Accelerating frontier tech adoption for real businesses.
We shipped ARM cloud at Scaleway, on-chain yield at Kiln, and green datacenters at Tresorio. Now we bring that senior engineering to your business — we learn how it actually works, then turn technology and AI into your edge.
Three founders, one thesis.
Security, infrastructure, and AI converge here. Each founder has spent a decade shipping production systems at scale.
Loïc
Co-founder & Lead
Founding engineer and product manager at Kiln, where he deployed a full suite of on-chain finance and yield products on Ethereum — used by 100k+ retail users, funds, and exchanges. A smart-contract auditor and offensive-security engineer, Loïc leads PRIMITIVE — setting its direction and coordinating its departments, while owning its technical solutions and products.
Manfred
Co-founder · Academy & R&D
Co-founder & CTO of Scaleway, where he shipped the world's first ARM-powered public cloud, and creator of Berty, a censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messenger. Now VP of Engineering at gno.land with 500+ open-source projects, Manfred leads PRIMITIVE's academy and lab — turning a career of shipping frontier systems into how we teach and research.
Flavian
Co-founder · Solutions
CTO of Tresorio, where he built a green cloud from micro-datacenters that double as building heaters — recycling server heat to warm homes — then founded Ingenium Calor to turn computation into eco-friendly "digital boilers." At PRIMITIVE he runs the Solutions practice, pairing customers with the technical solutions their hardest problems demand.
We're tech accelerationists. Frontier technology should reach the real world faster — so we get it there: deploying high-impact solutions inside real businesses, and training the next generation of engineers to carry it forward. What we leave behind isn't software; it's a business that runs faster, leaner, and further because the right technology is finally working for it.
Four things we don't compromise on.
Business first, tech second
We learn how you actually make money before we write a line of code. The technology serves the outcome — never the other way around.
Senior engineers only
The people who scope your problem are the ones who ship it. No juniors on your budget, no handoff to a delivery team.
We operate, not advise
No strategy decks, no recommendations to go implement yourself. We embed and do the work — until your processes are faster, your costs lower, and the new capability is running for real.
Own the outcome
We measure ourselves on what ships and what it does for the business — at your scale, under your load, in your hands.
Winning isn't a valuation. It's the solutions that exist because we were in the room.
Now
Senior engineering, embedded
Small senior teams that embed with a business, learn how it works, and deliver what it needs to grow.
Next
AI that earns its place
Helping more businesses put AI where it actually moves the numbers — adoption, not hype.
Then
A bench the best choose
A network of senior engineers who pick the hard, real problems — and the businesses that bring them.
Onward
Built in the open
Tools, write-ups, and methods we publish — so the work compounds beyond any single engagement.