Stride

Stride is a software consultancy that started as an agile development firm in New York. Its work now centres on AI engineering for organisations, particularly those in regulated industries.

What Stride does

• AI token cost optimisation: engineers work with a client's team to link AI usage to business outcomes and reduce spend.
• Team AI upskilling: coaching for engineering teams on AI-assisted development using their own tech stack.
• Agentic workflows: autonomous production workflows with human checkpoints built in.
• AI adoption assessment: a short strategic review of readiness and priority use cases, with a roadmap and governance framework.
• Legacy application modernisation: analysis and translation of old code using AI tools, with regression tests.
• Custom software development: agile product builds combined with AI tooling.

Who it works with

Engineering and security leaders, often in regulated sectors. The firm has traditionally worked alongside client developers, coding side by side as a form of technical mentoring.

Key facts

• Based in: New York
• Working style: co-located coaching and pairing with client teams