
Paloa Piriyev
Founder & CEOPaloa founded Steppe & Stone to help growing businesses get the kind of software and systems usually reserved for larger companies.
Read MoreSteppe & Stone LLC was founded by Paloa Piriyev.
Before starting the company, Paloa spent years working alongside small and mid-sized businesses, watching them get underserved by the software industry: priced out of serious engineering, or sold generic tools that never quite fit how they actually operated. She saw a gap between the kind of technical talent large enterprises could afford and what growing businesses in healthcare, logistics, and construction actually needed to run better.
Steppe & Stone was built to close that gap. The company started with a focus on custom software and cloud systems for operationally intensive businesses, and has since grown to include AI automation, connected IoT platforms, and full-scale system integrations, always grounded in the same idea: build practical technology around how a business actually works, not the other way around.
Mission:
Build practical, secure technology that solves real operational problems for growing businesses.
Vision:
Be the technology partner growing businesses trust to translate complex problems into systems that actually work.


Paloa founded Steppe & Stone to help growing businesses get the kind of software and systems usually reserved for larger companies.
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Serdar runs the day-to-day operations at Steppe & Stone, keeping every engagement on schedule, on budget, and organized from kickoff to launch.
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Kaito leads engineering at Steppe & Stone, setting the technical direction for every platform, cloud system, and AI initiative we build for clients.
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Alisher brings senior technical leadership to client engagements on an as-needed basis, giving teams access to CTO-level guidance without a full-time hire.
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