Put AI to work in your operations.

The situations we hear most.

You're established. You use some AI. You suspect you're leaving a lot on the table.

You'd like to know what companies like yours are actually doing with it, and which parts of your operation are worth automating first. You don't want to become a software company to find out.

Where this usually leadsA scoping conversation, then a build and run partner.

saasberry

You're a tech company scaling faster than you can build.

You need to hire, or you want to bring enterprise harness and SDLC practices into your agent work. You know what good looks like. You need people who can ship it inside your team.

Where this usually leadsForward deployed engineers with a manager, or a specialised engineering team.

You're worried about new threats.

Are your agent practices safe? Is customer and confidential data protected? You want someone independent to look, and to tell you plainly what to fix.

Where this usually leadsA security review or AI security audit at research grade, and advisory on safer agent use.

TxPipe

You have a blockchain project in front of you, or one that needs acceleration.

A new token, a raise, a product line on chain, or a build that has stalled. Maybe you want advisory before you commit to building at all. Specific chains require specific resources, and we match you to engineers who have shipped on yours.

Where this usually leadsAdvisory first. Then a smart contract studio, a Rust, Haskell and Cardano team, an embedded pod, or research grade review.

TxPipe

You need a senior technical mind in the room, not a whole team.

A fractional CTO or architect to shape a solution, review a proposal, or sit on your side of the table while you decide.

Where this usually leadsAn introduction from Robert's network, and Robert on the early calls.

Blockdevs network

How this works.

Step 1Initial scopeA free 45 minute call. What you're solving, what you've tried, what a good outcome looks like.

Step 2Partner referralsRobert recommends one lab, or several so you can compare quotes. You decide who to talk to.

Step 3Full requirement scopingYou and the lab work the detail. Robert stays on the calls if you want him there.

Step 4ProposalsThe lab proposes. Robert helps you read it, compare it, and decide.

Robert's part is to help you scope the work, offer partners he trusts, help you navigate the proposals, and support you fractionally if you need it. Product and market strategy work continues through Hever Consulting.

What it costs. Advisory is free. If you want Robert on further scoping calls, or a fractional CTO alongside you, that is quoted up front. How Blockdevs is paid is in the questions below.

Robert Hever runs Blockdevs.

Over five years scaling a global data infrastructure company, Robert partnered with more than ten development and engineering labs. Blockdevs is a referral collaboration with the ones he trusts most. With his own engineering team and those partners he shipped 13 public projects on the blockchain. Before that he spent a year embedded in a tier one bank implementing conversational AI in the transformer era.

Today he is a full time product and market strategy consultant at Hever Consulting. Many of his clients turn out to have AI, blockchain, or complex engineering requirements. Blockdevs is where those go.

His network runs from high value developers for teams on a budget, to fractional CTOs who can architect a solution, to Silicon Valley agentic AI experts and research professionals with deep expertise in LLMs.

5 yrsscaling a global data infrastructure companyDocumentation → $2M+USD in engineering projects delivered with globally distributed teamsProject Catalyst → 13public projects shipped on the blockchainProject Catalyst → 1 yrembedded in a tier one bank, conversational AI

The network.

saasberry

An AI engineering lab that puts agents into production inside the Microsoft tools your team already uses. They build the system and run it for you as a managed service, so your team never has to take on the engineering.

Also brings modernised, agent driven SDLC practices to teams that build their own software.

Greater Vancouver Area, Canada

A Silicon Valley engineering lab that embeds forward deployed AI engineers in your team, with project management included. Their engineers come through an in house accelerator and use agent workflows to ship faster than a conventional hire.

Fixed or open ended terms, and long term team placements. Experienced with accelerator portfolio companies and other Valley teams building AI products.

San Francisco

A high assurance engineering lab whose speciality is blockchain, with Rust and Haskell back ends, TypeScript front ends, and WASM based chains including Cardano, Polkadot, Solana and Radix. They are versatile and take on general development contracts as well.

Managed projects, staff augmentation, recruitment, DevOps, and AI and ML engineers. North American and European developers available.

London HQ, global team

A blockchain only development studio for smart contracts and full products in Solidity, Rust, TypeScript and React, across EVM chains and Solana. Teams include analysts and QA, not just developers.

Fixed price projects, ongoing augmentation, or time and materials. Also recruitment and placement, with the option to hire full time engineers through them.

Global team, Europe and Asia

TxPipe

A research grade engineering lab with experience building on layer 1 blockchains. Security audits, AI security audits, and functional programming at PhD level.

Maintainers of open source tooling for Cardano and UTxO chains. Fits teams that need independent, rigorous review before they ship or scale.

Córdoba, Argentina

Need product and market strategy? Struggling to find product market fit? Visit Hever Consulting

Questions people ask first.

Why use Blockdevs when the labs are listed right here?

You can go straight to any lab on this page. If you work with Robert, he helps you scope the work, gets you multiple proposals, and sets you up with the exact right person at each lab so you skip the initial sales calls. He can also open his blockchain network to you. None of that costs you anything.

How does Blockdevs get paid?

When you sign with a lab Robert introduced, the lab pays Blockdevs a referral fee. It comes out of the lab's standard rates. It is not added to your price.

Is the first call really free?

Yes. 45 minutes with Robert. If you want him on further scoping calls, or a fractional CTO alongside you, that is quoted up front before anything starts.

Am I obliged to use a lab Robert recommends?

No. You can take the scope anywhere.

Do you work outside Vancouver?

Yes. In person across Metro Vancouver, remote across North America.

Who answers the email?

Robert. There is no sales team.

Tell us what you're working on.

Book a free 45 minute call with Robert → [email protected]