Hire AI developers who ship to production.
Engineers who have put AI into live products used by real customers: voice agents taking calls, chat over private documents, recommendations and automations. Built with test sets, monitoring and cost limits, not just a demo.
- AI feature
- $5k – $8k fixed
- Timeline
- 2 weeks
- AI agent setup
- from from $1.5k
- Live AI products
- 7 shipped
Who it’s built for.
- Product teams adding an AI feature without hiring an AI specialist
- Companies that built an AI demo and need it to work reliably
- Founders building an AI-first product from scratch
- Operations teams automating work with AI agents
What makes AI work in production
Getting a language model to answer well once is easy. Getting it to answer well ten thousand times, at a cost you can predict, without leaking data, is the actual work. That needs test sets, guardrails, monitoring and someone who has done it before.
Seven of the eleven products we have launched use AI in production, including a bilingual voice receptionist and AI-assisted consumer apps. That is the experience you are hiring.
What’s included
In scope
- Chat and search over your own documents and data
- AI agents that take actions in your tools
- Voice agents for calls and bookings
- Summaries, classification, extraction and recommendations
- Test sets that measure quality before every release
- Monitoring, cost limits and fallbacks
Available as add-ons
- Training foundation models from scratch
- Model fine-tuning beyond what the use case needs
- Ongoing model and token costs, which you pay directly
How it runs, week by week.
Use case call
What the AI must do, what good looks like, and what data it can use.
Test set
Real examples with the right answers, so quality is measured, not guessed.
Build
Model choice, prompts, retrieval and integration, scored against the test set.
Ship
Monitoring, cost limits and fallbacks in place, then live.
AI development pricing
Prices in US dollars.
| Factor | Effect on price |
|---|---|
| Your own data pipeline | Adds $1,000 – $3,000 |
| Voice instead of text | Adds $1,500 – $4,000 |
| Agent actions in other tools | Adds $1,000 – $3,000 |
| Extra languages | Adds $500 – $1,500 each |
Paid in milestones: 50% to start, 40% when you can use it on staging, 10% at launch (40/40/20 on larger projects). Prices are set for each market, not converted at the day’s exchange rate.
Questions, answered.
How much does it cost to hire an AI developer?
Experienced AI engineers in the US earn well above typical software salaries, and contractors often charge $100 to $250 an hour. An AI feature from us has a fixed price, shown above in your currency.
Which AI models do you use?
Whichever fits the job on quality, speed, cost and data rules. That includes models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, and open models you can host yourself.
Will our data be used to train models?
No. We use provider settings and contracts that exclude your data from training, and we can keep sensitive data in your own cloud.
How do you know the AI is good enough?
Every feature has a test set of real examples. We report the score before launch and re-run it before every change.
Can you fix an AI feature someone else built?
Yes. We start by measuring it against a test set, then fix what the numbers show.
Your v1 could be live next month.
Tell us what you are building. Get a fixed scope and price in writing within 24 hours.
Prefer email? hello@v1build.com