Elon Salfati
Founder
Sold a company, closed one, helped sell three more from the executive seat. Owns the estimate, the price, and the apology if we ever need one.
Company
We exist to get the routine out of the way of the meaningful.
Most of software engineering was never the interesting part: the plumbing, the patches, the code every company writes twice. Agents can carry that now. So we built the firm that takes the routine off your desk, finished and signed, and hands the freed hours to the work only humans can do: judgment, invention, problems that matter.
Outcomes, not hoursAgents build, seniors signEvidence first, invoice secondAnonymous by default
The firm is small. The system is not.
- Mandates delivered
- 68
- Accepted on time
- 98%
- Median to first delivery
- 14days
- Founded
- 2024
What we believe
What will still be true in ten years.
Products change. Playbooks change. These three do not.
01
Routine work is not human work.
Anything a machine can carry, a machine should. Keeping people on commodity work wastes the one thing machines cannot replace: a mind that can solve a problem that matters.
02
Machines do the work. People answer for it.
AI-native, human first. Agents build around the clock, and nothing ships without a person who signs it. Accountability does not automate.
03
Evidence over opinion.
A claim comes with its proof attached, or it does not get made. The record beats the pitch, ours included.
A note from the founder
Let me start with the honest count.
I have spent my working life building companies. One I sold. One I closed. Three more I helped sell from inside the executive team. The one I closed taught me the most: you learn what a promise costs when you are the one who made it.
In every one of those companies, on every side of the table, buying software worked the same way. You paid for effort and hoped. Estimates that were guesses. Invoices that arrived whatever shipped. Risk that stayed with the buyer, no matter what the contract said. Everyone in the room knew the trade was not fair. The economics did not allow a better one.
Then the economics changed. My research in AI security at Imperial College London put me next to the machines as they learned to build. Agents can now do most of the work. What they cannot do is answer for it. Judgment, and the willingness to put your name on a result, are still human work.
So this firm takes the routine and returns it finished: priced before we start, tested, with a person's name on it. But the process was never the point. The point is what it frees. Your engineers go back to your product. Ours spend their days on judgment. And the problems that actually deserve human attention finally get it. That is the whole ambition.
Judge us by the record, not the pitch.
Elon Salfati
Founder · Zug, Switzerland
Every mandate ships under a named signature.
No anonymous output · ever
Piotr Jachowicz
Member of Technical Staff
Signs estimates and evidence packs. Nothing Cambrian builds reaches a client repository without his review, or Omer's.
Omer Hochman
Member of Technical Staff
Runs the readiness probes: free report same day, paid diagnostic in three, a walkthrough video on every paid report.
David Fialho
Chief of Staff · Discovery
Runs every Discovery call and the first ninety days after it. Apply, and you hear from him within a day.
Angelique Bellmer Krembs
Advisor · Brand
Advises on the brand and the voice. Client names appear in public only with written consent.
Behind the bench: Cambrian's agent teams, which do not need portraits, and a forward-deployed engineer at each client that wants one embedded.
How we behave when it costs us.
- 01
If we miss, we keep working at no extra cost.
The fixed price is only honest if the overrun is our problem. It is in the contract, not the brochure.
- 02
We refuse scope we cannot measure.
If signable criteria cannot be written, it is not a mandate yet. We will say so and propose the probe that makes it one.
- 03
The gate is the limit, on purpose.
Cambrian could take every mandate offered. The senior signature cannot, and the signature is what you are buying. We take only what the gate can truly read, so a date from us is real. Capacity grows as the system earns it, not as we hire.
- 04
Your name is yours.
Results are published anonymously by default. Your name appears only with written consent, with the exact wording shown to you first, every time.
- 05
Plain words, always.
If you cannot repeat our offer after hearing it once, that is our failure, not yours. We rewrite until you can. Jargon is where bad deals hide.
Judge the system, not the pitch.
The probe reads your codebase and shows you exactly what we would do first, priced.