The Next-Gen Dev Shop isn't a Dev shop.It's a Building Partner.

Imagine a team of builders and strategists executing on your project with Cofounder Energy. Building world-class products at AI-native speed with , and shaping your vision into its sharpest form. That's Katapult.
  1. 01The Katapult Difference
  2. 02What We Build
  3. 03Founders & Team
  4. 04Success Cases
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A New Way to Build

Company building is being

The Katapult Difference

A New Kind of Working Relationship

We embed at the Strategic level.

Agentic · Harnesses · Feedback

AI-Native Velocity

Katapult compresses Time-to-Value by an order of magnitude by stacking agentic collaboration, harness engineering, and prompt-driven feedback systems.

Taste · Judgment · 15 Years

Judgement Layer

When building stops being the bottleneck, the value shifts to shaping what to build. Katapult's leadership draws from 15 years of building products and funding them.

Context · Decisions · Full picture

Deep Embeddedness

Katapult operates inside the founder's reality. The team absorbs the business context, participates in the decisions, and builds with the full picture in view.

Operating Model

Most dev shops execute. We take ownership.

Every Katapult engagement is run like a partnership. Here's what that looks like in practice.

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The work starts before the contract does.

Before anything is signed, we're already learning your business, your market, and where value sits untapped. The proposal is simply the result of that understanding.

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We join your team, or help you sharpen it.

Same Slack, same standups, same backlog. Where it helps, we tighten how the team ships: the process and the harness around everyone. Decisions get made together, in the open.

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Partners push back.

We challenge features that won't move the business, flag roadmap drift, and treat your runway like our own.

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We're picky about who we partner with.

Working together should create obvious value. When we don't see that, we'll tell you before you spend a dollar.

What We Build

Four product lines

Founders & Team

Built by founders, for founders

Tomás and Andres are entrepreneurs with 15+ years building, investing in, and scaling software companies across the Americas.

Behind them is a senior team of ~50 engineers, product owners, designers, and builders. Every person you work with is senior or lead level, with an average engineering tenure of more than five years.

The cofounders are who you talk to. The team is who builds with you.

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Tomás Gutierrez
CEO - Katapult
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Andrés Blumer
President - Katapult

Success Cases

What happens when a founder finds the right team

ROOST • PROPTECH

From a vibe-coded prototype to a production platform, in days.

Roost went after a real problem in affordable housing. The processes around it are notoriously bad, and they land hardest on the people who...

Rose Blankers
Founder & CEO · Roost
Rose Blankers
30 daysReplatform
1 weekExperiments
3 products1 platform
RASA • EVENTTECH

Agentic transformation for an established events business.

RASA builds the kind of events most people only see on a highlight reel: a headline night in Ibiza, an after-party for Comic Con. The events...

Ahmad Muhaisen
Co-Founder & CEO · RASA
Ahmad Muhaisen
HoursRefactor
1 RepoCodebase
DaysShipping
TRASHIE • COMMERCE

Redesigning the checkout for a growing AI-native commerce platform.

“Katapult are strategic partners, and they move fast. We shared our business goals and they quickly translated them into operations and execution.”

Coming Soon
Tammie Kong-Santos
ex-CTO · Trashie
Tammie Kong-Santos
MAGNIFICENT • VENTURES

Standing up a venture studio's first AI-native product.

“Katapult move faster than traditional agencies. They supply engineers with a spectacular talent-to-cost ratio and use AI intelligently to accelerate development.”

Coming Soon
Anand Ravipati
Managing Director · Magnificent Ventures
Anand Ravipati
VACANT • PROPTECH

Accelerating an iOS roadmap without growing the team.

“Katapult supply cost-effective engineers with excellent communication skills. Now we can progress our iOS app faster and manage our burn effectively.”

Coming Soon
Patrick Bosworth
Founder · Vacant.com
Patrick Bosworth
BLUE LAKE • FINTECH

Embedding a senior product squad inside a venture team.

“Katapult are world-class product and engineering experts. They understand everything we're doing and truly operate as an extension of our team.”

Coming Soon
Ray Sturm
Managing Partner · Blue Lake
Ray Sturm
WHEN • LEGALTECH

Building a custom platform for a mission-driven venture.

“Katapult provide a sense of security and act as a safety net. They're building a damn good custom website, and they're so kind and excited about our mission.”

Coming Soon
Jackie Biner
CEO · WHEN Justice & WHEN Ventures
Jackie Biner
ROOST • PROPTECH

From a vibe-coded prototype to a production platform, in days.

Roost went after a real problem in affordable housing. The processes around it are notoriously bad, and they land hardest on the people who...

Rose Blankers
Founder & CEO · Roost
Rose Blankers
30 daysReplatform
1 weekExperiments
3 products1 platform
RASA • EVENTTECH

Agentic transformation for an established events business.

RASA builds the kind of events most people only see on a highlight reel: a headline night in Ibiza, an after-party for Comic Con. The events...

Ahmad Muhaisen
Co-Founder & CEO · RASA
Ahmad Muhaisen
HoursRefactor
1 RepoCodebase
DaysShipping
TRASHIE • COMMERCE

Redesigning the checkout for a growing AI-native commerce platform.

“Katapult are strategic partners, and they move fast. We shared our business goals and they quickly translated them into operations and execution.”

Coming Soon
Tammie Kong-Santos
ex-CTO · Trashie
Tammie Kong-Santos
MAGNIFICENT • VENTURES

Standing up a venture studio's first AI-native product.

“Katapult move faster than traditional agencies. They supply engineers with a spectacular talent-to-cost ratio and use AI intelligently to accelerate development.”

Coming Soon
Anand Ravipati
Managing Director · Magnificent Ventures
Anand Ravipati
VACANT • PROPTECH

Accelerating an iOS roadmap without growing the team.

“Katapult supply cost-effective engineers with excellent communication skills. Now we can progress our iOS app faster and manage our burn effectively.”

Coming Soon
Patrick Bosworth
Founder · Vacant.com
Patrick Bosworth
BLUE LAKE • FINTECH

Embedding a senior product squad inside a venture team.

“Katapult are world-class product and engineering experts. They understand everything we're doing and truly operate as an extension of our team.”

Coming Soon
Ray Sturm
Managing Partner · Blue Lake
Ray Sturm
WHEN • LEGALTECH

Building a custom platform for a mission-driven venture.

“Katapult provide a sense of security and act as a safety net. They're building a damn good custom website, and they're so kind and excited about our mission.”

Coming Soon
Jackie Biner
CEO · WHEN Justice & WHEN Ventures
Jackie Biner
ROOST • PROPTECH

From a vibe-coded prototype to a production platform, in days.

Roost went after a real problem in affordable housing. The processes around it are notoriously bad, and they land hardest on the people who...

Rose Blankers
Founder & CEO · Roost
Rose Blankers
30 daysReplatform
1 weekExperiments
3 products1 platform
RASA • EVENTTECH

Agentic transformation for an established events business.

RASA builds the kind of events most people only see on a highlight reel: a headline night in Ibiza, an after-party for Comic Con. The events...

Ahmad Muhaisen
Co-Founder & CEO · RASA
Ahmad Muhaisen
HoursRefactor
1 RepoCodebase
DaysShipping
TRASHIE • COMMERCE

Redesigning the checkout for a growing AI-native commerce platform.

“Katapult are strategic partners, and they move fast. We shared our business goals and they quickly translated them into operations and execution.”

Coming Soon
Tammie Kong-Santos
ex-CTO · Trashie
Tammie Kong-Santos
MAGNIFICENT • VENTURES

Standing up a venture studio's first AI-native product.

“Katapult move faster than traditional agencies. They supply engineers with a spectacular talent-to-cost ratio and use AI intelligently to accelerate development.”

Coming Soon
Anand Ravipati
Managing Director · Magnificent Ventures
Anand Ravipati
VACANT • PROPTECH

Accelerating an iOS roadmap without growing the team.

“Katapult supply cost-effective engineers with excellent communication skills. Now we can progress our iOS app faster and manage our burn effectively.”

Coming Soon
Patrick Bosworth
Founder · Vacant.com
Patrick Bosworth
BLUE LAKE • FINTECH

Embedding a senior product squad inside a venture team.

“Katapult are world-class product and engineering experts. They understand everything we're doing and truly operate as an extension of our team.”

Coming Soon
Ray Sturm
Managing Partner · Blue Lake
Ray Sturm
WHEN • LEGALTECH

Building a custom platform for a mission-driven venture.

“Katapult provide a sense of security and act as a safety net. They're building a damn good custom website, and they're so kind and excited about our mission.”

Coming Soon
Jackie Biner
CEO · WHEN Justice & WHEN Ventures
Jackie Biner

FAQ

Questions founders ask

Your product building partner, not a dev shop, agency, or consultancy. Operators led by founders who've raised, shipped, scaled, and exited, now deploying embedded, AI-native squads that move like cofounders. We deploy the team you'd hire if you had six months, across four lines: 0→1, Team Augmentation, Agentic Transformation, and Katapult Ventures.
Operators by trade: VC-backed founders ourselves, 15+ years building and running software companies, so you're buying judgment. Agentic by default: every role ships with agents in the loop, the speed of AI with the judgment of operators. And we don't take clients, we take partners, working with a few at a time and embedding as part of the team.
AI sits in the substrate, not sprinkled on top of a SaaS: every role ships with agents in the loop, with senior expertise where quality demands it. We've built with frontier models since before most teams took it seriously. The result: working software in days and weeks, without the corner-cutting that breaks later.
1. Scoping call: we assess your roadmap, team needs, and stack. 2. Talent search: we recruit, vet, and place the right people. 3. Deployment: hires sit on our payroll, dedicated to you full-time. 4. Ongoing support: onboarding, HR, motivation, and replacements if needed.
Every day is demo day: software in days or weeks, not months or years. A Strike Team is live in days; a full embedded squad spins up in 2–4 weeks. On 0→1, we go from product spec to a working v1 in weeks, ready to put in front of customers and investors.
We scope pricing per engagement rather than publishing a rate card: AI has reshaped how teams and pricing work, so we define it case by case with you. Team Augmentation runs on a monthly retainer plus a surge bucket, invoiced monthly and due on receipt. Where conviction is mutual, we'll also do equity, rev-share, or hybrid.
Sometimes, only when conviction is mutual. On the standard lines, equity is an optional layer once we've proven the work. Katapult Ventures is the dedicated lane: we back builders with our own cap table, co-build v1, and share the upside with founders who have an unfair advantage and want to take a real swing together.
A 2-month minimum, and we're open to talking about it, including shorter experiments for the right fit. We're built for long-term partnerships. After the minimum, cancel with 30 days' notice; for teams over 5, we may ask for a longer wind-down.
Most of the team is in Colombia, set up for U.S. time alignment and daily schedule overlap. We run on the U.S. holiday calendar, not local ones, so there are no surprise gaps for holidays you've never heard of.
You do, from day one. Our contracts include strong confidentiality, IP protection, and non-solicitation clauses. The one exception is Katapult Ventures, where ownership and upside are shared by design, agreed up front.