- The problem
- Construction runs on spreadsheets and 20-year-old software. Estimating, subcontracts, change orders, pay applications, and field reporting all live in disconnected tools. And the risk hiding in a scope sheet only surfaces when it's already expensive.
- What we built
- A full operating system for the workflow (opportunities, subcontracts, change orders, pay apps, vendor portal), plus an AI risk engine that reads scope sheets and flags exposure before it bites. Built greenfield on a modern stack.
- Where it is
- In active development and going to market now, with a live beta. Client unnamed pre-launch, by design.
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.
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.
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 operating system above is this shape, at full scale.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 three things that are real than ten that aren'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.