Engineering studio · SF + on-site · est. ’24

We embed inside your team and ship the operating layer that runs your business.

42nights is a four-week, on-site engineering studio. We deploy Recon — and its variants Pulse for revenue teams and Helm for portfolio teams — inside your perimeter, then hand the keys to your operators.

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Approach

Four weeks. On site.
Then it's yours.

We don't write a deck and disappear. We sit at your desk, watch your operators work, and ship the system that fits — then we leave.

  1. W1

    Discovery on the ground.

    One week shadowing your team. We map workflows, identify which pieces of Recon (or Pulse / Helm) fit, and write the deployment plan with you.

    scope & plan
  2. W2

    Deploy the substrate.

    Recon goes inside your VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped — whichever your security review demands. Identity, vault, gateway, audit log, all live by end of week.

    platform live
  3. W3

    Ship the surface.

    Pulse for revenue, Helm for portfolio, or a custom variant. Your data is wired, your skills are tuned, your operators are running real workflows by Friday.

    surface running
  4. W4

    Hand off.

    Train your team, document the deploy, transfer source escrow, set up the 90-day support cadence. We leave on Friday. The platform stays.

    team owns it
What we ship

One platform.
Two specialized cockpits.

We built Recon ourselves. Pulse and Helm wrap it for revenue and portfolio teams respectively. We deploy whichever fits — and we'll fork a custom variant if neither does.

Why 42nights

Operator-led.
Source-available. On-site.

  1. We built the thing we deploy.

    Recon is ours. When something doesn't fit your stack, we change the substrate, not the contract.

  2. Sovereignty is the default, not an upgrade.

    Single-tenant by definition. Your VPC, your keys, your audit log. We pass your security review on day one.

  3. Hands-on, not advisory.

    We deploy and operate alongside your team — not in a slide deck from a thousand miles away. The handoff is real.

Engagement

Fixed-fee. In person.
Source escrow.

Format
Four-week minimum, fully on-site at your office. Two engineers from us, embedded with your operators.
Fee
Fixed-fee per engagement, scoped in week one. No hourly billing, no out-of-scope creep.
IP
Source escrow at deploy. Custom skill packs are yours. Recon core stays under our license, available to you in perpetuity for that deployment.
Support
Ninety days post-deploy on retainer — priority Slack, weekly check-ins, hot-fixes within 24 hours.
Capacity
Three active engagements at a time, max. We're a studio, not a body shop.
Get started

Tell us what you're
trying to ship.

We'll come to you for an hour. Bring your most painful workflow, the data flow you can't get a SaaS to touch, or the security review that keeps killing your ops tooling. We'll tell you whether we're the right team — honestly — within the week.

jerry@xiao.sh · SF, on-site continental US & EMEA