About
Umer Farooq builds the production layer around AI agents.
Zenovae is Umer Farooq's studio. We embed with technical teams, ship agents into their repo, and score whether those agents do the right thing. We are based in Islamabad and work with US teams. The overlap hours are confirmed on the scoping call.
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Years AI-Focused
40+
Tool Classes
7-14d
First Build
24/7
Ops Posture
Operating Principles
How we decide what to build and how to build it.
These principles shape every architecture decision, every integration surface, and every handoff.
Production beats demo polish.
Every system we ship is designed to hold up under real load, real users, and real edge cases. We do not optimize for the screenshot.
Every tool action gets a boundary.
We define permissions, retries, approval gates, and rollback paths before the first API call. Safety is not an afterthought.
Retrieval is evaluated, not assumed.
RAG pipelines get benchmarked against real question sets with measurable accuracy. We know the precision, not just the architecture.
Costs and latency are design constraints.
We choose models, chunking strategies, and caching layers with budgets in mind. Performance is part of the spec.
Humans stay in the loop where risk demands it.
The system knows when to ask, not just when to act. We design escalation paths, not black boxes.
Expertise
Tech stack.
The tools we use to build systems that ship.
LLM Platforms
Frameworks
Vector DBs
Backend
Frontend
Cloud
Databases
ML/AI
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