Engineering the undefined.
9b Engineering is a product development studio and venture workshop. We build new, AI-native product categories—taking ambiguous ideas and turning them into real, usable systems before the market fully exists.
Notes
Our core work is product creation. We explore, design, and build new categories—where requirements are unclear, markets are unformed, and the right abstractions don’t yet exist.
- End-to-end product development, from concept to pilot.
- AI-native SaaS platforms and agent-driven systems.
- R&D prototypes that test viability, not slide decks.
- Not an agency. Not a body shop. Not hype-driven.
Principles
Products first. Technology choices serve the product, not the other way around.
Craft over shortcuts. Correctness, clarity, and maintainability are non-negotiable.
Long-term thinking. We design systems meant to survive changing assumptions, teams, and markets.
Elegance through constraint. Fewer moving parts lead to better products.
Contact
We collaborate selectively with founders, product teams, and research groups building something genuinely new.
If you’re exploring an unproven product category and need a partner to help shape and build it, send a short note with context and constraints.