World-class engineering teams for AI-native products

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.

About Parallel Drive

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.

Frequent Demos = No More Missed Deadlines

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.

How We Can Help

Whether you need strategic technical leadership or a full engineering team, we bring decades of experience building production AI systems at scale.

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Strategic Advisory for Founders

Get invested technical leadership without full-time commitment. Equity + cash partnerships starting at $1,200/month.

  • ✓ Technical cofounder experience
  • ✓ Investor-ready technical credibility
  • ✓ Architecture & security review
  • ✓ Long-term partnership aligned with your success
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Expert Engineering Teams

AIDD-trained full-stack engineers with expertise in AI, security, and crypto. Stackable $5k-$100k/month packages.

  • ✓ Production-ready code from day one
  • ✓ Security & compliance expertise
  • ✓ AI-first development workflows
  • ✓ Flexible team scaling from 1 to 7+ engineers
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Team Packages

Transparent, predictable pricing.
Stackable packages and contract-to-hire options scale with you as you grow.

TeamLanesProductive PowerMonthly
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)

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Security Services

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.

Security Foundations

$1,500

Perfect for early-stage apps shipping their first security audit

  • Authentication & session management review
  • OWASP Top 10 vulnerability scan
  • Basic architecture assessment
  • Remediation guidance included

App Security Audit

$7,500

Comprehensive pentest for production applications

  • Full mobile (iOS/Android) or web application testing
  • API endpoint security review
  • Detailed findings report with prioritized fixes
  • One free retest included

Deep Dive Audit

$15,000

White-box source code review

  • Architecture & threat modeling
  • Security design pattern assessment
  • Executive summary + technical deep-dive report
  • Remediation consulting included

Enterprise & Regulated

Custom Quote

Specialized audits for high-stakes environments

  • Blockchain / DeFi / Smart contract audits
  • Fintech & payment system security
  • Healthcare (HIPAA) & compliance-focused
  • E-commerce & transaction security

Bug Bounty Program

Custom Quote

Managed vulnerability disclosure program

  • Program design & policy creation
  • Platform selection & configuration
  • Ongoing triage & researcher management
  • Reporting & remediation tracking

Open Source Ecosystem

Trusted by millions of developers

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SudoLang AIDD

The standard framework for AI Driven Development

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SudoLang

World's most used prompting language for agents and AIDD

Riteway

Modern unit testing optimized for AIDD

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Cuid2

The secure-by-default id generator trusted by millions of apps

AIDD Framework

The standard framework for AI Driven Development

🛠️ AIDD CLI

Project bootstrap and automation

🤖 Agent Runtime

Workflows from product discovery to commit and release

📝 SudoLang Prompt Language

Typed pseudocode for AI orchestration

⚙️ Server Framework

Composable backend for Node and Next.js

🧩 Utilities & Component Library

Common patterns and reusable recipes to accelerate development

$ npx aidd --help
AIDD CLI - Transform your workflow
Bootstrap projects, orchestrate AI agents, automate deployments

Founder Track Record

Creative AI, Security, Crypto, Fintech, E-Commerce, and more

Adobe Firefly (Employee)
Engineering Manager, Generative AI

Led all of Firefly Client engineering throughout most of 2024. Delivered generative AI experiences to millions of creative professionals worldwide.

MyCrypto Wallet (Parallel Drive)
Security Architecture

Designed and implemented security architecture for a trusted cryptocurrency wallet platform, protecting user assets and ensuring compliance with best practices.

Chase Bank (Parallel Drive)
Training: Quality Engineering

Trained a large group of developers on quality engineering best practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD) and continuous delivery.

Magic Labs (Parallel Drive)
Strategic Advisor

Provided strategic technical guidance for passwordless authentication infrastructure serving developers building web3 applications.

Tout (Stanford Research Institute AI Spinoff - Employee)
Tech Lead, Social Video AI

Webby-nominated for Wall Street Journal WorldStream. Built state-of-the-art video natural language understanding systems in 2012.

Exodus Wallet (Employee)
Director, dApp Integration

Led integration of decentralized applications into one of the most popular multi-chain cryptocurrency wallets.

BandPage/YouTube Artist Pages (Employee)
Senior JavaScript Rockstar

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.

Ready to accelerate your product with AI Driven Development?

Book a consultation to discuss your technical needs, or explore the AIDD framework to start building with AI today.