Service · AI

Custom AI and ML, built to reach production.

Custom AI that reaches production and stays there — grounded in your data, run in your cloud, in 4–8 weeks. Not a demo that stalls between the proof of concept and the launch.

Fixed scope ROI-tied payment Production in 4–8 weeks Full IP transfer

No eval, no launch

YOUR GOAL
YOUR DATA
EVAL GATE
IN PRODUCTION
BUILD INTEGRATE MONITOR RETRAIN

The real problem

Why so much AI work dies between the demo and production.

The gap is never the model — today's models are extraordinary. It's the engineering and governance around them: choosing the approach, preparing the data, measuring whether the system is right before it ships, integrating it inside your security boundaries, and operating it after launch.

Get that wrong and projects die on data quality, weak controls, cost, and unclear value. The prize is real — but that surrounding system is what decides whether AI work returns anything.

30%+

Of generative AI projects abandoned after proof of concept by end of 2025.

Gartner, July 2024 ↗

39%

Of organizations can link any EBIT impact to AI — 80%+ report none.

McKinsey, State of AI 2025 ↗

What you build

What AI development delivers — by what you're building.

"AI development" isn't one thing — it's a spectrum of builds, each answering a different business question.

01

AI proof of concept

Tests feasibility on your own data before you commit budget.

A go/no-go answer in weeks, not a six-figure bet on a hunch.

02

AI MVP

The smallest AI product you can put in front of real users to learn what moves the metric.

Real-world validation before full investment.

03

Custom AI & ML models

Bespoke models — classical ML, deep learning, or foundation models — chosen for the problem and trained on your data.

Accuracy an off-the-shelf tool can't match.

04

Full AI product development

End-to-end build of an AI product — model, software, integrations, and operations.

A system your team can trust and operate, not a model in a notebook.

05

ML engineering & MLOps

Deployment, monitoring, and drift detection that turn a working model into reliable software.

You catch drift before your customers do.

06

The focused practices

For deeper builds, this page routes to LLM applications, autonomous agents, generative AI, and enterprise-scale programs.

One front door, then the right room.

Eval gate Shipped

Most AI dies after the proof of concept. 30%+ of GenAI projects are abandoned after the PoC. We gate every build on evals from your real data and ship to production — no eval, no launch.

As of June 2026 · revisit quarterly

What disciplined AI development changes — the measured impact.

Independent industry findings — cited as third-party evidence, not Silicon Prime's own client results.

30%+

Abandoned after PoC. Of generative AI projects, by end of 2025 — the gap disciplined delivery closes.

Gartner, July 2024 ↗

$2.6–4.4T

Annual value. Generative AI could add across 63 use cases — for the organizations that ship it.

McKinsey, 2023 ↗

39%

Can link EBIT to AI. Of organizations — 80%+ report none, because the work never reached production.

McKinsey, 2025 ↗

What's included

What AI development services cover end to end.

The difference between a system that ships and a model that gets shelved.

01

Use-case scoping & feasibility

We map where AI pays off and return a costed build plan with projected ROI — the honest "don't build this yet" call included.

02

Data assessment & pipelines

We assess your data and build the preparation and pipelines the model needs. Most AI failures trace back here.

03

Model approach selection

Classical ML, deep learning, or a foundation model — chosen for the problem, not the headlines. The cheapest reliable method that hits the metric wins.

04

Evaluation suite & metrics

Before launch, the system is tested against a task-specific suite built from your real data. No eval, no launch.

05

Guardrails, safety & oversight

Bias review, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop oversight designed in — the system defers to a person when stakes or uncertainty demand it.

06

Secure integration

Authenticated, permissioned access with explicit data boundaries — inside the controls your security team runs, not around them.

07

MLOps, deployment & monitoring

Automated deployment, production monitoring, and drift detection — so you're alerted the moment the system slips.

08

Documentation & handover

Documentation and a trained team, so you can own and operate the system after we step back.

What you get — all assigned to you under full work-for-hire IP

A working AI system in your own cloud tenant
The evaluation suite and task-specific metrics
Data pipelines and the integration layer
MLOps with monitoring and drift detection
Documentation, runbooks, and a trained team
Full work-for-hire IP transfer

How it runs

How an AI development engagement runs.

One accountable lead, fixed scope, no handoffs — powered by our Aegis AI production discipline.

STEP 01

Scope

Start from your business goal and define the success metrics we'll be judged on.

Output: a ranked use case & a metric set

STEP 02

Plan

Assess the data, choose the approach, and present an ROI-backed plan before any build begins.

Output: a costed plan, economics seen

STEP 03

Build

Develop in your own cloud tenant, evaluate against a task-specific suite, and wire it to your systems securely.

Output: a working system, evals passing

STEP 04

Ship & operate

Staged rollout to production, with monitoring live and your team trained to run it.

Output: a system in production & a team that owns it

Track record

Production is the requirement, not the hope.

Plenty of teams can get a demo working — we build past the proof-of-concept to a system that keeps running once real load arrives.

A Stanford-rooted Responsible AI lab, founded in 2011, run by founder Kelvin Tran — 20+ years of production engineering, personally accountable for every engagement. We'll tell you plainly when an AI build is the wrong move.

Sustained release cadence · 200+ locations · 4+ years

BJ's Restaurants — for a 200+ location chain we didn't stop at "it works." We took delivery itself into production: release cadence went from every two weeks to twice a week, and a zero-critical-defect record held for four-plus years. That sustained record — not a one-off launch — is what production-grade means.

Why build it with us.

01

We ship to production — the whole differentiator. Evals before launch, staged rollout, monitoring after — proven across four years and a 200+ location chain.

02

Stanford-rooted, Responsible AI since 2011. Governance, safety, and human oversight are the founding charter, not a compliance bolt-on.

03

Engine- and approach-agnostic. Classical ML, deep learning, or a foundation model — OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini — chosen on the merits. No partnership steers it.

04

Founder-led, one accountable lead. No handoffs — the person who scopes it answers for it, and payment is tied to the ROI we scoped.

05

Built to transfer. Models, code, evals, and pipelines assigned to you under full work-for-hire; your team trained to run it.

Where we build first

Where we build first.

Questions buyers ask before commissioning.

What are AI development services, exactly?+
AI development services are the end-to-end work of turning a business problem into a working AI system: scoping and feasibility, data preparation, model selection and training, evaluation, secure integration, deployment, and the MLOps to keep it running. The model is a fraction of it — the engineering and governance around it is what makes it dependable, the difference between production and a PoC that stalls.
Do you do PoCs and MVPs, or only full builds?+
Both, and we'll tell you which you need. A PoC tests feasibility on your data before you commit; an MVP puts the smallest real product in front of users; a full build is the production system. Many engagements start small precisely because Gartner predicts at least 30% of generative-AI projects are abandoned after the proof of concept (Gartner, 2024) — better to prove the path before you fund the whole thing.
How do you decide build vs. buy?+
If an off-the-shelf tool solves your problem, we'll say so — building custom only pays when your data, your edge cases, or your integration needs make a generic product fall short. The scoping engagement returns that recommendation honestly, including "buy this and don't hire us for it," because shipping a build you didn't need helps no one.
What does it cost and how long does it take?+
Most builds reach production in 4–8 weeks under a fixed-scope engagement with one accountable lead, and payment is tied to the ROI we scope. Cost is driven by scope, data readiness, and how far you're taking it — we name the drivers and give a costed plan with projected ROI before any build begins.
How do you make sure it actually reaches production?+
By treating production as the requirement, not the hope. We gate the build on an ROI-backed plan, evaluate against a task-specific suite from your real data before launch, ship behind a staged rollout, and run monitoring and drift detection after. It's the same discipline that held BJ's Restaurants — 200+ locations — at twice-a-week releases with zero critical defects across a 12-month window, delivered through our patent-pending Aegis AI process.
How do you handle data security and our systems?+
The system runs in your own cloud tenant under your access controls, least-privilege and read-only by default, and integrations use authenticated, permissioned access with explicit data boundaries. Every engagement starts with an NDA and a security review, and we align to your existing SOC 2, HIPAA, or PCI controls — documenting every data path so your team verifies rather than trusts, and building inside your security controls rather than around them.
Who owns the AI system when you're done?+
IP ownership is defined in each engagement's contract — typically full assignment of the models, code, evaluation suites, and data pipelines we build for you, scoped and signed at kickoff. Your team is trained to operate and extend the system, so you can keep us on a reduced retainer or take the keys; the engagement is built around the handover.
How do we choose the right AI development partner?+
Judge the process and the proof, not the pitch. Ask how a partner scopes ROI before building, how they evaluate against your real data, who stays accountable end to end, and whether they've shipped AI that survived in production — MIT's State of AI in Business 2025 found 95% of enterprise generative-AI pilots deliver no measurable P&L impact. Match depth to your problem, whether that's LLM development, agentic AI, generative AI, or enterprise AI, and expect one accountable lead, fixed-scope ROI-tied pricing, and an NDA plus security review from day one.

Thirty minutes · no pitch deck

Ready to build AI that reaches production?

Bring the problem — we'll tell you honestly whether AI is the right tool, which kind of build it needs, and what it takes to ship and run.