# Victory Square Partners

> Victory Square Partners (VSP) is an AI-native software engineering partner based in the Washington, DC area. Victory Square Partners embeds with your team, brings the AI tooling, and executes against your roadmap in weeks, not quarters.

VSP pairs US leadership with senior engineers in Romania. Clients are engineering leaders, CTOs and CEOs at growth-stage and mid-market companies who need to move from AI experiments to AI in production. Engagements range from fixed-length AI sprints (MVPs, readiness assessments) to embedded AI Pods that work inside a client team.

## Key pages
- [AI Solutions](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/ai-solutions): AI Advisory to decide what to build, AI Pods to build it
- [AI Advisory Services](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/advisory-services): Spec-driven development, AI across the business, compliance readiness
- [All Solutions](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/solutions): Every service, in one list
- [Case Studies](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/case-studies): What we built, who for, and what it delivered
- [About](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/about): A people-first engineering coalition of US and Romanian engineers
- [Careers & Culture](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/careers-and-culture): Open positions and how we work
- [Events](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/events): Community events, workshops and summits in the Washington, DC region
- [AI Concepts 3.0](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/ai-concepts): An educational framework: 38 AI concepts in 5 categories for executives and technical leaders
- [AI Glossary](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary): Plain-language definitions of AI and engineering terms
- [Blog](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog): Insights and market signals on building with AI
- [Contact](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/contact): Tell us what you are working on; we reply within one business day

## Services
- [Strategy](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/solutions/strategy): A clear plan built around your goals: priorities, budget and a 90-day roadmap your team can act on.
- [Research](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/solutions/research): Customer interviews, competitor reviews and market sizing that show where your growth will really come from.
- [Implementation](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/solutions/implementation): Hands-on delivery from kickoff to launch: we run the project, keep it on schedule and hand it over cleanly.
- [AI Integration](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/ai-integration): Connect AI to the software you already run. We integrate LLMs, agents, and AI capabilities into your existing applications without disrupting what is working.
- [AI Pods](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/ai-pods): On-demand engineering teams powered by agentic AI and supervised by senior engineers. Aligned to outcomes, not hours. Production-ready from day one.
- [Agent Development](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/agent-development): Build AI agents that actually work. We build the agents, workflows and infrastructure that run autonomously in your operations.
- [LLM Fine-Tuning](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/llm-fine-tuning): Fine-tune and optimize LLMs on your data to close the gap between generic models and your domain-specific requirements.
- [Computer Vision](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/computer-vision): Computer vision built for the messy real world: systems that hold up under variable lighting, partial occlusion and edge cases.
- [MLOps Infrastructure](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/mlops-infrastructure): The MLOps platform, monitoring pipelines and AI infrastructure that keep your models reliable and performing at scale.
- [Generative AI](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/generative-ai): From prototype to production AI. Generative AI systems that are accurate, governed, and integrated into the workflows that actually matter.
- [Machine Learning](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/machine-learning): End-to-end ML systems, from data pipelines and model training to deployment and monitoring. We make machine learning reliable at scale.
- [Enterprise AI](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/enterprise-ai): Enterprise AI built for legacy systems, compliance requirements, change management at scale, and security postures that generic AI tools can't satisfy.
- [AI Readiness Assessment](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/ai-readiness-assessment): Know where you stand before you invest in AI: an honest, actionable picture of your AI maturity across data, infrastructure, talent and culture.
- [AI Adoption Roadmap](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/ai-adoption-roadmap): A clear path from AI experiments to AI operations: a roadmap that sequences investments, aligns teams and ties each initiative to a business outcome.
- [AI Strategy](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/ai-strategy-readiness): An AI strategy your engineering team can execute: which problems AI can actually solve, which investments pay off, and a clear path forward.
- [MVP Development](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/mvp-development): Go from idea to tested product in 8 to 12 weeks. AI-native MVPs that reach real users fast and are built to scale when they find traction.
- [Custom Software Development](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/custom-software-development): Software engineered for how your business actually works: production-grade systems built around your workflows, data and requirements.
- [Web Application Development](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/web-application-development): Web applications built for real-world demands: performance, reliability and AI capabilities that make a measurable difference to users.
- [Mobile App Development](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/mobile-app-development): Mobile apps users keep and engineering teams trust: iOS, Android and cross-platform, built for performance, reliability and AI features.
- [API Development](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/api-development): APIs that connect everything your business runs on. REST, GraphQL and LLM API integration built for reliability, performance and scale.
- [Cloud & DevOps](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/cloud-devops): Infrastructure that makes your software reliable: cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, AI/ML infrastructure and security posture.
- [Digital Transformation](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/digital-transformation): Replace the manual processes that cost you speed. We map what you do, find what can be automated, and build the systems that remove the drag.
- [Managed Services](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/managed-services): Keep your AI systems running while your team builds what's next. We carry the operational load so your engineers stay focused on product.
- [Product Strategy](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/product-strategy): Build the right thing before you build the thing right. We define what to build, test the assumptions behind it, and sequence the investments.
- [AI MVP Development](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/ai-mvp-development): VSP's AI Application Accelerator delivers a production-ready AI application in a fixed five-week sprint, AI-assisted design, code, test, and deployment.
- [AI Security & Governance](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/ai-security-governance): VSP implements the security controls, audit frameworks, and responsible AI practices that let you scale with confidence, before an incident forces the issue.
- [Cloud Migration](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/cloud-migration): VSP migrates legacy systems to cloud-native architectures with the planning, risk management, and engineering execution that prevents the horror stories.
- [Quality Assurance](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/quality-assurance): VSP builds the QA systems, test coverage, and release processes that let your engineering team ship fast without breaking things.
- [System Modernization](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/system-modernization): VSP modernizes the legacy systems, architectures, and codebases that are slowing your engineering team down, systematically and without breaking what works.
- [Investor Solutions](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/investor-solutions): VSP helps investment firms and portfolio companies deploy AI and modern technology to generate alpha, streamline operations, and create durable competitive advantage.

## Case studies
- [Brivo: from MVP to 72,000 deployments worldwide.](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/case-studies/brivo): VSP has been embedded with Brivo's engineering team since 2019, building the cloud access control and video surveillance infrastructure that now serves over 72,000 deployments worldwide.
- [Industry Traceback Group: the engine behind the fight on illegal robocalls.](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/case-studies/industry-traceback-group): VSP is embedded inside the Industry Traceback Group, the organization designated by the FCC to perform traceback on illegal robocall campaigns across the US communications industry.
- [Permanent.org: taking a digital archive to mobile.](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/case-studies/permanent-org): VSP built Permanent.org's iOS and Android apps, plus a tablet experience, helping the nonprofit bring its long-term digital archive to the platform where their users actually are.
- [Only Human: from idea to SXSW in eight weeks.](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/case-studies/dr-stock): Dr. Gregory Stock came to Victory Square after a failed prior engagement that produced nothing shippable. Eight weeks later, the app (now known as Only Human) debuted at South by Southwest.
- [Capstone HME: software for hospice care's hardest moments.](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/case-studies/capstone-hme): VSP designed and built Capstone HME's complete technology stack from scratch: a custom software platform, e-commerce system, and clinical integrations for DME providers serving hospice patients.

## Blog posts
- [Agent Observability: What Is Your AI Doing Right Now?](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/signal-agent-observability): AI agents run code, call APIs and write to databases for you, yet most teams can't say what they did five minutes ago. What that gap costs, and how to close it.
- [When Your AI Hides What It's Doing](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/signal-ai-monitoring): OpenAI found a model tried to avoid shutdown by manipulating its monitoring. Not science fiction: a prompt to ask what your AI systems are actually doing.
- [The First 24 Hours After a Critical Vulnerability](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/signal-vulnerability-response): A high-severity CVE just hit one of your dependencies and you have 24 hours before exploitation spreads. A framework for making the right calls fast.
- [Agentic AI Is Moving from Experiments to Enterprise Budgets](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/market-signal-agentic-ai-enterprise): Q3 2026 showed a marked shift: AI line items are no longer pilot-sized. What it means for growth-stage software companies.
- [AI-Augmented Engineering: What It Actually Looks Like in Production](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/ai-augmented-engineering-in-production): Not slides. Not theory. What AI-native development actually looks like on a real team shipping real software.
- [Choosing an AI Agent Framework: Let the Shape of the Job Decide](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/choosing-an-ai-agent-framework): Seven agent frameworks, one method: classify the use case, check for a decisive requirement, then pick the fit with the least work. With a worked example.
- [Spec-Driven Development: How Documents Become the Source of Truth](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/spec-driven-development): When specifications become the authoritative source of system intent, everything changes. Code becomes disposable. Velocity becomes durable.
- [Why We Start Every Engagement with Foundation First](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/foundation-first): Before we write a line of application code, we establish the infrastructure, processes, and guardrails that make sustained delivery possible.
- [Victory Square Partners Appoints Matt Walnock as Head of AI and Advisory Services](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/victory-square-partners-appoints-matt-walnock-as-head-of-ai-and-advisory-services): Victory Square Partners appoints Matt Walnock as Head of AI and Advisory Services, strengthening its mission to help software-driven businesses grow.
- [RAG Testing with DeepEval: A Hands-On Guide to Reliable Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/rag-testing-with-deepeval): How to test Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines with DeepEval: measuring retrieval quality, faithfulness and answer relevance.
- [Continuing the Compose Multiplatform Journey: Weather and AI at Your Fingertips](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/continuing-the-compose-multiplatform-journey-weather-and-ai-at-your-fingertips): Part two of our Compose Multiplatform series: building a weather and AI assistant that tells you what to wear before you leave the house.
- [Compose Multiplatform coming from an Android Developer's perspective](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/compose-multiplatform-coming-from-an-android-developer-perspective): How Android developers can use Compose Multiplatform to build an AI assistant for phone, tablet and web from one codebase, plus native watch apps.
- [Surviving the IoT Chaos: Scalable iOS App Design Strategies](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/surviving-the-iot-chaos-scalable-ios-app-design-strategie): Learn how to build scalable iOS IoT apps by modularizing Bluetooth logic, decoupling device interactions, and applying design patterns for maintainable growth.
- [Building AI agents on Cloudflare](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/building-ai-agents-on-cloudflare): How to build AI agents on Cloudflare with Workers, Workers AI and the Agents SDK: a chatbot that runs custom tools, keeps state and responds in real time.
- [Using AI to extract Structured Data from PDFs](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/using-ai-to-extract-structured-data-from-pdfs): How we used Google Cloud's AI tools to extract structured data from PDFs: automating OCR, keeping data accurate and handling varied formats.
- [Training AI with Pure Reinforcement Learning: Insights from DeepSeek R1](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/training-ai-with-pure-reinforcement-learning-insights-from-deepseek-r1): What DeepSeek-R1 shows about training LLMs to reason with pure reinforcement learning, and how it differs from supervised fine-tuning.
- [VSP Practices: Community-driven Domains for Creating Experts](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/vsp-practices-community-driven-domains-for-creating-experts): How VSP grew from a handful of people to 140+ engineers, and how our practices, community-driven technical domains, turn engineers into experts.
- [AI and [Code]: A Love-Hate Relationship](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/ai-and-code-a-love-hate-relationship): A tongue-in-cheek experiment testing how well AI writes code, and whether it helps or endangers the existence of Homo Engineerus.
- [League of Part.nerds: The Longer You Stay, the Better It Gets](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/league-of-part-nerds-the-longer-you-stay-the-better-it-gets): Inside the League of Part.nerds, Victory Square's program to recognize and reward engineers who drive company success and build long-term value.
- [Leadership for An Engineering System: Mud Dogs and Transformers](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/leadership-for-an-engineering-system-mud-dogs-and-transformers): Leadership is the biggest factor in any team's success. Lessons on leading an engineering organization, from sports, family, combat and business.
- [Benefits of Working in a Software Solutions Company: The Victory Perspective](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/benefits-of-working-in-a-software-solutions-company-the-victory-perspective): Why engineers and designers thrive at software solutions companies: diversity of projects, skill growth, and the Victory Square Partners perspective.
- [Building a Culture of Trust: How We Grow Following Principles](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/building-a-culture-of-trust-how-we-grow-following-principles): How Victory Square Partners built a culture of trust by following principles over rules, and why that distinction drives lasting team growth.
- [What Is the Victory Coalition and Why Should Engineers Care](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/blog/what-is-the-victory-coalition-and-why-should-engineers-care): The Victory Coalition connects engineers with purpose-driven work and community. Here's what it is, why it exists, and why engineers should care.

## Events
- [Actual Intelligence, December 1, 2026](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/events/actual-intelligence-dec2026): Falls Church, VA; an ongoing series for engineering leaders and CEOs
- [All Stack Hangout](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/events/all-stack-hangout): A monthly tech talk and networking night for engineers
- [VSP Summit 2026](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/events/vsp-summit-2026): A half-day event for clients, partners and operators

## Glossary terms
- [Agent (AI)](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#agent)
- [Agentic Loop](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#agentic-loop)
- [AI Gateway](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#ai-gateway)
- [AI Governance](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#ai-governance)
- [AI Readiness](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#ai-readiness)
- [API](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#api)
- [Autonomous Agent](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#autonomous-agent)
- [Batch Inference](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#batch-inference)
- [Benchmark](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#benchmark)
- [BM25](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#bm25)
- [Chain-of-Thought](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#chain-of-thought)
- [Chunking](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#chunking)
- [Classification](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#classification)
- [Context Window](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#context-window)
- [Cosine Similarity](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#cosine-similarity)
- [Data Pipeline](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#data-pipeline)
- [Embeddings](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#embeddings)
- [Embedding Model](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#embedding-model)
- [Evaluation Framework](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#evaluation-framework)
- [Evals](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#evals)
- [Few-Shot Learning](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#few-shot-learning)
- [Fine-Tuning](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#fine-tuning)
- [Foundation Model](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#foundation-model)
- [Function Calling](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#function-calling)
- [Generative AI](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#generative-ai)
- [Graph RAG](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#graph-rag)
- [Grounding](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#grounding)
- [Guardrails](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#guardrails)
- [Hallucination](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#hallucination)
- [Human-in-the-Loop](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#human-in-the-loop)
- [Hybrid Search](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#hybrid-search)
- [Inference](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#inference)
- [Inference Cost](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#inference-cost)
- [In-Context Learning](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#in-context-learning)
- [Instruction Tuning](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#instruction-tuning)
- [JSON Mode](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#json-mode)
- [Judge Model](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#judge-model)
- [Knowledge Graph](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#knowledge-graph)
- [KV Cache](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#kv-cache)
- [Latency](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#latency)
- [LLM (Large Language Model)](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#llm)
- [LLM Ops](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#llm-ops)
- [Long-Context Model](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#long-context-model)
- [MCP (Model Context Protocol)](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#mcp)
- [MLOps](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#mlops)
- [Model](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#model)
- [Model Card](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#model-card)
- [Multi-Agent System](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#multi-agent-system)
- [Observability (AI)](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#observability)
- [Orchestration](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#orchestration)
- [Output Validation](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#output-validation)
- [Prompt Engineering](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#prompt-engineering)
- [Quantization](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#quantization)
- [RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#rag)
- [Red Teaming](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#red-teaming)
- [Reranking](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#reranking)
- [RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback)](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#rlhf)
- [Semantic Search](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#semantic-search)
- [Structured Output](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#structured-output)
- [System Prompt](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#system-prompt)
- [Tokenization](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#tokenization)
- [Tool Use](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#tool-use)
- [Trace](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#trace)
- [Vector Database](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#vector-database)
- [Zero-Shot Learning](https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/glossary#zero-shot-learning)

## Contact
- Website: https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/
- Contact form: https://www.victorysquarepartners.com/contact
- Location: Washington, DC metropolitan area