AI Engineers, Embedded

Make AI Partof the Team.

We place senior AI engineers inside your team, on your tools, in your stand-ups. Not a consultancy. Not a pilot. Real people, joining your roadmap.

  • 30daysFrom first call to embedded engineer.
  • 100%AI adoption and usage in daily workflows
  • 1,200Added in business value per embedded engineer
Sachith at his Desk

Sachith at his Desk

Onboarding day, April 2026

Embedded @ Envision Pharma

The engineers
making AI real.

The Gap Between AI Ambition And Live Production Isn't A Strategy Problem. It's A People Problem. We Place Engineers Who've Already Solved It – Embedded In Your Team, Building From Day One.
Chandra Irugalbandara
Chandra Irugalbandara MLOps Lead Embedded with Stekz

You don't need another model. You need a way to trust the one you have.

“Most teams I've worked with treat AI as a feature you bolt on later. At Stekz, the LLM layer is wired into the platform before the first product is built. It changes how you design everything.”

Chandra builds digital products on Stekz's proprietary platform, MyStekz — each one architected around Domain-Driven Design, meaning the product logic maps directly to how the client's business actually operates, not to generic technical assumptions.

Every product built on MyStekz connects automatically to BEP, Stekz's own LLM layer. That means conversational AI isn't a feature request that comes later — it's available from the first release, wherever it creates value. The primary development environment is Claude Code.

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Sachith Gunasekara
Sachith Gunasekara AI Engineer Embedded with Okra.ai

If it can be flow-charted, it has to be AI.

“We don't start with ‘what can AI do?’ We start with the manual, repetitive work our engineers are doing, and we automate it. The goal isn't to replace humans. It's to free them up for higher-level problem solving. When AI handles the boilerplate, engineering velocity goes up exponentially.”

Sachith builds generative AI workflows inside Okra.ai's internal platforms, automating tasks that engineers previously did by hand. If there's an established workflow for it, he looks for a way to let an agent do it.

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Sachintha Senanayake
Sachintha Senanayake Sr. AI Engineer Embedded with Brompton

Stop looking for use cases. Start with the data. The rest reveals itself in the margins.

“The problem with most enterprise AI is that it's top-down. Leaders read about a tool and try to force it into a workflow. True impact comes from the bottom up.”

“When you look at the raw data, the inefficiencies become obvious. You see where people are spending hours on tasks a model could do in seconds. That's where you start. You build small, targeted solutions that solve real problems, and you scale from there. It's not about finding a use case for AI; it's about finding a use case for efficiency.”

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You've seen the work.
Here's how to get it.

Most of what you need is already here. Senior AI engineers, hand-picked for your stack, embedded in your team within weeks. If you're not sure where to start, that's what the second layer is for.

TIER 1AVAILABLE NOW

Embedded
AI Engineers

Senior AI, ML and MLOps engineers placed inside your team. They join your stand-ups, ship to your repo, and report to your tech lead. We handle the people: you run the roadmap.

  • GenAI, ML, MLOps and Data profiles — hand-picked per role
  • 10 - 30 days from first call to first commit
  • You interview the final shortlist. You decide.
  • We own HR, payroll, retention, learning, replacement

From €5,000/mo all-in, per engineer.
Paid monthly.

TIER 2COMING SOON - Q3 2026

Gapstars
AI Academy

For partners who want to build genuine AI capability inside their teams — not just adopt the tools, but develop the judgement to use them well.

  • Practical AI training led by engineers working in production today
  • Team-level upskilling across GenAI, ML, MLOps and Data
  • Workshops to identify and prioritise your highest-value AI use cases
  • A clear view of what to build, what to buy, and what to hire for next

Launching Q3.
Early-access list is open.

— AI HACKATHON 2026

What our AI-native
engineers shipped in
4 hours

Most "AI engineers" stop at Copilot. Ours start there. We gave our stars an unfamiliar problem and 4 hours to build a multi-agent system. The team that placed third went back to work on Monday — and started rolling their QA automation workflow into production at Stekz.

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AI Hackathon Winners
Engineers working in booth
Engineer coding on laptop
Team discussion
Team members smiling
Engineer focused at desk
Engineers collaborating
Gapstars AI Hackathon Team
AI Hackathon Winners
Engineers working in booth
Engineer coding
Team discussion
Team members smiling
Engineer focused at desk
— THE FLYWHEEL
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Gapstars invests in our engineers' AI fluency.
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Our engineers carry the upgrade back into the partner stack.
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That's the model: our engineers level up on the frontier. Our partners get the upgrade - same seat, sharper toolkit.
%

Shipped systems with
4+ coordinated agents.

Real multi-agent architecture, not single-prompt demos.

%

Are likely to deploy it in
their next client build.

That's the benchmark. This is the talent you'd be hiring.

Want them on your
team?

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The AI ReadinessReality Check.

An opinionated 5-step assessment to figure out whether you're ready to embed AI engineers — and what you should do first. Written from ten years of placing engineers.

  • A properly scoped AI use case has a measurable outcome, a known data source, and a human you can name who will use the output. "We should do something with AI" is not yet a use case. This difference matters before you hire.

14 pages • PDF
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