Ways to work with us
Flexible engagements shaped to your stage. Senior people only.
Get a second opinion
A 2-week architecture and AI review with a prioritized roadmap.
- Deep review of architecture, code and cloud setup
- Clear view of risks, cost and technical debt
- A prioritized roadmap you can act on
Prove it works
An LLM evaluation sprint that tests your use case on real data before you commit.
- Evaluation set built from your real data
- Head-to-head model and approach comparison
- A go / no-go recommendation with evidence
Get it to production
We harden prototypes for real traffic, cost and reliability.
- Latency, throughput and cost optimisation
- Monitoring, guardrails and fallbacks
- CI/CD and infrastructure your team can own
Lead the build
Fractional CTO and Head of AI leadership, monthly.
- Technical strategy and hiring leadership
- Hands-on architecture and code review
- Board and investor-ready reporting
How we work
A clear, transparent cadence from first call to handover.
- 01
Discover
Understand the problem, the data, the constraints and what success looks like.
- 02
Decide
Choose the architecture and approach, with trade-offs made explicit.
- 03
Build
Ship working software in short increments, tested on real data.
- 04
Hand over
Document, train your team and leave you owning the system.
Why Crux
Senior people, not a bench.
The people you speak to are the people who design and build your system.
Senior-only
Every engagement is run by senior engineers. No juniors learning on your project.
Hands-on
We don't just advise. We write the code and ship it.
Your hours
Full UK and EU working-hour overlap.
London-grade
London-grade delivery at a fraction of London rates.