We design and build custom AI systems for a small number of clients: software shaped around how your operation actually runs, not a product pulled off a shelf. Every engagement begins under NDA. Our clients never appear on this site, and neither will you.
By inquiry· Under NDA from the first conversation· A few clients at a time
Who comes to us
The people we work with have already built something that works. What they want is leverage without exposure: systems that carry the repetitive weight of the operation, built by someone who understands it, and says nothing.
Generic AI tools are built for the average business. Yours isn't average, which is why every tool you've tried has quietly gone unused.
Handing your internals to a software vendor, or appearing in their case-study pipeline, is not an option. Ours stay in the room.
Not another dashboard, another login, another thing to babysit. A system that does the work inside what you already use, and answers to you.
We build the system around your needs, run it under your rules, and never speak of it. That is the entire practice.
A note on discretion
Our clients are successful and private, and they intend to stay that way. Under NDA, their work never becomes our marketing. If you become a client, the same silence covers you.
Our position
We don't arrive with a product looking for a buyer. We begin inside your operation: how work moves, where hours disappear, what should never be automated. We design only what the numbers justify.
Sometimes the honest answer is that you don't need us. When that's true, we say so, and the conversation stays confidential either way.
That sentence is rare in this market. It's also why our recommendations are worth acting on.
What we build
A system from us performs a specific part of your operation end to end: it reads what comes in, does the work, and brings a person only what needs judgment. Not a chatbot. Not a subscription. Software built for how you run.
Your inbox, calendar, documents, books. It operates where you already work; nothing gets ripped out or replaced.
You decide what runs on its own and what waits for your sign-off. The rules are explicit, per workflow, and yours to tighten at any time.
Access scoped to its task, every action logged, results measured against a baseline. You can audit its work the way you'd audit anyone's.
How we work
Under NDA from the start. We sit with you, learn how your operation actually runs, and find where the hours and the friction really are. No technology talk yet.
Every opportunity we find, ranked, with a straight verdict on each: worth building, better solved by a simpler change, or best left alone. Yours to act on, with us or without us.
Where it's justified, we build the system, connect it to your operation, and run it alongside the person doing the work today. It goes live under your rules, with every action logged and results measured against the baseline. If nothing clears the bar, the engagement ends with the plan. As it should.
What you receive
Delivered within two weeks of starting. Not a deck of possibilities: a specific, prioritized document about your operation, covered by the NDA like everything else.
How work actually moves through your business, including the handoffs and repeat work nobody had written down.
Every improvement we found, weighed by the hours it returns against the effort to build it, so you know what to do first and what to ignore.
Where a custom system genuinely pays, where a simpler change wins, and where the right answer is to change nothing. With reasoning, not hype.
What we'd build first, what it touches, what it may do on its own, and how success will be measured against today's baseline.
Who you'll work with
Yaffe AI is a founder-led practice. The founder who signs your NDA and studies your operation is the same person you speak to on the first call, and stays your single point of contact through the finished system. Anyone who touches the work is under the same NDA.
Behind that is years of hands-on production experience across the whole stack: LLMs and AI agents, coding agents like Claude Code, generative image and video models, automation pipelines, GPUs, and cloud infrastructure, all in production, not in theory.
The practice takes a small number of clients at a time, because this kind of work doesn't compress. That constraint is deliberate: it's what makes both the discretion and the honest no possible.
Questions
Because we agreed not to, before they told us anything. Every engagement begins with a mutual NDA, and we treat the fact of the engagement as confidential, not just its contents. It does mean this site can't lean on logos and case studies; we accept that trade. If you become a client, the same silence covers you.
Only the people working on your engagement, every one of them under the same NDA. We don't publish, reference, or hint at client relationships. Not in marketing, not in conversation, not in pitches to anyone else.
Designed from your operation, not configured from a template. We start from how your business runs and what you actually need, then build software to fit it, rather than asking you to bend your operation around someone else's product.
It stays yours. During the assessment we learn by observing and interviewing; your data stays in your systems, under your control. If a system is built, its access is scoped to the task it performs, agreed with you before anything is connected, and every action it takes is logged.
Then that's the answer you get, in writing, with the reasoning. You keep the assessment: a map of your operation and a ranked list of improvements, many of which need no new technology at all. The conversation stays confidential either way.
No. We assess your operation as it is, spreadsheets and legacy systems included. Deciding what's realistic with what you have today is part of the assessment, not a prerequisite for it.
The written assessment arrives within two weeks of starting. If a build follows, it's scoped in small measurable stages; the first working result is typically weeks away, not quarters.
Every engagement is led personally by the founder: the conversations, the assessment, and every decision about what gets built. When a build needs more hands, they work under the founder's direction and under the same NDA. You always deal with one person.
Begin
A short note about your business and what you need. It's read by one person, treated as confidential from the first word, and answered personally within one business day.
What happens next: if it looks like a fit, we schedule a private 30-minute conversation. Its goal is to understand your operation, not to pitch you.
If it isn't a fit, we'll say so plainly, and everything you've told us stays with us either way.
You'll hear back personally within one business day. Everything you wrote is already treated as confidential.
Kept confidential, like everything else here.
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