An AI and software engineering company — raw data to production.
Ex-Google engineers and four IKEA desks in Verdi’s apartment. The agency takes its first clients — apps, stores, brands, and the infrastructure underneath them.
Numin goes live — 8 terabytes, 78,531 trades. Production machine learning years before the wave had a name.
Built end to end since 2014 — dating’s most selective club is acquired by Match Group. KonMari’s brand and two IPO builds (1-Page, then RedCloud) bookend the agency years.
Verdi takes the first-CTO chair at Skipify — $50M+ raised on that founding architecture. Software Motor Co. becomes TurnTide: $200M+ raised.
The sign goes up in Lahore — engineering, QA, and operations. Lagos follows with the largest bench and the labeling floor.
The second IPO built on Punch engineering lists on Nasdaq — and the cluster down the hall starts training models we own end to end.
Forty-one engineers across four offices, our own training cluster and labeling floor — small senior teams taking companies from raw data to deployed, production-grade AI systems.
Worked in engineering at Google in Mountain View. Founder and managing partner at Numin; Skipify's first CTO. Has been early for a living since 2014.
verdiergun.com ↗Runs delivery and operations across all three offices — the person who makes the cadence hold.
LinkedIn ↗Engineering at the Lagos office — where a large share of Punch's production systems get built.
LinkedIn ↗The people you'd actually work with — where they sit.
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Punch started out of Verdi's San Francisco apartment — four IKEA desks, two iMacs, no clients yet. The storefront studio came after. The flag has since moved east to Florida; the bench, the habits, and the sign came with it.
Home of the engineering bench and the labeling floor — thirty-one people building, annotating, and QC'ing through the hours when the rest of the company sleeps.
The European bridge — engineering and client delivery on GMT, anchored by Joshua Eseigbe.