Cosmic Lift is a software consulting studio. We help pre-seed and seed founders ship agentic and LLM-powered systems that hold up in front of paying users.
Who we are
17+ years building production software. Currently Founder and CEO of FrontSail AI (virtual operations assistant for service businesses) and founding software developer at Starboard (AI agents for freight forwarders). Cosmic Lift is where I take a small number of consulting engagements with founders who need senior agentic-AI engineering without hiring a full team yet.
Before going independent: 10 years at Planitar, from first hired developer to Director of R&D (1 to 20+ engineers, SOC 2 Type II, in-house AI team for automated drafting). Before that, embedded systems at Cisco on Vodafone's residential gateways.
It all started a little over 20 years ago at the Technion Computer Science faculty. Some details have gone foggy. The 3 a.m. labs, less so.
We lead with agentic AI engineering. Everything below it is what makes that work in production.
We design and ship production agentic and LLM systems. RAG, tool use, evals, guardrails, the whole stack. Built for teams that need it to actually work in front of paying users.
Architecture that scales and stays maintainable. Designed to outlive your next funding round.
Senior technical leadership without a full-time hire. Roadmap, tech radar, hiring guidance, and the hard architectural calls.
End-to-end product engineering. Responsive frontends, high-performance backends, CLI tooling, DevOps.
Streamline engineering delivery without the consultancy buzzwords. CI/CD, agile workflows, code quality, DORA metrics.
Hands-on workshops for developers and leadership coaching for managers. Built from 10 years of leading engineering teams.