Build with Amidship
We help organizations shape, architect, and build software for difficult workflows, integrations, and AI-enabled systems — especially when the problem matters and the solution is not obvious yet.
Work with usProduct and engineering studio for difficult software systems.
AI, where it earns its place.
We design and build software for important workflows that are difficult to get right — especially when AI, complex integrations, or difficult product decisions are involved.
From the first product decision through architecture and implementation, senior judgment stays close to the work.
One studio. Two ways we build.
We build with organizations. We build our own.
The same product and engineering judgment runs through both.
See what we build
We also build and operate our own products, R&D, and open-source systems. They make our engineering decisions inspectable instead of asking you to take our word for them.
Explore the workWhen to call us
Some problems need more than another software vendor.
Amidship is most useful when the problem is important, technically messy, and still needs judgment about what should actually be built.
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You have an AI initiative that needs to become a real system.
The demo is the easy part. The harder work is fitting AI into a real workflow — with the right data, interfaces, controls, evaluation, human judgment, and operating model around it.
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An important workflow does not fit off-the-shelf software.
The business has accumulated exceptions, integrations, manual decisions, and constraints that generic software does not understand. We help turn that complexity into a coherent product and architecture.
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You need senior product and engineering judgment before you need a whole team.
An important initiative needs someone who can move between the business problem, product behaviour, architecture, and implementation — and stay accountable as the work becomes real.
Point of view
The model is one decision. The system is the product.
We start with the people, workflow, data, constraints, and economics. Then we decide what should be automated, what should remain deterministic, and where human judgment belongs.
AI should earn its place in the architecture. The goal is not to ship more AI. The goal is to build software that works.
Selected work
Products and systems you can inspect.
PDFSight is a live owned product. Agentify is active R&D. BranchBox is public open-source engineering. Together they show how Amidship makes important product and architecture boundaries explicit.
PDFSight
Making unfillable PDFs fillable through a guided conversation.
Agentify
Keeping agent state and control in the application.
BranchBox
Isolating the whole runtime, not just the branch.
Rida Al Barazi · Founder and principal
The person helping shape the decision stays close to the work.
Rida has spent more than two decades building software, products, and companies. He has been a founder and operator, built a software consultancy and SaaS product, and worked inside larger product organizations including Wave and Salesforce.
On Amidship engagements, Rida leads the decisions that shape the product and architecture and remains involved through implementation and final review.
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