Your competitor
shipped AI.
Where's yours?

"When will you have this?" A prospect saw a competitor's AI feature and asked you on a sales call. You bought some time. It keeps coming up.

The roadmap slot keeps slipping. The AI feature has been "next quarter" for two quarters. Your devs are strong on your product, also production AI is a different discipline none of them have shipped before.

You tried, and it stalled. Someone wired up an LLM API and the demo impressed everyone. Then edge cases, weird outputs, surprise API bills - and it quietly stopped coming up in standups.

Hiring doesn't add up. A senior AI engineer runs $180k+ and takes months to find - for what's realistically 10-15 hours a week of specialist work.

You can't see adoption. Even when an AI feature ships, you can't tell who actually uses it, so the renewal conversation runs on vibes instead of numbers.

The fear underneath. An AI feature that hallucinates in front of a paying customer is worse than no AI feature at all. You're right to fear that, also it's a solvable engineering problem most vendors just skip.

Evals in CI from week one. Every failure I find becomes an automated test that reproduces it, so the pipeline catches regressions before your customers do. Also this is what lets your team change things later without breaking them.

Write-access gets earned step by step. The agent starts read-only. Its first writes go somewhere low-stakes. Anything touching money or a customer keeps a human in the loop until the numbers earn the trust to take that step away.

Cost that holds up at scale. A lot of AI features look cheap in the demo and blow up the bill at rollout. I plan for real traffic from day one - on my current client's pipeline I reworked it at 10x the scale and it came out faster and cheaper than before.

A handoff your team owns. Docs, recorded training, and the eval suite, so your team can run and extend the feature without me. When clients come back, it's for the next thing they want to build.

A full-time senior AI hire. The right call at scale. At your size it's $180k+ and months of searching for what's really part-time AI work. I'm the same seniority, fractionally, starting in weeks.

A dev agency. Fine for volume builds. The senior who pitched you usually hands the work to a junior once you sign, and hourly billing quietly rewards them for taking longer. You'd work with me directly the whole time - one senior engineer, start to finish.

A cheap "AI developer". Can get you a demo, no problem. The demo is the easy part. What breaks in production is the part you're actually paying a senior for.

Your own devs. They should own this eventually, and that's the whole plan. I set up the evals, docs, and training so they can extend it on their own. I just get them there faster than they'd get there from scratch.