WE INSTALL SYSTEMS. NOT HEADCOUNT.

Most software agencies rent you people. We install the system and infrastructure that helps serious businesses turn their industry expertise and messy operations into production-ready software using AI quickly.

Discuss your setup directly with our founders.

TRUSTED TO BUILD SYSTEMS FOR:

How can we help

Building a New Product?

Lock in your architecture and ship a production-ready backend in weeks, not months. No fragile prototypes. No agency lock-in.

Optimizing an Established Firm?

Capture senior expertise and systematize workflows before that knowledge walks out the door. Protect your margins.

THE PATTERNS WE SEE EVERY DAY

You hired an agency to build fast, but they build cheap. The prototype collapses the moment real customers hit production.

20% of your core business logic and competive moat lives only in the heads of senior staff. When they leave, the capability leaves with them.

Generic dev shops sell you “staff augmentation” to trap you in endless monthly retainers. You trade manual work for manual developer maintenance.

Why Teams Bring Us In

After 16 years in business, teams come to Spiral Scout when their systems start to buckle under real usage. Manual workflows don’t scale, automation becomes hard to trust, and AI efforts stall once they leave the demo.

We work alongside owners and engineering teams to turn those fragile setups into controllable, observable systems that run inside real businesses. The work is less about shipping features and more about designing for trust, failure, change, and long-term ownership.

Our focus isn’t experimentation for its own sake. It’s building systems your team can operate, extend, and trust without being dependent on engineers forever.

1520+

systems built

120+

TEAM MEMBERS

< 24 HOURS

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John and JD

REAL TRANSFORMATION STORIES

We don’t just ship features. We install capabilities. See how we turn industry expertise into working systems.

  • Staq

    Agentic Workflow Orchestration for Autonomous Banking Infrastructure

    Architected a Temporal-backed agentic runtime for a fintech platform shipping autonomous financial workflows to regulated markets.

    AI Agents, Temporal Orchestration, Fintech/Banking
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  • Car Advise Preview

    Designing Agentic Control Systems for Data Integrity & Financial Readiness

    Engineered a configuration system replacing tribal knowledge with enforced rules, deployed to distributors without IT drag.

    AI Agents, Data Governance, Workflow Orchestration
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  • Danfos - preview

    Rules-Driven Configuration Architecture for the Danfoss Network

    Engineered a configuration system replacing tribal knowledge with enforced rules, deployed to distributors without IT drag.

    Guided Configuration Logic, Platform Engineering, Supply Chain
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  • CPQ engine Temporal

    Turning Complex Quoting into Controlled, Repeatable Systems

    Implemented CPQ that cut quote turnaround time by 50% and increased sales accuracy, driving higher revenue.

    CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT, QUOTING AUTOMATION, TEMPORAL
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  • Temporal PHP SDK

    Temporal PHP SDK for Open-Source Microservice Platform

    Spiral Scout’s PHP SDK for Temporal cut workflow dev time 40%. It enabled reliable microservices for thousands, scaling with $100M+ in funding.

    TEMPORAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
    Link
  • Preview for Qualcomm case

    Interactive AI Experience for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 2023 Summit

    Created AI demo engaging 2,000+ attendees and boosting event interaction by 50%.

    Mobile DEVELOPMENT, AI SOLUTIONS
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  • Preview Gorgias

    AI Agentic Automation for E-Commerce Support

    Scaled conversational AI for 15,000+ e-commerce brands through Temporal Cloud-powered workflows.

    AI AGENTIC AUTOMATION | TEMPORAL CLOUD SOLUTIONS
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  • wippy ai

    Secure enterprise AI automation for RFPs

    Reduced pre-sales data entry by 70%, accelerating lead qualification and increasing qualified leads using AI automation.

    AI-POWERED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM
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  • Streamlining data processing with AI automation

    Automating data processing for a supply chain company with AI-driven workflows

    Developed automated data workflows that reduced manual effort by 75% and increased processing speed.

    AUTOMATED DATA MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
    Link
  • Multi-Agent System Overview

    Revolutionizing Task Automation with AI-Powered Multi-Agent Systems

    Deployed AI agents automating 85% of manual workflows, improving productivity and cutting errors by 70%.

    AI-POWERED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM
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    HOW WE TURN YOUR EXPERTISE INTO a SYSTEM

    Reference Layer

    We ingest your raw domain knowledge, unstructured documents, and data.

    Operational Playbooks

    We map your standard operational workflows and edge cases.

    Decision Rules 

    We extract the “gut feeling” and tribal logic of your senior experts.

    Agentic Runtime

    We deploy durable code and autonomous agents that execute the work with stability.

    • The Collective Logo

      Everyone from Spiral Scout was professional, knowledgeable, patient (steep learning curve for us), caring and went above and beyond to make sure we were thrilled with the final result.

      Abiah Karthauser
      The Collective
    • elb logo

      Their adaptability, commitment to our needs, and super work impressed us.

      The Game Agency Brian McMillan
      Brian McMillan
      The Game Agency, Producer
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      They were a very responsive team — I felt like they were on it at all times.

      Berkeley SkyDeck Sibyl Chen
      Sibyl Chen
      Berkeley SkyDeck, Senior Director, Startup Accelerator
    • Brilliant Tech logo

      They performed pixel-perfect execution and kept their promises around budgets and timelines.

      Gaurav Hardikar Brilliant Tech
      Gaurav Hardikar
      Brilliant Tech, VP of Product
    • Made In Logo

      Spiral Scout kept their promises regarding the project’s scope and speed which makes them a valuable long-term partner.

      Chip Malt
      Chip Malt
      Made In Cookware, CEO
    • elb logo

      A long partnership with Spiral Scout has brought in sizable revenue and several industry awards.

      Rich Vass
      Rich Vass
      eLearning Brothers, Director of Custom Solutions Strategies

      TALK FOUNDER TO FOUNDER

      Building a product is a business decision, not just a code problem. Stop fighting endless agency retainers and fragile prototypes. Discuss your product roadmap, market goals, and timeline directly with our CEO, John Griffin. No sales deck and just a straight conversation about how to get your system to market.

      We review every request personally to ensure we are the right strategic fit.

      John Griffin

      OUTCOME-DRIVEN PACKAGES

      Phase Zero Sprint

      < $25k

      Lock in your MVP architecture, scope, and roadmap in 2 weeks. Zero guesswork.

      Workflow Audit

      $25k+

      Enterprise knowledge extraction. We map your experts’ brains into durable system logic.

      Production Build

      Custom

      Full-scale engineering and deployment of custom software, eCommerce, or agentic runtimes.

      People working break

      Your questions, answered

      We are not a fit if you are looking for a cheap AI chatbot, a short-term prototype with no production plan, or pure staff augmentation sold as systems work. We build durable infrastructure. Our work assumes you want long-term ownership over your product and operations.

      By owning your runtime. We don’t build on closed platforms that trap your data. We build your system using our open-core Wippy framework. Every workflow, agent, and data pipeline can be exported or moved. Client independence is a core feature of our work; you own the code and the system completely.

      Yes. We specialize in inheriting complex legacy codebases and fragmented data. For enterprise environments, we design a “Reference Layer” architecture where agents operate exclusively on your private infrastructure, ensuring sensitive data never leaks to public models like OpenAI.

      You work exclusively with senior architects and domain-focused engineers. We do not run a bench of juniors or offshore generalists. You get direct access to the technical leadership who actually designs and builds the agentic workflows.

      We price the system and the outcome, not raw hourly engineering effort. A Phase Zero architecture sprint (for Founders) stays under $25,000. Full Operational Knowledge Extractions (for Established Firms) start at $25,000+. We do not compete on offshore headcount rates.

      Both, but sequence matters. 80% of an AI agent system is standard plumbing (durability, state management, observability); 20% is your unique domain expertise. Companies hire us to install the 80% Bank-Grade infrastructure instantly so their internal experts can focus solely on teaching the agents the 20% business logic.

      OUR awards and certifications

      • Temporal badge
      • Top Clutch Ai Agents Company 2025 Award
      • Clutch 1000 2025 badge
      • San Francisco Business Times awards 2022
      • Top Clutch Robotics Company San Francisco 2025
      • new york design awards better future winner 2022
      • forbes 2020 Agency Council
      • Top Clutch E-commerce Developers San Francisco 2025

        Actionable Insights. Delivered.

        Stay in the know with expert takes, emerging trends, and practical strategies straight from the front lines of innovation.

          STOP PAYING FOR PEOPLE. START OWNING THE SYSTEM.

          WHAT’S NEXT
          1

          Meet the founders

          2

          Tell us your goals

          3

          Receive a proposal

          4

          Project kickoff

          John Griffin

          Co-Founder, CEO

          Anton “JD” Titov

          Co-Founder, CTO

          “Anton is an exceptional technologist. I would feel comfortable having him work on any technical challenge.” – Ryland Goldstein, Head of Product, Temporal