PRIN-01
Evidence before opinion
Every recommendation traces to something observed — a workflow, a buyer, a number. If we cannot show you the evidence, we do not hold the opinion.
The Studio
Senior judgment is the product.
Encodex exists for people who built real wealth in legacy businesses and now want a digital product of their own — built to the standard the best products in the world set.
01 · Founder
Chafik Moucharaf
A decade building production software. Production AI for institutions that do not tolerate failure — systems used by LG, Vatican News, and the Italian Government. High-compliance financial platforms where a wrong answer costs real money — assets validated to €2M, compliance files cut from 4 hours to 15 minutes, 99.9% entity resolution against government registries.
That is the through-line. Research first. Evidence before opinion. Software that holds up under institutional scrutiny. Encodex was founded in April 2024 to apply that discipline to private clients — operators and investors turning industrial insight into a defensible digital asset.
The studio is deliberately small and selective. Two prototype engagements per month. Six active client accounts. No account layer, no delegation downward, no handoff to juniors. The person who reviews your application is the person who architects your system.
Two gates protect every engagement. Nothing ships until the founder validates it. And nothing proceeds until you can see the value with your own eyes — working software, not claims.
GATE-01 · Founder validation
GATE-02 · Value seen, not claimed
Founder recordMOUCHARAF CHAFIK · PRINCIPAL
RoleFounder & Principal Systems Architect
Production AI built forLG · Vatican News · Italian Government
IPPatent holder — real-time projection pipeline
Verification engine€20k–€2M assets · 99.9% resolution
Agentic systems0% unassisted resolution
Systems in production00
Client accounts00
FormationM.Eng — Data Science & AI · B.Sc CS
BasedAustin, TX · Europe
Working languagesEN · IT · FR
Handoff to juniorsNone
02 · Operating principles
Six principles. No exceptions.
These are not values on a wall. They are the standing rules of every Encodex engagement — the reason skeptical operators trust the process with their capital and their names.
PRIN-02
Research before build
Capital moves last. The market, the buyer, and the defensibility case are examined before production engineering begins.
PRIN-03
The courage to say “not yet”
Some theses fail diligence. When yours does, you hear it from us first — with the evidence in hand, and with what would have to change.
PRIN-04
Senior-led, always
Strategy, design, and engineering decisions are made by the founder, never delegated downward. You are never briefed by someone who was not in the room.
PRIN-05
Discretion by default
Client names, theses, and filings stay private unless you decide otherwise. NDAs signed where required; confidentiality honored regardless.
PRIN-06
Assets, not projects
A project ends at delivery. An asset compounds — through IP, data leverage, workflow ownership, and defensibility. We build the second kind.
03 · Track record
A decade in production.
The record before Encodex existed — dated, specific, and built on systems that are still running.
2016 · Florence
Frontend developerFirst production interfaces, shipped to real users. The habit formed early: build it, ship it, answer for it.
2018–2021 · Independent
Full-stack engineerSole responsibility for complete systems — architecture, build, delivery. No one downstream to hand problems to.
PathTime
Lead product designerB2B dashboards and investor-facing product architecture. Design decisions carrying commercial consequence.
Customer data platform · GCP
AI platform engineeringLead-stage prediction on GCP and BigQuery — data infrastructure serving live revenue decisions.
Dékuple · Paris
Data science & ML researchFor clients including LG and Algeco: HMM, Bayesian-network, and LSTM benchmarking, forecasting pipelines, recommendation engines.
Production systems
AI for demanding institutionsProduction AI used by LG, Vatican News, and the Italian Government. High-compliance fintech validating assets from €20k to €2M — compliance files from 4 hours to 15 minutes, 99.9% entity resolution against government registries.
April 2024
Encodex foundedThe same discipline, made available to private clients — a research-led studio for operators and investors building defensible digital assets.
Present
Operating recordPatent filed — real-time projection pipeline combining AI with human-in-the-loop moderation. Six active client accounts. Fourteen systems in production. Long-horizon agentic systems reaching 95% unassisted resolution.
04 · Client experience
How we work with you
Directly. You deal with the person doing the thinking — no account layer, no interpretation. Updates are written for owners, not engineers: what changed, what it means, what we recommend, what we need from you.
Assumptions are documented and revisited at every gate. Scope is fixed before capital moves. Confidentiality is the default posture — NDAs signed where required, discretion regardless.
Engagement termsSTANDING · ALL CLIENTS
Point of contactThe founder, directly
ReportingExecutive-grade, written
AssumptionsDocumented · revisited at gates
ScopeFixed before build
Decision authorityHeld by you, at every gate
ConfidentialityNDA where required
Bring the opportunity only you can see.
Two Free Prototype engagements per month. Applications reviewed personally by the founder, within 48 hours. Working software in 72 — then a straight go / no-go.