United States · Worldwide
Astrolabix is an American engineering studio. We build custom software, run digital transformation programs, and ship AI products - for teams across the United States, and anywhere that needs software that holds true.
01 What we do
Everything we take on is held to the same tolerance: it works, it lasts, and it can be handed over.
Some software is bought. The software that runs your business gets built. We take on the systems off-the-shelf products can’t reach - dispatch engines, member portals, billing cores, trading tools - and deliver them production-ready in 90-day arcs, with documentation an internal team can actually inherit. Senior engineers only; nobody learns their trade on your invoice.
Transformation fails when it starts with slideware. Ours starts in the room where the work happens. We map the process as it is - not as the org chart says it should be - then retire paper, spreadsheets, and copy-paste integration one measured release at a time. Legacy systems come down on a schedule, not on a prayer, and your people keep working through the whole change. That is the point.
We build AI products that survive contact with production: retrieval grounded in your own documents, multilingual models that hold up in every market you serve, agents with guardrails and audit trails. Then we run them - monitoring, evaluation, cost control. A model that can’t clear a measured accuracy bar doesn’t ship. One that does ships with its numbers attached.
02 How we work
Every engagement opens with a fixed-length discovery: two weeks, stakeholder interviews, a systems audit, one written brief. You get a scope, a price, and a date before anyone writes code.
Architecture before construction. We chart the data model, the integration map, and the riskiest assumption in the plan - then prove that assumption with a working spike in the first sprint.
Production systems in 90-day arcs. Weekly demos of running software, not status decks. You can stop at the end of any arc and keep everything: documented, tested, deployable.
Launch is a midpoint. We instrument what we ship, watch it under real load, and tune until the numbers hold steady - then hand over the dials, or keep a hand on them for you.
03 Selected work
Our own products - in production, taking payment from enterprises and the public.
Proof of who acknowledged what, sealed so tampering shows.
ReadSignFlow turns workforce policy acknowledgement into audit-grade evidence. Notices go out by email, SMS, WhatsApp and push; every acknowledgement comes back as a signed PDF, cryptographically bound to the exact version read. Underneath: multi-tenant .NET, tenant isolation enforced by the database itself, and an append-only audit log not even the application can rewrite.
A score with error bars, never a lone number.
An adaptive cognitive assessment and training system, built in-house and sold direct to consumers. Ability is measured by item response theory and reported as a norm-referenced score with a confidence interval; exposure control keeps every sitting fresh, and the training plan re-balances as the learner improves.
04 Origin
الأسطرلاب - the first computer
The astrolabe was the most sophisticated computer of the medieval world. Two plates of engraved brass could find the hour, the date, the direction of prayer, and the position of a thousand stars - a working model of the sky, folded flat enough to hang from a belt.
In tenth-century Aleppo, Mariam al-ʻIjliyya al-Astrulabi made them by hand. She apprenticed under Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Nasṭūlus, the finest astrolabist of the age, and her instruments earned her a place at the court of Emir Sayf al-Dawla. Precision was not her ambition. It was her trade.
A thousand years later an asteroid crosses the sky bearing her name - 7060 Al-ʻIjliya, catalogued at Palomar in 1990. This studio is named for the instrument she made, and holds to what it stood for: an instrument is only beautiful if it is true.
05 Questions
The answers we give on the phone, written down. If yours isn’t here, ask it directly.
Every Astrolabix engagement opens with a two-week paid discovery. It ends with a written scope, a price, and a date - whether or not you build with us. Build work is then priced by 90-day arc, so you see the number for each arc before it begins and commit to one arc at a time.
Pricing is settled in writing before an arc starts, not metered after the fact. Scope moves between arcs, never mid-build.
Astrolabix delivers production systems in 90-day arcs. Before an arc begins, a two-week paid discovery fixes the scope, the price, and the date. Two weeks plus one arc is roughly fifteen weeks from first conversation to software running in production. Larger platforms run across consecutive arcs.
You see the system every week while it is being built - a demo of running software, not a status deck. The date is never a surprise at the end.
Launch is a midpoint, not a finish line. Astrolabix instruments what it ships, watches it under real load, and tunes until the numbers hold steady. Then you choose: take the dials, or keep our hand on them. Everything is documented, tested, and deployable, so an internal team can inherit it.
Handover is a deliverable, not a favor. Ongoing stewardship is offered, never assumed.
The smallest unit of work is the two-week paid discovery, and it stands on its own - you leave with a written scope, a price, and a date whether or not you build with us. Beyond that, the smallest build commitment is a single 90-day arc.
A great deal of useful work fits inside one arc: an integration, a migration, one system replaced. We would rather scope a small thing honestly than stretch it into a program.
Astrolabix migrates legacy systems one measured release at a time. The process is mapped as it actually runs - not as the org chart says it should - then paper, spreadsheets, and copy-paste integration are retired on a schedule. The old system keeps running until the replacement has proved it can carry the load.
Your people keep working through the entire change. Legacy systems come down on a schedule, not on a prayer.
Astrolabix staffs senior engineers only - nobody learns their trade on your invoice. It is an American engineering studio in Sheridan, Wyoming, working in Mountain Time. Work ships in 90-day arcs with weekly demos of running software, and you can stop at the end of any arc and keep everything.
There is no bench of juniors behind the pitch team, and no handoff to a second company once the contract is signed. Every arc ends with a system you own outright: documented, tested, deployable.
Yes. Astrolabix is an American engineering studio based in Sheridan, Wyoming, and it serves the United States and worldwide. The studio keeps Mountain Time. Distance is handled the way everything else is: a two-week discovery, 90-day arcs, and a weekly demo of running software you can watch from any timezone.
Multilingual work is part of the practice - models and interfaces built to hold up in every market you serve. Write to hello@astrolabix.com with your timezone and we will work around it.
Astrolabix builds AI systems that survive contact with production: retrieval grounded in your own documents, multilingual models that hold up in every market you serve, and agents with guardrails and audit trails. It then runs them - monitoring, evaluation, cost control. A model that cannot clear a measured accuracy bar does not ship.
The bar is agreed during discovery, before any model is chosen. One that clears it ships with its numbers attached.
06 Contact
A two-week discovery is the usual first step. It ends with a scope, a price, and a date - whether or not you build with us.
We read every brief and reply within two working days. If it can’t wait, write to hello@astrolabix.com.
