A data and AI studio in London helping SMEs transition.

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Strategy, design and engineering from one senior team. We scope thoroughly, ship quickly and hand over completely.

What we do

Five things, properly
01Scope and strategy

Tell us your problem, we'll organise a short call and provide an honest read on whether we are right for you.

02Data and systems engineering

Data Lakes for scaling businesses or your first pipeline, we understand what infrastructure your volume demands.

03Automation and internal tools

You know where your bottlenecks are, we can help you clear them.

04AI and agentic systems

We've shipped RAG systems with answers you can trace to source, and harnesses for bespoke agents. We've also talked clients out of both. The first question is whether AI is the right tool, conventional software often is.

05Reliability & handover

Docs, tests and a team that no longer needs us.

How we work

Four weeks to something real
01
Discovery

Understand the problem before the tooling: who owns the data, what good looks like, and what's already been tried.

02
P.O.C

Start with the cheapest thing that could possibly answer the question, then earn every extra parameter.

03
Ship

In front of real users early, then hardened for production. What ships should be legible at 4am by someone who didn't write it.

04
Handoff

A system isn't done until the team that owns it next can change it without us in the room.

Our own product

Traction — the peer-to-peer habit tracker

Designed, built and shipped in-house to iOS and Android. The shortest proof that we take products all the way, not just to a prototype.

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Free on iOS & Android·Calendar sync·Background detection·No ads·No streak guilt·Free on iOS & Android·Calendar sync·Background detection·No ads·No streak guilt·

Who are we?

Tap a name for the long version
Kaleb
Kaleb
Founder, Engineer

Studied as an aerospace engineer then moved to data in 2018. Since then: engineering and consultancy for Deliveroo, Santander and the UK Ministry of Justice.

Margaux
Margaux
AI
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MSc from Imperial College London with distinction, and prize-winner for the best MSc Pure Mathematics project of 2023. Now an ML engineer at Oak Academy building AI for education.

Luka
Luka
Product
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MSc Physics with distinction from Manchester, then five years leading products and technical teams in renewable energy. Recently moved from Amp X, a digital energy platform, to CDP.

Izaak
Izaak
Advisor
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Founder of the Machine Learning Institute and a software engineer of over a decade, currently the CTO of Founders and Coders C.I.C.

How we think

Ship the smallest useful thing

Scope down ruthlessly. A working feature today beats a perfect one next quarter.

Measure what matters

Every metric should connect to a decision. If it does not inform action, drop it.

Design for calm

Good tools reduce anxiety. Every notification and prompt earns its place.

Secure by default

Not a phase. Baked into architecture, review and deployment from day one.

Tell us what's broken. We'll scope it in one call.

Taking new clients as of September, get in touch!

hello@softmaxco.io
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London, UK
Remote-first, UK & EU hours