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Software engineering for AI and machine learning companies

Product engineering for companies building AI products: the apps, pipelines, evaluation and infrastructure around your models.

AI and machine learning company software screens: your product chat in a browser and workspace cards and a plan card
Illustrative preview

At a glance

The short version

Macro of a silicon wafer: a grid of iridescent processor dies in purple, green and gold under shallow focus
How it works
  1. Your app or API
  2. Pre-processing
  3. Model gateway
  4. Guardrails
  5. 2 more
Runs on
  • Web app
  • Admin
  • Cross-platform
Who it's for

AI companies are strong on models and stretched on the product around them. We build that product layer so your ML team stays on the model.

Cost depends on
  • Hosted or self-hosted models
  • Evaluation depth
  • Compliance needs

How to start

Tell us what you need in your own words. You talk to the developers who would build it and get a written, line-item estimate.

Get a project estimate

From demo to dependable product

A notebook that answers well on twenty examples is not yet a product. Customers need a fast interface, an API with keys and limits, predictable costs, and answers that do not quietly degrade between model versions. Enterprise buyers ask where their data goes.

We build this layer around third-party, open-weight or your own trained models.

Challenges

Why AI products stall

  1. No evaluation discipline

    Without test sets, every prompt or model change is a gamble.

  2. Inference costs

    Token and GPU spend outpaces revenue without caching and limits.

  3. Latency and outages

    Slow responses and provider downtime need streaming and fallbacks.

  4. Enterprise data concerns

    PII redaction, residency and no-training terms come up in reviews.

The product layer we build

  • Model gateway

    One API over several providers, with fallbacks.

  • Evaluation harness

    Test sets, automated scoring and human review.

  • Annotation tools

    Labelling and review workflows for training data.

  • Usage billing

    Credits or per-call pricing from metered usage.

  • Human review queues

    Low-confidence outputs routed to reviewers.

How it works

How a request travels through an AI product

Every answer passes through checks your customers never see, and those checks are most of the engineering.

  1. Your app or API

    Step 1: A user sends a request

    Someone asks a question or uploads a document. The request carries their account or API key, so rate limits and billing apply from the start.

  2. Pre-processing

    Step 2: Personal data is redacted

    Details such as phone numbers or PAN are masked where the customer's policy requires it, before anything reaches a model.

  3. Model gateway

    Step 3: The gateway picks a model

    The gateway routes the request to the right model, your own or a provider's, and falls back to another if the first is slow or down.

  4. Guardrails

    Step 4: The answer is checked

    Outputs are checked against rules and a confidence score. Low-confidence or sensitive answers go to a human review queue instead of straight to the user.

  5. Usage billing

    Step 5: Usage is metered

    Tokens, pages or calls are recorded against the customer's credits or plan, so cost and revenue stay visible for every account.

  6. Evaluation harness

    Step 6: Evaluation guards each release

    Before any prompt or model change ships, it runs against your test sets; a drop in scores holds the release until someone reviews it.

Platforms

Interfaces for AI products

  • Web

    Web application

    Browser-based applications with logins, roles and workflows, such as customer portals, SaaS products and internal tools.

  • Back office

    Admin dashboard

    Back-office panels for operations, support and finance teams: orders, users, content, reports and permissions.

  • Mobile

    Cross-platform mobile app

    One Flutter or React Native codebase for Android and iOS, with native modules where a feature needs them.

Technology

AI and data stack

Python runs models, pipelines and evaluation, LLM integrations put third-party and open-weight models behind one gateway, and Next.js delivers the interface your customers use.

  • Backend

    Python

    A programming language for AI features, data processing and automation: the engine behind document reading, reports and smart search.

    Used for

    • AI features
    • Document reading
    • Reports and analytics
    • Task automation
  • Connects your product to AI language models from several providers, so each task uses a suitable model and you can switch later.

    Used for

    • AI assistants
    • Answers from documents
    • Workflow automation
    • Ticket triage
  • Adds AI features such as chat assistants, document summaries and smart search to your product, built on OpenAI models with human review.

    Used for

    • AI chatbots
    • Document summaries
    • Smart search
    • Drafting replies
  • A modern web technology for fast, search-friendly websites, online stores and web applications that load quickly on mobile.

    Used for

    • Business websites
    • Online stores
    • Web apps
    • Customer portals
  • Backend

    NestJS

    A structured way to build back ends on Node.js, so large business systems stay organised, testable and easy to hand over.

    Used for

    • Business app back ends
    • SaaS platforms
    • Marketplaces
    • Admin panel back ends
  • A reliable database for the records your business runs on: orders, payments, bookings and stock, kept accurate and easy to report on.

    Used for

    • Orders and customers
    • Payments and ledgers
    • Stock and inventory
    • Bookings
  • Data

    Redis

    Keeps frequently used data in fast memory, so apps stay quick on busy days and live features like order tracking feel instant.

    Used for

    • Faster apps
    • Live order status
    • Shopping carts
    • Job queues and alerts
  • Cloud & DevOps

    AWS

    Cloud hosting for your app, website and data, with data centres in India and room to grow when traffic rises.

    Used for

    • App hosting
    • File and photo storage
    • Backups
    • Busy sale days
  • Cloud & DevOps

    Docker

    Packages your software so it runs the same way on every laptop and server, which makes releases predictable and moving hosts easier.

    Used for

    • Reliable releases
    • Same setup everywhere
    • Faster onboarding
    • Easy scaling

Plain-English glossary

AI product terms, in plain English

Token
The small chunk of text, often part of a word, that AI models read and write and that providers bill by. Hindi and other Indian scripts often need more tokens per word than English, which changes cost estimates.
Evaluation set
A fixed collection of realistic inputs with expected answers or grading rules, agreed with your domain experts. Running every change against it shows whether quality improved or quietly got worse.
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
The system first finds relevant passages in your own documents, then asks the model to answer from those passages. Answers can cite their sources, and updating the documents does not require retraining a model.
Open-weight model
An AI model whose trained weights are published, so it can run on your own servers or cloud account. It gives more control over data and cost at scale, in exchange for managing GPUs and upgrades yourself.
PII redaction
Automatically masking personally identifiable information, such as names, phone numbers or Aadhaar numbers, before text is stored or sent to a model. Enterprise buyers often ask about it in security reviews.

Product preview

The product your users see, and the consoles behind it

Illustrative screens for a document-question product; the same layers apply to other AI features.

  • AI and machine learning company software your product chat in a web browser, with a question and a reply
    Your product (web app). Users ask questions about their own documents and get answers with citations; uncertain answers are flagged for review rather than stated confidently.
  • AI and machine learning company software review queue low-confidence outputs on a tablet, with 4 entries
    Review queue. Low-confidence or policy-sensitive outputs go to a trained reviewer who corrects them, and corrections can be added to the evaluation set.
  • AI and machine learning company software evaluation console release check table in a web browser
    Evaluation console. Before release, every change is scored against your test sets, including Hindi and Hinglish cases; a regression holds the release until someone signs it off.
Illustrative preview

Sample screens: names, prices and figures are examples, not client data.

Cost drivers

Cost drivers for AI product engineering

  1. Hosted or self-hosted models

    Self-hosting adds GPU infrastructure, serving and monitoring.

  2. Evaluation depth

    Domain-specific test sets and human grading take expert time.

  3. Compliance needs

    Redaction, audit logs and regional hosting add scope.

Estimates are written from your scope, with the effort and assumptions behind each line item.

How pricing works

Services

Services for this industry

The design and engineering services our in-house team combines on projects in this sector.

  • AI app development

    AI features and AI-first apps built on model APIs, retrieval over your own data, workflow automation or custom ML, with evaluation and human review.

  • Web application development

    Browser-based products, customer portals, dashboards and internal tools, built on clean data models with secure roles and integrations.

  • API development

    Secure, documented REST and GraphQL APIs, plus integrations that connect your apps to payment, logistics, GST, messaging and business systems.

  • SaaS development

    Multi-tenant SaaS products with subscription billing, team roles, onboarding and usage analytics, from first MVP to paying customers.

  • UI/UX design

    Product design for web and mobile apps: research, user flows, wireframes, prototypes and design systems that engineers can build from.

Locations

AI & machine learning by city

Cities where this sector is a significant part of the local economy. We work remotely with teams across India and meet in person where practical.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Do you train our models or build the product around them?

Mostly the product around them: interfaces, APIs, pipelines, evaluation, deployment and billing. We integrate third-party models, build retrieval-augmented systems and fine-tune smaller task-specific models where the data justifies it. We do not pre-train foundation models. If the model is your core IP, we build to your ML team’s interface.

How do you evaluate an LLM feature before release?

We build a test set of realistic inputs with expected outputs or grading criteria, agreed with your domain experts. Every prompt, model or retrieval change runs against it, scored by rules, a judge model with spot checks, and human reviewers for sensitive cases. It will not make outputs perfect, but it stops silent regressions.

Can AI products handle Hindi and code-mixed Hinglish input?

Often, but test rather than assume. Model quality varies across Indian languages, scripts and transliterated text. We add Hindi, regional-language and Hinglish examples to your evaluation set, compare models on them and handle script detection and transliteration. For voice products, speech recognition on Indian accents is a separate test.

Next step

Put your model in front of paying customers

Share your model setup and users; we will scope the product layer.

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