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AI development, from idea to shipped product

We build real AI products, not demos: agents, retrieval (RAG), LLM-powered apps and workflow automation, engineered by the team behind cGen, an AI-native compliance platform.

AI development, from idea to shipped product

The model is the easy part. Anyone can wire a prompt to an API and get a demo. The 95% that decides whether an AI feature helps your business or embarrasses it, the data work, retrieval, guardrails, evaluation, cost control and knowing where a human must stay in the loop, is real engineering. That is the part we build.

Our take: code does not make an AI product successful, judgement does. We are honest about where AI genuinely helps and where it does not before you spend, and we build for reliability under real users, not for a slick demo.
What's included

AI Development, end to end

LLM apps & chat

Assistants and chat built on Claude, GPT and similar models, grounded in your data and your rules.

AI agents & automation

Agents that take real actions across tools and workflows, with humans in the loop where it matters.

RAG & knowledge

Retrieval-augmented generation over your documents so answers are grounded, cited and current.

AI in your product

Adding AI features to an existing web or mobile app, search, drafting, classification, summarisation.

Deployment & MLOps

Evaluation, guardrails, monitoring and cost control, so an AI feature survives contact with real users.

AI strategy

An honest read on where AI genuinely helps your business and where it does not, before you spend.

Claude / OpenAI APIsPythonRAG / vector DBsNode.jsEvals & guardrailsAWS
Specialisms

AI Development, by focus

How we work

Scoped, shipped, and yours

1

Frame

The real problem, the data available, and whether AI is the right tool, said honestly.

2

Prototype

A working proof on your data and prompts, evaluated against clear success criteria.

3

Build

Production engineering, guardrails, evals, monitoring, cost control, around the model.

4

Ship

Deployed into your product or workflow, with the code and accounts in your name.

What to watch for

Where these projects quietly go wrong

The mistakes we have seen cost founders the most, so you can avoid them.

Shipping the demo

A demo on clean data is not a product that survives real users. The production gap, edge cases, bad input, hallucination and cost, is the actual work.

Ungrounded answers

An AI that is confidently wrong destroys trust fast. We ground answers in your data with retrieval and citations, and take hallucination seriously.

No evals or guardrails

Without evaluation and guardrails, an AI feature that works today fails silently tomorrow. We measure and fence it before it ships.

Runaway running cost

Token and infrastructure costs can quietly balloon. We design for cost control so the feature is affordable at scale, not just in a pilot.

Why appico

Made by the team founders re-hire

Built by the team behind cGen (compligen.ai), an AI-native platform
Real products with evals and guardrails, not demo-ware
AI-amplified delivery, senior humans on strategy and review
Grounded, cited answers, we take hallucination seriously
Full source code, models and data access owned by you
Honest about where AI helps and where it does not
Common questions

AI Development, asked and answered

What kind of AI products can you build?

LLM-powered apps and assistants, AI agents that take actions across your tools, retrieval (RAG) over your own documents, and AI features inside an existing web or mobile app, search, drafting, classification and summarisation. We build the production engineering around the model, not just a prompt.

Which AI models do you use?

We are model-agnostic and pick per task, typically Claude or GPT-class models for language, with the right retrieval and tooling around them. Because we default to the most capable current models, we can also move as the frontier moves.

Is my data safe, and where does it go?

We design for your data staying yours, scoped access, clear boundaries on what is sent to a model, and deployment in accounts you own. For sensitive or regulated work we scope data handling explicitly before building.

How is an AI agent different from a chatbot?

A chatbot answers; an agent acts, calling tools, updating records, moving a workflow forward, with humans in the loop where the stakes require it. We build both, and advise honestly on which your use case actually needs.

How much does an AI build cost?

It depends on scope and data readiness, so we usually start with a small prototype on your real data to prove value before committing to a full build. Pricing is fixed by milestone and agreed before we begin.

Can you help us get cited by AI search engines?

Yes, that is a related but distinct service. Our GEO and AEO (generative and answer engine optimisation) work helps your brand get cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. See our AI visibility page.

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