Led by Eric Elliott, the Webby-nominated former Engineering Manager for Adobe's flagship Generative AI Firefly Platform.
Expert development teams and strategic advisory for the world's most ambitious startups. We'll help you turn your concept into a polished product.
AI-first Software engineering for the world's most ambitious startups
Parallel Drive is a software engineering lab redefining how products are built in the AI age. We deliver cutting edge R&D and open-source software frameworks, and offer software engineering as a service: one monthly fee buys you development capacity with battle tested processes and cutting edge AI Driven Development (AIDD) powered by our open source agent frameworks.
We serve startups and builders ready to bring their products to market, merging proven engineering discipline with AI native workflows that deliver unprecedented productivity and quality. While others struggle with AI slop, we've developed agentic systems that enhance every step of the development process. We transform your ideas into products that inspire and delight users, with clarity, integrity, and technical excellence.
Instead of giving you estimates that are never accurate, we deliver biweekly demos of recently completed work. You always know the status and rate of progress. We use that transparency to set better priorities and adjust the plan to reflect reality. We skip brittle estimates that never account for revisions, bug fixes, and under-estimated scope, and replace them with clarity and visible progress.
Software estimates lie. Research by Boehm found that at the initial concept stage, estimates can vary by a factor of 4x in either direction. Studies show 70-80% of projects overrun estimates by 30-40% on average. When schedules are unrealistic, Jorgensen and Sjoberg found developers introduce significantly more defects. Time pressure causes developers to cut corners, accumulating technical debt.
A little time pressure is good. But inaccurate estimates are bad for quality. By using demos instead of estimates to create delivery pressure, we improve trust, transparency, and accountability without ever cutting corners or increasing defect rates.
Whether you need strategic technical leadership or a full engineering team, we bring decades of experience building production AI systems at scale.
Get invested technical leadership without full-time commitment. Equity + cash partnerships starting at $1,200/month.
AIDD-trained full-stack engineers with expertise in AI, security, and crypto. Stackable $5k-$100k/month packages.
Transparent, predictable pricing.
Stackable packages and contract-to-hire options scale with you as you grow.
| Team | Lanes | Productive Power | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
Launch Full Stack Engineer (part time) | 1 | $5,000 | |
Spark Full Stack Engineer (part time) Full Stack Engineer (part time) | 1 | $10,000 | |
Ignite Full Stack Engineer Full Stack Engineer (part time) | 1 | $25,000 | |
Duo Full Stack Engineer Full Stack Engineer | 2 | $40,000 | |
Turbo Full Stack Engineer Full Stack Engineer Custom Role Quality Engineer | 3 | $55,000 | |
Pod Manager (part time) Full Stack Engineer Full Stack Engineer Custom Role Quality Engineer | 4 | $100,000 |
All team packages include a Security Foundations audit ($1,500 value)
Protect what you build. From first audit to full-time coverage.
Led by engineers who've built security architecture for cryptocurrency platforms and enterprise AI systems.
Perfect for early-stage apps shipping their first security audit
Comprehensive pentest for production applications
White-box source code review
Specialized audits for high-stakes environments
Managed vulnerability disclosure program
Your dedicated security crew - always watching, always ready.
Trusted by millions of developers
The standard framework for AI Driven Development
World's most used prompting language for agents and AIDD
Modern unit testing optimized for AIDD
The secure-by-default id generator trusted by millions of apps
The standard framework for AI Driven Development
Project bootstrap and automation
Workflows from product discovery to commit and release
Typed pseudocode for AI orchestration
Composable backend for Node and Next.js
Common patterns and reusable recipes to accelerate development
Creative AI, Security, Crypto, Fintech, E-Commerce, and more
Led all of Firefly Client engineering throughout most of 2024. Delivered generative AI experiences to millions of creative professionals worldwide.
Designed and implemented security architecture for a trusted cryptocurrency wallet platform, protecting user assets and ensuring compliance with best practices.
Trained a large group of developers on quality engineering best practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD) and continuous delivery.
Provided strategic technical guidance for passwordless authentication infrastructure serving developers building web3 applications.
Webby-nominated for Wall Street Journal WorldStream. Built state-of-the-art video natural language understanding systems in 2012.
Led integration of decentralized applications into one of the most popular multi-chain cryptocurrency wallets.
Musician websites and social media integration for artists including Usher, Frank Ocean, Metallica, and many more. Built the first social media integration for Spotify that helped launch Spotify in the US.
Book a consultation to discuss your technical needs, or explore the AIDD framework to start building with AI today.