Your idea, built
in six weeks.
We are the early build team great founders wish they could hire: a real MVP in six weeks, for equity, with help raising your first round.
Already running a business? We build the data and software you own. Specialists in place-based / retail and e-commerce.
Two ways to work with us
pick your doorIdea to MVP in six weeks, for equity.
Have an idea? We build the real thing, not a prototype deck, take equity instead of a big invoice, and help you raise your first capital. The early build team you would hire if you could.
Growth, Product & Tech, AI Strategy.
Already running? Bring in fractional leadership from operators who have done it at every scale. We build the data you own, the software that replaces the duct tape, and marketing that reports in dollars.
Why a two-person team ships like a bigger one
AI drives the build. A twenty-year engineer steers. Heavy review keeps it honest.
Claude Code and Codex do the heavy lifting; a senior engineer steers.
Who we build for
Founder-led place-based / retail and e-commerce businesses.
A NoHo bathhouse. A Bushwick cheese-and-flowers shop. An Ohio cycling-hardware brand. A sticker company sold at MoMA and The Met. The tools we live in tell you who we are built for:
How we work
Own it, don’t rent it.
Cheap, self-hosted, yours. When we leave, the data, the pipelines, and the software stay with you. No SaaS lock-in, no middleman.
Built like real software.
Monitored, tested, reversible. We run new pipelines in observation mode against live traffic before we flip them on, and we can switch back with one flag.
Everything reports in dollars.
A short weekly recap ties the work to spend and revenue, so decisions get made on “this drove $X,” not open rates or vanity metrics.
Compounding.
We write down what we learn as we learn it, and read it before we act, so the work stands on its own past instead of relearning it every time. It is what makes AI-driven building stay correct.
Who’s behind it
Two operators who have built together since Aaptiv, and a fifteen-year bench.
A full-stack operator who has gone CTO to CPTO to GM across nine startups (including Shutterstock’s $3B IPO), and a product leader who has been CEO twice. Wolf Works is what they do now: a two-person team that builds real things, fast, with AI doing the heavy lifting under close watch.
Plus a tight network of builders we have worked with for fifteen years.
Start a build
Have an idea worth building?
Founders: idea to MVP in six weeks. Businesses: a two-week paid discovery, then a flat retainer.
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