Production AI systems
LLM pipelines, agent frameworks, RAG architectures, and ML inference infrastructure — built with the observability, evaluation harnesses, and fallback logic that production requires.
Build & Modernize · Milestone delivery
Build or modernize complex systems
that hold up in production.
Accountable delivery for production AI systems, data-heavy platforms, complex integrations, and legacy modernization. Experienced engineers from week one. From $50K.
What we build
Complex systems that need to work reliably.
These are the categories of builds and modernizations we take on most often. If yours is not on the list, a 30-minute call is the fastest way to assess fit.
Risk, fraud, and decisioning platforms
Underwriting engines, fraud detection pipelines, and real-time decisioning infrastructure for fintech and insurance. Explainability and audit trails built in from the data model.
Healthcare and clinical software
EHR integrations, HIPAA-aware data workflows, and clinical AI systems designed for client-controlled compliant environments. Compliance architecture is a design input, not a post-build audit.
Platform modernization
Legacy system migration, monolith decomposition, and AI integration for platforms that have outgrown their original architecture. Delivered incrementally — the business keeps running.
IoT and operational data platforms
Real-time telemetry pipelines, time-series infrastructure, and predictive analytics for energy, industrial, and connected-device products.
Data infrastructure and integrations
Data warehouse architecture, event streaming, third-party integrations, and the data foundations that make AI products reliable at production scale.
What makes this different
The things that go wrong on complex builds — and how we prevent them.
Compliance requirements discovered mid-build
We map HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and DORA requirements in the scoping phase. Regulatory constraints shape the architecture, not the other way around.
Integration complexity underestimated
Legacy systems, EHRs, payment processors, and data warehouses rarely have clean APIs. We scope integration work explicitly — not as an implementation detail.
AI features that work in demos, not production
Latency, data quality, output consistency, and model degradation are production problems. We build eval harnesses and monitoring from the start.
Experienced engineers unavailable after kickoff
We do not front-load experienced engineers in discovery and then hand off to juniors. The same architects who scoped the work stay accountable through final handoff.
How we deliver
Milestone-based. Accountable. Auditable.
Stage 01
Milestone-based contracts
Every engagement is structured around defined milestones with clear deliverables, acceptance criteria, and payment gates. You pay against agreed milestones and accepted deliverables — not open-ended hours.
Stage 02
Named, experienced engineers throughout
The engineer who designs your architecture is on the call with you. No junior hand-off after the design phase, no rotating pool. Named technical owners stay accountable for the build from week one through handoff.
Stage 03
Architecture-first, then build
We do not start coding until the architecture, data model, and integration dependencies are documented and agreed. Decisions made in week one are cheaper to change than decisions discovered in week six.
Stage 04
Clean handoff by design
Every engagement ends with documented architecture, a test suite, deployment runbooks, and code your internal team can maintain. Handoff is a deliverable, not an afterthought.
Stage 05
Accountable from kickoff to production
We own the engagement beyond writing code. Requirements, testing, release planning, risk, and change control are built into each milestone. The same technical owners who shape the scope stay accountable through production handoff.
Pricing
Scoped to the problem, not the day rate.
Build engagements typically start at $50K for focused scope and scale to $250K+ for full systems. Most clients start with a Product Pilot.
From $50K · focused scope
A single critical system component, an AI integration, or a bounded modernization. Defined deliverables, fixed milestone cost, clear acceptance criteria.
$100K–$250K · full system builds
End-to-end product or platform delivery. Multiple milestones, phased delivery, ongoing architecture oversight throughout the build.
$250K+ · enterprise and regulated systems
Complex regulated environments, multi-system integration, or phased modernization programs. Scoped in detail after a Product Pilot or discovery engagement.
Not sure what your scope costs?
Start with a Product Pilot. Three weeks of experienced engineering produces a scoped build plan with milestone-level effort estimates — specific enough to budget and act on.
Selected work
Complex builds and modernizations.
FinTech SaaS Lending Platform with Automated Risk Assessment
Built a multi-tenant SaaS lending origination platform with an embedded automated risk assessment engine — reducing loan origination time from weeks to days, cutting risk evaluation time by 50%+, and enabling the platform to scale processing capacity by 30–40% without headcount growth.
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FinTech PHP Monolith to Microservices: Payment Platform Modernization
Replaced a fragile PHP monolith handling €40M annual payment volume with an event-driven microservices architecture — achieving PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance and unblocking a €12M Series C.
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Life Sciences Pharma Supply Chain Forecasting: 9 Months of Development to Production in 90 Days
A pharma supply chain forecasting model had been in internal development for nine months but could not reach production. We rebuilt the pipeline with GxP-aligned validation, audit logging, and a QA-owned kill-switch — and deployed to production in 90 days with a validation package the regulatory team accepted without revision.
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Common questions
What if our system doesn't fit any category listed?
The categories above cover the builds and modernizations we take on most often, but they are not exhaustive. If your system isn't on the list, a 30-minute technical call is the fastest way to assess fit — we'll tell you directly whether it's a match.
How is pricing determined?
Pricing is scoped to the problem, not a day rate. Focused-scope builds start at $50K, full system builds typically run $100K–$250K, and complex regulated or multi-system programs run $250K+. If your scope isn't clear yet, starting with a Product Pilot produces a scoped build plan with milestone-level estimates before you commit to a Build engagement.
Do we need a Pilot before a Build engagement?
It's not required, but it's recommended when scope is unclear. A Product Pilot is three weeks of experienced engineering that produces a scoped build plan with milestone-level effort estimates — specific enough to budget and act on before committing to a full Build engagement.
What happens if compliance requirements change mid-build?
Compliance requirements are mapped during scoping, not treated as fixed. If something changes mid-build, we assess the impact on the current milestone and agree on next steps through the same milestone-based change process used for any other scope change — nothing shifts without visibility and agreement first.
Who stays accountable after the architecture phase?
The named, experienced engineers who scope and design the architecture stay accountable through the build and into final handoff. There is no junior hand-off after the design phase and no rotating pool — the same technical owners are on the call from week one through production.
What does "milestone-based" mean for billing?
Every engagement is structured around defined milestones with clear deliverables, acceptance criteria, and payment gates. You pay against agreed milestones and accepted deliverables — not open-ended hours.
Ready to build something that holds up in production?
Book a 30-minute technical call. We will ask about the system, your team, your timeline, and whether a Product Pilot would help scope the build first.