About Mactores · Since 2008

Eighteen years of AWS work behind every engagement.

Mactores is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner founded in 2008 — one of the first specialist AWS-adoption practices anywhere. Today the firm is agent-native by design: agents absorb the repeat engineering work, and forward-deployed engineers own architecture, cutover and the delivery commitment.

2008
Founded
Bellevue, WA
Headquarters
200+
AWS-certified engineers
21
Public case studies
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Fig. 01 — The eighteen-year arc: Mactores' AWS delivery depth from founding in 2008 to AWS Premier Tier Services Partner in 2026

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Bring us a modernization that has already slipped once.

AWS Partner

Premier Tier Services

Premier Tier

AWS Services Partner

Agentic AI

AWS Specialization

7 Competencies

AWS Consulting

18+ Years

Building on AWS

Customers

Production work for Fortune 500 companies and high-growth software teams.

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Customers include Safaricom, Synaptics, Flipboard, Poshmark, Seagate, HP, Adani, DocuSign, KlearTrust, Tilia, Sterne Kessler and Total Expert.

18

years delivering on AWS, from 2008

60–70%

engagement work absorbed by agents

12 wks

median time to production

200+

AWS-certified engineers on staff

100%

engagements with customer-signed acceptance

AWS Partnership · 01

The highest tier AWS awards a services partner — earned over eighteen years, not bought in a quarter.

AWS Premier Tier Services Partner with the Generative AI and Agentic AI Specialization, seven validated Consulting Competencies, seventeen AWS Service Validations and 200+ AWS-certified engineers. This is the credential set procurement asks about — and the partner shape that lets AWS account teams co-sell us cleanly.

Premier Tier

Services Partner

7

Consulting Competencies

17

Service Validations

200+

certified engineers

MAP

eligible

Data & Analytics Machine Learning DevOps Migration Generative AI Services Big Data Public Sector

Our agent-native delivery stack runs on AWS end to end — the same services we migrate customers onto. That is why depth here is structural rather than contractual, and why AWS account teams route the modernizations that have to finish to us.

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The Thesis · 02

Why this firm exists.

Enterprise IT does not need another advisory firm, and it does not need another delivery partner staffing a pyramid. It needs a firm built for production — where the analysis is automated, the engagement is a team of senior delivery owners, and the contract carries the commitment. That firm did not exist in the shape we wanted, so we built it.

Mactores is not defined by what its competitors do. The firm is defined by what it lands in production — and by the ten principles every Mactorian works against.

The consequence is commercial, not philosophical. When agents absorb the majority of engagement hours, fixed-scope commitments become feasible, outcome-based pricing becomes defensible, and margin stops depending on billable utilization. That is the whole argument, and it is why the firm is shaped the way it is.

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Automate the repeat work. Keep the judgment work for senior engineers. Everything the firm did in the next ten years followed from that one decision.

— The 2016 practice decision
Traditional SI
Mactores
Shape
Partner / managers / analysts pyramid
Agent layer → three FDEs → commitment bar
Staffing
3 senior, 40 juniors — depth at the top, billing at the bottom
Senior owners only, no analyst tier to bill
Commercials
Time and materials; the estimate moves when scope does
Fixed date, fixed fee; overage inside our control is ours
Cutover
Yours — the engagement ends at recommendation
Ours — the engagement ends at customer-signed acceptance
Fig. 02 — Two delivery shapes

The comparison, in writing

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The Journey · 03

From an AWS-adoption consulting shop to the agent-native firm AWS routes its hardest modernizations to.

Every milestone below hands off to the next. Read together, the arc is a single argument that took eighteen years to prove — not six independent events.

  1. 2008Founded

    One of the first specialist AWS-adoption consulting companies, before most enterprises had heard of AWS.

  2. 2015Validation

    AWS Advanced Tier and the Big Data Competency, the first of the seven the firm holds today.

  3. 2016The thesis

    The 60-to-70 percent that became the firm's operating thesis: automate the repeat work, keep judgment with senior engineers.

  4. 2020Speed

    Oracle, Hadoop and legacy warehouses cut over in weeks. Named proof from Synaptics, Flipboard and Poshmark. Synaptics, Flipboard, Poshmark.

  5. 2025Agent-native

    The practice goes agent-native end to end. Discovery, mapping, validation and cutover instrumentation stop being staffed and start being run by agents.

  6. 2026Today

    AWS Premier Tier, and the delivery model that carries every engagement forward.

21 public case studies

The arc, told through the customers who lived it.

How the Work Gets Done · 04

Agent-native is a structural property, not a marketing adjective.

The test is simple: remove the agents and this delivery model stops working. Mactores is built around agent-augmented delivery rather than augmented with agents on top of traditional delivery — which is why the commercial terms below are possible at all. Most consulting firms, including those with strong agent practices, do not pass that test.

Absorbs

The agent layer

Discovery, schema mapping, dependency analysis, validation harnesses, test generation, cutover instrumentation. The 60–70% of engagement work a traditional proposal staffs a pyramid for.

Owns

Forward-deployed engineers

Architecture, judgment calls, cutover and the customer relationship personally. Every one an agent-native specialist who has shipped production systems on AWS.

Carries

The contract

Fixed date, fixed fee, customer-signed acceptance. Overage inside our control is absorbed by us.

Staffing follows the same logic. The relevant axis is agent-native expertise, not years-in-consulting tenure.

The operating model, in detail

How an engagement actually runs, week by week.

Our Ten Principles · 05

The ten principles that drive how Mactorians work.

These are not values posters. They are the rubric we hire against, run engagements by, and promote on.

01

Be One Step Ahead

We make informed decisions fast, and take action quickly, so our customers are always one step ahead.

02

Deliver the Best

Best outcomes, advice, support and communication, at the highest quality, without compromise.

03

Be Bold

An unconventional thought process creates disruptive change for our customers.

04

Pay Attention to the Details

We give the smallest details as much attention as the larger vision.

05

Enjoy the Challenge

A hard problem is our opportunity to learn and grow.

06

Be Curious and Take Action

We seek knowledge and new possibilities, and we act on them.

07

Take Leadership

We take responsibility and accountability, and do whatever it takes for the success of the business.

08

Own It

We think like owners and take pride in what we do.

09

Deliver Customer Value

We deliver value by valuing every team member as a contributor.

10

Be Collaborative

We stay creative and supportive, and propel the business forward through teamwork.

Principles in practice

See what these ten look like on a Tuesday afternoon.

Find Us · 06

Headquartered in Bellevue. Deployed wherever the workload is.

Headquarters

Mactores Cognition Inc.
2018 156th Ave NE, Suite 214
Bellevue, WA 98007
United States

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Eighteen years of AWS work behind every engagement.

Fixed date. Fixed fee. Customer-signed acceptance. Bring us the modernization that has to land.

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