Delivery capacity
One operator in front. A full engineering bench behind.
Echelon's core team is small and accountable on purpose. The engineering bench behind it is not small: 100+ engineers, building since 2015, composed into a pod sized to your scope and coordinated from Los Angeles by the person who mapped your operation.
01Who is on your build
Three people you can name by the end of the first call.
- 01YadelMaps the operation with you, sets the price in writing, runs the build week by week, and reads the weekly report with you. One accountable person from the first call onward.
- 02A development managerRuns the pod day to day, owns the delivery plan, and is on the same direct line as Yadel. You never wait on a ticket queue to reach the person who can fix something.
- 03The podEngineers drawn from the bench for the stack your scope needs: two for a focused system, a full programme team for a multi-workstream build, with architecture, QA automation, and DevOps as the build calls for them.
02How a pod is sized
Sized to the scope, staffed in phases.
The first system is live inside the 90 days whatever the size of the programme behind it. Larger builds ramp in phases: an architecture baseline first, then the pods, never everyone at once.
- 2 to 5 engineers01
A focused system
One process, one outcome: an inbound line, a quoting flow, a follow-up engine. Live inside the 90 days, with a person approving every result first.
- 6 to 12 engineers02
A multi-service platform
Two or three pods with a shared architecture function, for distributed systems, ML pipelines, multi-tenancy, and container orchestration.
- 20 to 30 engineers03
A programme
Parallel workstreams with dedicated technical leadership, QA automation, DevOps, and programme management, staffed in phases against a written ramp plan.
- 1 to 4 engineers04
After launch
Stay on for operation and the next system. Several clients have run this way for 3+ years, moving between active development and reduced hours as needs shift.
Up to 20 to 30 engineers on one programme, staffed in phases against a written plan, never all at once.
03What the bench has shipped
Twelve kinds of problem, solved in production.
Problem types, not a list of tools. The stack is chosen to fit the requirement, the environment you already run, and the people who will maintain it afterwards.
- 01Workflow automationThe clearest pattern in the record: a process running on spreadsheets, email, and copy-paste, replaced with one integrated system. Order management, title examination, documentation, price monitoring, shift billing.
- 02AI built in, not bolted onRetrieval over your own records with real retrieval quality, extraction from unstructured documents, semantic search with hard filters, models tuned on your content, agentic workflows, and generative media, used where it removes a bottleneck and left out where it does not.
- 03Document intelligenceStructured data pulled from documents at volume, OCR combined with model interpretation, revision tracking, and a person approving where accuracy is critical.
- 04Systems integrationConnecting systems that were never designed to talk: CRMs, ERPs, marketplaces, payment providers, logistics, healthcare records, EDI. Including the parts integration projects underestimate: reconciliation, retries, idempotency, webhook reliability, and one shared ID across every system.
- 05Commerce operationsOrder management, fulfilment orchestration, multichannel listing and inventory sync, price and competitor intelligence, support handled inside the tools the team runs.
- 06Data, analytics, and reportingIngestion pipelines, warehouse design, attribution modelling, and client-facing dashboards with per-tenant isolation. Self-serve reporting that scales without per-client setup.
- 07Media and video pipelinesLive stream ingest and processing, automated transcription and segmentation, parallel rendering at volume, branded output in every format. Shipped repeatedly, not once.
- 08Data acquisition at scaleBrowser extensions with capture layers, authenticated collection, anti-blocking infrastructure, and pipelines handling millions of records reliably in production.
- 09Multi-tenant platformsTenant isolation, row-level security, per-tenant branding and deployment, subscription billing, and client reporting that needs no per-client setup work.
- 10Mobile alongside webCross-platform mobile built beside a web platform, sharing business logic and backend services rather than duplicating them.
- 11Cloud architecture and DevOpsAWS-first cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code, containerisation, CI and CD, monitoring, and infrastructure cost optimisation.
- 12Inherited codebasesTaking over under-documented systems, stabilising them, and evolving them. Several clients have stayed 3+ years across active development and maintenance.
04Where it has shipped
The domains, and four installations with a number attached.
Anonymized on purpose. Echelon does not publish client names. Every figure keeps its source.
- Media and live events
- Marketing technology
- Ecommerce and retail operations
- SaaS and knowledge management
- Workforce and field services
- Property technology and marketplaces
- Sales automation and outreach
- Data intelligence
- Health technology
- Education technology
- Food, sports, and government technology
- 01A real estate CRM syncing listings to 70+ portalsPurpose-built, with title report automation on top: OCR and geospatial parsing feeding a person's review.
- 02Outreach engines for sales teams across 90+ countriesMultichannel engagement over email and LinkedIn, every first message reviewed before it sends.
- 03Extraction pipelines at millions of recordsLarge-scale profile and listing extraction, with the anti-blocking and retry work that keeps it running.
- 04Clinical workflow automation with a person approvingEMR integration and clinical workflows with human-approval guardrails, built to the client's security requirements.
05What it builds with
TypeScript and Python first. Your stack where it already runs.
Built with
- TypeScript
- Python
- Node.js
- Next.js
- NestJS
- Remix
- SvelteKit
- Vite
- Turborepo
- tRPC
- Prisma
- Django
- FastAPI
- Flask
- Laravel
- Symfony
- Ruby on Rails
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- PyTorch
- OpenCV
- Tesseract
- Celery
- PostgreSQL
- pgvector
- TimescaleDB
- dbt
- MySQL
- SQLite
- Supabase
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Azure
- Cloudflare
- DigitalOcean
- Vultr
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Terraform
- OpenTofu
- Ansible
- Pulumi
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- CircleCI
- Argo CD
- Vercel
- Netlify
- Playwright
- Puppeteer
- Selenium
- Languages
- TypeScript and Python first. PHP, Ruby, and Elixir where your codebase already runs on them.
- Frameworks
- Next.js, NestJS, Remix, and SvelteKit. Django, FastAPI, and Flask. Laravel, Rails, and Phoenix.
- AI
- LangChain and LangGraph, PyTorch, OpenCV, Tesseract. Retrieval over your own records, extraction, and evaluation.
- Data
- PostgreSQL first, with pgvector, TimescaleDB, and dbt. MySQL and SQLite where they are already in place.
- Cloud
- AWS first. Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, and Vultr, with Cloudflare at the edge.
- Delivery
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, and Pulumi. GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, and Argo CD.
- The rule
- No new language enters your codebase without a clear reason.
06Scope discipline
A defined architecture baseline before a programme ramps, and written change control after it. The price moves only if the scope does.
Where a scope falls partly inside and partly outside our range, we say so on the call and co-deliver: we take the parts we are strong on, a specialist takes the rest, and one plan covers both.
In every build
- Role-based access on every screen and every connection
- Audit logging of what ran, what it touched, and who approved it
- Token scoping: each connection holds only the access its job needs
- Tenant isolation at the database row
- Security audits on every release
- Penetration testing and formal certification arranged with a licensed third party when your policy requires them
Built to your security requirements. The full readiness list, and the paperwork, is on the security page.
07Where we start
Every operation has a first system. The bench is sized after it is found.
- 01If your process still changes every weekWe start by making it repeat.
- 02If the bottleneck is getting customersWe start with the system that answers and follows up with every lead.
- 03If nobody inside owns the work yetWe name the owner in the map.
- 04If one small tool already solves itWe tell you, and build what sits between the tools.
- 05If the scope is bigger than one systemWe phase it: the first system live in 90 days, the programme staffed behind it.
08Questions
What people ask about the team.
Who builds it?
Yadel maps and runs every engagement. The build is staffed from Echelon's engineering bench: 100+ engineers, building since 2015, composed into a pod sized to your scope, from two engineers for a focused system to a full programme team. A development manager runs the pod day to day, on the same direct line as Yadel.
Can you take on something large?
Yes, in phases. Up to 20 to 30 engineers can work one programme, staffed against a written ramp plan with an architecture baseline agreed before the pods ramp. The first system is still live inside the 90 days. Nothing is staffed all at once.
What if part of the scope is outside your range?
We say so on the call. We take the parts we are strong on, a specialist takes the rest, and one plan covers both. A fast, honest answer beats a hopeful proposal that unravels in week eight.
Do we meet the engineers?
Yes. The people on your build are introduced by name on the first call, and the development manager is on your direct line from kickoff. Credentials are given in aggregate on this site on purpose.
Your first department
Bring the process you still run by hand.
One mapping call. You leave with the system design, the price in writing, and the date it goes live.
How it works
From the first call to a system in production.
Six steps, the 90-day shape, and the guarantee written next to the price.
See the six steps