# SimbaStack

> SimbaStack is an AI build team for small and mid-sized businesses. Two of our engineers embed with yours and ship your first AI agent in two weeks. Founded by NJ Singh — 14 years building production software, top 1% on Upwork, $300M+ moved through systems built. Distributed across California, India, and Kenya.

## Core
- [Homepage](https://www.simbastack.com): What we build, case studies, how we work, pricing, contact
- [Blog](https://blog.simbastack.com): Engineering writing on AI agents, MCP, tool calling, structured outputs

## Services
- [AI Build Sprint ($12,500)](https://www.simbastack.com/#pricing): Two weeks to a working AI agent, live in your business. Fixed price, fixed scope. If we can't find at least one high-ROI opportunity on the first call, we don't take you on.
- [Embedded AI Team ($10,000/month)](https://www.simbastack.com/#pricing): Two engineers embed with your team — they monitor what we built, improve it, and ship the next AI workflow every month. Two-month minimum.

## Case studies
- [Mara Hilltop — safari lodge AI ops](https://www.simbastack.com/#cases): Guest-facing AI (Ranger) plus a staff operations agent running on a real lodge in the Maasai Mara.
- [Pear Protocol — Agent Pair, autonomous DeFi trading](https://www.simbastack.com/#cases): Autonomous agent trading perpetuals on Arbitrum and HyperEVM.
- [SlopIt — agent-native publishing platform](https://www.simbastack.com/#cases): Blog platform where the AI agent is the user, MCP-first.

## Notable writing
- [While I slept, my 5-year-old MacBook ran Gemma 4 locally and indexed a year of video (May 2026)](https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/): A local-LLM pipeline that indexes a year of video on consumer hardware — a 2021 MacBook running Gemma 4 with 50GB swap, open-sourced as framedex (MIT). Front page of Hacker News for ~30 hours, 470 upvotes, 142 comments. Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222733
- [We rebuilt the structured output problem one layer up (May 2026)](https://blog.simbastack.com/we-rebuilt-the-structured-output-problem-one-layer-up/): History of structured-output and tool-calling era; argument that the same coercion pattern is repeating one layer up.

## Contact
- Email: nj@simbastack.com
- Phone / WhatsApp: +1 (717) 683-9393
- [LinkedIn (NJ)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/singhniranjan/)
- [X / Twitter (NJ)](https://x.com/bozo_eth)