Operators, not consultants
We forge what
others pitch.
Custom platforms, web and mobile apps, workflow automation, and AI agents — built into the systems your team already runs and shipped to production in weeks. We build it, we run it, and we train your team to own it.
The gap
Everyone is selling AI.
Almost nobody is shipping.
Your board wants an AI story. Your team is stretched. Your stack is full of tools you already pay for that aren't pulling their weight. The gap was never the technology — it's the operational discipline to actually ship it.
01
Leadership wants AI yesterday
Pressure from the board, no bandwidth on the team.
02
You can't hire $300K AI engineers
And you don't need a team — you need one thing shipped.
03
Your existing software is underused
ServiceNow, Salesforce, M365 — paid for, idling.
04
POCs keep dying after the demo
Integration, governance, adoption — then it stalls.
What we forge
Operational software,
chosen by the problem.
We don't sell a tool. We don't sell a deck. We ship the software your business actually needs — the workflow that should already be automated, the app your team is missing, the platform that finally lets you scale, the agent that does the work nobody has time for. AI baked in only where it earns its keep.
See the work we shipDelivery modes
- 01
Custom Platforms
Multi-location ops, specialty business management, internal tooling — end-to-end.
- 02
Mobile & Web Apps
Customer-facing or internal. Real engineering discipline, ship-ready.
- 03
Workflow Automation
Reporting, document, operational — the work eating your team's hours.
- 04
AI Agents & Assistants
Production-grade. Evals, guardrails, observability. Not a chatbot wrapper.
Who we serve
One team. Three kinds of build.
From a small-business owner with a clear idea to a Fortune 10 operations team — if your bench can't ship what your business needs, we can.
A recent engagement
A Fortune 10 enterprise had the platform.
We forged the operational layer around it.
“It was like buying a Ferrari and driving it in first gear. The platform was generating telemetry at scale — but nobody was home to read it.”— Stephen Ternes, Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Alert noise reduced
Manual toil eliminated
To first results
Cost recovered
The process
From first call to production
in four weeks.
Find
We audit the systems your team runs and surface the highest-impact build. You get a roadmap even if you walk.
Build
We build the system — integrations, evals, guardrails, observability. Hardened before production.
Ship
It goes live with your real data and your team trained on it. A working system, not a demo.
Run
Monitoring, maintenance, and the next build queued up. Month-to-month — leave any time.
The team
Two managing partners. A full bench behind them.
Founder-led on every engagement — backed by NVIDIA- and Anthropic-certified architects and a vetted contractor bench in every U.S. metro.
Three ways to start
Tell us about one workflow
that's broken.
Pick the entry point that matches where you are. Each one ends with a founder reading your note — not a BDR queueing a follow-up.
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Read the Eval Playbook
How to prove your AI workflow works before you ship it. ~10 minutes, no email required.
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The Build Brief
One actionable teardown a month, drawn from real engagements. From the managing partners. One-click unsubscribe.
Ready
Talk to a founder
25 minutes with Stephen. Tell us one workflow eating your team's time — we'll tell you whether AI is the right move.
Book 25 minutesOr just email info@opengate-ai.com — replies come from a founder, usually within 4 business hours.