Specialists selected to meet your exact goals

Custom-Built Team

Professionals who integrate smoothly with your team

Seamless Collaboration

Supporting every phase from planning to impact

Aligned Workflow

Need a multi-disciplinary squad for a dedicated mission? Our Squad Teams combine experts from different domains to tackle complex challenges.

Squad Teams – Cross-Domain Expertise for Your Exact Needs

Leveraging years of hands-on experience and industry best practices, we've crafted battle-tested solutions to accelerate your engineering success. Our solutions are born from real challenges we've solved across tech companies.

Your Tech Challenges, Our Expert Solutions

Transform AI experimentation into a structured, scalable development process with Tikal's Agentic SDLC solution.


Let's make sure AI is helping your teams move faster, not creating problems you'll debug later.

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Developers remain accountable owners of architecture and quality, while AI acts as a fast, guided collaborator.

Developer as Orchestrator

Every task starts with a clear, version-controlled Mission Brief instead of vague prompts.

From Intent to Specification

Clear separation between sync collaboration for complex problems and async delegation for execution at scale.


Dual Execution Loops

Centralized control over quality, cost, and consistency without slowing teams down.


Governance and Control

AI instructions become shared, versioned assets that evolve with the team.

Directives as Code

Successful patterns are captured during delivery and fed back into the organization as reusable knowledge.


Systematized Learning

Scalable AI workflow, implemented through our expert-led platform and mentorship.


What Will You Gain?

AI coding tools changed how developers work, but most organizations still struggle to turn personal AI gains into team-level impact. 
Tikal's Agentic SDLC is a structured, outcome-driven solution for embedding AI into real software delivery. It enables engineering teams to move from scattered experimentation to a governed, repeatable, and measurable development system.

Governed AI for High-Velocity Engineering

The Agentic SDLC Launchpad runs as a focused five-week process designed to establish a strong foundation for adopting Agentic SDLC across teams.

How Does the Process Work?

Tikal's Agentic SDLC solution is a complete platform and methodology for integrating AI into your software lifecycle. Through expert workshops, architectural implementation, and hands-on mentorship, we help your teams adopt the agentic-sdlc-spec-kit CLI and a governed workflow that transforms isolated AI experimentation into a scalable, high-velocity development process.

Scale AI Development with Tikal's Agentic SDLC Solution

We assess current AI usage, friction points, and trust levels. Together we establish baseline metrics, adapt the methodology to your stack, and create the initial team-ai-directives repository using real code scenarios.

Adaptation (Week 1)

Scan, Baselining &

Three intensive hands-on sessions where teams practice the Agentic SDLC using customized exercises. Topics include Developer as Orchestrator, sync vs async execution, and Directives as Code.

(Week 2)

Hands-On Workshop

We work alongside your team during live sprints. Developers apply the methodology on real tasks while we mentor workflows and help capture successful solutions into shared assets.

(Weeks 3–4)

Embedded Execution

We measure improvement against the original baseline, validate adoption, and transfer ownership of the workflow, assets, and governance model to your internal AI lead, including a clear roadmap for scaling.

(Week 5)

Validation & Handover

Agentic SDLC is Tikal's end-to-end solution for operationalizing governed AI across engineering teams, based on Tikal's Twelve-Factor Agentic SDLC methodology developed through hands-on work with engineering teams. It replaces ad-hoc prompting with a clear methodology, shared assets, and working habits that scale across teams.
The journey typically starts with the Agentic SDLC Launchpad,  a structured foundation phase that establishes shared workflows, governance, and core assets. As teams mature, the solution extends into Tikal's Agentic SDLC Platform, enabling deeper orchestration, automation, and organization-wide scale.

What We're Talking About?

The Launchpad is built around a shared team-ai-directives repository, which is created during the engagement and serves as the single source of truth for how AI is used across the team. It captures rules, personas, examples, and shared context that guide consistent AI behavior and support the Agentic SDLC workflow inside developers' existing IDEs.

Which Technologies Are Involved?

Agentic SDLC for AI-Governed Development

Resolve tech debt and recover velocity with AI-accelerated squads and the agentic-sdlc-spec-kit.


 Let's resolve the tech debt that's holding your team back.


Ready to recover your velocity?

Eliminate the hidden tech debt that causes sprint overflows and missed deadlines.

Restore Roadmap Predictability

Compress multi-year system evolutions into months using automated code-transformation agents.


AI-Accelerated Refactoring

Modernize core architecture module-by-module while your team continues shipping features.

Zero-Stop Delivery

Use the spec-kit to ensure the new architecture follows strict, version-controlled directives.

Architectural Governance

Boost talent retention by moving high-performance teams away from high-friction, aging stacks.


Modernize Developer Experience

Use AI to decode complex logic, ensuring your current team fully owns the new architecture.


De-Risked Ownership

Reclaim 40% of your engineering capacity by turning tech debt into high-velocity leverage.

High-friction codebases are the silent killers of engineering roadmaps. 
While your business demands more features, your team is taxed by systemic complexity and "voodoo code" that no one dares to touch. 
Tikal’s AI-Powered Tech Debt Resolution is a governed solution that uses AI to refactor, decouple, and evolve core systems, without freezing your delivery pipeline.

Resolve Tech Debt. Recover Engineering Velocity

The Tech Debt Resolution Launchpad is a focused 6-week process designed to resolve high-priority debt and establish a modern baseline.


Tikal's Tech Debt Resolution solution helps engineering teams recover delivery velocity by resolving high-friction codebases with AI. We lead technology migrations - from Angular to React, monolith to microservices, and more - in parallel with ongoing delivery, without stopping your roadmap.

AI-Powered Tech Debt Resolution | Tikal

We map your codebase to identify velocity killers, high-friction modules, and the areas where tech debt is costing the most. Together we establish baseline metrics for cycle time and define the priority migration targets.

Friction Scan & Baselining (Week 1)

We run hands-on sessions with your engineering team to align on the migration path (Angular to React, monolith to microservices, and more). We implement the agentic-sdlc-spec-kit to define the target architecture and migration rules.

Workshop & Spec-Kit Integration (Week 2)

Tikal's squad leads your team through a live sprint, executing the actual technology move. We use AI to automate the bulk of refactoring and test generation while your developers keep delivering the roadmap.


Embedded Execution (Weeks 3–5)

We validate logic parity against the original baseline, measure velocity improvement, and transfer full ownership of the new architecture and patterns to your leads, including a clear roadmap for the next phases.

Validation & Handover (Week 6)

This is Tikal’s end-to-end solution for Engineering leaders who need to reclaim engineering capacity. We move beyond manual refactoring by deploying AI-driven agents that map systemic friction and automate code transformation.
The journey begins with the Tech Debt Resolution Launchpad, a 6-week foundation phase that uses the agentic-sdlc-spec-kit to architect and execute targeted technology migrations.


What Are We Talking About?

The solution is built on the agentic-sdlc-spec-kit CLI, which acts as an architectural extension to guide the migration process. 
We deploy an AI-orchestrated toolchain including automated refactoring agents and AI-powered static analysis to handle transpilation and logic extraction. 
Every change is protected by AI-generated test suites that ensure 1:1 logic parity, integrated directly into your existing CI/CD on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

AI-Powered Tech Debt Resolution

Transform your data into actionable intelligence with Tikal’s governed, scalable Agentic RAG solution.


Let’s talk and build Agentic RAG systems that bring your data to life.


Sounds good?

Enable your systems to retrieve and reason with relevant information in real time.

From Data to Context

Tracing, evaluation, and policy controls ensure safe and transparent AI operations.


Governance You Can Rely On

 Tikal’s squad works alongside your engineers, co-building and transferring operational knowledge.


Collaboration in Action

 Integrated with your tools, identity, and cloud environment, no vendor lock-in.

Tailored to Your Stack

Our structured process turns experiments into maintainable, production-grade systems.

From Pilot to Production

Architecture evolves with your data, usage, and business growth.

Scalable by Design

A scalable, governed RAG solution that connects knowledge, performance, and real-world impact.

Tikal’s Agentic RAG solution helps engineering teams turn data into reliable, actionable intelligence. We use a structured, hands-on approach to design RAG systems that reason, retrieve, and act securely within your environment, building production-ready assistants that deliver measurable value and scale with your organization.

Agentic RAG - Make Your Data Work for You

During the intro sessions, we work closely with your team to ask the right questions about your data, use cases, and goals. Together, we define what success looks like, identify challenges, and plan the right approach for implementing an Agentic RAG solution that fits your workflows and environment.

The Tikal Squad then joins forces with your team, acting as an integral yet independent unit. Squad members are selected based on the specific expertise required for the task, covering areas like architecture design, retrieval strategy, and governance. Tikal’s squad will also share all the relevant knowledge required for your team to continue thriving.

Tikal’s Agentic RAG solution combines retrieval, reasoning, and governance to turn data into reliable, actionable intelligence. Our scalable and secure approach helps engineering teams design production-ready AI systems that operate transparently and grow with your organization.

Build Your Agentic RAG System with Tikal

Agentic RAG combines retrieval-augmented generation with agentic capabilities like planning and reasoning. 
With Tikal’s guidance, your team designs assistants that can dynamically access data, understand context, and perform tasks end-to-end. 
This turns static knowledge into a living system that supports both engineering operations and product intelligence.

What We’re Talking About?

Tikal tailors the Agentic RAG stack to your goals and infrastructure. 
We implement orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or LlamaIndex, integrate LLMs from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, and connect data using vector or graph databases such as Pinecone or Weaviate. For prompt management and observability we suggest LangFuse and LiteLLM.
Observability, evaluation, and governance are embedded from day one to ensure reliability and transparency.

Move from vibe coding to a governed evaluation system for production AI.


Let’s embed a real evaluation system into your team and start measuring what matters.


Sounds right?

Replace ad-hoc prompting with strict binary specs that define success before writing a single line.


From Vibes to Engineering Contracts

Version-controlled Gold Sets become the definitive ground truth for your agent’s capabilities and behavior.


Test Data Treated as Code

Fast structural checks and LLM-as-a-Judge semantic graders catch what no unit test ever could.


Layered Graders, Zero Blind Spots

Failed traces flow directly into your test suite, so the system grows smarter with each incident.


Every Production Bug Becomes Memory

Evaluate how your agent thinks, not just what it says, across every tool call and step.


Trajectory Visibility, Not Just Output

No prompt change reaches main unless the full evaluation pipeline turns green.


CI/CD Quality Gates for AI

A governed, measurable evaluation system that catches agent failures before they reach production.


Developers know TDD (Test-Driven Development). But when your agent operates in an infinite natural language input space, traditional testing breaks. Tikal’s Eval-Driven Development Launchpad embeds a structured evaluation architecture into your team, moving from subjective “vibe checks” to engineering contracts, automated graders, and production observability. Debug the Spec, not the code.


The Eval-Driven Development (EDD) Launchpad

The EDD Launchpad runs as a focused 5 to 6 week engagement.


How Does the Process Work? 

Tikal’s Eval-Driven Development Launchpad gives engineering teams the methodology, tooling, and habits to test AI agents like real software. Move from vibe coding to governed evaluation pipelines, version-controlled datasets, and continuous production observability in 5 to 6 weeks.


The Eval-Driven Development Launchpad for AI Agent Reliability | Tikal

We map current AI testing practices, review 50 to 100 real production traces to identify recurring failure modes, and establish your Escape Rate baseline. We scaffold the evaluation infrastructure and observability stack ready for the work ahead.

(Week 1)

Scan & Baselining 

 Four hands-on sessions covering engineering contracts, the Evaluation Pyramid, trajectory diagnostics, RAG decomposition, and scaling human judgment via Annotation Queues, all built around your team's actual agents.


(Weeks 2-3)

Workshop 

Tikal embeds into a live sprint alongside your team. We build the first Gold Set, write and wire graders into your CI/CD pipeline, and configure production observability to sample live traffic automatically.

(Weeks 4-5)

Embedded Execution 

We measure the new Escape Rate against the original baseline, validate adoption across the team, and transfer full ownership of the evaluation stack, datasets, and observability dashboards to your team.

(Week 6)

Validation & Handover 

The EDD Launchpad is a fixed-scope, 5 to 6 week engagement that gives engineering teams the methodology, tooling, and habits to test AI agents like real software. It replaces ad-hoc prompting with version-controlled datasets, layered graders, and a continuous production feedback loop that turns every failure into institutional memory.


The Launchpad integrates with your existing observability stack. We work with platforms like LangSmith, Braintrust, or Promptfoo for full trajectory visibility, and LiteLLM for centralized model routing during evaluations. The grading layer is built on standard frameworks like Pytest or Jest. All datasets, graders, and directives live in Git, wired into your CI/CD pipeline via GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.

Which Technologies Are Involved? 

Eval-Driven Development Launchpad for AI Teams

A user-friendly, scalable data platform creates efficient pipelines, architecture, and catalogs that build a data-driven business. 



Let’s talk and bring your organization’s data to life.

New team members can hit the ground running with a clear, well-documented system.

Streamlined Onboarding

Like a universal remote, it simplifies operations and integrates various tools and processes.

Seamless Integration

It acts as a repository for collective wisdom, safeguarding valuable insights.

Knowledge Preservation

Whether it's with suppliers or within the team, interactions become smoother and more productive.

Efficient Interactions

With less time spent wrestling with processes, teams can focus on what they do best.

Enhanced Productivity

It ensures resources are utilized wisely, contributing to smarter budget management.

Budget Efficiency

When data is properly utilized, there’s a world of benefits to gain. Here are a few prominent examples: 

We all know how important data is to organizations of any size and nature. Still, many companies struggle to turn data into actionable insights that drive growth. A solid data platform can achieve this. After working with many engineering teams, we’ve identified this as a recurring challenge and crafted a solution based on our knowledge and experience.

Turning your data into Action:
Tikal’s Path to Effective Data Platforms

The road to your solid data platform starts here. During the initial intro sessions, we will strategize together, asking critical questions regarding your organization’s goals, data habits, work environments, and plans. This will allow us to adapt our solutions and build a future-facing roadmap for your platform that remains relevant as products evolve and teams grow. 

The Tikal Squad will join your team as an integral yet independent addition. It will be built based on the relevant expertise required for the task. 

Tikal works closely with your team, delivering all the knowledge you need to continue thriving on your data-driven journey.

Tikal’s tech squad can help you maximize your organization's data potential. Our expertise, experience, and broad perspective will turn your collected data into actionable insights, boosting productivity and driving growth.

Build an effective, self-service data platform with Tikal.

A properly-built data platform is a sophisticated, user-friendly system that forms seamless data pipelines and comprehensive data catalogs based on mesh architectures. The platform 
modularizes data, making it easier to discover and utilize valuable insights. It turns complex data structures into more manageable ones, enabling the team to integrate new data sources as needs evolve.

The self-service data platform we’ll help you build empowers stakeholders who aren’t tech-savvy to use it without relying on the R&D team. Integrating tools like Data Build Tool (DBT), AirByte, and Change Data Capture (CDC) turns a data-driven business from aspiration to reality. 

The backbone of a data platform includes technologies like Data Catalogs, DBT, Data Mesh, Data Pipelines, AirByte, and CDC. These solutions work together to create a scalable, efficient platform that can simplify the complex challenges of data processing and analysis.

Make Your Data Platform Work Smarter

Build Cloud Native Environments that maintain consistency across your infrastructure while reducing setup time and eliminating configuration drift.


Connect with us to transform your cloud infrastructure into a self-managing, scalable environment.


Ensure identical configurations across development, QA, UAT, and production environments, eliminating the "it works on my machine" syndrome

Environment Consistency

Leverage Kubernetes control loops for automatic drift detection and correction, maintaining your desired state effortlessly


Automated Management

Deploy across major cloud providers with configurations adjusted for optimal performance


Multi-Cloud Flexibility

Manage all microservices and configurations through a single repository, simplifying maintenance and updates


Centralized Control

Implement industry best practices for monitoring, logging, security, and high availability right from the start

Production Readiness

Implement a robust process for adding or removing components with version control and automated synchronization


GitOps Workflow

By implementing Tikal's Cloud Native Environment Solution, your organization will benefit from:

Cloud Native Environment Managing multiple cloud environments can be like conducting an orchestra without a score - chaotic and unpredictable. After working with numerous organizations, we've witnessed the challenges of maintaining consistency across development, staging, and production environments. Our Cloud Native Environment solution provides a GitOps-powered implementation that ensures harmony across your entire cloud infrastructure.

Cloud Native Environments

Our implementation begins with a bootstrap cluster, typically running on K3d, which creates a management cluster designed to oversee multiple environment clusters. 
This scalable architecture provides comprehensive capabilities across your infrastructure. Through this architecture, we implement precise control over cloud provider access levels while enabling independent environment management that maintains consistency throughout your systems. The design allows for automated resource provisioning and configuration, alongside continuous synchronization between declared and actual states, ensuring your infrastructure always matches your intended specifications. 
Each environment cluster is designed to manage its specific applications while being overseen by the management cluster, creating a perfect balance of autonomy and control. This approach ensures that while each environment can operate independently, it remains aligned with your organization's overall infrastructure goals and security requirements.

Create consistent, self-managing Cloud Native Environments that eliminate configuration drift and reduce setup time. Transform your infrastructure with automated, GitOps-powered solutions by Tikal's experts.


Cloud Native Environment | Self-Managing Infrastructure Solutions | Tikal

A Cloud Native Environment is a comprehensive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution built on our extensive DevOps expertise. We provide the foundation for building and managing your entire cloud infrastructure from the ground up, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and resilient. It embraces cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes control loops to create a highly-available, scalable, and self-managing environment. This solution focuses on 15-factor application principles and production readiness best practices, making it ideal for organizations seeking a robust cloud infrastructure.

Our Cloud Native Environment is built with proven, reliable technologies that work together seamlessly. 
At its core, we use Kubernetes for orchestration and control-loop management, providing powerful cluster management capabilities. 
This foundation is enhanced by ArgoCD, which enables continuous configuration synchronization and drives our GitOps workflows. 
For managing multi-cluster deployments and cloud resource provisioning, we implement Crossplane, while a set of components deployed by Helm Charts implementing standardized application services deployment across all environments. The infrastructure is completed with robust External Secrets and DNS Management systems, ensuring secure and consistent configuration across all clusters.
These technologies work in concert to create a reliable, maintainable, and scalable cloud environment.

Build a Cloud Native Environment

Identify hidden risks in your cloud architecture. Our expert assessment delivers a clear, actionable roadmap to optimize security, reduce costs, and improve reliability.


Let's start with a review and build your roadmap for success.

A prioritized, actionable plan to de-risk your operations and modernize your infrastructure.

A Strategic Roadmap

Identify security vulnerabilities and reliability issues before they cause a major incident.

Uncover Hidden Risks

Gain an unbiased, expert third-party perspective on your architecture and practices.

Objective Expert Analysis

Receive a clear business case to secure buy-in for critical technology and process improvements.


Justify Investments

By conducting Tikal’s Cloud Native Maturity Assessment, your organization will benefit from:

Are your cloud operations truly effective? We provide a comprehensive assessment of your architecture, processes, and tools against industry-standard best practices. Our review identifies critical risks in security, cost, and reliability, delivering a clear, actionable roadmap to build a more resilient and efficient cloud-native foundation.


Cloud Native Maturity Assessment

Our assessment is a collaborative, four-step process. We start with a discovery workshop to understand your business goals and pain points. We then conduct deep-dive sessions with your technical teams, gathering data on your architecture and processes. Our experts analyze this information, benchmark it against best practices, and compile a detailed findings report. We conclude by presenting a strategic roadmap with clear, prioritized recommendations.

Identify hidden risks in your cloud architecture with Tikal’s Cloud Native Maturity Assessment. Get a clear, practical roadmap to improve security, reduce costs, and enhance reliability, helping your teams build a stable, well-architected cloud foundation that’s ready to scale.

 Assess and strengthen your cloud maturity with Tikal

This is a strategic review of your entire DevOps and cloud ecosystem. We dive deep into your architecture and operational workflows to provide an objective analysis of your current state. The key deliverable is a strategic roadmap that prioritizes actions to improve security, reduce costs, and accelerate your development lifecycle.


What We're Talking About

Our assessment is technology-agnostic, focusing on your unique environment. Our experts have deep, cross-domain knowledge of all major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and the cloud-native ecosystem. We evaluate your specific stack, whether it includes Terraform, Kubernetes, Crossplane, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or Prometheus, benchmarking your implementation and practices against industry standards to provide a comprehensive analysis.

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