Kaska designs agentic systems and ships production software for teams working at the frontier. AI-native from the first commit — and held to the standard that word implies.
Agentic systems
Language-model products that hold up in production. Agents, tool use, retrieval, and the evaluation harnesses that keep them honest.
Product engineering
Full-stack applications and data platforms, designed end to end and shipped. The craft hasn't changed; the leverage has.
Engineering leadership
Fractional leadership and AI adoption done seriously — new ways of building, measured outcomes, and a team that keeps the gains.
Kaska has run independently since 2016. Its most visible work is the platform behind most avalanche forecasting in the United States, built with Snowbound Solutions. People check this work before deciding whether a slope is safe. That is the bar everything here is held to.
publish daily forecasts on this infrastructure.
rely on those forecasts each season to decide where to travel.
held through storm cycles, when traffic peaks with the hazard.
The decade behind it: enterprise SaaS scaled from engineer #2 through acquisition, remote IoT infrastructure, financial data systems, and agentic products that made it to production.
- Evals over vibes. If it isn't measured, it isn't done.
- Boring infrastructure, novel products.
- Small teams with sharp tools beat large teams with process.
- Working software over slideware. We ship, then refine.
- Leave every codebase — and every team — stronger than we found it.
A short conversation is the fastest eval.
Tell us what you're building and where it strains. We take a small number of engagements at a time.