The software you need, you can't buy

Stop renting your software.
Own the systems your business runs on.

Every business pays for SaaS that almost fits — close enough to be useful, never close enough to feel right. AI changed the math: the custom system your team has been working around is now buildable. We build it for you. You own it. The monthly invoices stop.

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Engineering · Training · IT

Build the software.
Train the team. Keep it all running.

159 Networks is a small senior team that engineers production software, trains your people on the tools that actually matter — Claude included — and provides the IT capability behind every system we deliver.

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Cerberus — a three-headed neon cyber-guardian, 159 Networks' AI orchestration platform
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Introducing

Cerberus

The AI-first platform that makes all of your tools work as one. Cerberus centralizes and runs your apps and services through AI agents — platform-, LLM-, and local-model agnostic — so you get back to running AI instead of it running you.

The three heads aren't just for show. Cerberus is built in three layers — and each one does a job.

01

Client layer

Thin, thick, or invisible — your call. Push compute and inference to the edge to spend against subscriptions you already pay for, not raw API tokens.

02

Orchestration layer

AI agents run the show — centralizing and managing your apps and services, routing work, and keeping your policies and guardrails in force.

03

Tools & plugins layer

Infinite and open. Our own tools, any third-party app, or something you build — all coexisting in one infrastructure. Nothing is bound to 159.

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Stop renting. Start owning.

Cancel the subscription. Keep the workflow. Own the software.

Most of the software your business runs on was built for someone else. It almost fits — close enough to be useful, never close enough to feel right. AI changed the math: it's now economical to build the exact system you've been working around, in your repo, paid for once.

Talk through what to replace first
SaaS subscription
Software you own
5-year cost
Pay every month, forever — and the price keeps going up.
Build once. After that, it just runs.
Roadmap
Their product priorities, not yours.
Yours. On your timeline. About your business.
Fit
80% of what you need, plus features you don't.
Built for how your team actually works.
Lock-in
Switching means rebuilding everything from scratch.
It lives in your repo. Yours to keep, change, or hand off.

What we typically replace

Replaces your CRM stack

Customer & sales workflow

A system shaped to how your team actually sells — pipelines, follow-ups, handoffs — without per-seat pricing or features you didn't ask for.

Replaces your help desk

Support & ticketing

Inbox, knowledge base, and SLAs designed around your customers and your processes, not generic tiers and arbitrary limits.

Replaces your scheduling tool

Scheduling & operations

Bookings, dispatch, calendar, and resource flow that mirror how your business actually runs from morning to night.

Replaces your reporting subscription

Dashboards & reporting

The numbers your team checks every morning — assembled from your data, the way you want them, with no per-viewer fee.

And the things nobody sells you — the internal tools, industry-specific workflows, and operational glue that your team has been duct-taping together with spreadsheets, Zaps, and headcount.

Specialized training

Software that works needs people who know how to use it.

Hands-on training that gets your team productive on the tools the industry is actually shipping with — and on the security disciplines auditors and regulators expect to see.

Featured

Anthropic's Claude

Onboarding Anthropic's Claude for your team.

The fastest way to get a team productive with Claude. Hands-on training on prompt patterns, agent workflows, Claude Code in practice, and the practical reality of working with an LLM in production. Tailored to your stack, your codebase, and the roles on your team.

Engineering, operations, and leadership tracks. Delivered remotely or onsite. Practical takeaways from day one.

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  • →Prompt patterns that survive in production
  • →Agents, tool use, and what to automate vs. not
  • →Claude Code, the SDK, and the API in your workflow
  • →Cost, latency, and observability in real apps
  • →Guardrails — privacy, compliance, hand-off rules

Cybersecurity for engineering teams

Practical security training for engineering and operations teams. Threat modeling, secure-by-default patterns, identity and secrets discipline, incident response, and the habits that hold up under real load.

Tailored curricula · Engineering, ops, leadership

DoD 8140 / 8570 compliance training

Certification prep and ongoing training aligned to the DoD Cyberspace Workforce Framework. For personnel performing IA functions under DoDD 8140.03 (which superseded 8570) — Security+, CISSP, CySA+, and adjacent tracks. We meet your team where they are and get them current.

IAT · IAM · IASAE · CSSP categories

Talk to us about a training plan

Onsite or remote · Custom curricula · 1-on-1 through team-of-50

How we work

An AI engineering team you can bring in — without building one.

For roughly the cost of a single mid-level data scientist, you get a senior engineering team that ships. Fixed scope, real handoff, no recruiting.

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Hire your own team
Bring in 159 Networks
Time to first ship
Months. Recruiting plus ramp.
Days. Working prototype on day one.
Cost shape
Salaries + benefits + equity, indefinitely.
Fixed-scope engagement. You know the number.
Talent risk
Senior AI talent is hard to find and harder to keep.
Senior bench, here today, here tomorrow.
What you own at the end
A team and, eventually, a system.
A documented system, plus the option to keep us on.

How an engagement works

01

Discovery

One paid week. We talk to your team, look at your data, and tell you what is and is not worth building.

02

Prototype

A working version of the smallest useful slice. Something you can click and try.

03

Production

Real data, real auth, real monitoring, real cost controls. The boring parts done correctly.

04

Handoff or run-it-for-you

We document, train your team, and leave clean — or stay on as a fractional AI team. Your call.

What we do

AI engineering capabilities

The four things organizations most often ask us for. We pick a slice worth doing, ship it, and document it on the way out.

What we engineer

Capabilities across the stack

The four things organizations most often ask us for, on the software side. We pick a slice worth doing, ship it, and document it on the way out — and the IT capability to keep it running is part of every engagement.

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Custom AI assistants & document Q&A — your data, your rules

Internal copilots and search-over-your-docs that actually answer questions, with the right guardrails, citations, and access controls.

Claude, GPT-4, Llama, Custom Models

Phone agents and chat that sound like people

Voice and chat agents that handle real conversations — interruptions, follow-ups, edge cases — and hand off to a person when they should.

Real-time STT/TTS, Multi-turn Dialog

Replace the spreadsheets and the manual review steps

AI that reads the documents, fills in the forms, flags the exceptions, and connects to the systems you already pay for.

Computer Vision, NLP, Decision Logic

SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR — built in from the start

Audit-ready logging, data residency, role-based access, and key management designed in from day one.

GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2 Ready

Already underway?

From AI prototype to production — without rewriting the whole thing.

Lots of teams have started experimenting with AI tools and shipped something promising. Getting from "it works in a demo" to "it runs reliably for customers" is a different problem. We help you make that jump without throwing the work away.

Get a written assessment in 48 hours

Where teams get stuck

  • · Code paths that are hard to follow
  • · Dependencies and prompts that drift over time
  • · Limited tests and observability
  • · Sensitive values living in version control
  • · LLM costs that climb without a clear ceiling
  • · Hesitation to make changes safely

What we do

  • · Read every line, map data flow end to end
  • · Identify failure modes before they hit you
  • · Audit auth, secrets, and dependency hygiene
  • · Run a real cost analysis on the LLM layer
  • · Deliver a written assessment in 48 hours

What you get back

  • · A stabilized codebase you can reason about
  • · The tests that should have been there from day one
  • · Hardened auth, secrets management, and CI
  • · Real documentation — for humans, not models
  • · A clean handoff, or we run it for you

We eat our own cooking

We build and run our own AI tools

GRT and DPQ are 159 Networks tools — built and run in production by the same team that builds for you, and ready to plug into Cerberus. So when we say "production-ready," we mean ours runs in production too.

Great Reporting Tool

GRT

Reporting that actually gets built.

Azure security & analytics

DPQ

Intelligent cloud scan for Azure.

Interested in partnering or licensing our technology? Let's talk

Who builds it

Meet the team.

Small, senior, deeply specialized. Decades of combined experience across AI engineering, voice and agentic systems, customer engagement, and the production work that makes the rest of it actually run.

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Steve Wooley

Principal Engineer

Architect of everything we ship. 20+ years building production systems — distributed backends, AI agent orchestration, and the engineering judgment to know what is worth building versus what is already done.

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Brandon Sproul

Senior Design Architect

Business systems consultant and ERP specialist with over a decade of experience helping companies run smarter — from lean distribution operations to multi-site manufacturers.

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Liviu Marian

Senior Solution Advisor

Customer-facing engineering lead with 20 years in industrial systems and software. Translates "we think we need AI" into scoped, deployable systems tied into the tools clients already use. Obsessed with abstraction, simplicity, and the shift toward natural language programming.

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Rick Leyba

AI Voice & Capabilities Engineer

Builds the voice and agentic layer of our AI systems. Tunes prompts, response parsers, and conversational flow so a phone agent or chatbot sounds like a person — and routes to one when it should.

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Yan Agaev

Director of Business Development

Brings the entrepreneur's lens to every engagement: where is money being burned, what is worth replacing, and what the upside actually looks like once the math is honest. Cuts costs, not corners.

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Derrick O'Dwyer

Client Success Director

Owns the post-engagement relationship. Onboards new clients, runs production pilots, and turns customer feedback into the next thing we build. The reason "we will be straight with you" is more than a tagline.

Let's talk

Book your free 30-minute strategy call.

Tell us what you want to build, or what you've already built and want to take further. We'll be straight with you about whether we can help and what it would take.

Free 30-minute AI strategy consultation

Technical feasibility assessment included

No commitment required

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Initial response time

We respond to every inquiry within one business day.

Global reach

Remote-first engineering

Our team works with clients worldwide across all time zones.

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