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Doing the hard work once, for a portfolio of companies.

A model, some tools, and a chat window are just the tip. Metropolis is an AI-native venture studio that builds everything underneath once. Our first company is Metropolis Consulting: technical leadership for startups, built and run on polis.

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polis, our compounding platform

Metropolis builds polis to plan, build, and launch companies. Our consulting practice and our venture studio both run on it, and everything they do feeds back in, so polis gets better with every engagement and every company. What one company needs gets built once, and every company after it inherits the work.

An iceberg in three layers. The tip above the water, labeled what you see: LLM, RAG, and tool use. The first layer below the water, any agent: orchestration (multi-step workflows, parallelism, multiple models), trust (guardrails, PII protection, audit and access control), integration (secure connections to existing systems), reliability (model failover, model migrations), testing and release (user simulation, regression testing, staged rollouts), and reporting (analytics, conversation review). A line marks where agent platforms stop. The deeper, wider layer, the company, many agents, one business: knowledge (compounding knowledge, private to each company), planning (research, plans, decisions), governance (human approval for what matters), customers (CRM and customer lifecycle, customer identity), money (payments and billing, bookkeeping), measurement (product analytics, experiments), models (custom model training and serving), apps (web, admin, and mobile apps), and domains (voice, messaging, more as needed). A bracket labeled polis spans both hidden layers: both layers, provided.
Inspired by Sierra’s agent iceberg. Open the image to read every label.
Who we work with

Built for the networks behind companies, and the companies themselves.

Venture capital and private equity
Investors

Your portfolio companies get technical leadership from Metropolis Consulting today. As the problems they share become clear, our studio builds companies to solve them, companies you'd want to back.

Franchise systems
Franchise networks

We solve a problem alongside a few of your locations. When every franchisee shares it, we build the product that brings the fix to all of them.

Startups and businesses
Companies and founders

Looking to supplement your technical leadership? Metropolis Consulting works inside your system as a fractional CTO with a platform behind it: plan and build, architecture and security reviews, and visibility into what your AI costs. We can hand it all over, or keep it running for you.

From the blog

What we think, in writing.

Why we start with consulting →

Metropolis builds polis to plan, build, and launch companies. The first company running on it is Metropolis Consulting, because the best way to learn which companies to build is to work on real problems inside other companies.

The difference a year makes →

A year ago, I was leading a team of engineers at AWS. Today I do the same job with AI agents doing the work, and it scales in a way that team never could.

AI isn't a genie →

If you think AI has been oversold, you're right. An LLM is a language tool, and it delivers when it is used for the right job with the right system around it.

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