AI-native.Built for altitude.
Senior technology advisory with the full capability to carry it through implementation.
AI-native engineering. Strategic ownership. Real business leverage.
Trusted by teams at companies like
Systems that carry
real business weight.
Where software has to hold up.
Stratos works across healthcare, finance, real estate, commerce, media, music, workforce, and other operationally complex sectors where systems have to perform under real business conditions.
Start with what you can see. We uncover the deeper condition, test the assumptions around it, and help leadership determine the right move.
AI changed the speed.
It did not change ownership.
Stratos is built AI-native and uses every unit of that speed. But speed isn't the advantage. The real value is the senior judgment surrounding it: deep business context, sound architecture, and an experienced owner accountable for the outcome.
FROM THE CEO
Most leaders do not need another vendor. They need a partner who understands the stakes, challenges assumptions, and remains responsible for carrying the work through. Advice and execution cannot live in separate rooms.
David spent years on the buying side of enterprise technology, accountable for the outcomes long after vendors had moved on. Stratos was founded to become the kind of partner he rarely found: one that owns the work, not just the contract.
You get the army. Without having to build the army.
Army is the oldest meaning of our name: a collective, not a headcount. Senior advisory, product, design, engineering, AI, data, cloud, and DevOps arrive as one coordinated capability, with shared context and one accountable lead.
Grounded services. Elevated outcomes.
Full practices, senior depth. More capability than one page needs to show.
Many firms can provide a service. Few can carry the whole decision.
Complex work rarely belongs to one discipline. It needs experienced direction, coordinated execution, and clear accountability.
Expect a different standard.
What we deliver changes by engagement. How we deliver does not.
Strategy before execution.
Speed compounds whatever decision comes first. We define what the system must do, why it matters, and what should happen first before the build begins.
One accountable lead.
You should not have to coordinate the people you hired us to lead. One senior owner carries communication, decisions, risk, and forward motion across the engagement.
Business context, connected.
Critical business logic should not live in one person’s head. We structure it so people and AI can use it, and so the knowledge survives changes in staff, tools, and vendors.
Work stays visible.
You see decisions, progress, and risk as the work moves. Problems surface while there is still time to act, not after the outcome has already been compromised.
Advisory that builds
Consultancies think and leave. Dev shops build what they're told. Stratos was made for the gap: direction and delivery from one team.
Launch is the start.
Release, adoption, observability, and recovery are planned before the final sprint. Continued improvement is treated as part of operating the system, not an afterthought.
The relationship, in our clients’ words.
When you are accountable for the result, it is difficult to find a partner willing to carry the same weight. These leaders found one.
“Our backlog was growing faster than we could work through it, and everything in it looked urgent. Stratos got up to speed fast and untangled the mess. Six weeks in, we’re shipping the things that actually differentiate us instead of just keeping pace.”
Website building platform scaling product development against a growing backlog.
“Anything touching our admin tools sits next to cardholder data, so I was cautious about bringing in outside help. Stratos knew exactly how to work around the privacy constraints without being told. I don’t think of them as outside help anymore.”
Payments infrastructure modernizing administrative tooling under PCI constraints.
“Music distribution is messier than it looks. Every platform wants metadata a little differently, and much of our workflow is handling exceptions. The last group tried to standardize all of it and broke releases for a week. Stratos asked why things worked that way before changing anything.”
Music distribution platform managing multi-DSP delivery and metadata.
“We’d run two AI pilots and neither made it out of the demo. What worked this time is that they sat with our dispatchers for a week first and learned the actual daily workflow before automating any of it. It’s in daily use now.”
Real-time logistics network managing high-volume dispatch and routing.
“We had several dashboards nobody opened. Stratos put the numbers where the decisions actually get made, and now our office managers use them.”
Multi-office financial services firm consolidating reporting across branches.
“They asked questions our last two vendors never did. We brought them in to speed up checkout. A week later they told us the real problem was upstream, in how we were syncing inventory. They were right, and it wasn’t the answer that got them more work.”
Enterprise retail platform modernizing backend systems.
Where Stratos creates the most value.
Stratos earns its place when technology materially affects the business, and the answer requires senior judgment, coordinated execution, or both.
The work matters to how the business grows, operates, serves customers, or manages risk.
The real problem is not yet fully defined, and choosing the wrong answer would be expensive.
The solution may cross systems, data, workflows, products, teams, or business functions.
Your organization needs senior technology judgment, additional execution capacity, or both.
Timing, continuity, adoption, and control matter as much as the technical build.
You need a partner capable of advising the decision and carrying responsibility for what follows.