A New Chapter

For years, we delivered. On time, on budget, on spec. Clients were happy. Revenue was steady. And at some point, without anyone noticing, we stopped caring whether the work mattered beyond the invoice.

Caydev has been building applications since 2013. We started in the mobile app era, chased the work that was available, and got good at it. Client projects, custom builds, scope documents, sprints. Genuinely good. But somewhere in the middle of a decade of steady client work, we started going through the motions. We showed up. We executed. We just stopped being surprised by anything.

That is a quiet problem. "Good at it" can be part of the issue. When the muscle memory takes over, the hunger starts to fade. We were executing, not building.

We started using AI internally in late 2023, mostly to speed up research and first drafts. Within a few months, it was handling research that used to take half a day. It was generating working prototypes in hours instead of days. A task that previously required hiring a contractor was now something we could ship ourselves in a weekend.

That was when the direction became clear. Not because of the press coverage or the hype surrounding it, but because of what a lean team could actually do with these tools. The ceiling started rising fast, and we realized we had a choice: keep running the same playbook, or rebuild around the thing that had already changed how we worked.

We chose to rebuild. Two decisions now define where Caydev is headed

The first was about our consultancy. We stopped taking generic client work and refocused entirely on AI. Not AI as a buzzword we staple to project proposals, but as the specific discipline we help Cayman businesses navigate: strategy, implementation, workflow automation, and agent deployment. There are companies here, right now, that want to understand what AI means for their operations, their costs, their competitive position. Most of them do not have a trusted local guide. We intend to be that guide.

The pivot was not abandoning consultancy. It was refocusing it. Same relationships, same understanding of this market, radically sharper purpose.

The second decision was to build. Not for clients. For ourselves, and for anyone else who has the same problems we do.

Our first product, SaveMySaaS, is in beta. We built it because we were losing track of our own subscriptions, found duplicate tools across three teams, and had no clean way to see what we were actually spending. It is an AI-powered vendor intelligence platform that flags the waste you are not seeing and helps you make cleaner decisions about the tools your team actually uses. We needed it. We figured others did too.

We are not a company that talks about AI from the outside. We are a company that builds with it and then helps others do the same. The products prove the expertise. The consulting applies it locally.

There is more coming. More products, more honesty about how we are building them, and more transparency about what works and what does not.

What does it look like to build an AI company from a Caribbean island with no venture funding and no safety net? We are about to find out.

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