Production-ready software products and accelerated operations. One senior team for strategy, design, and engineering, involved from the first decision and as things change.
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Production-ready products
Launch a new product, grow one that's already in market, or add AI to it. One team covers all of it.
SimpleDocs repository and SimpleAI, built with Telos.
Sound familiar?
“We're turning a service we deliver today into a digital product.”
Coaches, advisors, or staff do it by hand now. It has to scale as software, and nobody on the team has built one.
“Our product is in market and the roadmap is bigger than the team.”
New capabilities, larger customers, a redesign, and not enough senior people to ship it well.
“We need AI inside the product, and it has to hold up in production.”
It has to stay accurate and affordable with real users, not just in the demo.
Accelerated operations
Automate the work your team repeats, connect the tools you already pay for, and build the operational software your programs need. A scoped workflow goes live in weeks. Larger systems ship in stages.
Off-the-shelf software
Sound familiar?
“Off-the-shelf software doesn't match how we actually work.”
So the team patches the gaps with spreadsheets and email.
“We're managing service requests through a shared inbox and phone calls.”
Tickets slip, and nobody can see what's still open.
“Our data lives in five tools that don't talk to each other.”
Staff re-key information between systems, and nobody trusts which version is current.
We spend 3 weeks with your team looking at how your product and operations run today. You get one bounded decision, in writing: what to build, what to buy, what to leave alone, and the order to do it in.
It’s a fixed fee, and you’re under no obligation to build with us.
If you do, the people who ran the assessment stay on the work.
Four examples from two continuing partnerships, and the decision behind each.
SaverLife · Products
The problem: Generic financial answers miss each member's goals and circumstances.
The decision: Prototype with members first, then build the assistant around each member's context, with every answer tied to a next action.
Launched to members in August 2025, since extended with debt and savings conversations.
SimpleDocs · Products
The problem: Contract information is buried across PDFs, Word files, and scans.
The decision: Let teams define what to extract with AI columns, and route high-volume extraction to lower-cost models.
About 60% lower projected ingestion cost.
Estimated from the architecture and not yet measured in production.
SaverLife · Operations
The problem: Every payout has to clear recipient checks, duplicate checks, and payment errors before money moves.
The decision: Model batches, approvals, and exceptions in the application instead of spreadsheets, with staff review where the workflow calls for it.
One connected workflow from eligibility to payout, with a history members can see.
SaverLife · Operations
The problem: COVID-19 relief requests had to pass eligibility checks and staff review under each program's rules.
The decision: Make review explicit, from submitted to approved or rejected, and connect approvals straight to payment.
More than US$4 million in relief distributed through the platform.
The COVID-19 program has since ended.
“They did a tremendous job communicating, setting good expectations and updating promptly. I couldn't be more thrilled with their performance.”
“Every team member was thoughtful and was able to interact at both the strategy and engineering level.”
Start here
A three-week Strategic Assessment with a written recommendation. Fixed fee, no obligation to build.
Start directly with product or engineering work under whichever offer fits your situation.
A standing senior team keeps improving the product and the operations behind it.
You own the business priorities. Telos shapes the product and technical decisions with you and supplies the delivery capabilities we agree on: product management, design, engineering, or all three. Work runs on a weekly delivery review and a monthly priorities review, and responsibilities expand when both sides see the case for it.
We only recommend what we’re willing to build.
Jordan founded Telos Labs and leads strategy for every engagement. Before Telos, he spent a decade in enterprise strategy and program management, including a first-of-its-kind therapy launch at a top-10 global pharmaceutical company, where he ran a technology project of roughly 100 people inside a program that spanned thousands. Since founding Telos he has shipped production systems in legal, life sciences, and financial services.
15+
years shipping software
10+
years in enterprise strategy
3+
regulated industries
Everyone on your engagement has shipped production software before. There’s no junior bench to hand work off to, and you talk directly with the people making the technical calls.
Coding agents support implementation and first-pass review on pull requests. Senior engineers make the product and technical decisions. A senior engineer still reviews and owns every merge.
Both clients started with one project. Here's how the work grew.
A nonprofit fintech platform, from migration to AI guidance
We started with a one-time migration. Now we handle product, design, and engineering across the platform, including the software SaverLife staff use every day.
From NDA automation to an AI contracting platform
We started with one NDA workflow. Now we run product, design, and engineering across the platform, including the AI.
Jordan Trevino, Telos's founder, is also SimpleDocs's co-founder and CTO.
We'll tell you how we'd start, and whether an assessment makes sense first.
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