Fractional AI Engineering

Senior AI engineering on a monthly basis — the expertise of a full-time hire at a fraction of the cost and none of the recruiting timeline.

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Monthly
Ongoing engagement, cancel any time
Predictable
Fixed monthly price, no surprise invoices
Senior
You work directly with the engineers, not managers
Overview

The talent you need, without the hire you can't make.

A senior AI engineer costs upwards of $200,000 a year — if you can find one. For most small and mid-sized businesses, the maths doesn't work. But the work still needs doing: evaluations need writing, models need monitoring, pipelines need maintaining.

Our fractional engagement gives you senior engineering capacity on a predictable monthly basis. You get the expertise without the headcount, the salary, or the six-month recruiting timeline.

What's included
Dedicated capacity
A defined number of engineering days per month, scheduled to your priorities.
Production maintenance
Monitoring, incident response, and iterative improvement of your live AI systems.
Feature development
New capabilities scoped, built, and tested within your existing architecture.
Team enablement
Code reviews, pairing sessions, and documentation that build your internal capability.
Strategic input
Technical guidance on model selection, architecture decisions, and build-vs-buy tradeoffs.
How it works

Embedded, not outsourced.

01

Onboard

We learn your systems, your team's workflow, and your priorities for the first quarter.

02

Plan

Monthly priorities agreed in advance, with flexibility to respond to what production surfaces.

03

Execute

Engineering work delivered in your codebase, your tools, your processes.

04

Review

Monthly review of what shipped, what we learned, and what to focus on next.

Selected work

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Need senior AI engineering without the hire?

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