sortum is an engineering studio building agents, retrieval and automation infrastructure for teams that have outgrown the demo phase. no slide decks. no ai-flavored consulting. just running systems.
a flashy prototype is easy. a system that survives peak load with grounded answers and a paging on-call is engineering. observability, retries, evals and security from day zero, not from incident #1.
the people on the kickoff call are the same people writing the code. no juniors handed your work over coffee. small team, deep stakes.
we prefer scoped phases with a clear deliverable over open retainers. retainers come later, once we have shared evidence the system pays for itself.
if a brief looks better solved by a $40/mo saas, we tell you. our reputation lives downstream of the calls we walked away from, not the ones we sold into.
Autonomous workers that ship work, not demos.
Answers from your data, not the model's guesses.
Pipes, queues and workers that don't fall over.
Pipeline as a system, not a stack of spreadsheets.
Contracts, indexers and frontends that ship.
Phone, web and ambient voice that handles real work.
positioned at the intersection of global finance and rapid technological innovation. sortum leverages hong kong's infrastructure and regulatory environment to ship precision engineering for international clients.
we read every inbound. if there's a fit you'll have a real human reply within one business day.