// Technical research + architecture
The Zoop Troop helps fast-moving organizations research, design, and validate agentic systems, workflow automation, and advanced software architectures.
Bespoke engagements · Primarily remote · Available to travel
// The starting point
The most useful conversations begin before the technology or delivery model has already been decided.
// How we can help
Design the responsibilities, orchestration, tools, memory, permissions, human oversight, and deterministic boundaries behind useful AI agents.
Investigate models, frameworks, protocols, and architectural approaches before your organization makes a consequential investment.
Review an existing direction, surface consequential risks, document decisions, and give internal teams a credible path forward.
// Our approach
Sometimes the right answer is an agent. Sometimes it is a constrained workflow, conventional software, or no new system at all. We recommend what the evidence supports.
Start with the decision, workflow, constraints, and cost of being wrong—not a predetermined technology.
Research the relevant approaches and use focused experiments to replace assumptions with evidence.
Put autonomy where it creates value and deterministic controls where correctness and accountability matter.
Deliver the artifacts your team needs—from decisions and diagrams to prototypes, roadmaps, and guidance.
// Selected experience
Our perspective comes from building and operating products, contributing to collaborative infrastructure, and testing emerging approaches hands-on—not from repeating an industry playbook.
Owned product
A customer-facing AI inference platform that turns distributed compute research into an operating product with routing, metering, account controls, and observability.
Visit BlueClaw NetworkCollaborative work
Livepeer-funded work in AI and video infrastructure, analytics, data pipelines, model runners, gateways, and open-source systems—contributed through XodeApp alongside Speedybird and other collaborators.
Visit Cloud SPEOperated initiative
Hands-on experience operating distributed video and AI infrastructure and building systems for worker coordination, performance measurement, and automated settlement.
Visit XodeApp + Open PoolResearch practice
Working explorations of agent orchestration, workflow automation, model behavior, memory isolation, real-time media, local-first analytics, and emerging architectural patterns.
// Start a conversation
Tell us what you are exploring, where uncertainty exists, and what is at stake. We will determine whether our experience and interests align with the problem.