The house
A holding company for advanced labs and boringly predictable automation.
Standard Automata
Ship fast. Stay audit-ready.
CI/CD foundations that produce SOC 2 and FedRAMP evidence automatically. Infrastructure that passes audits because architecture does.
Automata Studio
The shop floor.
Software and growth systems for US businesses. Where boringly predictable automation is built and tested under real deadlines. Some shops keep their automata as trade secrets.
AETO Advanced Programs
Where crews ship the future.
The R&D lab. Private AI systems, telemetry, and analysis that hasn’t graduated to industry standard yet. Requires a foundation.
The thesis
Velocity and compliance are not opposites. They have the same root cause when they fail, and the same cure when they work: manual operations, replaced by architecture.
That thesis does not change when the domain does. A release pipeline, a mastering chain, and a fulfilment workflow are the same problem wearing different clothes — a person doing something by hand that the system should have already done.
What the house holds
| Standard Automata | compliant, high-velocity platforms |
|---|---|
| Automata Studio | software and growth systems |
| AETO Labs | the R&D lab |
Standard Automata is the foundation. AETO is the graduation point, and it requires that foundation — a lab program without an attestable platform underneath it is a demo.
Nodes, not rungs. You contract with Automata International; the practices are how work is organized, not a reporting hierarchy.
The covenant
Accountability serves everyone.
Your technology becomes invisible; we stay transparent.
The product is time and attention.
How that is papered is set out in how the house contracts.