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Software that ships,and holds up after it.

We make products usable by AI agents and ship AI features, web and mobile apps.

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Web apps

In production

  • AskEditor

    Our own product

    AI video editing, with a public API and a hosted connector agents can call.

  • Jompter

    Client

    Voice, screenshots and recordings turned into prompts for Claude Code and Cursor.

Where you are.

Most people arrive as one of these five. The stack comes after.

No code yet“I have an idea and nobody to build it.”Worked out, designed, then built into a first version real people can use. It is not a smaller job because it starts at zero.
Vibe coded“It works. I am scared to touch it.”Built with Lovable, Bolt, Cursor or Claude Code, and now it has real users. Six questions will tell you what it still needs.
Short of hands“We have a team, and we are still a quarter behind.”Senior hands from week one, on a fixed scope or rolling by the month. No ramp-up tax and no junior bench.
Hitting limits“We passed a thousand users and everything got slow.”Queues, database work and the pipelines under them, measured before and after rather than estimated.
Not agent-ready“A customer asked if we have an MCP server.”A hosted connector on your own domain, so people can use your product from inside Claude or ChatGPT. Real authentication, and submitted to the directories.

What we do.

Press one to read it. Nothing leaves this page.

Platforms, front to back.

Next.js from the database to the deploy, including the infrastructure under it. Built to be handed over and run by your team, not to be re-bought from us every quarter.

What you get

Next.js platforms. Front to back, including the infrastructure.
Rescue and rebuild. An existing codebase taken over, made shippable, documented.
Extra senior hands. Rolling by the month, delivering from week one.

How we work

Three steps, and the first one is small.

Most people start at step one and decide from there.

1
AuditOne week

We look at what you have, name what an agent can and cannot do with it today, and write the plan. You get a report and a walkthrough. If we build, this comes off the price.

2
Scoped build or sprintFour to eight weeks

Fixed scope, fixed price, milestones you can see. The audit usually writes this proposal for us, which is why it goes first.

3
Ongoing deliveryMonthly, rolling

Once something is live and earning, we stay on it. Rolling by the month, and either side can stop.

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Step one starts there.

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Work.

AskEditorOpen it

An AI video editor, ours end to end. Agents edit video through it directly.

askeditor.com

Also shipped, under NDA

Mobile streaming platformMicro-drama delivery, VOD encoding, offline play.Mobile apps
Web3 platformThree years for a US client.Web apps
AI-driven productsPipelines, agents and the cost accounting under them.AI and agents
A national regulatorPlatform proposal with a knowledge assistant.Infrastructure

Named by kind, not by client. Yours would be too.

Who does the work

One engineer owns your work.The team is behind them.

No account manager, no handoff to a junior, and nobody new appearing on your project without being introduced first.

Eben Kouao

Eben Kouao

Founder and Software Engineer Lead

Scopes every engagement and leads the work, from what to build and how it should feel through to the infrastructure under it.

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The rest of the team

Senior engineers, each deep in one part of the stack. You work with whoever is doing the work, and you know their name before they start.

  • Product and design
  • Mobile and release
  • Infrastructure and pipelines
  • Models, evals and cost

I make products usable by AI agents and ship the AI features product teams have promised. Frontier Engineering AI is a small senior engineering team.

Track record

3 yrsWeb3 platform, US clientShipped throughout, front to back.
BeforeMobile streaming platformVOD encoding, offline play, delivery at scale.
BeforeA national regulatorPlatform proposal with a knowledge assistant.
BeforeSoftware engineer, telecommunications

Builds with

The tools the work runs on, day to day. Not employers.

TypeScriptNext.jsReact NativePythonPostgresAWSClaudeMCP

Bring what you are building.

Eben Kouao

Eben Kouao

Founder and Software Engineer Lead

Twenty minutesA plan either wayWith the engineer

You leave with:

A clear read on the technical problem, big or small.
An initial architecture and how we would build it.
What working together looks like, and the first step.
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Or email eben@frontierengineering.ai

People usually call because

“We just raised, and the roadmap doubled overnight.”

“Our AI feature costs more per user than it earns.”

“The demo works. Production does not.”

“We promised an app and we are a quarter behind.”

Any of those is a good first call. If yours is not on the list, it is still worth twenty minutes.

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