Software and AI studio · UK

Intelligence,
engineered.

AX Works is a software and AI studio in the UK. We design, build and run the systems ambitious companies depend on, and we ship products of our own.

10+clients building with us

Clients served
10+
Years of shipping
9
Products in production
13
People using our work every day
100k

What we build

What we do

Everything it takes to ship software and AI that lasts.

Five disciplines, one team. Most engagements draw on at least two.

  • AI systems

    Agents, retrieval and evaluation that hold up in production.

    We take language models from a promising prototype to something your business can rely on: grounded in your data, measured against real tasks, and safe to put in front of customers.

    • Agents and tool use
    • Retrieval and search
    • Evaluation and guardrails
    • Fine-tuning
  • Product engineering

    Web and mobile products, built end to end.

    From the first sketch to the app store. We design and build the whole product, with the engineering discipline that keeps it fast, accessible and easy to change six months from now.

    • Next.js and React
    • React Native and Flutter
    • Design systems
    • Accessibility
  • Platform and cloud

    Infrastructure that scales on purpose.

    Cloud architecture with cost, reliability and security designed in from the start, and the delivery pipeline that lets a small team ship every day without fear.

    • AWS and Kubernetes
    • CI/CD
    • Observability
    • Security reviews
  • Data

    Pipelines and analytics you can trust.

    We make the numbers agree with each other. Pipelines, warehouses and dashboards built so that the figure in the board deck is the same one in the database.

    • Pipelines and warehousing
    • Analytics
    • Machine learning
    • Data quality
  • Embedded leadership

    Senior judgement inside your team.

    A fractional CTO or lead engineer who sits in your standups, reviews the hard decisions and raises the bar for everyone around them, for as long as you need and not a day longer.

    • Fractional CTO
    • Architecture reviews
    • Hiring and mentoring
    • Roadmaps

Hire a team

Hire a development team that is ready to ship.

Skip months of recruiting. Bring in a team that already works together, pointed at your roadmap, and scale it up or down as the work changes.

  • Project delivery

    A defined outcome, a fixed estimate, delivered end to end.

    New products, MVPs and well-scoped builds.

    • Two weeks of discovery and a written plan
    • A fixed estimate before the build starts
    • Working software every week
    • Code and infrastructure in your accounts
    Scope a project
  • Most flexible

    Dedicated team

    A cross-functional team that works as an extension of yours.

    Roadmaps that need more hands, starting now.

    • Engineers, design and QA in one team
    • Joins your standups, tools and repositories
    • Scale the team up or down as you need
    • A named lead accountable for delivery
    Hire a dev team
  • Embedded leadership

    A fractional CTO or lead engineer, inside your team.

    Teams that need a technical leader, not another hire.

    • Sits in your standups
    • Reviews the hard decisions
    • Raises the bar for everyone around them
    • For as long as you need, not a day longer
    Book a conversation

Your team, assembled

  • You own the code, the infrastructure and the IP
  • A reply within two working days
  • Progress on a board you can read without a translator
  • Tech lead
  • Full-stack engineers
  • AI engineer
  • Product designer
  • QA engineer
  • DevOps engineer

How we work

Four stages, each with something concrete in your hands at the end of it.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Two weeks to understand the problem, the constraints and what done looks like.

    You getA written plan, a fixed estimate and a prototype you can click.

  2. 02

    Design

    Interface and architecture designed together, so what looks right also runs right.

    You getFlows, screens and a system design your engineers can build from.

  3. 03

    Build

    Short cycles and working software every week, on a board you can read without a translator.

    You getShipped increments, tested and documented, in your repositories.

  4. 04

    Run

    We stay on after launch. Monitoring, iteration and a team that still picks up the phone.

    You getDashboards, runbooks and a named engineer on call.

The studio

Most software is built to be demoed. We build software to be depended on. Every system we ship is designed to survive contact with real users, real data and real scale, and we stay accountable for it long after launch.

Nine years of shipping. Thirteen products in production. A hundred thousand people a day.

Principles

Why teams build with us.

  • Own the outcome.

    We are measured by what ships and whether it works, not by hours logged.

  • No black boxes.

    You own the code, the infrastructure and the understanding of how it fits together.

  • Ship, then sharpen.

    Real feedback beats a longer plan. We get to working software fast and improve it in the open.

Products

Works in progress.

Alongside client work we build our own products: tools we wanted and could not buy. The first one leaves the studio in 2026.

Let's build.

Tell us what you are trying to do. We reply within two working days.