Who we are, on the record.
Everything you need to know about Cipher Projects—who we are, what we build, and how we work with founders and engineering teams.
Last updated: July 24, 2026·Machine-readable: company-facts.json · llms.txt
Cipher Projects is an Australian engineering studio for cloud, security and AI. We design, build and scale modern software systems — cloud platforms, secure backends, and AI products — and evaluate the security of the systems agents run on. Cloud and security came first; the AI work sits on that foundation. We serve clients worldwide, with deep focus in Singapore and Australia; our engineers are based in Australia and Vietnam.
Quick facts
What we build
Four engineering capabilities, one delivery model.
AI Engineering
Production AI products and agents — LLM apps, RAG, evals, private AI, inference and MLOps — designed to ship and operate in real environments.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
AWS architecture, migration, serverless and containers, cost and reliability, plus platform engineering (CI/CD, IaC, developer platforms) so teams can ship safely at scale.
Software & Security Engineering
Product MVPs, APIs and modern web systems, with security engineered in — IAM, secrets, detection and secure delivery. Compliance readiness is a leaf: we prepare environments for external assessors; we are not the assessor.
Dedicated Engineering Teams
A delivery model, not the product. After architecture, AI or product work begins, we embed fully-managed senior engineers into your roadmap — typically within 14 days when capacity is available.
Specializations
Technology stack
Typical engagements
How companies usually work with us, and where each engagement starts.
Cloud Architecture & Migration
Architect, modernise or rescue AWS and multi-cloud platforms.
Architecture Mapping from $5,000 AUD
Build AI Product / MVP
Design and ship an AI product, agent system or MVP with production foundations.
Build sprints from $20,000 AUD · typical 2-agent job from $40,000 AUD
Engineering Leadership
Fractional CTO and independent architecture review without a full-time executive hire.
Fractional CTO from $8,000 AUD/month
Embedded Engineering Teams
Fully-managed senior engineers integrated with your organisation after product or architecture work starts.
AI seats from $9,500 AUD/month · generalist seats from $7,500 AUD/month
Full rate card on our pricing page.
Why Cipher Projects
Senior Australian engineering leadership on every engagement
Cloud and security first — AI work sits on that foundation, not bolt-on demos
Small elite teams over large bench models
Architecture-first so systems scale with the business
Long-term partnerships — dedicated teams follow architecture and product work
Machine-readable data
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