Proteus interviews you, drafts your business plan, marketing plan, product plan, and development plan, then ships you a real production app — at a fraction of agency cost and timeline. You own the code, the data, and the AWS account it runs on.
Russ White (engineering) and Garrett Pattiani (process) refined this approach across ten production products. Now it runs as a platform — for everyone else.
A short conversation, in plain English. Talk about your business, the customers you serve, the tools you already pay for, and the software you wish you had. Type it, drop in an audio recording — whichever's faster.
Business plan, marketing plan, product plan, and product development plan — generated from your interview. You read them, ask questions, redline anything that's wrong. Nothing gets built until you say go.
Your project lands in its own isolated workspace. Our agent writes the code on top of a battle-tested Swift + AWS foundation, deploys to your AWS account, ships your iOS or Android app.
Real bugs, new features, integrations — chat with the agent any time. Real review gates before anything goes to production. We don't push code without your sign-off.
Not a prototype. Not a no-code template. A real production app, with all the unglamorous pieces wired up.
You see the full thinking — strategy, marketing, product, engineering — before a single line of code is written. Approve, edit, or send us back to the drawing board.
The code lives in your repo. The app runs in your AWS account if you want it to (BYOL). Your customer data is yours. Cancel any time and walk away with everything.
Native iOS and Android, signed and shipped to TestFlight and the Play Store. Android builds run headless in our pipeline. iOS uses our Mac builder pool — you don't think about any of it.
Every project inherits Stratus — the same Swift + AWS codebase that powers ten production products today. New patterns flow back into Stratus only after they prove out, with full review. Your project never breaks because someone else's project changed.
You see exactly what your project costs us in Anthropic tokens and AWS spend. Our markup is disclosed up front. Want zero markup? BYOL — bring your own keys, pay providers direct, drop our infra fee.
Intake, plans, first build, first deploy, anything that touches production — every gate requires your explicit approval. Our agent is fast and good. It is not autonomous.
Proteus didn't appear from nothing. It's the operationalized version of how we already ship software for our own businesses.
LGBTQ publishing, since 1978. Print and digital editorial workflows, member tools, ad management.
Short-run print shop ops — order intake, file uploads, job board — replacing five separate SaaS tools.
Political candidate tracking for Nevada — public site, admin tooling, voter-facing data.
Online rent payments — Stripe Connect, Plaid bank linking, tenant and landlord tools.
"The nightlife operating system" — multi-venue ops, real-time event management, performer payouts.
Google + Yelp review ingestion, sentiment classification, dashboards — runs across multiple venues.
Pick the model that fits. BYOL — bring your own AWS account and Anthropic key — is available on every tier.
BYOL on any tier: drop $200–$500/mo from the platform fee, pay AWS and Anthropic direct. Code and infrastructure live in accounts you own.