PRODUCTION AI ENGINEERING

We engineer AI systems
built to run in production.

Not a chatbot agency. Not a prompt-engineering shop. We're the engineers you call when your AI feature is live and the bill, latency, or reliability has stopped being acceptable.

Get a Free AI Production Audit

REPRESENTATIVE OUTCOMES

$80k → $56k / mo

LLM bill on a 30K-user product

8% → 1.2%

Hallucination rate on customer-facing flows

4.2s → 1.7s

p95 latency on the critical user path

60% → 92%

Retrieval@5 after RAG rebuild

WHAT WE DO

Six things, done well.

LLM Cost Engineering

We attribute spend per feature, per model, per prompt — then re-architect to slash it.

  • Token-level cost attribution and dashboards
  • Model routing (GPT-4 → smaller models where safe)
  • Prompt-aware caching and batching
  • Context-window pruning without quality loss

RAG Hardening

We rebuild retrieval pipelines that actually retrieve the right thing.

  • Chunking strategy and metadata design
  • Embedding model selection + reranking
  • Eval harness so quality stops regressing
  • Hybrid search (BM25 + vector) where it helps

Reliability Engineering

Guardrails, structured outputs, and fallbacks so AI features stay up under load.

  • Structured-output validation (Pydantic / JSON schema)
  • Retries, timeouts, circuit breakers per call
  • Fallback model chains for outages
  • Hallucination eval pipelines

Observability & Tracing

When something breaks, you can trace it back to the prompt, model, and chunk.

  • OpenTelemetry / Langfuse / Helicone integration
  • Per-feature cost and latency dashboards
  • Quality scorecards on production traffic
  • Alerting on cost, latency, and error spikes

On-call AI Ops

Optional retainer: we own dashboards, on-call rotation, and ongoing tuning.

  • Monthly cost and reliability review
  • On-call response for AI-specific incidents
  • Prompt and retrieval tuning as data shifts
  • Quarterly model upgrade evaluation

Inference Infra

Self-hosted inference, GPU sizing, and request routing for scale and cost.

  • vLLM / TGI deployment and tuning
  • GPU instance sizing and autoscaling
  • Request batching and continuous batching
  • Multi-region routing where latency matters

HOW WE WORK

Engagements, not retainers-for-the-sake-of-it.

1

Audit (week 1)

We instrument your stack. You get a written diagnostic with token-level cost attribution, p95 latency profile, retrieval quality, and the architectural choices driving each.

2

Fix (weeks 2–4)

We rewrite the bottleneck — model routing, caching, RAG, infra, whatever surfaced. Every change ships behind a flag with a rollback plan.

3

Deploy (weeks 4–6)

Shadow mode first, then gradual rollout. We measure the change against the baseline we set at audit time. No big-bang releases.

4

Hand-off or stay (week 6+)

We hand off dashboards and runbooks to your team — or stay on a monthly retainer for on-call response and ongoing tuning. Your call.

PRICING

Quoted per engagement.

Every AI stack is different. We quote after the audit, when we can give you a number tied to a specific outcome.

Audit

Free. Written diagnostic + 30-day roadmap.

Fix engagement

Fixed-fee, scoped at audit. Typically 4–8 weeks.

On-call retainer

Monthly. Owned dashboards + incident response + tuning.

Infra pass-through

Cloud, GPUs, and API costs billed at cost.

Get a quote you can defend to your CFO.

We quote against a specific cost reduction or reliability target — not a deck of feature bullets.

Start with a Free Audit

Stop firefighting AI in production.

Free 30-min audit. Cost reduction estimate, reliability gaps, 30-day fix plan.