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Agentic AI systems, built for production.

We design and build multi-agent AI systems, autonomous pipelines, and consumer products with AI at the core. The work runs in production, not in demos.

Lane Street & Smith is led by Hugh Macdermott, with twenty years in product and technology leadership at OFX, News Corp, and Castlepoint. He has been building production AI systems since 2023.

Sydney, Australia Open to consulting Book a conversation

What we take on

How we can help

Current projects

Live

AI Dev Platform & Firmstone

An orchestration system that coordinates six specialised AI agents through a complete software development lifecycle: PM, Architect, Developer, QA, DevOps, and Security. It includes a custom story-state workflow engine with automated Definition of Ready/Done enforcement, real build and test feedback loops, and context filtering that reduced API costs by 60 to 65 percent.

Firmstone is the commercial product built on top: a multi-tenant SaaS letting agencies offer AI-powered software delivery to their clients, with Stripe billing, client and agency portals, and a full operator dashboard.

Claude APIPythonPostgreSQLSvelteKitFastAPI
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Running

Financial Agents Platform

A daily research pipeline monitoring 232 symbols across stocks, ETFs, metals, and crypto. Specialised agents handle discovery, data collection, research, signal scoring, and briefing compilation on a scheduled overnight cycle, producing a structured morning briefing before any trade decision is made.

Built to operate autonomously while the operator sleeps, with limit orders, stop-losses, and mandatory human approval before any position is opened.

Claude APIPythonPostgreSQLRedisAlpaca Markets
Live

Utspoken

A voice journaling PWA for people with ADHD and neurodiverse users who find handwritten journaling difficult. Voice recordings are transcribed using a locally-run Whisper model and encrypted end to end. The journal is private by design, with no third-party access to content.

Built on the hypothesis that early AI adopters skew heavily ADHD and neurodiverse, Utspoken ships with a built-in cloud MCP server. Users can connect their own AI agents directly to their journal data. The only journaling product that does this.

Vue 3FastAPIWhisperMCPPWA
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