How long does an AI project take?

A scoped pilot: 4–8 weeks. Production deployment: 3–5 months total. If a vendor promises a production AI agent in two weeks, ask to see their evaluation suite.

Will AI hallucinate with our customers?

Unconstrained, yes — which is why we build grounded systems: answers cite retrieved sources, low-confidence cases route to humans, and pre-launch evaluation measures the actual error rate so you approve it knowingly.

Is our data used to train the models?

No. We use enterprise API tiers with contractual no-training terms, and open-source models in your own cloud where requirements are stricter. Data-flow diagrams are part of every AI deliverable.

Which model is best — GPT, Claude, Gemini, open-source?

It varies by task and changes quarterly, which is exactly why we build model-agnostic: a routing layer picks per task, and swapping models is a config change, not a rebuild. Current guidance: [OpenAI vs Claude vs Gemini for enterprise](/compare/openai-vs-claude-vs-gemini/).

What's the difference between an AI chatbot and an AI agent?

A chatbot answers; an agent acts — it uses tools, executes steps, and completes work (with approval gates you define). [AI agents explained →](/resources/ai-development/what-is-agentic-ai/)

Can you add AI to software another company built?

Yes — via API integration alongside, or directly in the codebase after an audit. Most AI value lands inside existing workflows, not in new apps.

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Here's the framing that separates AI projects that ship from AI projects that stall: AI is a feature of good software, not a substitute for it. The model is 20% of the build; the other 80% is data plumbing, permissions, evaluation, cost control, and UX — which is why AI projects belong with a software engineering firm, not a demo shop. That 80% is what this page describes. Shortcut: a free AI use-case assessment that tells you what's worth building — including, sometimes, "nothing yet."

[ HOW WE KEEP · 01 ]

This is the section most AI vendors don't have, and the reason to read this page:

Evaluation before launch. Every AI feature ships with a test set — real examples with known-correct answers — and measured accuracy. "It seemed good in the demo" is not a launch criterion. How we evaluate LLM outputs →
Grounding and citations. Answer systems cite their sources and say "I don't know" when retrieval comes back empty. Hallucination isn't a personality quirk to accept; it's an engineering problem to constrain. Mitigation strategies →
Human-in-the-loop where it matters. Agents propose; humans approve — until measured accuracy earns autonomy, action by action. Designing approval workflows →
Security including prompt injection. AI that reads external content can be manipulated by it; we design for that threat model from day one. Prompt injection defenses →
Cost engineering. Model routing (small models for easy calls, frontier models for hard ones), caching, and per-feature cost dashboards — so your unit economics are known before scale, not discovered after. Token cost optimization →
Data boundaries. Your data stays in your tenancy; role-based access carries into AI retrieval (the intern's chatbot must not answer from the CFO's folder); HIPAA-eligible model endpoints where healthcare data is in scope.

[ OUR AI STACK · 02 ]

Our AI Stack

Models: OpenAI GPT · Anthropic Claude · open-source (Llama-class) where data residency or cost demands — Orchestration: LangChain where warranted, direct APIs where not — Retrieval: vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone) — Integration: MCP for tool-connected agents — Infrastructure: AWS / Azure with the same IaC discipline as everything we ship.

Model-agnostic by design: routing lives in one layer, so when a better/cheaper model ships (they do, quarterly), you switch in days.

[ PROCESS · 03 ]

Process

**AI use-case assessment (1 week, free).** We inventory candidate use cases, score them on ROI × feasibility × risk, and give you a ranked shortlist. If nothing clears the bar yet — usually a data-readiness problem — we tell you that and what to fix first. [AI readiness checklist →](/resources/ai-development/ai-readiness-assessment/)

**Pilot (4–8 weeks).** One use case, real data, measured against a baseline. Fixed price. The pilot's job is to produce a number: hours saved, accuracy achieved, cost per task.

**Production hardening.** Evaluation suite, guardrails, monitoring, cost controls, security review.

**Rollout & adoption.** Training, feedback loops, and the accuracy dashboard your leadership will ask for.

**Continuous improvement.** Models improve quarterly; your evaluation suite lets you adopt upgrades safely.

[ INDUSTRIES · 04 ]

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AI with domain guardrails: Healthcare (HIPAA-eligible endpoints, clinical-adjacent caution) · FinTech (auditability, model governance) · Legal (privilege-aware retrieval) · Insurance (claims triage) · Logistics · Ecommerce · All industries →

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Recent AI Projects

** 2–3 real AI case studies with measured results]**

Client, industry]** — [use case]. Measured outcome: e.g., "X% of tickets resolved without human touch at Y% accuracy"]** → case study

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Cost

AI feature added to existing software: $15K–$50K. RAG knowledge system or document-processing pipeline: $40K–$120K. Production AI agent with integrations and approval workflows: $60K–$200K+. Plus running costs (model usage + infrastructure) which we forecast per use case before you commit — typically $200–$3,000/month at mid-market scale. Full breakdown: AI application cost guide.

$15K–$50K to add an AI feature to existing software; $40K–$120K for a knowledge system or document pipeline; $60K–$200K+ for production agents. Pilots are fixed-price so the ROI number exists before the big commitment.

— Overview

What It Does for Your Business

AI capability	What it does for your business	Typical build
AI agents](/solutions/ai-agents	Execute multi-step work: triage tickets, prepare quotes, reconcile records, chase documents — with human approval gates where stakes demand them	8–16 weeks
RAG knowledge systems	Trustworthy answers from your documents — policies, contracts, manuals — with citations, not hallucinations. What is RAG →	6–12 weeks
Document processing	Extract structured data from invoices, claims, applications, POs — the highest-ROI AI category we deploy	6–12 weeks
AI chatbots](/solutions/ai-chatbot-solutions	Customer and employee assistants that resolve, escalate cleanly, and never invent policy	6–10 weeks
Voice AI](/solutions/voice-ai	Phone agents for intake, scheduling, and after-hours coverage	8–14 weeks
AI features in your existing product	Search that understands meaning, drafting, summarization, recommendations — added to software you already run	4–10 weeks
Predictive models	Forecasting, churn risk, anomaly detection on your operational data	8–16 weeks

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