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Small team. Loud
opinions. Shipped work.
Agency DevWorks is a six-human product studio in Costa Mesa — plus an army of AI workers. We build software that runs the business for you, so the humans can do the parts that actually need humans.
We started in 2023 out of a solar company that kept accidentally building its own software. Same senior folks on every sprint. No juniors on your account. No PMs forwarding emails.
2023Founded
6Humans
42Projects shipped
∞AI workers
The team.
ALL SENIOR · NO BENCH
Ali Hnyin
Chief Revenue & Development OfficerDirector of Sales, Product Innovation & Commercialization. LinkedIn ↗
Diego Zertuche
Chief Technology OfficerSystems & Infrastructure.
What we believe.
01
Ship weekly or don't ship.
Every Friday a real URL goes out. Momentum is the only PM trick that works.
02
Boring infra, interesting product.
Postgres. Next. TypeScript. AWS. The exotic stuff goes in the product layer — not plumbing.
03
You own everything.
Code, infra, data, vendor accounts. Day one, they are in your org.
04
Receipts beat decks.
Every proposal links a shipped thing. Every case has real numbers + what broke.
The spec sheet.
LOCATION
Costa Mesa, CA
FOUNDED
2023
TEAM SIZE
6 humans before AI · effectively unlimited with it
HOURS
Every hour. Every day.
STACK
TypeScript · Next.js · PostgreSQL · Python · Rust · JavaScript · AWS · Docker · Node.js
IP / CODE
MIT in your GitHub org from day one. No vendor lock.
COMPLIANCE
SOC2-ready · HIPAA BAAs available · MSA + DPA standard
NOT FOR
Crypto rug-pulls · ad-tech dark patterns · anything we would not let our parents use
Brief history.
2020 · Q2SOLAR COSajjad, Ali, Mario, and Mustafa start a residential solar company in Costa Mesa. Clipboards, spreadsheets, and a lot of door-knocking.LIVE
2020 · Q4FIRST BUILDHand-roll a CRM + install-tracker to kill the clipboards. Ops time / project drops ~40%.LIVE
2021 · Q2AI DIALERWire voice AI + autodialing into the top of funnel. One agent outbounds what three humans used to.LIVE
2022 · Q2THE ASKTwo neighboring solar shops ask to license the stack. Then a roofing company. Then an HVAC team.LIVE
2022 · Q4PIVOTDecision made: spin the software out of the solar business and build it as a studio for everyone else.LIVE
2023 · Q1ADW FOUNDEDAgency DevWorks officially launches. Diego joins as CTO. Hassanain on revenue systems.LIVE
2024 · Q2CORELOCKCoreLock ships — AI-powered Mac security, threat detection, and task manager. Our first consumer product.LIVE
2024 · Q4ERPReleased as its own product — a full in-house ERP for operations-heavy teams. Unrelated to the solar work; built from scratch for the market.LIVE
2025 · Q1LABADW Lab spins out. Internal tools — dialer kits, automation engines, agent frameworks — become public products.LIVE
2026 · Q1NOW42 builds shipped. 6 humans. An army of AI workers. Costa Mesa HQ, PT default.ACTIVE
HELLO / SAY HI
Come visit.
Coffee on us. The space is a converted warehouse with too many whiteboards.