AI Product Engineering

Ship a production
AI product in 14 days.

Fixed price agreed before we start. Evaluation harness, cost monitoring and production deployment built in, not bolted on after. Your source code, transferred on day one.

14 days
Scope signed to production launch
Fixed price
No hourly meter, no overrun surcharge
Day one
Source code ownership transferred
Coretek Labs  ·  Bellevue, WA  ·  Canada  ·  United Kingdom  ·  India   |   coretek.io
The offer:

A production AI product, not a prototype

We build and ship production-ready AI products at a fixed price, in three tiers sized to how far you need to get. Every build includes LLM integration, versioned prompt engineering, output validation, an evaluation harness, cost monitoring, a full-stack application with auth and payments, custom UI, production deployment — and your source code, transferred on day one. We build RAG applications, LLM-powered tools, AI SaaS, chatbots, content engines and AI analytics on OpenAI, Claude, LangChain, LangGraph and vector databases.

14-day delivery

The clock starts when the scope document is signed. A staging URL is live by day five, so you see the product working long before launch.

Fixed price

Priced at signature, 50% upfront and 50% on delivery. No hourly meter, and no surcharge if the build runs long.

Code ownership

The repository is yours from day one. No proprietary runtime to license and nothing you have to buy back later.

What every build includes
CapabilityWhat you get
Auth, payments, dashboard, deploymentIncluded in every tier
LLM integration (Claude / GPT)From day one
Prompt engineering disciplineVersioned prompts, ready for A/B testing
Output validationStructured outputs and retries, built in
RAG pipeline, where applicablepgvector or Pinecone, hybrid search
Evaluation harness with labelled test setDay one, runs on every change
Cost monitoringPer-feature token budget tracking and alerts
Model routing by complexityCheap models for simple calls, frontier models for hard ones
ObservabilityAI-specific tracing plus Sentry
Pricing:

Three fixed tiers

Pick the tier by how far you need to get, not by how many hours it takes. The price is agreed in writing before any work begins.

Validate
$3,999
7 days

One core AI feature shipped end to end. Prove the mechanic with real users before committing a budget.

  • One LLM-powered feature
  • Prompt engineering and output validation
  • Production deploy, custom domain
  • Source code transferred day one
Most popular
Launch
$7,499
14 days

A full production AI MVP: retrieval, evaluation, auth, payments and a dashboard your team can actually run.

  • Three to five features including the AI core
  • RAG pipeline where applicable
  • Eval harness and cost monitoring
  • Auth, payments and custom UI
  • 30 days post-launch support
Scale
from $
3 to 4 weeks

Multi-agent systems, custom retrieval and fine-tuned routing on a production-grade architecture.

  • Custom AI scope
  • Multi-agent or advanced tool use
  • Custom RAG with full eval suite
  • Weekly demos
  • 60 days post-launch support
What happens before you pay. You receive a written scope document with the exact feature list, acceptance criteria, architecture plan, delivery timeline with a staging milestone, the fixed price, and an explicit out-of-scope list. Nothing is built until you approve it. New ideas mid-build become a written change quote, approved before implementation — never a silent addition to the invoice.
Choosing your approach:

API, fine-tuning or self-hosted

Most products only need the first option. We tell you which one fits before you pay for the wrong one.

API integration
(GPT‑4, Claude)
Best for
Most AI MVPs — content generation, chatbots, RAG apps
Cost
$0.002 – $0.06 per request
Timeline
Days to integrate

Easy to start, with ongoing per-request costs. The right call when you need general intelligence plus your own data through retrieval.

Fine-tuned model
Best for
Domain-specific tasks with thousands of training examples
Cost
$500 – $5,000 training, then lower per request
Timeline
1 – 2 weeks for data prep and training

Lower latency and cost per request, but it needs labelled data. Only worth it once API prompting hits a quality ceiling.

Self-hosted open source
(Llama, Mistral)
Best for
Data sovereignty, air-gapped environments, cost control at scale
Cost
$200 – $2,000 per month GPU hosting
Timeline
1 – 2 weeks to deploy and optimise

Full data control on a fixed monthly cost, but you manage the infrastructure and quality trails the frontier models on complex reasoning.

Keeping the running cost down

Token economics

Every call costs input and output tokens. A typical support response runs $0.003 – $0.01; at 10,000 queries a day that is $30 – $100 a day. We design the architecture to hold that down from the start.

Response caching

Semantic caching serves identical and near-identical queries from a Redis-backed store with sub-millisecond lookups, instead of calling the API again.

Model routing

Not every request needs a frontier model. Routing simple queries to cheaper, faster models typically cuts API costs by 60 – 80% with minimal quality impact.

Cost guardrails

Per-user and per-tenant spending limits, usage dashboards and alerting prevent surprise bills. Every build ships with a cost monitoring page in the admin panel.

Our stack:

What we build on, and why

We choose per project rather than defaulting to one vendor, so the architecture fits your data, your latency budget and your compliance position.

LLM providers

OpenAI GPT-4 / GPT-4o
Best all-round model for most production use cases
Anthropic Claude
Stronger on long context, reasoning and code generation
Google Gemini
Strong multimodal work — vision, audio, long documents
Open weights (Llama, Mistral)
Self-hosted for data sovereignty or cost control

Vector databases

Pinecone
Managed and serverless — for teams who will not run infrastructure
Supabase pgvector
PostgreSQL-native, keeping your data in one place
Weaviate
Open source, hybrid vector and keyword search out of the box
ChromaDB
Lightweight and embedded — prototyping and small corpora

Frameworks and orchestration

LangChain / LangGraph
Agent orchestration, tool calling, conversation memory
LlamaIndex
Purpose-built for RAG — indexing, retrieval, response synthesis
Vercel AI SDK
Streaming responses, edge-compatible, React Server Components
Custom pipelines
Where a framework adds overhead, we write lean custom chains

Infrastructure

Vercel / Railway
Edge deployment for low-latency AI responses
Redis
Response caching, rate limiting and session management
BullMQ
Background job queues for long-running AI tasks
Sentry + PostHog
Error tracking and AI usage analytics
How we work:

The things vendors usually leave vague

Who actually builds your product

Your product is built in house at Coretek Labs. The engineer on your scoping call is the one who architects and ships it, using AI-native engineering workflows. No handoff to juniors, no account manager layer, and no outsourcing.

Capacity and start date

We run a small number of concurrent builds so each project gets senior attention. Your start date is confirmed in writing on the scoping call, and the clock starts once the scope document is signed. Validate ships in 7 days, Launch in 14 days, Scale in 3 to 4 weeks.

The scope document

Before you pay anything, you receive a written scope document: the exact feature list, acceptance criteria, architecture plan, delivery timeline with a staging milestone, the fixed price, and an explicit out-of-scope list. It has to be approved before the build begins.

Included, excluded, and change requests

Included: everything in the signed scope document, a staging URL by day five, production deployment, and 30 days of post-launch support. New ideas mid-build become a written change quote that you approve before we implement it. Nothing is added to the invoice silently.

If the date slips

The price is fixed at signature: 50% upfront, 50% on delivery. A late build delays our payment, not your budget. There is no hourly meter and no schedule surcharge — overruns are absorbed by Coretek.

Start with a scoping call.

Bring the problem you want solved. You leave with a written scope, a fixed price and a confirmed start date — before you commit anything.

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