About Steepworks

Build the application around the way the business really works.

Steepworks is a software company building the agentic application substrate: a shared foundation that connects people, agents, company intelligence, applications, and business systems so the whole business can work from the same context.

Who this is for

For the people carrying the business forward.

Steepworks is for the person who sees the opportunity, owns the outcome, and knows the business needs a stronger software foundation—not another temporary patch.

The internal product hero

You can see the better system inside the broken one.

You know where the spreadsheets, handoffs, and rented tools are holding the business back. Steepworks gives that hard-won understanding a governed home and turns it into software people can use.

The founder

You need the business to operate like the product you can already see.

You have the insight, the customer, or the first version. Steepworks supplies the foundation that turns that conviction into a system the business can grow on.

The product team

Your roadmap is constrained by the foundation beneath it.

You have users, data, and real product context—but the work is fragmented across tools. Steepworks gives the team shared infrastructure for applications and agents.

Why Steepworks

The next application cannot be another disconnected tool.

Agents can multiply a business’s capability—but only when they share its context, permissions, tools, and accountability. Most companies do not have that foundation today.

01

Technical debt fragments the truth.

Years of business logic are split across legacy applications, databases, spreadsheets, inboxes, and human memory. Reliable agents need that context to have a governed home.

02

Point SaaS fragments the work.

A single-purpose tool can solve one job while adding another vendor boundary, integration, permission model, and duplicate record. The business never becomes one system.

03

Internal friction blocks the foundation.

An agent substrate crosses product, engineering, data, operations, governance, and organizational change. Most companies cannot stop running the business to assemble that platform first.

Adding an agent to every tool does not create an agentic business. The business needs one substrate beneath the tools.

Our approach

Steepworks is the software. Business applications are how it becomes specific.

We build each application on the same governed Steepworks substrate, through the same Agent Factory, and keep it aligned through continuous Operations. The business gets software shaped around its work without starting from an empty codebase or inheriting a one-off project.

Product / The substrate

One intelligent foundation.

Company intelligence, identity, permissions, evidence, people, agents, tools, and existing systems meet beneath every application.

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Process / The Agent Factory

One place to define and build.

Business leaders, Builders, and agents work from the same model, decisions, approvals, tasks, and evidence from definition through launch.

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Operations / Continuous alignment

One system that keeps learning.

Steepworks stays reliable and useful as the business changes—training, validating, operating, and expanding what people and agents can accomplish.

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Why we are different

The model is different because the accountability is different.

Steepworks does not sell another seat, hand over a disconnected build, or leave the customer to join the pieces. The product, factory, operations, and business model work as one system.

See why Steepworks

  1. 01 · Start

    Agree on the first useful application.

  2. 02 · Build

    Deliver fixed-scope software in the Agent Factory.

  3. 03 · Operate

    Keep the substrate healthy and improving.

  4. 04 · Align

    Connect part of the economics to measurable value.

Outcome pricing

Pay for results—not access or activity.

Builds have clear scope and fees. A platform subscription funds continuous operations. Usage is itemized. When the application can record an agreed, measurable business result, part of the price can share in that upside—with the criteria, rate, window, and cap agreed upfront. If the result does not qualify, there is no outcome fee.

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Joe Merrill

A note from the founder

Joe Merrill

A product builder who has taken ideas from napkins to software serving millions of users, helping scale Bandwidth, Dialpad, Wrike, Dataminr, and infrastructure behind Microsoft Teams.

Contact Steepworks

Steepworks is the application I’ve always wanted.

It’s a software factory that turns a shared substrate into applications shaped around the way a business actually works—and gives builders both the authority and the incentive to innovate.

I’ve been part of exceptional software and product teams. Yet I’ve never seen a build environment with this much potential for transformation, or one designed to empower the people doing the building.

The roles of developers and product teams are changing faster than company structures can keep up. The SaaS tools of the last era cannot unlock the customization the next one demands. Many will need to be overhauled or replaced.

Agents are now first-party members of the team. Work is organized around outcomes. Steepworks turns that shift into a practical operating model—builders, operators, and agents working together to create applications that evolve with the business.