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small businessesstartupsenterprisessmall businessesgovernmentsanyone
ship software.

Development United is an engineering and product studio. We work across healthcare, enterprise, federal, hospitality, and consumer — from early-stage MVPs to large multi-vendor programs. Senior architects, vibe-coding squads, AI-accelerated delivery.

25yrs
Senior architect tenure
4wks
Concept to MVP via Lena Labs
35%
MTTR reduction at tier-1 US telecom (CI/CD)
120+
Multi-vendor delivery network
01 / Capabilities

What the studio does, end-to-end.

Twelve practices, one studio. Product engineering, GenAI & LLM systems, applied ML, voice & conversational AI, medical imaging, mobile, data platforms, cloud & MLOps, compliance, modernization, run-it, and senior advisory — led by architects who have done the work at Fortune 50 consumer-tech, tier-1 US telecom, and venture-backed exits.

01 / Flagship Practice

Product engineering — mobile, web, and backend, shipped under one roof.

End-to-end product builds. Mobile + web frontend, API + service backend, design systems, vibe-coded delivery. Concept to production in weeks, not quarters.

Next.js · React · TypeScript · VueNode · Python · Go · RustiOS · Android · Flutter · React NativePostgres · Redis · GraphQL · tRPC
02

GenAI & LLM Systems

RAG architectures, agentic workflows, fine-tuning, multi-agent orchestration, evals and guardrails.

OpenAI · Anthropic · Gemini · LlamaLangChain · LlamaIndex · LangGraphPinecone · Qdrant · pgvector
03

Cloud & MLOps

AWS, GCP, Azure. GPU systems, CI/CD with DORA, FedRAMP-ready posture, infra-as-code.

AWS · GCP · AzureKubernetes · Terraform · DockerGitHub Actions · ArgoCD · Pulumi
04

Data Platforms

Lakehouse architectures, ELT pipelines, streaming, semantic layers, BI, governance.

Snowflake · Databricks · BigQuerydbt · Airbyte · FivetranKafka · Spark · Flink
05 / Specialty

Applied ML — computer vision, audio/video analytics, predictive systems.

Modified CNNs/RNNs for video action recognition, semi-real-time audio/video analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive models on biometric & operational data.

PyTorch · TensorFlow · JAXCUDA · cuDNN · TritonSageMaker · Vertex AI · MLflowOpenCV · DICOM · Apache NiFi
06

Advisory & Architecture

Architecture review, M&A technical due diligence, vendor evaluation, org & team scaling, multi-vendor delivery.

Strategy · RoadmapsM&A DD · Vendor evalOrg design · Hiring plans
07

Compliance posture

HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, SOC 2 — designed in from day one, not bolted on.

HIPAA · HITRUST · GDPRFedRAMP · NIST 800-53SOC 2 · ISO 27001
08

Modernization & M&A

Strangler-fig migrations, mainframe-to-cloud cutovers, technical due diligence, post-acquisition integration.

Strangler-fig · Phased cutoverMainframe → cloudMulti-vendor orchestration
09

Run-it-like-you-built-it

24/7 on-call, SLOs, observability, incident response, security posture, continuous delivery.

SLO · SLI · Error budgetsOpenTelemetry · Grafana · DatadogPagerDuty · Sentry
10

Voice & Conversational AI

Real-time STT/TTS, voice agents, multimodal dialog, telephony — powering LenaCX and partner products.

WebRTC · Twilio · VonageWhisper · ElevenLabs · Realtime APIDiarization · function calling
11

Computer Vision & Medical Imaging

DICOM ingest, 3D segmentation, GPU inference, browser-native volume rendering — Naviget, NIH trauma predictor.

DICOM · NIfTI · ITKCNN · U-Net · YOLOCUDA · WebGL · Three.js
12

Mobile & Embedded

Native + cross-platform mobile, smart hardware integrations, edge inference, offline-first apps.

Swift · SwiftUI · KotlinFlutter · React NativeBLE · NFC · IoT · CarPlay
02 / Industries

Sectors we operate in.

Seven sectors, with real product receipts in each. Healthcare, consumer, enterprise, financial services & insurance, federal & defense, hospitality & travel, and public-good — worked end-to-end, not in slide decks.

Abstract medical imaging visualization01

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Curo46 · CuroClarity · NIH bleeding predictor · Naviget · ReveliaDX.

EMR · HIPAA · PyTorch · CUDA
Mobile devices and headphones on a desk02

Consumer & Mobile

Maoney · travel-marketplace partner (NDA) — hyperlocal social, intelligent matchmaking, recommendations.

iOS · Android · NextJS · SageMaker
Corporate office tower from below03

Enterprise & Big Tech

Special-projects delivery for Fortune 50 consumer-tech (NDA). Audvisor — enterprise HR learning.

Sentiment · NLP · Case mgmt
Financial chart on a screen with candlestick patterns04

Financial Services & Insurance

Touchless underwriting chatbot for a Middle East insurance carrier (Oman) — motor, life, medical, property.

NLP · Motor · Life · Property
Federal-style architecture with columns05

Federal & Defense

FAA modernization architectures; NIST + FedRAMP-aware delivery; classified enterprise work.

FedRAMP · NIST · ATO
Modern hotel lobby interior06

Hospitality & Travel

Smart Room (global hospitality brand) · Curacao Travel Assistant · TipsyTogoBar on LenaCX.

NLP · Flutter · SMS
Volunteers and community hands together07

Public Good & NGO

NGOAidMap — geo + capability matching for aid groups and donors.

GCP · Apigee · Firebase
Startup workspace with notebook and laptop08

Early-stage & LegalTech

Functional Lawyer · Proposely · Tiquant · Origins Incubator — 0→1 with Lena Labs squads.

MVP · 0–1 · Co-build

…and many more. Bring us the sector that isn't on this list — we've shipped in regulated, niche, and brand-new categories alike. If you can describe the problem, we can staff a squad to it.

03 / How we engage

Five phases. Built to hand back.

We don't sell hours, we sell outcomes. Every engagement starts with a diagnostic and ends with your team running it — not us, locked in forever.

[ 01 ]1 week

Diagnose

Architecture review, product audit, opportunity map. Build/buy calls, vendor and stack decisions.

[ 02 ]Wk 2–5

Architect

Reference design, compliance posture (HIPAA, NIST, FedRAMP), pilot data flows.

[ 03 ]Wk 5–24

Ship

Embedded delivery — Lena Labs squads, special-projects teams, multi-vendor orchestration.

[ 04 ]Ongoing

Scale

DORA-driven hardening, MLOps maturity, team scaling, on-call, and observability.

[ 05 ]Month 12+

Hand back

Clean documentation, hiring & handoff plan, knowledge transfer. The goal: be replaceable.

04 / Selected work

Work we've shipped. Receipts, not slides.

Twenty-three engagements across healthcare, enterprise, federal research, insurance, consumer, hospitality, public good, and early-stage. Studio products built on the Lena substrate, and partner products shipped end-to-end.

006Healthcare AI

Curo46 — General Genomics

HIPAA-compliant health data platform integrating EMRs + global datasets. Includes CuroML and CuroClarity digital twin.

GCP · Snowflake · PyTorch · CUDA
007Enterprise · Special Projects

Enterprise moderation platform NDA

Enterprise-scale moderation across global social channels — sentiment analysis, keyword heatmaps, escalation workflows. Fortune 50 consumer-tech.

Client internal
008Enterprise · Special Projects

Internal case management NDA

Internal case-management system for a Fortune 50 consumer-tech client. Trade name and details classified.

Client internal
009Federal · Healthcare AI

Trauma Hematoma Predictor — NIH

End-to-end bleeding-detection workflow from clinical imaging — DICOM ingest, segmentation, GPU inference.

PyTorch · CUDA · Apache NiFi
010Insurance · Conversational AI

Touchless underwriting chatbot NDA

Conversational underwriting assistant for a Middle East insurance carrier — trained across motor, life, medical, and property lines.

Oman
011Healthcare · EHR

ReveliaDX

Whole Health EHR built by physicians — unifies medical, behavioral, and lifestyle data. Lena messaging + agentic AI under the hood.

Lena platform
012LegalTech

Functional Lawyer

AI for modern legal practice — conversational intake, document intelligence, practice automation for small/mid firms.

functionallawyer.com
013Consumer · D2C

The Meat Story

Consumer e-commerce, ordering, and brand surfaces — built and operated by the studio.

themeatstory.com
014Hospitality · Mobility

Shuttle Lounge

Booking, ops, and guest-facing surfaces for a lounge / shuttle hospitality brand.

shuttlelounge.com
015Hospitality

TipsyTogoBar

Guest messaging, booking confirmations, and post-event follow-up powered by LenaCX — SMS, web, email.

tipsytogobar.com
016Healthcare · Practice ops

Origins Incubator

From Clinician to CEO — strategy, finance, legal, ops, and clinical frameworks for MDs / DOs / NDs / NPs.

Program partnership
017Consumer · Travel

Travel marketplace platform NDA

Travel marketplace with matching algorithms, intelligent chatbot, and cost predictions. Technical advisor role.

AWS · SageMaker · NextJS
018Hospitality

Smart Room — global hospitality brand NDA

AI + NLP + hardware app enhancing in-room hotel experiences for a major US hospitality chain.

US · NDA
019Travel · Public sector

Curacao Travel Assistant

National tourism chatbot for the Government of Curacao.

GCP · Flutter · Postgres
020Enterprise · Learning

Audvisor

Drip-based enterprise HR learning system.

Enterprise · NDA
021Industrial · IoT

Tiquant

IoT operational intelligence — anomaly detection on HTM algorithm (Numenta), ported to JVM. Co-founder.

HTM · JVM
022Public good · NGO

NGOAidMap

Geo + capability matching for aid organizations and donors — originally Development United, now NGOAidMap.

GCP · Apigee · Firebase
023SaaS · Document AI

Proposely

AI PaaS for automated proposal management and generation. Interim CTO engagement.

Cloud-native
05 / Lena platform

Lena — our own product platform and services arm.

Lena is the AI platform powering the suite (live at asklena.ai). LenaOS sits underneath as the agent operating system; LenaCX is the customer-experience application on top; Lena Labs is the rebranded delivery squad that ships partner products on the same substrate.

LenaOS · production agent runtime

A production agent OS handling orchestration, memory, tools, and guardrails — so application teams ship product.

LenaOS powers LenaCX and every partner agent shipped through Lena Labs. Pluggable tool layer, built-in eval & observability, cloud-agnostic. Production-grade, not demo-grade.

lenaos · prod · v4.x
Agent orchestration · multi-step planninghealthy
Tool & function routing · partner integrationspluggable
Long-term memory · grounded retrievalindexed
Eval harness · nightly + on-mergegreen
Policy guardrails · enforced inlineok
LenaCX · voice + chat applicationlive
Lena Assess · enterprise AI readinessrunning
Cloud · AWS · GCP · Azuremulti

Maoney

They re-architected Maoney end-to-end and shipped the new platform in months, not the year-plus other teams quoted. Senior people, real ownership, no hand-waving.

Gael Gadah, Founder & CEO of Maoney
Gael Gadah
Founder & CEO · Maoney
06 / Team & track record

AI-native engineers. Seasoned architects. A delivery network that scales.

Bench of senior product engineers, an architect-in-residence on every engagement, dedicated customer success & growth, and partner organizations we pull in when a squad needs depth in a specific stack or sector.

AI-native engineers on the bench
30+

Senior engineers fluent in agentic workflows, RAG, evals, voice, and multimodal — shipping product, not demos.

Seasoned architects
4

15+ years each across cloud, data, ML, and compliance. One serves as architect-in-residence on every engagement.

Hyperscalers in production
AWS · GCP · Azure

Production track records on all three. Multi-cloud architectures and migrations when the workload calls for it.

Partner & delivery network
120+

Specialty engineering, design, regulatory, and customer-success partners we pull into a squad on short notice.

07 / Engagement models

Three ways to bring the studio in.

Pick the shape that matches the question you're trying to answer. Every engagement starts with a fixed-scope diagnostic — no commitment beyond it.

1 week

Diagnostic Sprint

Pre-investment, pre-build. We embed with your team, review the architecture, and hand you a delivery plan.

  • Architecture review
  • Opportunity map
  • Build / buy recommendations
  • Cost & risk envelope
Fixed scope · fixed price
2–12 months

Long-Form Program

Build + scale + operate. Multi-vendor orchestration with embedded leadership and clean handoff.

  • Architect-in-residence
  • Multi-vendor delivery
  • Hiring & handoff plan
  • Compliance posture (HIPAA, NIST, FedRAMP)
Scoped · multi-quarter

08 / Engage

Bring us your
concept. Walk away
with an MVP.

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