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AI advisory & forward-deployed engineering

Nagomi Studio is an AI advisory for mid-market companies and nonprofits that value precision over spectacle. We embed with your teams, ship working software weekly, and leave the capability behind in twelve weeks.

Book a call How we work

Twelve-week engagements · first software by week five · in the field with a New York nonprofit and teams across New York & Austin

What we do

We work with mid-market companies and nonprofits. Different missions, the same need: technology that earns its keep. We are not staff augmentation you manage, and not a consultancy that leaves a deck. We build, weekly, and then we leave.

Advisory & strategy

A roadmap tied to return, not fashion: which problems deserve AI, in what order, and what to leave alone.

Embedded building

Senior engineers inside your walls, shipping agents, automations, and copilots on your data, measured weekly against the outcomes we promised.

Teaching & enablement

Fluency for your people through patterns, playbooks, and practice, so the capability remains long after we've gone.

What happened

One engagement, told plainly. The shape of the work is true; named clients and hard numbers wait on permission.

A New York nonprofit

A nonprofit needed digital strategy that survived contact with real operations: compliance, reporting, and the systems staff actually use. We embedded with the team, shipped working software in weekly strokes, and left playbooks and patterns their people could run without us.

The measure of done was not a deck. It was a team moving faster on the same problems, with the capability still inside the building after the engagement closed.

Shape: Embedded advisory and build
Default arc: Twelve weeks, exit planned from day one
Left behind: Working systems, playbooks, team fluency

How we work

Fixed-scope twelve-week engagements. First working software by week five. You own everything we build. No retainer you cannot end.

Observe firstWeeks 1–2

We begin inside your workflows. We watch, ask, and measure before recommending anything.

ii.

Choose few thingsWeeks 3–4

The space between initiatives is where focus lives. We cut the roadmap to what matters.

iii.

Build in small strokesWeeks 5–10

Working software every week: quiet, compounding improvement over grand unveilings.

iv.

Leave capability behindWeeks 11–12

Success is your team moving faster without us. You own everything we build: the code, the models, the playbooks. We plan our exit from the first day.

Who this is for

A fit when

You are a mid-market company or a nonprofit with a real operational problem, not a slide-deck mandate.
You need working software on your data and systems, measured weekly against outcomes you can defend.
You want the capability left inside your team when we go, not a dependency you cannot end.

Not a fit when

You only want strategy documents, with no one accountable for shipping.
You need a body shop to burn tickets under your management.
You are shopping for a multi-year platform license or a vendor that keeps the keys.

We build inside your environment: your repos, your tools, your constraints. Your data stays yours. It does not train anyone else's model.

Gabriel Rojas, founder

“Calm is not slow. Calm is what speed feels like when it’s under control.”

Gabriel has spent twenty years running technology for demanding institutions: leading AI product & development at ADP, platform engineering at CME Group, and global transformation work at Contino. He has advised a New York nonprofit on digital strategy for years, and began his career in the U.S. Marine Corps. Nagomi Studio is that experience, offered plainly.

MIT Sloan · USMC · NY / ATXLinkedIn ↗

Notes

The Audit Finding Every Housing Nonprofit FearsJuly 2026

What a "significant deficiency in internal controls" really means, and why the fix is engineering, not willpower.

The Job Posting That's Secretly Describing an AI AgentJuly 2026

Two open reqs, one in New York and one in Austin, a 2.5x salary gap, and underneath them the exact same task.

Nobody Gave the Agents an Undo ButtonJuly 2026

BCG says 60% of companies get almost nothing from AI. The reason is smaller and more fixable than they think.

The principles we keep

Nagomi: calm, harmony, ease. The name is a standard we hold our work to.

Wa · harmony

Solutions that fit how your company already works. Nothing bolted on, nothing performed.

Ma · negative space

Restraint as strategy. What we decline to build gives what we do build its power.

Kaizen · improvement

Small, continuous, measured. The compounding kind of progress, not the announced kind.

Kanso · simplicity

The simplest system that honestly solves the problem. Then we stop building.

Book a call.We answer personally.

Fixed-scope twelve-week engagements. The call is a conversation, no obligation. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.

Book a call hello@nagomistudio.aiNew York · Austin