AI & Machine Learning Solutions

Generative AI Integration

Embed frontier and open-weights models into your product surface — safely, observably, and on a budget.

Timeline
8–14 weeks
Engagement
Senior, embedded
Pricing
Outcome-based
Discipline
AI & Machine Learning Solutions

⏚ Summary

What this engagement is, plainly.

We integrate generative AI into existing platforms: content generation, customer service, dynamic UX. The hard part isn't the model — it's the retrieval, evaluation, and cost layer that decides whether a feature survives real users.

Problems we solve

  • Your prototype works in demo but hallucinates under real-world inputs.

  • Prompt changes ship to production without an evaluation gate, and you've been bitten.

  • Inference costs scale linearly with users and you need them sub-linear.

⏚ Approach

How we run this engagement.

  1. 01Phase

    Eval-first design

    Before we change a prompt, we build the eval. Regression suites, domain test sets, human-in-the-loop scoring where it matters. No PR ships without a verdict.

  2. 02Phase

    Retrieval as a system

    Embeddings, chunking, hybrid search, reranking — treated as a first-class engineering problem, not 'add a vector DB'.

  3. 03Phase

    Cost discipline

    Routing, caching, model tiering, batch where it works. Every PR's cost impact gets benchmarked alongside its quality impact.

⏚ Deliverables

What you get, signed off.

  • Evaluation harness + regression suite

  • Retrieval pipeline (embedding + hybrid + rerank)

  • Model routing + caching layer

  • Inference cost dashboard per feature

  • Safety + abuse monitoring

⏚ Stack we typically use

Tools, not religion.

We pick on workload and team shape, not on fashion. Anything below is a default — swappable when your context demands.

  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • vLLM
  • Pinecone
  • Ragas
  • Cloudflare AI Gateway

Outcome

GenAI features that ship with confidence, costs that are budgeted not discovered, and a team that knows how to iterate without playing whack-a-mole.

⏚ Frequently Asked

About this service, specifically.

⏚ Engagement Initiation

Have a hard problem worth doing once, well?

We take a small number of engagements per quarter. If your program needs serious operators, we'd like to hear about it.

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