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AI MVP development for products where a model does the core work

One job for the model, judged by real users before production.

AI MVP development starts with the one job your product hands to a model. That might be answering from your documents, pulling fields out of a PDF, drafting a reply, or running a short chain of steps as an agent. We build that job into a small product people outside your team can use, score it against cases you help write, and you find out whether the output is good enough to sell before you pay for production.

The short answer

An AI MVP is a first version of a product whose core comes from a model: an assistant, an extraction step, an agent, or a generator. It ships the one model-backed job, an interface around it, a small evaluation set, and logs of every run, so real users can show whether the output earns a place in their work.

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What it does

  • The single model-backed job your product is built around, working end to end.
  • Answers drawn from the documents, records, or examples you supply, with the source shown.
  • An evaluation set of your real cases, scored before each release.
  • A record of every model call with its input, output, model, and cost.
  • A simple interface for early users, with a button to flag a bad answer.

Best for

Founders and teams whose idea only works if a model does its central task well, and who want outside users to judge that before production is on the table.

What you provide

  • Real examples of what your product will receive, and what a good result looks like for each.
  • The documents or data the model should answer from.
  • A handful of early users willing to try it and say where it falls short.

[HOW WE'D BUILD IT]

We pin down the one job the model has to do well

01 · Pick the job

Choose what the model owns

We name the single task that decides whether the product works, write down what a passing result looks like, and park every other AI idea for later.

02 · Ground and measure

Score it on your cases

The model reads from the documents or data you hand over. We collect a few dozen real cases with expected answers and run every prompt or model change against them before a user sees it.

03 · Watch real use

Read the run log

Early users work with it while we record each run and its cost. Flagged answers and the cost per run show whether the product holds up and what production would have to add.

What the MVP leaves for later

What the model gets now and what it gets at scale

Evaluation
A few dozen hand-picked cases, run before each release
A larger suite drawn from real traffic, run on every change
Monitoring
Run logs someone reads through each week
Dashboards and alerts on answer quality, latency, and spend
Fallbacks
One model, and a plain retry message when a call fails
A backup model and a set path when the primary errors or times out
Guardrails
Input limits and a manual review of flagged answers
Automated checks on inputs and outputs, sized for many users at once
Cost control
Cost per run recorded and reported
Caching, cheaper models for easy requests, and spend caps per account
Source data
A fixed set of documents you supplied at the start
Sources that sync as your data changes, with access rules per user

[TALK TO A BUILDER]

Bring the task you want a model to own

Describe what the model would read, what it would hand back, and who would rely on that answer. After a conversation about fit, paid discovery narrows it to the piece your MVP tests first.

Measured from the first release

Your cases become the evaluation set every release is scored against.

Runs you can inspect

Each call is kept with its input, its output, and what it cost.

Your code and prompts

The codebase, the prompts, and the evaluation set stay with you.

Room to grow

If users want it, monitoring and fallbacks go onto the same codebase.

[QUESTIONS]

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