Engineering for AI-native startups.
RAG, agents, voice, multi-modal — built to survive production traffic. The infrastructure under your AI demo.
Pain points I solve
- ·Demo-quality AI that breaks at scale
- ·Cost guardrails missing — runaway OpenAI bills
- ·No eval harness — quality drifts silently
- ·Tight budget needs senior engineering, not contractors
How I solve them
- Production-grade AI integration patterns
- Cost guardrails and per-user economics built in
- Eval harness for every feature
- One senior engineer end-to-end
Real ai startups work
- Maeum Campfire — AI relationship coach with persona memory
- MAEUM Learn — multi-LLM routing and cost management
- NameGood — vision + OCR for business cards
Recommended services for ai startups
AI integration services that survive production.
GPT, Claude, Whisper, custom RAG, agents, voice. Wired into your existing app with cost guardrails and latency budgets. Not a demo — a deployed system.
From $8,000RAG that retrieves the right chunk, every time.
Most RAG demos break in production. I build retrieval that works on real corpora — hybrid search, reranking, eval harnesses, and observability built in.
From $10,000AI chatbots that don't hallucinate your business away.
Customer support, internal Q&A, sales-assist, onboarding flows. Streaming responses, citations, memory, and an eval harness so quality stays sharp.
From $7,500Voice AI that feels real-time, not robotic.
Whisper for transcription. ElevenLabs and OpenAI for voices. Realtime API for live voice agents. Streamed end-to-end so users don't feel the latency.
From $8,000Frequently asked — AI startups
Can you join my AI startup as fractional CTO?+
Open to fractional/part-time arrangements via monthly retainer. Limited slots; depends on stage and tech stack alignment.
Do you have NDAs for stealth AI projects?+
Yes — mutual NDA standard, available before discovery call.
Building software for ai startups?
Email me what you're working on. I'll respond with a quote and a clear next step.