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Service 03 · AI Integration

AI that ships inside the product, not bolted on beside it.

Practical model integration, retrieval pipelines, and workflow automation embedded directly into the systems your team already uses — evaluated against real tasks, not benchmark leaderboards. Built for startups and enterprise teams operating in Nepal.

What the practice covers

Six capabilities, one accountable team

01

Model integration

LLM and vision APIs wired into existing products with fallbacks and cost controls.

02

Retrieval & RAG

Vector search over your own documents, grounded to reduce hallucination risk.

03

Workflow automation

Agentic pipelines that replace multi-step manual work, with a human checkpoint where it matters.

04

Evaluation harnesses

Task-specific eval suites so a model change is a measured decision, not a guess.

05

Fine-tuning & prompting

Prompt engineering first; fine-tuning only when the data and the economics justify it.

06

Guardrails & observability

Logging, cost dashboards, and content-safety checks on every model call.

How an engagement runs

Four phases, each with a named deliverable

Weeks 1–2

Scope

The highest-leverage use case identified and an evaluation plan agreed upfront.

Weeks 3–5

Prototype

A working integration against real data, scored against the eval harness.

Weeks 6–8

Harden

Guardrails, cost controls, and fallback paths built before general release.

Ongoing

Operate

Model performance and cost monitored, with a review cadence for drift.

eval_run.json
// eval suite · support-triage-v3model      = "gpt-5.1-mini"cases_run  = 312accuracy   = 0.94p95_latency = 820verdict    = "promote"
Eval passed threshold — promoted to production
Why evaluated, not demo-ware

Every model change measured before it ships

  • Grounded in your data — retrieval, not memorized guesses, for anything factual.
  • Evaluated before shipping against a task-specific harness, not a generic benchmark.
  • Cost and latency budgeted up front, monitored continuously after launch.
The record

Built into every engagement

6
Capabilities covered in every engagement
1 wk
Time to an agreed evaluation plan
100%
Model changes scored before promotion
0
Ungrounded factual claims, by design
Selected work

AI engagements on the record

2025

SaaS platform — support-ticket triage

LLM classifier cut first-response time 62% across an 8-agent support desk.

Common questions

Questions we get about AI integration

How do you decide which AI feature to build first?

A one-week scoping phase identifies the highest-leverage use case in your product and agrees an evaluation plan before any integration work starts — so effort goes toward the feature with real impact, not the flashiest demo.

How do you prevent hallucinated or wrong answers?

Retrieval is grounded against your own documents rather than relying on a model's memorized knowledge for anything factual. Every model change is scored against a task-specific evaluation harness before it reaches production.

Do you build with a specific model provider?

No — integrations are typically wired with fallback paths across multiple providers, so a single vendor's pricing change or outage doesn't take the feature down with it.

How is cost controlled?

Cost and latency budgets are set during the harden phase, with logging and cost dashboards on every model call so spend is monitored continuously after launch, not discovered at the end of the month.

What does the evaluation process look like?

A task-specific eval suite runs real cases against the model before promotion — accuracy, latency, and failure modes are measured, so a model change is a documented decision rather than a guess.

Find the AI feature actually worth building

A one-week scoping sprint identifies the highest-leverage use case and prices it.

Start the scoping sprint