We deliver outcomes. What we ship belongs to you.
Structured research, design, and prototyping. We assess what AI can realistically do for your workflows, inspect the code and infrastructure where it matters, and ship working prototypes on real data when the question calls for it. You leave with a decision-ready artefact: an assessment, an audit, a benchmark, or a prototype. Grounded in production experience. Yours to act on, with us or without us.
Advisory · Engineering · ProductWe ship AI-native assets in independent increments. Each one usable on its own, each one stacking on the last, so the asset compounds instead of restarting. Built for production from day one, fully documented, and handed over on delivery. The code, the models, the architecture: yours, running on your infrastructure when sovereignty matters.
Engineering · ProductFor investors assessing a target's AI maturity before signing.
We audit the AI posture of a target company in a transaction context. Is AI a lever for your value creation plan, or a risk that bends your thesis? Most diligence processes can't tell the difference. We can, and we deliver the answer before your IC.
For investment teams that know AI should help, but not where.
Your analysts lose days to work that doesn't need their judgment. The question isn't whether AI can absorb it. It's which workflows, in what order, at what ROI. We map your operations, find the bottlenecks, and deliver a target-state architecture ranked by what pays back first.
For firms whose proprietary data works less hard than their team does.
Deal flow, portfolio data, GP reports, financial documents. The information that should compound your edge sits in PDFs, inboxes, and spreadsheets. We build the asset that turns it into intelligence: ingestion pipelines, domain-tuned models, outputs your investment process consumes. Shipped in increments. Running on your infrastructure. Owned by you.
For teams running frontier models at scale whose API bill grows faster than the value they extract.
Frontier model usage compounds quickly: bloated prompts, oversized context windows, verbose outputs, and the wrong model tier for the job. We audit your live workloads end-to-end; prompt structure, token in / token out, routing logic, caching opportunities; and deliver a ranked plan of optimisations with the projected savings for each.
Every engagement. No exceptions.
Yours the moment we deliver. Code, model, architecture, documentation. Nothing licensed back to you. No IP clauses to renew. No vendor footprint to remove later.
Every engagement ships in independent increments. Each one is usable on its own. Together they stack.
There is no global contract. Each phase is its own engagement, signed and paid as it ships. Continue when it makes sense. Stop when it doesn't.
Deal pipeline, due diligence, covenants, monitoring, reporting, compliance. We arrive fluent. No domain translation. No onboarding tax.
Useful beats impressive. The unglamorous plumbing that makes AI real. The model running on your infrastructure when sovereignty matters.
$ engagement.start()→ 30-min call with a Sharelock partner. Free. No deck. $ engagement.commits()→ Seniors sell it. Seniors build it.→ Each phase ships in weeks and stands on its own.→ You decide whether to continue. Every time. $ engagement.deliver()→ Lab: 1 to 5 weeks. Independent increment. Assessment Report you own.→ Build: phased delivery. Code, models, docs handed over on ship.→ Run: annual engagement. Ongoing operations on production systems.→ Exit available at the end of any phase. No re-engagement clause.A studio is a small senior team of engineers and product designers who build. We work the way you invest: defined entry, defined scope, an asset at exit.
Deploying AI where compliance leaves no room for error, or turning adoption into assets you own: we build for both.
One team covers everything your systems depend on, from product strategy and solution architecture to machine learning, backend engineering, and cybersecurity. What we hand over runs in production from day one, and your team can operate it without us.
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