Scale is easy. Precision is not. We choose Precision.

We didn’t learn it.We built it.

Two C-suite engineers from Silicon Valley entering a world of tech consultants — a world where the current technology mirrors our work from years past. Instead of managing, we chose to keep building. That is the difference.

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Everyone is selling AI. We make it work.

  1. 01

    Go inside

    We embed. No handoffs, no account managers, no distance between the people who decide and the people who build.

  2. 02

    Stay small

    Small teams, senior only. The people who scope the work are the people who do it.

  3. 03

    Measure one thing

    One metric that matters. Everything else is noise we refuse to bill you for.

  4. 04

    Stay selective

    We take few engagements — the ones where the difference we make is the difference between winning and not.

Isaac Oppenheimer

Managing Partner

Over a decade negotiating with Fortune 500 companies and turning early-stage businesses into category players. Isaac is the architect of Craft & Lever — the vision, the relationships, and the reason the right engineers are building what comes next.

David Azose

Engineering Partner

Engineering leadership at OpenAI, DoorDash, Uber, and Microsoft. David builds the systems that have to hold when the stakes are highest.

Thiago Hirai

Engineering Partner

Principal engineer at OpenAI, Snap, Meta, and Microsoft. Thiago goes deep into the systems where the hardest problems are actually solved — and he is still building.

This is not for everyone.

We work with funds and the companies they back — where the stakes are real and the window to move is short.

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