About · Codio

We're the engineers your last vendor should have been.

Codio is a small AI and software studio. We work with CTOs and technical founders who have been burned by agencies that promised the world and shipped a deck.

We don't pitch. We don't have a sales team. We take on a limited number of projects per quarter and put a named engineer on every one of them from day one.

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The honest difference

Us vs. the alternative.

− Other agencies+ Codio

1 You need an engineering partner.

2−A growing agency. A sales team. A deck that promised the world.

3−Forty engineers on the roster. You met three of them.

4+Two co-founders. No sales team. No pitch deck.

5+We take a limited number of projects per quarter.

6+Every project has a named engineer from day one.

7 You're paying for engineers, not a brand.

8−Hire contractors to win the pitch.

9+The engineers you met are the engineers who ship.

10+Our capacity is our team. Not a staffing model.

11 Contracts exist to define expectations.

12−Bill by hours in rooms.

13+Bill by what ships. Every engagement has a milestone shaped invoice.

14+If a milestone slips, we tell you the day it slips. Not the day it was due.

15 The deliverable is a running system.

16−Hand off a Jupyter notebook.

17+Ship a containerised service. Real API, monitoring, retries, runbooks.

18+Not a handoff meeting.

19 Production is where contracts get tested.

20−Go quiet after launch.

21+Stay on the pager for the first thirty days.

22+Drift alerts, eval rotation, incident response. Then a clean handoff.

23 Code is a liability if you can't run it without us.

24−Build on someone else's lock-in.

25+Code and IaC you own from week one.

26+No vendor dependent architecture. No SaaS you can't replace.

27 Every AI project ships behind a written eval set. Agreed in week one.

28+We don't reach for frontier models when a fine tuned model clears the bar at a third of the cost.

How we run.

Six rules from real projects. Not a brand workshop.

One named engineer on call per active project for the first thirty days after launch. Not a ticket queue — a name.

Every AI project ships behind a written eval set agreed with the client in week one. We don't ship without knowing what 'correct' means.

We don't reach for frontier models when a fine tuned eight billion parameter model clears the bar at a third of the cost.

A ninety minute kickoff. A ninety minute closeout. Everything in between is async unless the system is on fire.

Milestone billing only. If a milestone slips, we tell you the day it slips — not the day it was due.

Code, infrastructure as code, and runbooks belong to you from week one. We never build the architecture to need us.

The people behind the work.

Two co-founders. Every project has one of them as the named owner.

Abdelrhman Wahdan

Co-founder · Engineering

“I write the code. Not the deck about the code.”

Hossam Wael

Co-founder · Strategy & Growth

“The date on the contract is the date we mean.”

We're not trying to be the biggest studio in the region. We're trying to be the one a CTO emails at eleven at night because a system needs to ship by Monday.

Abdelrhman Wahdan· Co-founder, Codio

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Limited capacity · 2026

We're the engineers your last vendor should have been.

Codio is a small AI and software studio. We work with CTOs and technical founders who have been burned by agencies that promised the world and shipped a deck.

We don't pitch. We don't have a sales team. We take on a limited number of projects per quarter and put a named engineer on every one of them from day one.

Start a project ↗