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Custom software development for AI products

When you need the product built rather than the team staffed. We take it end to end — discovery, architecture, the AI layer, the boring parts around it, and a handover your own engineers can pick up.

Scope a custom buildSee the phases
First release from $20k · fixed milestones · your IP
MILESTONE PLANFIXED SCOPE
Agreed before it starts
0Paid discovery2 weeks
1Thin production slice4–6 weeks
2The AI layer4–8 weeks
3Hardening and launch3–5 weeks
4Handover or retainerYour call
Stop after any phaseYour IP
Phases

Milestones you can hold us to.

Each phase has a deliverable, a date and a price agreed before it starts. You can stop after any of them and keep everything built so far.

Scope a custom build
0
Paid discoveryTwo weeks turning the idea into an architecture, a cost model, a risk list and a milestone plan you can take to your board.
2 weeks
1
Thin production sliceThe narrowest end-to-end path that a real user can complete, deployed to your infrastructure rather than a demo environment.
4–6 weeks
2
The AI layerRetrieval, agents or model serving, with the eval harness and accuracy bar agreed in discovery.
4–8 weeks
3
Hardening and launchPerformance, permissions, observability, the admin tooling nobody scopes, and the launch itself.
3–5 weeks
4
Handover or retainerDocumented codebase, runbooks and a walkthrough for your engineers — or we keep running it on a monthly retainer.
Your call
What ships with every build

Six things that are not optional extras.

No separate line item for the eval harness, the infrastructure or the handover. They are part of the build, because a product without them is not finished.

Senior-only team

The same bench as our staffing engagements. Nothing is subcontracted out to a cheaper shop.

A delivery PM

One accountable owner for scope and dates, with the written Friday status our managed teams run.

Evaluation harness

For anything model-driven: a test set from your real cases and an accuracy bar agreed up front.

Infrastructure as code

Deployed into your cloud account, reproducible, with no dependency on us to redeploy it.

Your IP, in your repo

Code lives in your organisation from day one. No licence-back, no vendor lock.

Documented handover

Architecture notes, runbooks and a live walkthrough so your team can take the codebase over.

Built this way

Two references you can ask about.

SOCIALI.AI

Full platform and its AI layer, built by a five-person pod: PM, two full-stack, AI and QA.

Read the case study
FREDERICK FOX — RUBY

Internal platform for payroll, AR and team management, plus AI agents for staffing and recruitment workflows.

Read the case study

Staff it instead?If you have a product manager and a roadmap, staffing is usually cheaper. If you have a problem and a deadline, a fixed-scope build is faster. We will say which on the call, including when the answer is neither.

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Fixed scope, your IP

Got the problem?
We'll build it end to end.

Scope a custom buildor email hello@dataspecc.com
Next step

Tell us the problem. We'll scope the build.

Bring the problem, the users and any data you have. We'll come back with a phased plan, milestones and a fixed price for the first release.

  • Fixed milestones, each with a deliverable and a price
  • Your IP and your repo from the first commit
  • Stop after any phase and keep everything built
What do you need?
We reply within one business day. No sequences, no drip.