15 Years of Engineering. Now AI-Augmented.

Are you ready for
what's coming?

AI is rewriting the rules of software every month. Keeping up is a full-time job. We know because it's ours.

15 years of building. Now we build with AI agents. Same judgment, radically faster.

Trusted by teams at

Yum! BrandsJ. CrewWest ElmWilliams SonomaGoogleProcter & GambleAARPVanguardHumana
TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon WinnerFeatured by GoogleFeatured by Fast CompanyDoD Innovation Finalist

Code is becoming cheap.
Judgment is not.

We don't sell developers. We sell outcomes. Designed, supervised, and shipped by engineers who've seen it all.

Anyone can generate code now. AI writes it faster every quarter. The bottleneck has shifted from "can we build it?" to "should we build it this way, and will it actually work in production?"

We've spent 15 years learning what breaks, what scales, and what matters. Now we pair that judgment with AI agents that execute at machine speed.

What We Do

Three things done right.

Agentic Architecture

We design ecosystems of autonomous AI agents that work alongside your team. Not chatbots. Not copilots. Full agentic systems that plan, execute, and self-correct.

  • -MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration
  • -RAG pipeline design & optimization
  • -Multi-agent orchestration
  • -Secure, sovereign AI deployments

AI-Augmented Engineering

Every engineer on your project is battle-tested, AI-native, and endlessly curious. They don't just write code. They orchestrate AI agents that multiply their output. Small team, massive throughput.

  • -Sharp engineers managing AI workflows
  • -Outcome-based delivery, not hourly billing
  • -US + Romania for near-continuous progress
  • -Repeatable agentic playbooks as IP

QA as AI Safety

AI-generated code ships faster. It also fails in new ways. Our QA team is trained to catch what agents miss: edge cases, business logic gaps, and subtle pattern errors.

  • -AI-specific code review patterns
  • -Business logic validation
  • -Edge case detection AI tends to miss
  • -Production-grade quality assurance

Work

Numbers that matter.

Top 15 QSR Chain

40%

reduction in integration time

Connected POS, aggregators, and loyalty systems across thousands of locations. Middleware architecture that just works.

Fortune 500 Retailer

12M

daily page views at peak

Built infrastructure that handled holiday traffic at scale. 99.99% uptime when it mattered most.

West Elm

8%

revenue per user increase

PWA rollout featured by Google and Fast Company. Transformed the mobile shopping experience from scratch.

Client Love

Don't take our word for it.

"Best experiences in digital product development in almost two decades. The team spoke my language and made ideas reality."

Dan Pardes

Director of Innovation, West Elm

"Highly skilled developers delivering complex products with quick turnaround. Ideal for rapid prototyping."

Luke Chatelain

Chief Digital Officer, J. Crew

"The hybrid team provides local presence and access to effective, talented developers producing high-quality code."

Dean Heistad

Head of Technology & Operations, Life Reimagined

"Complete production and development team excelling in design and engineering. Helped us expand capacity across 4 projects, 3 platforms."

Peter Huang

CTO, Tenor

About

Boutique by design.
Battle-tested by time.

SF AppWorks was founded 15 years ago in San Francisco. Our co-founders are based in the US. Our engineering team of 30+ developers is in Cluj, Romania, one of Europe's deepest tech talent pools.

We're big enough to be trusted by Yum! Brands and J. Crew. Small enough that every engineer is handpicked, every client has direct access to leadership, and nobody gets lost in a process machine.

We're not a factory. We don't chase growth for growth's sake. We don't rotate people through your project. Every person on your team is sharp, curious, and AI-native. They orchestrate agents that multiply their output.

The Romania Edge: US timezone overlap, world-class technical talent, and AI agent workflows. Near-continuous progress on your project, around the clock.

Get in Touch

Let's talk about what you're building.

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