AI Development & Consulting
AI strategy, LLM integration, RAG systems, and machine learning — built to production standards with evaluation and guardrails, not demos.
- Eval-first
- Quality measured, not assumed
- Multi-model
- Provider-agnostic build
- 2-4 wk
- Typical prototype
Our ai development & consulting services
Each service below has its own dedicated page covering process, deliverables, and pricing tiers.
AI Workflow Automation
Document processing, triage, and internal workflow automation using AI where it fits and conventional logic where it does not.
View serviceMachine Learning Development
Predictive models, classification, and computer vision built with proper validation, monitoring, and retraining pipelines.
View serviceRAG & Knowledge Systems
Retrieval-augmented generation over your own documentation, policies, and product data, with citations and measured retrieval quality.
View serviceLLM Integration
Production integration of OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini into your products and workflows, behind a provider-agnostic abstraction.
View serviceAI Consulting & Strategy
Independent assessment of where AI will genuinely pay in your business, with a prioritised roadmap and honest feasibility findings.
View serviceAI Chatbots & Agents
Conversational AI chatbots and autonomous AI agents for support and sales.
View serviceAbout ai development & consulting
The gap between an impressive AI demo and a system you can put in front of customers is large, and it is where most AI projects stall. A demo needs to work once. A production system needs to work reliably, fail safely, cost predictably, and be measurable.
Feasibility before build
We start by asking whether AI is the right tool. A meaningful share of requests we receive are better solved with conventional software: a search index, a rules engine, or fixing a broken process. Recommending that costs us revenue and saves you a great deal more, so we do it.
Evaluation is the core discipline
Without an evaluation harness you cannot tell whether a prompt change improved things or quietly broke a category of queries. We build evaluation sets from real examples early, and use them to gate changes. This is the single practice that most separates AI systems that hold up from ones that degrade unnoticed.
Guardrails and failure behaviour
Production systems need defined behaviour when the model is uncertain, when retrieval returns nothing relevant, and when a user attempts prompt injection. We design escalation paths and refusal behaviour deliberately, and log interactions so problems can be diagnosed.
Model-agnostic architecture
The model landscape shifts quickly. We build behind an abstraction so you can move between providers as capability and pricing change, rather than rewriting your application each time.
What the engagement includes
AI strategy & feasibility
Use case assessment, data readiness review, and honest build-or-do-not-build advice.
LLM integration
Production integration with OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini behind a provider abstraction.
RAG systems
Retrieval over your own content with chunking, embedding, and relevance tuning.
Evaluation harness
Test sets built from real queries, used to gate every change.
Guardrails & monitoring
Refusal behaviour, escalation paths, logging, and cost and quality monitoring.
What you get
The measurable results this service is accountable for.
- Honest feasibility assessment before any build commitment
- Evaluation harness so quality changes are measurable
- Defined failure and escalation behaviour, not silent errors
- Model-agnostic architecture that survives provider changes
- Cost modelling per interaction before you commit to scale
A process without surprises
Clear checkpoints at every stage, so you always know what is shipping and when.
- 1
Discovery & feasibility
We assess the use case, data readiness, and whether AI is genuinely the right tool before proposing a build.
- 2
Prototype & evaluation
A working prototype measured against defined accuracy and cost criteria, so the decision to proceed is evidence-based.
- 3
Production build
Hardening, guardrails, monitoring, evaluation harness, and integration with your systems.
- 4
Monitor & improve
Ongoing quality monitoring, prompt and retrieval tuning, and model updates as the landscape changes.
What is included at each tier
Engagements scale with your stage. Every tier includes everything below it.
| What's included | Starter | Growth | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feasibility & use case assessment | Included | Included | Included |
| Working prototype | Included | Included | Included |
| Evaluation harness & test sets | Not included | Included | Included |
| Production build & guardrails | Not included | Included | Included |
| Monitoring & cost dashboards | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Ongoing tuning & model updates | Not included | Not included | Included |
Sectors we work in
We will tell you when AI is the wrong tool, and when it is right we ship with an evaluation harness so quality is measurable rather than assumed.
Common questions
Is AI actually right for our problem?
How do you handle hallucination?
What about our data privacy?
What does it cost to run?
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