Turning ideas into powerful software.
Strategy, design, engineering, and applied AI — delivered as one accountable team. We design, build, and operate the systems that move the business forward.
Services
End-to-end capabilities across design, engineering, and infrastructure. We embed with your team or operate as your full product department.
Design
We craft user experiences that convert. Every screen, flow, and interaction is designed with your business goals in mind — from wireframes to pixel-perfect handoff.
Branding
Your brand is more than a logo. We build complete visual identity systems — color, typography, tone of voice — that make your company instantly recognizable and trustworthy.
Platform Development
From web apps to complex multi-tenant platforms, we write clean, tested, production-grade code. Our teams ship fast without cutting corners on architecture or quality.
AI Integration
We help businesses leverage AI where it matters — intelligent automation, LLM-powered features, recommendation engines, and custom ML pipelines integrated into your product.
Digital Infrastructure
We architect and manage the systems behind your product — cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, databases, monitoring, and security hardening that keeps everything running.
Active Maintenance
Products need care after launch. We provide ongoing engineering support — performance fixes, dependency updates, and feature iterations on a retainer basis.
Recent work
A few of the systems we've designed and shipped.
Addis Baptist Church
2025Digital home for an Addis Ababa congregation — service times, sermons, and community resources.
Zibano Coffee
2025Digital storefront for an Ethiopian specialty coffee brand — cultural depth meets commerce.
Se'alite Mihret St. Mary Cathedral
2025Bilingual website for the Ethiopian Orthodox parish in Edmonton — events, news, gallery, and service times in Amharic and English.
Four phases. No theater between them.
Discovery, architecture, delivery, and operations as one continuous engagement — not a relay between separate vendors.
Discover
Audit the brief. Map stakeholders. Define what the system must do.
Architect
Decide structure before code. Data model, surfaces, integration boundaries.
Build
Reviewable milestones. Production standards from day one.
Operate
Launch is the start. We own performance, fixes, and iteration.
Two ways to work with us.
Pick the shape that matches the work. Both are run by the same senior team.
Project engagement
Defined scope, defined timeline.
Best when the brief is concrete and a launch date matters.
- Fixed-scope statement of work
- Embedded design + engineering pair
- Weekly review, biweekly demo
- 30 days of post-launch support
Embedded team
A long-running unit inside your roadmap.
Best when the product evolves and the work compounds month over month.
- Dedicated cross-functional team
- Continuous discovery and delivery
- Direct Slack and standup access
- On-call coverage for production systems
A small senior team that takes shipping seriously.
- Founded
- 2024
- Based
- Addis Ababa
- Disciplines
- Design · Eng · AI
- Stack
- TypeScript · Next.js · Postgres
ZemenAI is an engineering-as-a-service team. We build production systems for companies that need clear execution, not pitch-deck deliverables.
Our work cuts across product strategy, interface design, platform engineering, and applied AI. The same people who scope the engagement design and ship it, then stay on to operate it. Hand-offs are where most projects fail; we don't do them.
When you work with us, you're not hiring contractors. You're partnering with engineers who understand what it takes to ship, scale, and sustain a product.
Tell us what you're building.
A 30-minute conversation. We'll tell you whether we're the right team and, if not, point you toward someone who is. Replies inside one business day.