Boutique Engineering Consultancy
Auti is a boutique product and engineering consultancy. Small senior teams. Real accountability. No filler.
Start a conversationWe're not an agency and we're not staff augmentation. We're a small, founder-led consultancy that assembles senior engineers — backend, ML, platform, product — around the specific problem you need solved.
Every engagement is hands-on. Every team is senior. The founder is always in the room.
What we do
We architect and build the systems your product runs on — APIs, data pipelines, service layers, and the infrastructure underneath.
From prototypes to production inference pipelines, we build ML systems that are reliable, observable, and built to be owned by your team.
We come from reliability engineering. Your foundation gets built right: observable, scalable, and not one incident away from a crisis.
We can step in as fractional CTO, technical lead, or embedded PM — whatever the engagement requires to actually ship.
The model
We don't have a bench we deploy from. We build the right team for your specific problem — senior people who've done this before.
No juniors, no padding, no managed service layers. The people you meet are the people who do the work.
Every engagement has a named partner accountable for the outcome. Not a project manager. The person who built this.
Track record
Years in platform and
product engineering
Engagements from seed-stage
to Series C
Industries — fintech,
e-commerce, health tech
Work
Rebuilt a slow, brittle model-serving layer into a production-grade inference pipeline handling 2M+ requests/day. Reduced p99 latency by 4x. Left the team with clean ownership and comprehensive runbooks.
Designed and implemented a zero-downtime deployment architecture on Kubernetes. Reduced mean-time-to-deploy from 45 minutes to under 3. The engineering team was shipping twice as fast within 60 days.
About
Auti was founded by Dinesh Auti, an engineer who spent years building platform infrastructure and reliability systems for product companies. The work taught him that most engineering failures aren't technical — they're about who's in the room.
We operate as a small firm with a trusted network of senior engineers — not a growth-at-all-costs agency. That means we take fewer engagements, we're more selective, and the people who show up are the ones worth showing up for.
Also from Auti
Tarka is an open-source AI investigation agent that ingests Prometheus alerts and delivers a structured triage report in under 60 seconds — what failed, how severe, and the exact commands to run next. Built from the same reliability engineering principles we bring to every engagement.
Tarka encodes the investigation steps your senior engineers carry in their heads. Whoever picks up the alert can run a real, structured triage — without waking anyone up.
27 diagnostic checks across Prometheus, Kubernetes, and logs. What failed, how severe, ranked hypotheses, and the exact commands to run — in under 60 seconds.
Apache 2.0, fully self-hosted. Sensitive incident data never leaves your environment. Run it from a laptop CLI or wire it into Alertmanager as an automated webhook pipeline.
For SMEs
Not every business needs a large software project. Some need sharper sales material, faster enquiry handling, cleaner workflows, internal dashboards, or a prototype that proves what is possible. Auti helps SMEs use AI-assisted execution to turn messy business material and manual processes into usable assets quickly.
Turn scattered product and service information into landing pages, catalogs, proposal templates, and enquiry response templates.
Automate repetitive work across Excel, email, WhatsApp, documents, and internal tools.
For agencies and consultants who want to offer AI-assisted execution to their clients without hiring an engineering team.
We work best with founders and product leaders who have a real problem, a real deadline, and the judgment to know when they need help.
Start the conversationWe typically take 2–3 engagements at a time. If you're timing-sensitive, reach out early.