We've spent a decade
building companies together

Founders who scope the work, an engineering bench that builds it, and no one between you and either. The people on this page are the people who answer the phone.

The founders

Anton Shayakhmetov, CEO and co-founder of Arcturus Labs

Anton Shayakhmetov

Chief Executive Officer

Ten years building companies with Jan. Two exits. Three years of buy-side M&A: oil and gas at FENIIX, real estate and infrastructure at COARE. $125M closed; capital markets and fundraising were his side of every deal. He runs the firm and the client relationships.

Jan Kwiecien, COO and co-founder of Arcturus Labs

Jan Kwiecien

Chief Operating Officer

The other half of the ten years and both exits. Same deals, other half of the work: diligence and structuring on the $125M of buy-side M&A at FENIIX and COARE. He owns every engagement's cadence, reporting, and escalation path.

The engineering bench: eight years shipped, in-house

Five of them on security-critical infrastructure at Coinbase, three on AI systems at Andreessen Horowitz. Every line of your engagement is written by that bench.

No subcontractors, no offshore relay, no ticket queue between you and the people who wrote the code.

Small is the design, not the phase

Two to four engagements run at a time. That is a ceiling we chose: it is the number where founders still touch every system every week. Your monthly report is written by a person who knows why a number moved, not a template that pulled it.

When we hit that ceiling, we stop taking work, because the model only works if the people who scoped your system are the people who run it. You will always know exactly who is on your account. That is the whole org chart.

Tell us the job.

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