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Context
Capture the workflow, exceptions, systems, and decisions that make the operation work.
Forward-deployed AI engineering
Build the AI factory your operation can actually own.
The new bottleneck is not code. It is context. Ten Mile Zone works inside the real workflow—systems, exceptions, controls, and people—to turn operating knowledge into secure production software.
02
Controls
Define data access, human authority, evaluation, auditability, and rollback before build.
03
Production cell
Ship one bounded workflow inside the client environment and measure it against a baseline.
04
Transfer
Leave the client-owned code, documentation, evidence, and operating knowledge behind.
The operating problem
Most businesses do not need another demo. They need context to survive contact with production.
01Critical work is spread across people, documents, legacy systems, and exception queues.
02AI pilots demonstrate possibility but never become a governed production capability.
03Teams need faster change without outsourcing ownership of their operating knowledge.
We start with one governed production cell—not a promise to automate the whole company. The cell makes the factory thesis concrete, measurable, and transferable.
How the first cell works
From operational reality to a capability your team can run.
01
Discover the workflow
Map the people, systems, exceptions, and decision rights that a generic requirements document misses.
02
Build inside the boundary
Connect approved models and tools to client-controlled data, identity, integrations, and deployment controls.
03
Verify and transfer
Measure against a baseline, document the evidence, and leave ownership with the client team.
Who we work with
Complex operations where context is the competitive advantage.
Our public center of gravity is Greater Los Angeles gaming, hospitality, resorts, entertainment groups, and property operations. We also work with technically complex startups and industrial teams when the work is consequential and ownership matters.
Gaming and hospitality
Modernize workflows, reconcile exceptions, strengthen compliance documentation, and make operational knowledge executable.
Adjacent complex businesses
A fit for startups, industrial organizations, and fintech teams with a bounded production problem and accountable leadership.
Security and ownership
The factory compounds for the client, not the vendor.
Client-controlled data and environments
Human authority and explicit release gates
Auditability, evaluation, rollback, and evidence
Client-owned code, documentation, and transfer
Senior accountability
The people responsible for the work are visible.
Co-Founder & CEO
Mkrtych (Mike) Oganyan
Hands-on platform architect and software engineering leader with more than 23 years of experience building and modernizing enterprise systems.
Co-Founder & CTO
Ara Tarumyan, Ph.D.
Systems engineer and technical leader with more than 25 years of experience across embedded systems, control and monitoring systems, condition monitoring, and research and development.
Founding Member & AI Program Manager
Kristina Sargsyan
AI program leader focused on turning complex initiatives into governed, reviewable delivery programs with clear ownership and stakeholder alignment.
Make the first cell concrete
Start with a two-week readiness assessment.
We select one workflow, establish its baseline and controls, and give you a build, defer, or stop recommendation—before a larger commitment.
A direct human path