AI-Native Operations
We use AI internally, achieving higher output with a lean team. Our own operations serve as a living proof of AI's transformative power.
17+ Years In AI & Enterprise Tech
AI Solutions for Real‑World Impact
We help businesses harness Artificial Intelligence to work smarter, faster, and at scale. From strategy to deployment, we build custom AI solutions that drive efficiency and boost revenue.
Trusted by both Startups and Scaleups
97% of companies investing in AI see positive ROI, but only 1% feel they've reached AI maturity. We bridge that gap.
How We Can Help
We're AI practitioners who run on AI ourselves. Our team has helped companies achieve 3.4× greater efficiency improvements through expert AI implementation.
$14,657
Proven ROI
97% of our clients report positive returns on AI investments, with measurable improvements in efficiency and revenue growth.
Next.js Django AWS Azure Tailwind React Python PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes
Next.js Django AWS Azure Tailwind React Python PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes
Next.js Django AWS Azure Tailwind React Python PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes
Next.js Django AWS Azure Tailwind React Python PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes
Industry Expertise
Deep experience in insurance, fintech, and enterprise software, with successful implementations at companies like BriteCore and Benekiva.
Rapid Implementation
From strategy to deployment in weeks, not months. We focus on practical, immediate value rather than lengthy theoretical planning.
24/7 AI Support
Automated systems ensure continuous operations without downtime. Your AI solutions work around the clock, not just business hours.
Partnership Approach
Strategic partners invested in your success, not just vendors. We align our success with your business outcomes.
Perfect for All Stages
Teams Who Need Leadership
When your engineering team needs direction but you can't justify a full-time CTO. We embed with your team, create systems, and transfer knowledge so you can scale confidently.
Bootstrapped Startups that Want to Scale
Elite engineering talent without enterprise budgets. Our fractional model gives you the skills that would cost 1–2 full-time senior hires, with the flexibility to scale up or down.
Companies Who are Modernizing Legacy Solutions
From the team that built BriteCore and managed millions in written premium. We understand legacy systems and know how to modernize them without breaking what's working.
AI Context Builder: Battle-Tested in Production
Our proprietary tool aggregates knowledge from Slack, Jira, Confluence, and code repositories — this context engineering tool enables engineers, support staff, and any stakeholder to reason with any existing codebase.
2x
Faster than legacy process
$1M
Engineering billing hours saved
100%
Customer Satisfaction
Our Process
Every company and every situation is different, but we always start by engrossing our staff in your problems to find the quickest way to business value.
Step 1
Immerse
Our first step is an intensive exploration of your entire environment. Our expert engineers quickly become familiar with your tech stack, ensuring a seamless and effective partnership from the start.
Step 2
Integrate
We embed ourselves within your team's communication channels (Slack, Teams, Email) and establish a schedule for regular catch-up sessions. This integration facilitates clear, continuous communication and collaboration.
Step 3
Organize
We craft comprehensive documentation, flow diagrams, and action plans. This foundational work is key to maintaining clarity and direction for all team members.
Step 4
Optimize
Our team closely measures utilization patterns in your infrastructure to ensure systems scale to meet your customer's needs while not overpaying for cloud resources.
Step 5
Support
We provide 24/7 support and continuous monitoring. For clients with engineering teams, we also provide training to mature your team's knowledge of infrastructure and cloud ops.
Don't Need to Trust Our Word
Steve Kinder
CTO, Paperplanes UK
Surton was an absolute pleasure to deal with. They completely understood what we wanted to achieve, and they delivered a truly fantastic deliverable, bang on time. The skills needed to do what they do for us is what we would have to hire 1 senior or 2 mid-level developers to achieve.
Alfero Chingono
VP Technology, VCA
Surton is a team of highly collaborative and adaptive experts who know how to get things done. They take the time to deeply understand the customer needs and meticulously map out a path to addressing those needs while maintaining clarity and alignment with all stakeholders.
Valerie Texin
CFO, Zeera
The Surton team have been brilliant partners from day one. They jumped in very quickly to manage all of our technical needs and are able to operate both autonomously and in tight coordination with our other business functions. With very limited handover, the Surton team was able to maintain continuity in all of our engineering processes and also seamlessly deliver customer specific enhancement work on tight timelines.
Ben Kistner
CEO, TurnTech Solutions
The Surton and Growth UX Studio team really made extensive efforts to understand the nitty gritty of our day to day processes to which they then applied their top-tier design skills. Their implementation of the design is so elegantly simple that we've already received positive feedback in our first few demos.
Dan Rundle
CEO, Worthwhile
Chris was very knowledgeable and responsive throughout the process. I have heard nothing but good things from my team, and I hope that we will continue to work together in the future.
Andrew Kwitko
CEO, Mapovis
Chris from Surton provided us with a great initial experience. He solved a tricky issue we had been struggling to fix for many hours in less than 30 minutes.
Meet the Founders
Chris Reynolds
CEO, Founder
Co-founded BriteCore (a P&C insurance software firm) as CTO with over 20 years of experience building data-focused cloud architectures. Host of the Build Your Business Podcast that attracts ~400,000 weekly listeners. Now leading Surton's pivot to AI services, leveraging deep startup experience and technical expertise to help businesses harness the power of artificial intelligence. Chris holds multiple cloud certifications and is a strong advocate for small, elite teams, rigorous documentation, and an automation-first culture. Known for clear thinking and calm execution under pressure, Chris partners closely with founders and executives to align technology decisions to business outcomes.
Ben Hayden
CTO, Founder
With 16+ years of hands-on experience and an AWS Solutions Architect certification, Ben leads teams through large migrations, greenfield builds, and modernization efforts — turning ambiguous requirements into secure, scalable, and cost-efficient systems. His work spans event-driven architectures, containers and serverless, data pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code. Before Surton, Ben worked with Chris as a founding engineer at BriteCore, the modern insurance platform. There, he helped shape the platform's early architecture and engineering practices — shipping features, building CI/CD and observability foundations, and scaling cloud infrastructure to meet demanding operational needs in a regulated industry.
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