About

We are the team that keeps it running.

Adler One was founded in 2021 as an outsourcing partnership. Four years and a lot of production AI work later, we are a focused implementation partner for businesses serious about putting AI where the work actually happens.

What changed

We spent our first three years doing what most outsourcing firms do: building software, integrating systems, supporting operations. We were good at it. We did not love it. The work that we kept being most proud of, and that our clients kept asking us to do more of, was the work at the seam between a business and the technology it depends on. The bridge work. The integration work. The "make this actually run" work.

By 2024 it was obvious where that gravity was pulling us. AI is the most consequential, most under-deployed technology our clients have ever tried to put into production. We rebuilt around it. Same team, same values, sharper focus.

What we believe

  • AI is operations technology. The interesting part is not the model. It is what surrounds the model.
  • A demo is not a system. A pilot is not a deployment. A deployment is not an outcome.
  • The right time to invest in evals, observability, and integration hardening is week one, not month six.
  • Senior people, small teams, retained relationships. That is the only shape we know how to be good in.
  • Honesty about what will not work is more valuable to a client than enthusiasm about what might.

How we work

Our default engagement is project-to-retainer. We diagnose first (two weeks, fixed scope), build second (six to fourteen weeks), and operate third (monthly retainer, indefinite). The same senior team carries through from week one to year three. That continuity is the single most important thing we sell.

Where we are

Distributed, U.S.-anchored. Working hours overlap with North American business hours by design.

People

A senior bench. No pyramid. The people you meet in week one are still on the engagement in year two.
JV

J. Velazquez

Managing partner. Twelve years across systems integration, ERP, and operations technology. Runs discovery.

Working on this weekRebuilding a proposal-drafting agent for a 40-person consultancy. The hard part is the source-of-truth question, not the prompt.
PartnerStrategy
AK

A. Khan

Engineering lead. Ten years of production software, last four on LLM-orchestrated systems. Owns the build phase.

Working on this weekCutting tier-1 ticket cost for a SaaS support deployment. Two evals red, one yellow. Shipping the fix Thursday.
EngineeringBuild
RM

R. Mehta

Operations partner. Runs the retained engagements. Eval suites, monthly business reviews, the long tail.

Working on this weekMonthly business review for a construction client. Q3 numbers came in better than the forecast, writing up why so we can do it again.
OperationsRetainer
Work with us

If this sounds like the team you want, let us talk.

A 30-minute call. We will tell you whether what you are trying to build is worth building, and how we would go about it.