We make companies.
Cognaitiv is an agentic engineering studio. We train your team, build AI-native software and automations, and audit the AI-generated code you already ship — with coding agents at the center of everything.
We're fluent in the platforms your team will actually live in — and we train you to drive them like a senior engineer.
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex
n8n+LangChain+LangGraph+Flowise+Voiceflow+Cursor+CrewAI+MCP+Make+Zapier+Anthropic API+OpenAI API+Google Gemini+Ollama+Hugging Face+Supabase+Postgres+Pinecone+Qdrant+Vapi+ElevenLabs+Next.js+TypeScript+Python+React+Vercel+Playwright+Telegram+SlackEverything you need to go AI-native.
Seven ways we work with GenAI-era teams — from getting people ready, to making your product agent-ready, to keeping the AI-written code honest.
Agentic coding training
Teach your developers to ship with coding agents. Prompting, planning, review discipline, and the workflows that keep Claude Code and OpenAI Codex fast, safe, and productive.
AI agent-ready applications
Make your product a first-class citizen for AI agents. We design and build agent skills, CLI tools, and MCP servers — local and remote — then secure them with access tokens, API keys, and OAuth.
AI readiness training
Turn AI from a buzzword into daily leverage. Practical, role-based training that gets operators and engineers using AI with judgement — not just curiosity.
AI code audit & rescue
Your agents write more code than anyone can review. We audit AI-generated code for bugs, security holes, and drift — then fix it and harden the guardrails.
Automation engineering
We design and build automations with n8n and custom pipelines — wiring your tools, data, and models into systems that remove busywork.
AI-native software
From SaaS MVPs to production systems — products designed with agents in the loop from day one, not bolted on later.
Architecture & advisory
Architecture, implementation plans, and agent workflows for teams building AI-powered software — so you build the right thing, the right way.
How we
work with you.
One path from “we should use AI” to a team that ships AI-native software on its own. Five steps, no theatre.
Assess
We audit your stack, your team, and your AI readiness — finding where agents create leverage, and where they create risk.
Architect
We design the systems, agents, and workflows: a plan your team can actually build against, not a slide deck.
Build
We ship AI-native software and automations with you — coding agents in the loop from the very first commit.
Enable
We train your team to run it, driving Claude Code and Codex with the judgement of a senior engineer.
Support
Ongoing audits, guardrails, and partnership — so the system keeps improving after we hand over the keys.
AI writes the code.
We keep it honest.
Coding agents ship faster than any team can review. We audit the AI-generated code you're already merging — hunting bugs, security holes, and silent drift — then fix it and install the guardrails so it doesn't come back.
We don't sell . We build the systems, and train the people, that make it real.
Senior engineers, in the loop
No juniors learning on your codebase. Real engineers who drive coding agents every day and know where they break.
Agents at the center
We don't bolt AI onto old workflows. We design for it — Claude Code, Codex, n8n, and MCP as first-class tools.
We hand over the keys
The goal is your team shipping without us. Training, docs, and workflows — not dependency and lock-in.
Honest about the risk
AI-generated code fails in new ways. We audit for it, and we say what's actually production-ready.
Founded by an engineer, not a vendor.
Cognaitiv is founded by Leon van Zyl — a software engineer with nearly 20 years in the field and the voice behind a YouTube channel on AI engineering that's taught thousands of developers to build with AI agents and automations. That engineering depth runs through every engagement: less theory, more shipping.
When you reach out to Cognaitiv, it reaches Leon — not a sales funnel.
Let's make you
Tell us what you're building. We read every message and reply within 24 hours to book a call.
a real engineer replies — usually within a day