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AI Development

We build AI that survives contact with production.

LLM applications, RAG systems, agents, and automation, built by engineers who've shipped them, not demoed them. We take the parts that break in the real world seriously: latency, cost, evaluation, and the ugly edge cases a demo never sees.

Same vetting bar either way, whether we staff the project or fill the seat. See the rubric

RAG pipeline visualization, documents embedded into a vector store feeding an LLM that answers in a chat interface
LLM Apps

Copilots, chat, and content tools on GPT, Claude, and open models.

RAG & Search

Answers grounded in your own documents and data.

AI Agents

Tool-using, multi-step workflows that run real work.

ML & Data

Fine-tuning, evaluation, and the pipelines underneath.

What we build

Six things we get asked for most.

Chat interfaces, copilots, and content tools built on GPT, Claude, and open models, with streaming, structured output, and the guardrails that keep them usable once real users arrive.

Streaming UIFunction callingPrompt versioningCost controls
See LLM app work

Retrieval pipelines that ground answers in your own documents, chunking, embeddings, reranking, and evaluation so responses stay accurate as your corpus grows.

Vector searchRerankingHybrid retrievalCitations
See RAG work

Multi-step agents that call tools, hit your APIs, and run real workflows, scoped tightly with retries, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and observability you can trust.

Tool useOrchestrationHuman reviewTracing
See agent work

Fine-tuning and eval harnesses for when prompting isn't enough, dataset curation, training runs, and the offline and online metrics that prove a model actually got better.

Dataset curationLoRA / SFTEval harnessBenchmarks
See model work

Dropping AI into software you already run, search, summarization, classification, and generation added behind clean interfaces, without a rebuild or a risky rewrite.

Feature scopingAPI integrationLatency budgetsStaged rollout
See product work

The unglamorous layer AI actually needs, ingestion, embedding jobs, vector stores, and inference infrastructure that stays cheap and reliable at scale.

IngestionEmbedding jobsVector storesInference infra
See infra work
What we build with

Current tools, not last year's.

Models
ClaudeGPTLlamaMistral
Frameworks
LangChainLlamaIndexVercel AI SDK
Vector
PineconeWeaviatepgvectorQdrant
Infra
AWSGCPModalDocker
Backend
PythonFastAPINode.jsTypeScript
Proof

Shipped, not slideware.

AI support copilot
LLM application

AI support copilot

Cut average ticket resolution time across a high-volume support desk.

ClaudeRAGFastAPI
Read the case study
Reconciliation agent
AI agents

Reconciliation agent

Automated recurring reconciliation tasks behind a human-approval gate.

GPT-4oLangChainPostgres
Read the case study
What clients say

On camera, in their own words.

Client video

Why he brought his development work to Code Elevator.

MikePlays here
How we run it

Scoped fast. Shipped on a real timeline.

011 weekDiscovery and scopingWe pin down the problem, the data, and whether AI is even the right tool, before anyone writes code.
022 weeksPrototype and evaluationA working prototype against your real data, with an eval harness that measures whether it's good enough.
034–8 weeksProduction buildThe full build, hardened, instrumented, and integrated into your stack with cost and latency under control.
04OngoingHandover and supportDocumentation, monitoring, and a team that stays on to tune the system as your data and usage grow.
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Questions

Answered before you ask.

It depends on scope. A scoped prototype typically runs $6k–15k; a full production build ranges from $18k upward depending on complexity, data volume, and integration surface. We give you a fixed scope and estimate after the discovery week, no open-ended meters.

Discovery takes a week, a prototype two, and a production build four to eight weeks depending on scope. Most clients have something real in front of users inside a month.

Yes. All work-product IP, code, prompts, fine-tuned weights, and pipelines, assigns to you by contract from day one. Nothing is locked to us or to a proprietary platform you can't leave.

Whatever fits the job, Claude, GPT, and open models like Llama and Mistral. We pick per use case on cost, latency, and quality, and we're not tied to a single vendor. Where open models make sense, we'll self-host them.

Yes. That's usually the point. We build ingestion and embedding pipelines around your documents, databases, and APIs, and we handle the messy parts: cleaning, chunking, access control, and keeping the index fresh.

Yes. We ship to your cloud (AWS, GCP, or self-hosted), wire up tracing and cost dashboards, and set up evaluation that runs continuously so you catch quality regressions before your users do.

We find that out in the evaluation phase, not after launch. If the numbers don't clear the bar we agreed on, we tell you plainly, and sometimes the honest answer is that AI isn't the right tool for that problem yet.

What you're not risking

Every way out of this build is already written down.

You own it, from day one

Code, prompts, models and pipelines: all work-product IP assigns to you by contract from day one, not on final payment.

No vendor lock-in

Nothing is locked to us or to a proprietary platform you can't leave. You get the repository, the documentation, and full access.

Get started

Bring us the problem. We'll tell you what's realistic.

No hype, no pilot that goes nowhere. We'll scope it honestly, tell you what's realistic, and ship something that works in production.

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