Product Engineering5 min read
From LLM Prototype to Production AI System
What changes between a convincing demo and a system people depend on: evaluation, observability, cost, security and rollout.
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Solution 05 · AI Product Engineering
From an AI idea to a product people can rely on.
A working demo is not a product. We design and build the whole thing: the screens people use, the systems behind them, the hosting and the AI inside. It is tested properly, so it keeps working when real customers arrive.
Idea to scale
- Idea
- Architecture
- Prototype
- Production
- Scale
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AI Product Engineering, engineered for production.
- 01
AI SaaS products
Multi-tenant products with AI at the core, including billing, permissions and admin built in.
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MVP development
Scoped builds that validate the idea with real users without cutting corners that matter later.
- 03
Enterprise platforms
Internal platforms and portals that bring AI capabilities to many teams safely.
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APIs & integrations
Well-designed APIs and integrations that make your product part of your customers' stack.
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Cloud architecture
Infrastructure as code, containerised services and environments that are easy to operate.
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Frontend & UX for AI
Interfaces designed for probabilistic systems, with clear states for confidence, review and errors.
How it works
Idea to scale
One team from the first architecture sketch to a product running in production.
- 01
Idea
The problem, the users and what success looks like.
- 02
Architecture
System design, AI components, data flow and build-versus-buy decisions.
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Prototype
A focused build that proves the riskiest assumptions quickly.
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Production
Hardened with evaluations, security review, observability and CI/CD.
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Scale
Performance, cost and reliability tuned as usage grows.
Where it helps
Built around the work, not the technology.
Typical places this capability changes how work gets done.
Founders & startups
Take an AI product from concept to launch with a senior team.
Product teams
Add AI features to an existing product without destabilising it.
Enterprises
Turn internal AI prototypes into supported, secure platforms.
Modernisation
Rebuild legacy tools as modern, AI-ready applications.
Engineering approach
What makes it production-grade.
Production from day one
Typed code, automated tests, CI/CD and observability from the first sprint.
Model-agnostic design
Abstractions that let you switch or combine model providers as the landscape changes.
Security reviewed
Authentication, authorisation, secrets handling and threat modelling before launch.
Performance & cost
Caching, streaming and model routing to keep latency and spend under control.
Typical technology
- OpenAI models
- Anthropic Claude
- Google Gemini
- Open-source models
- Python
- FastAPI
- Multimodal models
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD & infrastructure as code
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
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Agentic AI & Automation
An assistant that doesn't just answer. It looks things up, takes the next step in your systems and checks the result, with your team approving anything important.
- Answering customer questions
- Handling orders and refunds
- Updating records
- Sending follow-ups
See AI agents
Generative AI & RAG
Ask a question in plain English and get an answer from your own policies, contracts and manuals, with the source shown so people can trust it.
- Staff help desk
- Policy and contract search
- Customer self-service
- Onboarding new hires
See document answers
Computer Vision
Cameras and images turned into useful signals: what is on the shelf, what happened in the shop, which item has a defect.
- Shelf and stock checks
- In-store safety and loss
- Spotting defects
- Counting people and vehicles
See computer vision
Idea → Architecture → Prototype → Production → Scale
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