Applications own business truth.
Customer records, permissions, and final state remain in the domain systems responsible for them.
About Colter
Complex work needs more than a model call.
Colter turns intelligence into an operating capability. It brings private and local AI, frontier models, business systems, governed tools, and people into durable workflows that can keep working beyond a single prompt.
Why Colter exists
The difficult part is the system around the intelligence.
Useful AI work depends on context, permissions, tools, checkpoints, evidence, and a place in the real operating workflow. Without that foundation, promising pilots stay demos and consequential work stays with people stitching systems together by hand.
Colter exists to build that foundation deliberately. Applications keep their domain truth and customer experience; Colter coordinates the reasoning and multi-step work behind them.
What we believe
Durable systems make intelligence trustworthy.
Use the right intelligence for each step.
Private, local, frontier, and proprietary models should be routed by the needs and boundaries of the work.
People retain meaningful authority.
Approvals, budgets, evaluation, and escalation belong around consequential action—not after it.
Work should survive a single session.
Durable state, retries, handoffs, and observable outcomes turn an AI interaction into an operating capability.
Built with Steepworks
Applications first. Intelligence where it creates leverage.
Steepworks designs and builds the applications, data foundations, integrations, and operating workflows where business work happens. Colter adds coordinated intelligence when that work needs deeper reasoning, multiple systems, durable state, or governed autonomy.
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Joe Merrill
Joe is an experienced product builder who has taken ideas from napkins to systems serving millions of users, helping scale companies including Bandwidth, Dialpad, Wrike, Dataminr, and infrastructure behind Microsoft Teams.
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Bring us the work that has outgrown a prompt.
We’ll help you define the first useful outcome and the system it needs around it.