Hiring a good AI engineer directly is slow and expensive: months of searching, recruiter fees, and stiff competition for anyone who has actually shipped AI to production. If you need senior AI capacity now — inside your team, on your roadmap — that is exactly what this is.
What you get
Senior AI developers who join your standup, work in your repositories, and ship inside your product — not a black-box vendor you throw tickets over a wall to. The skill set covers the full surface we build with every day: LLM apps and RAG, agents, computer vision, model evaluation, and the MLOps that keeps it all alive in production.
When embedded developers beat a project
A fixed-scope custom AI development project is right when the goal is a defined system with a clear end state. Embedded developers are right when the work is continuous: an AI roadmap with many medium-sized things, an existing AI feature that needs a senior owner, or a team that has the product engineers but not the AI depth. (Genuinely unsure which you need? In-house team vs agency lays out the decision without the sales pitch.)
Why not just hire?
You probably should — eventually. But the median search for a senior AI engineer takes months, costs a recruiting fee on top of a top-of-market salary, and carries the risk every hire does. Embedding us gets senior output while you search, de-risks what to hire for by revealing what the work actually is, and hands over cleanly when your person arrives — documentation, evals and all. We have helped clients write the job spec for our own replacement. That is the deal working.
How it works
Scoping call. What does your roadmap need — build, harden, accelerate? We are honest if the answer is “a project, not a person” or “you do not need us at all.”
Matched start, fast. The right engineer(s) onboard into your codebase and rituals within a week or two. First useful pull request in week one is the norm.
Monthly rhythm. You direct priorities; we bring the expertise and the written-down habits — decision docs, evals, runbooks — that make the work stick. Scale up, down or off monthly.
Need senior AI hands on your team this month, not this year? Tell us what you are building — we reply within one business day.