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LLM features that ship, with evals so they don't drift.
Hiring an AI engineer? Senior ML / LLM engineers run $300K+ here and the pipeline is shallow. We ship AI features instead — chat UI, RAG, agents, evals — on a flat-price engagement that goes live in 2–5 weeks.
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How fast can you start?
Most engagements begin within seven days of the first call. There's no recruiter pipeline, no notice period, no relocation timeline.
Which model provider?
Default to Anthropic Claude (Sonnet most cases, Haiku for cost-sensitive paths, Opus for the hard ones). All routed via Vercel AI Gateway so you can switch without code changes.
Is this a full-time replacement?
No — we're a senior engineer on a flat-price engagement. For most pre-seed and seed-stage products, that ships more than a salaried hire would in the same window. When you outgrow it, we hand off cleanly to the team you hire.
How do you handle hallucinations?
Evals on a held-out test set in CI, citation-required prompts where factuality matters, structured outputs (JSON schema) where machine-parsable answers are needed.
Who owns the code?
You do, from commit one. Repo in your GitHub, infra in your cloud account. When you do hire someone, they onboard onto your code, not ours.
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