EFFICIENCYAI

AI App Development / End-to-End

AI app development, end to end, built by the team that scoped it.

From discovery to production deployment, we design and build custom AI applications for UK businesses. LLM apps, agents, RAG systems and integrations - shipped in weeks, not quarters.

Senior engineers and consultants only. NDA on request.

What we build

Concrete AI applications, not vague capabilities.

“AI solutions tailored to your needs” is what every consultancy says. Here's what we actually ship.

  1. LLM-powered applications

    Custom interfaces over GPT, Claude, Gemini or open-weight models. Internal copilots, document analysis, chat-with-your-data, content generation - the production-grade version, not the demo.
  2. RAG systems

    Retrieval-augmented generation over your documents, data and knowledge bases. Vector search, hybrid retrieval, evaluation harnesses, and the unsexy plumbing that makes the answers actually correct.
  3. AI agents and automations

    Multi-step agents that take actions: browsing, calling APIs, writing to systems, and escalating to a human when they should. Built with the bounded autonomy your compliance team will accept.
  4. AI integrations into existing software

    Adding AI features to your current product or internal tools without re-platforming. We work alongside your engineers, not around them.
  5. Bespoke AI products and MVPs

    Greenfield AI products from idea to live application - typically six to twelve weeks to first usable release, with evaluations and observability baked in from the start.

How we build

Five phases, two-week sprints, evals before launch.

A grown-up build process for LLM applications. Specifically designed for the failure modes that don't exist in normal software.

  1. Free scoping call

    Thirty minutes. We assess feasibility, model choice, rough budget and rough timeline. If we don't think we're the right team for it, we'll tell you.
  2. Discovery sprint

    A fixed-fee one-to-two-week deep-dive: technical spike, working prototype, costed delivery plan. You leave with something you can build with - or take elsewhere.
  3. Build sprints

    Two-week iterations with working software demoed at the end of each. The same senior team from scoping continues into delivery - no hand-offs, no re-onboarding.
  4. Evaluation & hardening

    We don't ship LLM apps without evaluations, observability, and red-teaming for the obvious failure modes. Hallucination, prompt injection, drift - tested before launch, not after.
  5. Deploy & handover

    We deploy to your infrastructure (or ours, if you'd rather) and hand over fully documented code, runbooks and eval suites. You own the work.

Stack & approach

Specific tools, picked per problem.

We don't have a “modern AI stack” - we have a shortlist for each layer and we choose deliberately. Here's what we reach for.

Models
OpenAIAnthropic ClaudeGoogle GeminiLlamaMistralGemma
Frameworks & tooling
TypeScriptPythonNext.jsFastAPILangChainLlamaIndexDSPy
Vector & search
Postgres + pgvectorPineconeWeaviate
Hosting
AWSAzureGCPSelf-hosted
Evaluation & observability
LangSmithLangfuseCustom eval harnesses

What good looks like

Real builds, anonymised.

Coming soon

We're currently agreeing publication permissions with clients for the first wave of detailed case studies. In the meantime, take a look at the internal AI tools we've built and run ourselves - they're a working portfolio of the same engineering approach we bring to client work.

Questions

Things people ask before booking a scoping call.

  • Usually within one to two weeks. The scoping call is free and can typically happen the same week you enquire. From there, a discovery sprint can normally start within ten working days.

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