Archerfish
Taking projects for 2027

Archerfish Holdings LLC
Independent software studio · Bay Area

We build AI systems that do the work, not demos of it.

We design and ship applied AI software end to end, from the first sketch to the system running in production.

Engagements A few a year, by enquiry Length 4–12 weeks Status Taking projects for 2027
Figure 1: the real target Diagram in the style of an engineering drawing. A horizontal line marks the surface: the demo, the deck and the first brief sit above it. The studio, drawn as an archerfish, works below it. Seen through the surface, the target appears in one place: the apparent target, the ask as first stated. A straight aim at it builds exactly what was asked. The real target sits elsewhere: the errand done unattended and trusted with the result. The studio's shot is an arc aimed at the real target, offset from the straight aim by an angle labelled correction, meaning what is needed minus what was asked. A playful version of Snell's law reads: n demo times sine theta ask equals n production times sine theta need, with production denser than the demo because of edge cases, retries and real users. A dimension along the bottom marks the distance from studio to target as 4 to 12 weeks. THE SURFACE THE DEMO, THE DECK, THE FIRST BRIEF Δ CORRECTION NEEDED MINUS ASKED 4–12 WK APPARENT TARGET THE ASK AS FIRST STATED “ADD A CHATBOT.” REAL TARGET THE ERRAND DONE, UNATTENDED, TRUSTED WITH THE RESULT THE SHOT AIMED AT WHAT'S NEEDED STRAIGHT AIM BUILDS EXACTLY WHAT WAS ASKED THE STUDIO WORKS BELOW THE SURFACE ndemo sin θask = nprod sin θneed DEMO n 1.000 CLEAN DATA, HAPPY PATH PRODUCTION n 1.333 EDGE CASES, RETRIES, REAL USERS
Fig. 1The real target. Seen through the surface, every problem looks like the first brief. We measure the gap and aim at what the work actually needs, so it lands the first time.
TitleArcherfish Holdings LLC
Dwg no.AF-001
ScaleNTS
Sheet1 of 1
Date2026
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Studio

Archerfish Holdings builds applied AI software, drawing on a decade of work on AI products and the tooling designers and engineers use to shape them.

Most AI work stops at the demo. The interesting part starts after it: the retries, the edge cases, the moment a model has to act on someone's behalf and be trusted with the result. That is the work the studio takes on.

We take a small number of engagements a year and ship each one end to end.

Details

What we build

Agent systems

Assistants that carry out real errands end to end: placing calls, handling correspondence, running scheduled work. Each ships with the guardrails and hand-back paths that make it safe to leave running.

Interfaces for models

Tooling that gives designers and operators direct, legible control over model behaviour, instead of a prompt box and a shrug.

Evaluation and prototypes

Short builds that answer one question about a product idea, with the measurement in place to tell whether the answer held.

Specification

Practice

ItemSpecification
EntityArcherfish Holdings LLC
BasedBay Area, California
EngagementsSelective, by enquiry
Typical length4–12 weeks
StackPython · TypeScript · LLM APIs
Availability2027 onward
Status Taking projects for 2027

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