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A founder-led studio based in Lahore, Pakistan. Small team, direct ownership, real delivery.

Studio

Who we are

A founder-led AI studio. Small team, direct ownership, and systems built to run in production.

13Stack is an AI studio building production systems, not prototypes. We design, build, and ship full-stack and AI-native products for clients, alongside our own products like Skedvio and elim-mcp. Based in Lahore, Pakistan, working with teams globally.

Why us

What makes us the right team

Not the biggest studio. The one that stays close to the work, ships production systems, and measures success by outcomes you can run.

Builders in the room

The engineers who scope the work are the ones who build it. No translation layer, no diluted ownership.

Production is the bar

We design for real traffic, real data, and real handoff. Demos that die after the pitch are not the deliverable.

AI where it earns its place

RAG, agents, and LLM integrations when they move the product forward, with evals and guardrails so they hold up after launch.

Same standard for our products

Skedvio and elim-mcp run in public. That pressure keeps client work honest.

Engineering

Practices we do not skip

How we keep quality high without slowing delivery into process theater.

Clear architecture early

Boundaries, data flow, and failure modes decided before the codebase sprawls.

Ship in thin slices

Vertical cuts that reach users, then iterate. Not a big bang that hides risk until the end.

Review and harden

Code review, testing where it matters, and operational checks before something is called done.

Own it after launch

Monitoring, fixes, and follow through. Launch is the start of ownership, not the exit.

Business impact

Outcomes that show up in the business

Engineering only matters if it moves something real: speed, reliability, cost, or the ability to ship the next thing.

Faster path to live

Fewer handoffs and clearer decisions mean less time stuck between idea and production.

Systems that stay operable

Your team inherits something they can run, extend, and explain, not a black box.

Less rework later

Practices up front cut the expensive surprises that appear after the first real users arrive.

AI that earns trust

Integrations built with evaluation and guardrails so the business can rely on them, not demo them once.

Leadership

Asad Yasin

CEO & Founder

asad@13stack.com

Full-stack developer and AI/ML engineer, leading product direction and technical architecture at 13Stack. Hands-on across the stack from system design to AI integration.

Anas Shafique

CTO

anas@13stack.com

Owns technical strategy at 13Stack: full-stack architecture, cloud deployments across Azure and AWS, and applied LLM/ML engineering. Focused on the right solution for the problem, monolith or microservices, balancing best practices with real user experience.

Zakria Hameed

Head of Engineering

zakria@13stack.com

Drives delivery end to end: refining development workflows, following best practices, and shipping on time without losing sight of what the client actually needs. Takes ownership of outcomes, not just tasks.

Our products

Shaped with the people who use them

We build our own products the same way we build for clients. We listen, ship against real need, and keep the roadmap honest.

We hear our users

Support threads, sessions, and feedback loops feed what we build next. Noise gets filtered. Patterns get prioritized.

Future features from need

Roadmaps are not wishlist theater. Features land when they solve a repeated problem for people already using the product.

Delivered to the customer

Client work and product work both follow the brief: what was promised, what was needed, and what ships on time.

What users say

“Booking stopped being email tennis. Guests pick a slot, calendars stay clean, and we look more professional without more admin.”

Product lead

Skedvio

“Our agents stopped reinvestigating the same dead ends. elim-mcp made the next session useful instead of repetitive.”

Engineering manager

elim-mcp

“They shipped what we needed, not a pile of extras. Communication stayed direct and the system was ready for real users.”

Founder

Client delivery

Based in Lahore. Built for anywhere.

We are a small, hands-on team. Direct communication, no account managers, no layers between you and the people building your product. Based in Lahore, Pakistan, working with clients across time zones.

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