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AI-First Engineering Teams

Hire AI Engineers Who Ship Production, Not Prototypes.

Hire AI engineers who ship production software, not prototypes. Our senior, AI-first engineers work your US-Eastern hours and own what generic AI tools and offshore teams typically miss — security reviews, system architecture, and production hardening — the parts that decide whether software survives contact with real users.

  • Start in 1 week
  • 4 hrs daily US-Eastern overlap
  • 1-week risk-free trial
  • 48-hour replacement
  • 100% IP + NDA day one
  • 247+ projects delivered

Trusted by 200+ companies worldwide

Side-by-Side Comparison

Traditional Team vs AI-First Engineer

Traditional Offshore Team
Groovy AI-First Engineer
01 Security & Hardening
Often an afterthought
Owned — the last 20%, done
02 Time Zone Overlap
Varies / minimal
4 hrs daily with US Eastern
03 Code Ownership
Fragmented
100% yours, NDA day one
04 Quality Assurance
Manual + limited automation
AI-powered comprehensive testing
05 DevOps Setup
Weeks to configure
Days with AI automation
06 Onboarding
1-2 months per person
1 week
07 Coordination
High (multi-person handoffs)
Minimal (1 senior + AI agents)
08 Development Speed
Baseline
AI-accelerated
09 Scaling
Hire + coordinate more people
Add 1 more AI-First engineer
10 Monthly Cost
$64,000 - $120,000
$3,520 - $7,040
Production-Grade Secure, tested, shipped
4hr overlap Live US-Eastern hours
48-hour Replacement guarantee
What You Get

Hire One AI Engineer Who Owns the Whole Delivery Path

01

Product Manager

Strategic planning, requirement gathering, prioritization, and roadmap definition powered by AI insights.

02

UI/UX Designer

AI-generated designs, wireframes, prototypes, and design systems that follow best practices.

03

Full-Stack Developer

Production-grade code for frontend, backend, APIs, and databases with AI code generation.

04

QA Engineer

AI-powered testing strategies, automated test generation, and comprehensive quality assurance.

05

DevOps Engineer

CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and automated deployments.

06

Security Expert

Automated security scanning, vulnerability detection, and compliance checks built-in.

Industries

Deep Domain Experience Where Regulation Bites

Healthcare, finance, legal and logistics — the four sectors where shipping AI means clearing compliance, auditability and security review, not just getting a model to work.

Healthcare

Clinical decision support, medical imaging, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine, and EHR automation.

Banking & Finance

Fraud detection, real-time risk scoring, intelligent trading, and conversational support agents.

Logistics & Supply Chain

Route optimization, fleet intelligence, demand prediction, and real-time shipment tracking.

Legal

Automated document review, contract intelligence, and precise, citation-grade legal research.

The Groovy Edge

What Makes Our AI Engineers Different

Velocity and cost savings are the outcome. These are the reasons teams trust us to build and ship alongside them.

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Senior & AI-First Vetted

Top-tier engineers trained to run AI Agent Teams. No juniors learning on your budget — every hire ships production code from week one.

Real Time-Zone Overlap

Four hours of daily overlap with US Eastern. Live standups and same-day answers — not an async black hole across time zones.

Direct Line, No Middle Layer

You work with the engineer building your product — not an account manager relaying messages. Decisions happen in your Slack.

Security & IP From Day One

NDA signed and 100% IP transfer before the first line of code. Your data and your product stay fully yours.

Proven, Not Experimental

247+ products shipped across healthcare, fintech, and logistics. AI-First is how we deliver every day — not a pilot.

Capabilities

Expertise of Our AI Engineers

Deep, production-tested skill across the full AI stack — from data pipelines to autonomous agents.

Model Expertise

AI Models We Have Expertise In

We pick the right model for the job — frontier, open-weight, or on-device — and optimize for accuracy, latency, and cost.

GPT-4o / 4.1 OpenAI
Claude Opus / Sonnet Anthropic
Gemini 1.5 / 2.0 Google
Llama 3 Meta
Mistral / Mixtral Mistral AI
DeepSeek DeepSeek
GLM GLM-4 Zhipu AI
Nemotron NVIDIA
Stable Diffusion Stability AI
Whisper Speech-to-text
Embeddings OpenAI / Cohere
DALL·E Image gen
Grok xAI
Phi / SLMs Microsoft
Tech Stack

The AI Tech Stack Our AI Engineers Use

A modern, battle-tested toolchain across languages, frameworks, vector stores, cloud, and MLOps.

Languages

Python TypeScript Go R SQL

LLM & Agent Frameworks

LangChain LlamaIndex LangGraph CrewAI AutoGen Semantic Kernel

ML Frameworks

PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn Hugging Face Keras

Vector Databases

Pinecone Weaviate pgvector Qdrant Chroma Milvus

Cloud & Infra

AWS Azure GCP Vercel Docker Kubernetes

MLOps & Serving

MLflow Weights & Biases BentoML Ray Triton vLLM
Fractional CTO + AI-First Engineering

See How Much You Save

Traditional team: $650K-1M/year. Fractional CTO + AI-First engineers: $240-420K/year. Calculate your exact savings below.

6 months
8 specialists
$8,000 /month
1 AI-First engineer
Traditional Team + CTO Cost
$384,000
8 specialists + CTO ($25K/mo) x 6 months
Fractional CTO + AI Team
$21,120
Fractional CTO + 1 AI engineer x 6 months
Total Savings
$362,880
94% cost reduction
Time Saved
4 months
3x faster delivery with strategic CTO guidance
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Fractional CTO included · No long-term commitment · Cancel anytime

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Our Process

How AI Agent Teams Deliver Your Project

01

Discovery & Strategy

AI agents analyze requirements and market data to build a precise blueprint.

1-3 Days
02

Architecture & Design

AI-first system design with UI/UX prototypes and technical planning.

3-5 Days
03

AI Sprint Build

6 AI specialists work in parallel with continuous integration and production-grade delivery.

1-4 Weeks
04

QA & Launch

Automated testing validates every component. Zero-downtime deployment from day one.

2-3 Days
05

Iterate & Scale

AI agents monitor, optimize, and ship improvements. Evolve faster than competition.

Ongoing
Zero-Risk Hiring

Your Investment is Protected

Every engagement comes with built-in protections so you can hire with confidence.

01

1-Week Risk-Free Trial

Work with your AI-First Engineer for a full week. Not the right fit? You pay nothing.

02

48-Hour Replacement

If your engineer is not the right fit, we assign a replacement within 48 hours at no extra cost.

03

100% IP Ownership

Every line of code, every design, every document belongs to you. Full NDA signed on day one.

04

Milestone-Based Payment

Pay for results, not hours. Payments tied to clear deliverables you approve at each stage.

05

Cancel Anytime

No 12-month lock-ins. No penalties. Month-to-month flexibility after your initial sprint.

How We Work With You

AI-First Engagement Models

02

Embedded AI-First Team

Your team, AI-augmented. Full-time or part-time.

Our AI-augmented senior engineers integrate directly with your existing team, bringing AI Agent Teams methodology — each ships production-grade features and owns security, testing, and DevOps, not just code.

Best for:
  • Ongoing product development
  • Scaling engineering without scaling headcount
  • Teams adopting AI-First practices
  • Long-term partnerships
Custom pricing
Monthly
03

Fractional AI-First CTO

Strategic AI leadership on demand.

A battle-tested AI architect embedded in your leadership team. Architecture reviews, AI strategy, team training, vendor evaluation, and technical roadmap — without the $300K+ full-time CTO cost.

Best for:
  • Startups without a technical co-founder
  • Companies beginning AI transformation
  • Architecture decisions and code reviews
  • AI infrastructure cost optimization
$5K - $15K/mo
Ongoing
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About Hiring AI Engineers

AI Sprint packages from $15K or $3,520–$7,040/month for full-time engagement.

One senior AI-First Engineer covers the whole delivery team:

  • Product Manager
  • UI/UX Designer
  • Full-Stack Developer
  • QA Engineer
  • DevOps Engineer
  • Security Expert

Cost Comparison:

  • Traditional 8-person team: $64,000–$120,000/month
  • AI-First Engineer: $3,520–$7,040/month
  • Savings: 80-90%

Use our ROI calculator to see your exact savings.

Our AI-First Engineers orchestrate AI Agent Teams — 6+ specialized AI agents that handle product strategy, design, code generation, testing, DevOps, and security in parallel. The engineer acts as the architect and orchestrator, directing AI agents to deliver production-grade software fast. It's not one person doing 8 jobs — it's one senior engineer directing AI to handle them, and owning the security and architecture AI tools miss.
Yes. We offer a 1-week risk-free trial. Work with your AI-First Engineer for a full week. If you're not satisfied with the results, you pay nothing. No questions asked.
We provide a 48-hour replacement guarantee. If your assigned engineer doesn't meet expectations for any reason, we assign a replacement within 48 hours at no additional cost.
You own 100% of everything we build — every line of code, every design, every document. We sign a comprehensive NDA on day one and provide full code handover upon project completion. Your IP is always yours.
1-2 weeks from your initial call. The process: discovery call, requirement alignment, engineer matching, and kickoff. For urgent projects, we can sometimes start within days.
Our engineers are proficient in all major tech stacks (React, Next.js, Node.js, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, Python, PHP, and more) and leverage leading AI tools including Claude, GPT-4, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and custom AI agents. We match the right tech stack to your project needs.
MVPs and new product launches, SaaS platforms, mobile apps, enterprise tools, AI/ML integrations, system modernization, and e-commerce platforms. If it involves building software, AI-First Engineering delivers it faster.
Those platforms match you with individual freelancers or specialists — you still need to hire 5-8 people for a full team. We provide one AI-augmented engineer who operates as a complete product team using AI Agent Teams methodology. Result: production-grade delivery, real US-hours overlap, and zero coordination overhead.
Three models: Sprint-Based AI Build ($3K-$60K, 1-10 weeks) for fixed-scope projects, Embedded AI-First Team (custom pricing, monthly) for ongoing development, and Fractional AI-First CTO ($5K-$15K/mo) for strategic AI leadership. All models include flexible terms — no long-term lock-ins.
No — the quality is production-grade. Our engineers are senior-level professionals augmented by AI tools that let them ship production-grade software fast. The efficiency gains from AI Agent Teams methodology allow us to deliver premium results at accessible rates, and every engagement includes the security review, architecture, and production hardening that cheaper options leave out.
Yes. We offer ongoing maintenance, monitoring, performance optimization, and feature iteration through our Embedded AI-First Team model. Many clients start with a sprint build and transition to ongoing engagement for continuous improvement.

Discuss your support needs →

Submit your project details through Request a Free Quote — we reply within 4 business hours, match you with a senior AI-first engineer, and you start with a 1-week risk-free trial. Choose Sprint-Based, Embedded, or Fractional CTO depending on whether you need a project delivered, an ongoing team member, or strategic leadership.
Verified Results

Results From AI Engineers We Shipped to Production

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