Service · AI

Systems that generate real work — governed and shipped.

We build generative AI that produces the work your business runs on — documents, content, code, images, and synthetic data — grounded in your data, evaluated before output ships, and deployed in your own cloud.

Fixed scope One accountable lead Production in 4–8 weeks

Grounded, then evaluated

YOUR DATA
YOUR BRAND
GROUNDED + EVAL GATE
GENERATED OUTPUT
DOCS CODE IMAGES DATA

The real problem

Why so much generative AI never leaves the pilot.

Generating text is the easy part everyone demos. A model drafts a slick paragraph in a sandbox, the room is impressed — then the draft cites a policy that doesn't exist, the generated code silently breaks an edge case, and no one can prove the output is correct at scale.

The gap is never the model; it's the system around the generation — grounding it in your real data so it doesn't invent, evaluating quality before output ships, and putting a human where a wrong answer is expensive. Without that, the pilot stays a pilot.

$2.6–4.4T

In annual value generative AI could add across 63 use cases.

McKinsey, June 2023 ↗

~50%

Less time to write new code with generative-AI tools.

McKinsey, June 2023 ↗

Where it works

Where enterprises put generative AI to work — and what each delivers.

A capability that earns its keep in a handful of high-volume processes.

01

Document & knowledge generation

Drafts contracts, reports, summaries, and RFP responses from your templates, every claim traceable to a source. Turnaround drops from days to minutes.

02

Content & marketing generation

Produces on-brand marketing copy, product descriptions, and personalized variants, with human approval before publishing. More content per marketer, brand voice intact.

03

Code generation & engineering acceleration

Generates boilerplate, tests, refactors, and docs inside your repos — never merged unread. Faster routine engineering, quality held by your review gates.

04

Image, design & media generation

Generates product imagery, design variations, and media to brief — original output, never scraped. A studio day of iteration happens in an hour.

05

Synthetic data generation

Generates realistic, privacy-safe datasets where real data is scarce, sensitive, or regulated. Build and test on representative data without exposing real records.

06

Retrieval-grounded answers (RAG)

Generates direct, sourced answers over your documents — a composed reply, not a search result. Staff get an answer with its source, not a list of links.

Output Shipped

Generating text is the easy part everyone demos. We ground it in your data, gate it on evals built from your real material, and put a human where a wrong output is expensive — so the pilot actually ships.

As of June 2026 · revisit quarterly

What generative AI actually moves — the measured impact.

Independent industry findings — never Silicon Prime's own client results.

$2.6–4.4T

In annual value. Across 63 use cases — roughly 75% of it in customer ops, marketing/sales, software engineering, and R&D.

McKinsey, June 2023 ↗

~50%

Less time to write new code. For developers using gen-AI tools — refactoring in ~two-thirds, documenting in half.

McKinsey, June 2023 ↗

60%

Of AI/analytics data, synthetic. Projected share generated synthetically — privacy-safe data where real records are scarce or regulated.

Gartner, via MIT Sloan, 2023 ↗

What's included

What generative AI development covers.

The difference between output you can ship and a pilot that never clears review.

01

Use-case scoping & feasibility

We map where generation pays off and what it costs to build and run — with the honest "don't generate this one" call included.

02

Grounding & retrieval (RAG)

Output is generated against your documents and brand standards, not training-data guesswork, and every answer can cite its source. Grounding accuracy is measured before launch.

03

Model selection — prompt, RAG, or fine-tune

We decide on evidence, not hype: most generation needs strong prompting and grounding; fine-tuning only where the data justifies it — benchmarked on your workload.

04

Evaluation suites & quality gates

Before output ships, it's tested against a golden set built from your real material — accuracy, grounding, tone, brand fit, and the failures that must never ship — with regression checks against drift.

05

Guardrails, injection defense & review

Output passes through guardrails and prompt-injection defenses, and human-in-the-loop review is built in where a wrong output is costly — it routes to a person rather than guessing.

06

Secure integration & deployment

We wire generation into your stack and data boundaries through scoped access, ship behind a staged rollout, instrument it for drift and token cost — then train your team to own it.

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

A working generative system in your own cloud tenant
The evaluation suite and golden test set
The grounding and integration layer
An output-quality-and-cost dashboard
Runbooks and a trained team
Full work-for-hire IP transfer

How it runs

How a generative AI engagement runs.

The same delivery model behind all our AI development services — one accountable lead, fixed scope, no handoffs.

STEP 01

Discover

Scope the generation use case, the source data, and what "good output" means in measurable terms.

Output: a ranked, costed plan & the quality metrics

STEP 02

Design

Build the evaluation set from your real material and decide prompting vs. RAG vs. fine-tuning on evidence, not fashion.

Output: a golden test set & grounding architecture

STEP 03

Build

Build the pipeline in your own cloud tenant, with governed data access, guardrails, and human-review gates.

Output: a working system behind your access controls

STEP 04

Deploy & enable

Shadow mode, then a pilot, then wide — output quality, acceptance, and cost measured weekly, your team trained to operate it.

Output: a production system & a team that owns it

Track record

The production discipline behind generated output you can trust.

Silicon Prime is a Stanford-rooted Responsible AI lab, founded in 2011, run by founder Kelvin Tran — personally accountable for every engagement. We'll tell you plainly when generative AI is the wrong tool.

Aegis AI generation · 200+ locations · 4 years

Output is only as trustworthy as the engineering underneath it — and code is the highest-stakes thing a generative system produces. Through our Aegis AI engine we've run AI-augmented software generation for BJ's Restaurants, a 200+ location enterprise, for four years — from releasing every two weeks to twice a week with zero critical defects sustained.

Why build it with us.

01

Responsible AI is the founding charter. For a system that generates in your name, governance is the product, not an afterthought — built to back your people, not replace them.

02

Engine-agnostic. We benchmark OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini on your actual generation tasks and route to whichever wins. No partnership steers the recommendation.

03

Eval-driven, not demo-driven. Output quality is measured against a golden set before launch and monitored after — the opposite of a slick demo that breaks in production.

04

Founder-led, one accountable lead. No account managers, no handoffs — the person who scopes it answers for it.

05

Built to transfer. Prompts, evals, and code are assigned to you under full work-for-hire IP; your team is trained to run and extend the system when we step back.

Where it earns its keep first

Where generative AI earns its keep first.

Questions buyers ask before they build.

What is generative AI development, exactly?+
It's building production systems that generate useful output — documents, content, code, images, or synthetic data — grounded in your own information, evaluated for quality before release, and governed so a wrong output never ships unchecked. The model is the easy 5%; the grounding, evaluation, guardrails, integration, and monitoring around it are the engineering that decides whether it returns anything.
How do you stop generated output from making things up?+
Grounding plus measurement. The system generates against your approved sources, every answer can cite where it came from, and we measure the factual-grounding rate against a golden set built from your real material before launch — then monitor it after. Where confidence is low or the output is high-stakes, it routes to a person rather than publishing on a guess.
Why do most generative AI pilots fail to reach production?+
Because the model was never the hard part — the surrounding engineering is. Gartner projected in 2024 that at least 30% of generative AI projects would be abandoned after proof of concept, citing poor data quality, weak risk controls, escalating cost, and unclear value. We build for production from day one: grounding on your real data, evaluation gates, guardrails, cost instrumentation, and a human where a wrong output is expensive — so it clears review instead of stalling in the sandbox.
Do you fine-tune models, or use RAG and prompting?+
We decide on evidence. Most enterprise generation is best served by strong prompting plus retrieval grounding (RAG), which keeps output current and traceable; fine-tuning is used only where the task pattern and the data genuinely justify the cost. We benchmark the options on your workload during design and tell you which wins and why.
Which model do you build on — OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini?+
Whichever wins your evaluation. We benchmark the candidates on your real generation tasks during design and route accordingly — and because the system sits behind a model abstraction, switching later is a config change, not a rebuild.
How do you handle data security and IP for generated content?+
The system runs in your own cloud tenant under your access controls, integrations use scoped, permissioned access, and every engagement starts with an NDA and a security review. Business API traffic to major providers isn't used to train their models by default, generated assets are original (no scraped images or real logos without rights), and we document every data path.
Who owns the system — and the output — when you're done?+
IP ownership is defined in each engagement's contract, and our default is a full work-for-hire assignment of the prompts, evaluation suites, and code we build for you — so the working system, not just access to it, is yours. Your team is trained to operate and extend it; keep us on a reduced retainer or take the keys, the engagement is built around the handover.
What does a generative AI development engagement cost and how long does it take?+
Most generative systems reach production in 4–8 weeks under a fixed-scope engagement with one accountable lead. Build cost depends on scope — our AI development cost guide gives real ranges — and run cost is token economics we model before building, so the first invoice is a forecast you've already seen.

Thirty minutes · no pitch deck

Ready to build generative AI you can actually ship?

Bring the use case — we'll tell you honestly whether generation fits it, whether to prompt, ground, or fine-tune, what it takes to build, and what it costs to run.