# Lane Street & Smith

Lane Street & Smith is an agentic AI consultancy based in Sydney, Australia. We design and build production multi-agent AI systems, autonomous pipelines, and consumer AI products.

## What we do

- Design and build production multi-agent AI systems and autonomous pipelines
- Ship consumer AI products from zero to live, with accessible design and real infrastructure
- Advise on AI product strategy and architecture for organisations ready to move beyond pilots
- Bring senior product and engineering leadership to complex, ambiguous initiatives
- Help agencies offer AI-powered software delivery through Firmstone

## Principal

Hugh Macdermott — twenty years in product and technology leadership at OFX, News Corp, and Castlepoint. Building production AI systems since 2023.

## Current projects

**AI Dev Platform & Firmstone** (Live)
An orchestration system coordinating six specialised AI agents (PM, Architect, Developer, QA, DevOps, Security) through a complete software development lifecycle. Includes a custom story-state workflow engine, automated Definition of Ready/Done enforcement, and real build and test feedback loops. 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.
Stack: Claude API, Python, PostgreSQL, SvelteKit, FastAPI

**Financial Agents Platform** (Running)
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. Operates autonomously with mandatory human approval before any position is opened.
Stack: Claude API, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Alpaca Markets

**Utspoken** (Live)
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. Ships with a built-in cloud MCP server so users can connect their own AI agents directly to their journal data.
Stack: Vue 3, FastAPI, Whisper, MCP, PWA

## Contact

- Email: lets.talk@lanestreetsmith.com

## URLs

- Website: https://lanestreetsmith.com
- Firmstone: https://firmstone.ai