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Elixir and Phoenix

An AI-native software consultancy.

We build software with AI. We build AI into software. Custom Elixir and Phoenix applications for founders, teams, and the leaders driving them.

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Build

Custom software, shipped fast. Greenfield apps, architecture, and ongoing support.

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Advise

AI strategy and adoption for teams and serious operators.

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Proof

Real AI shipped, not slideware.

Winnow Labs runs on a custom AI pipeline we built. Embeddings, RAG, agents, and a research workflow used by real scientists.

Winnow Research Atlas

Winnow Research Atlas

AI in production

116,000+ scientific papers, embeddings-powered search, custom AI pipelines

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Winnow Journal

Winnow Journal

Curated commentary built on the same AI research stack

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Double Skunk

Double Skunk

A cribbage roguelite on Steam, built to test a hypothesis

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How it works

From hello to shipped, in three steps.

This is how a Build engagement runs. Advise engagements look different. We'll figure out the right rhythm together.

1

Discovery call

30 minutes. You walk us through the problem. We ask questions.

2

Scoped proposal

Fixed or capped price, deliverables, timeline. No surprises.

3

We build

Iterative weekly check-ins. You see progress every Friday.

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AI-native

AI on both sides of the work.

The shop is shaped by AI in how we build, and the products we ship have AI built into them.

We use AI to build

Claude Code, agents, and AI-driven workflows are part of how we work. A small team that ships like a bigger one.

We build AI into software

RAG, embeddings, agents, and LLM-backed workflows in production. Not as buzzwords. As features that have to work.

Built on

A focused stack we have used for years.

Elixir Phoenix LiveView PostgreSQL Tailwind CSS Fly.io
app/lib/router.ex 
# Real-time dashboard, end-to-end
defmodule AppWeb.Router do
  use AppWeb, :router

  live "/dashboard", DashboardLive
  live "/orders",    OrdersLive, :index
  live "/orders/:id", OrdersLive, :show
end
From the blog

Notes from the workshop.

Essays on building bespoke software, the Elixir ecosystem, and working well with AI.

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Domain Authority in 2026 Is Still Earned the Old Way

Winnow Labs went from a Domain Rating of 2 to 8 in six months without tricks. It published research that people and AI agents both want to read.

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Every One of Them Scored 42. None of Them Are Real.

I opened my backlinks report and found a wall of .store domains, all with the same Domain Rating. They are one spam operation, not real businesses.

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Astra Can Use a Computer. That Was Never the Hard Part.

GPT-6 Astra reads a screen and drives the mouse. Priced today, one clerical workflow costs about what a person costs. The supervision layer is missing.

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