Building AI-enabled software for enterprise and government since 2007
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About our Company
Sthenos builds for commercial enterprises and for federal, state and local government requirements, including civilian, defense and federal health.
Sthenos is a boutique, AI-first software and IT services firm, empowering enterprises with cutting-edge technology that drives innovation and growth. Trusted by leading global enterprises and institutions, we deliver scalable results across custom software development, AI/ML innovation, cloud modernization, and dedicated engineering teams. Our approach combines technical expertise with strategic partnership, enabling organizations to transform complex challenges into future-ready opportunities.
Sthenos has been operating since 2007, under a former name at first, and was formally registered as Sthenos Technologies in 2021, which is the entity start date shown on SAM.gov.
Designing the future for value and impact
Vision
To earn lifetime loyalty of our customers by consistently delivering the highest quality software services which offer excellent value to their business.
Mission
To enable businesses to leverage the power of digital innovation – by envisioning & building disruptive software products, services & experiences which drive growth, differentiation & real economic value.
Culture & Values
Core values laid by our visionaries form the bedrock of our culture and it clearly defines the roadmap as we serve our stakeholders. Our culture reflects our brand ethos and helps us operate with ethics, integrity, trust, and dignity with our partners, affiliates, customers, and employees.
CSR
We actively contribute toward the development of humankind and the society we live in. The objective is to build a better and sustainable livelihood for everyone because there’s no Planet B.
Reimagining the future with an integrated lens
People, Process, and Technology
We believe that creating a viable product or service requires a balanced operational strategy. Having the right variables in place is critical and everything, from leadership to digital transformation, organizational talent, and management practices, needs to be integrated for effective development. Sthenos adopts the Golden Triangle (People, Process, and Technology) framework to work in cohesion to ensure stronger and better business results.
Certifications
Sthenos is committed to delivering excellence by adhering to quality standards and benchmarks. We bring disciplined quality controls and data-security practices to every engagement across the full software lifecycle.
Partnership
Partnerships are a critical part of our go-to-market strategy; thus, we take great care in selecting partners. These are best-of-breed firms that share our enthusiasm for meeting and exceeding our client expectations and complement our core competencies.
Infrastructure
We have the best-in-class, secured, and reliable IT infrastructure to take your business to the next level. We scale delivery capacity when a project calls for it, while our US-based leadership team in Tysons, Virginia and North Bethesda, Maryland keeps every engagement close and accountable.
Powered by Strategic Partnerships and Global Certifications
Backed by strategic partnerships and globally recognized certifications, we bring validated expertise across cloud, enterprise platforms, and digital technologies—helping organizations deliver secure, scalable, and future-ready solutions.
Clients served together with our delivery partner NeoSOFT
They trust us and we keep giving them reasons to.
Everything below is the record a buyer checks before an award: the questions we get asked, what the reviewers on our Clutch profile said, and every registration we hold with the issuer’s own link beside it.
Under a former name at first, registered as Sthenos Technologies in 2021.
Both active, from 5 March 2026 to 5 March 2029.
Depending on the seniority and mix of the team.
We work in two week sprints, so working software arrives every two weeks.
On this page
- Before you hire us: what to check, and what we commit to
- How an engagement with Sthenos runs
- What clients say about delivery, communication and ownership
- Credentials and registrations, with where to verify them
- Related pages, by what you came to check
- Request a free consultation
Before you hire us: what to check, and what we commit to
These are the questions buyers ask us before an award. We would rather answer them here than leave them to a review site.
Who actually does the work?
The people who pitch are the people who deliver. At our size there is no bench to swap in after award. Ask us for the named technical lead on the contract, and for a notice clause if that person changes.
Who owns the code and the accounts?
You do, entirely, from the first commit. The repository and the cloud accounts are in your name, with no licence back to us and no dependency on us continuing to exist.
Why are your reviews so recent?
All 43 of our Clutch reviews are dated between 17 October and 17 December 2025: 24 in October, 9 in November, 10 in December. Sthenos has been operating since 2007 under a former name and was registered as Sthenos Technologies in 2021, so the reviews are far newer than the company. Google lists a 5.0 rating from 5 reviews, read on 8 September 2026.
How do you work with NeoSOFT?
A senior Sthenos team stays accountable on every engagement, and through our partner NeoSOFT we add enterprise-scale delivery capacity. Where enterprise-scale certifications matter, we reference NeoSOFT accurately rather than claiming them as Sthenos’s own. The commercial relationship stays with Sthenos.
What does a project cost and how long does it take?
Our rates are $150 to $250 per hour, depending on the seniority and mix of the team. A typical project runs $50,000 to $200,000. We work in two week sprints, so working software arrives every two weeks and a first production release typically lands in three to six months.
Figure 1. How a Sthenos engagement is staffed
Every label is a sentence published on this page above. Sthenos holds the contract and the commercial relationship; NeoSOFT adds delivery capacity, and where enterprise-scale certifications matter we reference NeoSOFT accurately rather than claiming them as Sthenos’s own.
How an engagement with Sthenos runs
Five steps, each one a commitment this site already publishes, in the order the work happens. The only timings are the two the site states: two week sprints, and a first production release that typically lands in three to six months.
- Tell us what the software has to doWe will tell you what it takes. If it is not work we should be doing, we will say so.You
- Meet the people who will deliverThe people who pitch are the people who deliver. Ask us for the named technical lead on the contract, and for a notice clause if that person changes.Named technical lead
- Build in two week sprintsWorking software arrives every two weeks, and a first production release typically lands in three to six months.Every two weeks
- Score it before real usersOur production readiness checklist is the checklist we work through before putting a system in front of real users, and a single red check blocks the release on its own.Before launch
- Own what was builtThe repository and the cloud accounts are in your name from the first commit, with no licence back to us and no dependency on us continuing to exist.Yours
What clients say about delivery, communication and ownership
Three of the 43 reviews on our Clutch profile, chosen because each one speaks to a question above rather than to general satisfaction. Each is quoted exactly as it appears on the profile, with the reviewer’s title and company and the date the review was published.
“Their reliability and consistency truly stand out.”
Co-Founder, HOMLI. Clutch review published 28 October 2025.
“What impressed us most was their outstanding communication and responsiveness.”
Co-Founder, KJ Technology. Clutch review published 30 October 2025.
“They take initiative and full responsibility for outcomes.”
Co-Founder, Milu Health. Clutch review published 30 October 2025.
Figure 2. When the 43 Clutch reviews were published
Source: the Sthenos Technologies profile on Clutch. The 43 review cards were counted across its five review pages on 10 September 2026, and the earliest and latest dates on them are 17 October and 17 December 2025. Bar widths are proportional to the counts, against October as the full width.
All 43 reviews, and the ratings behind them, are on our Clutch profile. They are dated between 17 October and 17 December 2025, which is the window set out above.
Credentials and registrations, with where to verify them
Each credential below names the body that issued it, what it covers, and where you can check it without asking us. Where a credential cannot be checked by following a public link, this page says so rather than implying parity. Everything here was read on 10 September 2026.
- 2007Operating under a former name.
- 2021Registered as Sthenos Technologies, which is the entity start date shown on SAM.gov.
- 5 March 2026 to 5 March 2029The SBA certifications as a Woman-Owned Small Business and as an Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business are active across that window.
SBA-certified WOSB and EDWOSB
Issuer. The U.S. Small Business Administration, which certified Sthenos as a Woman-Owned Small Business and as an Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business.
Status. Both certifications are active, from 5 March 2026 to 5 March 2029.
Verify. Open our SBA Small Business Search profile. It is SBA’s own record rather than ours, and it shows the legal name Sthenos LLC, the identifiers below, and both certifications under Current SBA certifications.
Identifiers. Unique Entity ID ULUZGKWYCJB7 and CAGE code 9RX92.
Registration. That profile reports our SAM.gov registration status as Active. The SBA record carries no expiry date for it, and we have not confirmed an expiry date from SAM.gov itself, so none is stated here.
Codes. Our primary NAICS code is 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services. SBA’s record lists 31 NAICS codes in total and marks us as a small business under every one of them.
What the two SBA certifications mean for you
A contracting officer may restrict competition to WOSB concerns, including EDWOSB concerns, in the NAICS codes SBA has designated, where market research supports a reasonable expectation that two or more will submit offers and that award can be made at a fair and reasonable price (FAR 19.1505(c)). The codes we work in sit on SBA’s eligible industries list carrying the WOSB designation.
A contracting officer may award us a sole-source contract under FAR 19.1506 where that section’s conditions are met. The anticipated award price, including options, must not exceed $8.5 million for a requirement within the manufacturing NAICS codes or $5.5 million for any other requirement (FAR 19.1506(c)(1)). No code on our SBA record sits in the manufacturing range, so the ceiling that applies to us is $5.5 million.
A prime whose contract carries a small business subcontracting plan must set separate percentage goals for small business concerns and for women-owned small business concerns, among the other categories (FAR 19.704(a)(1)). We sit on both of those goal lines. We are not an SBA-certified HUBZone, 8(a), veteran-owned or service-disabled veteran-owned firm, so we do not count against those.
Maryland MBE and SBE, certificate 26-134
Issuer. The State of Maryland, through the Office of Minority Business Enterprise at the Department of Social and Economic Mobility.
Scope. Certificate 26-134 covers Minority Business Enterprise and Small Business Enterprise status, certified for NAICS 541613 and 541611. Those are consulting codes. Our federal primary code, 541511, is not among them, so a Maryland participation schedule keyed to 541511 will not match us on the certificate as it stands today.
Verify. Through the state’s directory of certified firms, searching the business name with MBE and SBE selected. The directory puts a challenge in front of its search actions and issues no per-firm address, so unlike the SBA record this one cannot be checked by following a link straight to us.
What it means for you. Only the work of certified MBEs can be counted toward an established Maryland contract goal, which is why a procurement officer building a participation schedule asks for the certificate number.
What Sthenos does not hold, as of 10 September 2026
What we do instead is build to the framework the contract names, run the controls it requires and hand over the evidence trail. The longer version of that, with each framework named and with who it binds, is on our government IT services page.
Related pages, by what you came to check
- Government IT services, what a contracting office asks first
- Public sector, federal, state and local
- Before you send us an RFP
- Tysons, Virginia, the headquarters
- Virginia, the Commonwealth wide practice
- Maryland, where the second office is
- Production readiness checklist, published in full
- Production readiness audit, an independent review before a system carries real users
- Custom software development, with the code ownership terms stated in full
Ready to talk? Tell us what the software has to do and we will tell you what it takes. Request a free consultation, or read what a contracting office asks first on our government IT services page.