Core practice
AI development that ends in a system your team operates
One team from the first workshop to the day your staff stop asking us questions. Agents, retrieval over your own documents, custom models, and the ordinary software that has to exist around them.

End-to-End AI Development
The situation
Before we start
The pilot cleared the committee, then stopped
Nobody scoped integration, access control, or who owns it on Monday. We scope those in week one, before anyone writes code.
Nobody agreed what working means
Projects drift when success is a feeling. Accuracy, latency, throughput and uptime are written as figures before build starts.
The people who designed it never built it
Specifications lose their reasoning in transit. The engineers who scope your system are the ones who build and commission it.
What working means here
Signed first. Measured after.
The value of each one is set with you during scoping, from your data and your line. What does not change is that they are written down first and published against afterwards, pass or fail.
- 01
Accuracy against threshold
On a held-out set your team helped assemble, published pass or fail
- 02
Availability
Measured in your environment over the acceptance period, not quoted from a datasheet
- 03
Time to handover
From signed scope to your team operating it without us on the call
We publish the measurements behind this practice, including the runs that failed.
RAG Scale & Cost Benchmark 2026How it is assembled
Stage by stage
Each one ends in something you keep.
- Step 01
Discovery workshop
Two days with the people who do the work today. We leave with the problem, the data reality, and the numbers that define success.
- Step 02
Architecture and scope
A written architecture, an integration plan, and a phased quote. Scope freezes before build starts.
- Step 03
Build in phases
Each phase ends in something you can use, on your infrastructure, reviewed with your team.
- Step 04
Evaluation and acceptance
Tested against the criteria agreed in phase one. The result is published whether it passes or not.
- Step 05
Enablement and handover
Runbooks, training and IP transfer, or we stay on under an operations agreement.
Scope
What the work includes
- Discovery: the operational problem, the data that exists, and what good looks like as a number
- Architecture: where it runs, who reaches it, how it fails safely
- Build: models, services, integrations and the interfaces staff use daily
- Evaluation: a held-out set, an agreed threshold, and a signed record of the result
- Deployment into your accounts, your region, under your identity provider
- Enablement: runbooks, administrator training, a named escalation path
- Weekly written reporting on scope, progress and risk
- Assignment of source, weights and documentation on completion
Deliverables
What you keep
- 01Signed scope with numeric acceptance criteria
- 02Architecture and access-control design
- 03Working system in your environment
- 04Evaluation report against the agreed thresholds
- 05Runbooks and administrator training
- 06Source, weights and IP assignment
Typical stack
Python · TypeScript · PyTorch · PostgreSQL · Kubernetes · Terraform · AWS / Azure / GCP
Manufacturing · Vision
Surface defect inspection, decided at the camera in 12 ms
Final inspection was manual and sampled, so surface defects were being found by the customer rather than on the floor. We surveyed the cell, captured production across three shifts, and commissioned an edge vision station that inspects every part and drives the existing reject gate.
Read the engagement- 12 ms
- decision latency at the camera
- 99.4%
- detection rate on hold-out set
- 100%
- of parts inspected, up from sampled
Start
How End-to-End AI Development begins
Production builds $75K–180K · Enterprise systems $180K–500K+
Where an engagement lands inside its band is set by data readiness, integration depth, the reliability bar, evaluation burden, deployment constraints and usage economics. All six, explained.
Thirty minutes on the problem and where it happens, then a fixed-price pilot if it looks like a fit.
Get a costed planFAQ
Asked before signing
Production builds run eight to fourteen weeks across three or four phases. Enterprise systems run three to six months or longer. Discovery and architecture take three to four weeks of that.
Yes. Your cloud accounts or your facility, under your identity provider and your access controls. We do not run production systems on infrastructure you cannot audit.
You do. Source, trained weights, documentation and infrastructure definitions, assigned in the contract rather than negotiated at the end.
Often. We start with a two-week assessment of what exists and give you a written recommendation to continue, refactor or restart, with the cost of each.
Often paired with
Where this fits with the rest
- 01Core AI
AI Product Development
AI-native products, and AI features inside products that already have customers.
- 02Start here
AI Pilot
Four weeks, fixed price, signed acceptance criteria. Working software, or a written case for stopping.
- 03Physical AI
Edge AI & Computer Vision
Detection, inspection, tracking and safety on-device. Milliseconds, and no network dependency.