Generative AI Development Company

RaftLabs is a generative AI development company that builds production-grade AI products, not demos. We've shipped 100+ products for clients including Vodafone, T-Mobile, Cisco, Nike, and Energia. RAG pipelines, LLM fine-tuning, AI agents, voice AI, and multimodal systems, built around your data and deployed to production.
Most GenAI projects fail between demo and production. The gap isn't the model, it's the architecture, the evaluation, and the engineering discipline to make AI reliable at scale. We've crossed that gap 25+ times. Fixed cost agreed before development starts. Typical engagement: $30K to $200K, 8 to 16 weeks.

See our work
  • 100+ products shipped, including RAG, agents, voice AI, and fine-tuned models

  • Production deployments for Vodafone, Cisco, T-Mobile, and Nike, not demo-grade prototypes

  • Fixed cost agreed before we write a line of code: no mid-project surprises

  • 4.9/5 on Clutch, independent reviews from real clients

Recent outcomes

Voice AI · Research

Text-based interviews converted to automated phone calls

6× deeper insights

AI Automation · Ops

Manual invoice OCR across 40+ gas stations

20k+ txns day one

Loyalty · Retail

SuperValu & Centra loyalty platform with receipt validation

1,062 users in 4 weeks

SaaS · Logistics

Multi-carrier shipping hub for Indonesian eCommerce

2,000+ shipments yr 1
4.9 / 5 on ClutchSee all work

Recognition

Sound familiar?

  • Two AI vendors quoted this project, one at $800K and one at 'we need more discovery', and neither has shipped a production GenAI product you can reference?

  • Six months into your generative AI project and it still lives in a demo environment, not production?

In short

RaftLabs is a generative AI development company that builds RAG pipelines, fine-tuned LLMs, AI agents, multimodal systems, and voice AI products for enterprise and mid-market clients. We've shipped 100+ products since 2019 for clients including Vodafone, Cisco, T-Mobile, Energia, and Nike. Engagements run $30,000 to $200,000 depending on scope, with typical delivery in 8 to 16 weeks. Fixed cost is agreed before development starts. We work with GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, and Llama, selecting the right model for your cost, latency, and data privacy requirements. You own all code, model weights, and infrastructure at project end.

Trusted by

Vodafone
Nike
Microsoft
Cisco
T-Mobile
Aldi
Heineken
GE

Proof first, then the pitch

Two things most GenAI vendors can't show you: production deployments with named clients, and a fixed cost you can take to a budget meeting.

We can show both. 100+ products shipped. Vodafone, Cisco, T-Mobile, Nike, and Energia on the client list. 4.9 out of 5 on Clutch with independent reviews. Every project quoted at fixed cost before development starts.

If you're evaluating generative AI development companies, that's the comparison test. Ask the others for client names and production evidence.

Capabilities

What we build

RAG and knowledge base products

Retrieval-augmented generation systems that ground your LLM in your actual data: product documentation, support tickets, contracts, policies, and internal knowledge bases. The model retrieves the right content before generating a response. Every answer comes with citations to the source document. Accuracy measured against a held-out evaluation set before launch, not eyeballed in development. We've built RAG systems for enterprise knowledge search, customer support automation, compliance Q&A, and document intelligence across healthcare, logistics, and professional services.

AI agents and automation

Autonomous agents that execute multi-step workflows: researching, deciding, and acting across your business systems without a human in the loop for every step. Connected to your CRM, databases, APIs, calendars, and communication tools. Agent architecture covers tool definition, failure handling for long-running chains, and human-in-the-loop escalation for decisions that need oversight. See also: AI agent development.

LLM integration and fine-tuning

LLM integration into your existing products, and fine-tuning when a general model isn't accurate enough for your domain. Fine-tuning use cases: domain vocabulary a general model gets wrong, output format the base model can't match consistently, accuracy on a narrow task that prompting alone can't achieve. We handle dataset curation, training runs, evaluation, and deployment. For integration without fine-tuning, we connect GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, or Llama to your existing systems via API with authentication, logging, and cost controls. See also: LLM fine-tuning.

Voice AI

Voice-to-voice AI products and voice-enabled automations: inbound call handling, voice-based data collection, voice search, and spoken Q&A from structured knowledge bases. Built with production-grade speech-to-text (Whisper, Deepgram), LLM reasoning, and text-to-speech. We've shipped voice AI for hospitality, HR screening, and customer operations. Latency tuned for real conversations, not async transcription. See also: voice AI development.

Multimodal AI

Pipelines that generate, analyse, and process images, video, and documents. Product image generation, visual data extraction from scanned documents, quality inspection from production line images, and automated media processing for content-heavy operations. Built on GPT-4o with vision, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and specialised vision models depending on your task and accuracy requirements.

GenAI product engineering

Full GenAI product builds: user interface, backend, AI layer, integrations, and deployment, not just the API wrapper. We build the complete product your users interact with, authenticated, monitored, and maintainable. This is the difference between a proof of concept and software that runs in production. 100+ products shipped. We know what the gap between demo and production looks like, and how to close it.

What does your GenAI product need to do in production?

Tell us the business problem. We'll scope the architecture, name the cost, and show you proof from clients who've been in the same position.

How we deliver

Process

From problem to production in three phases

  1. Step 01
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    Discovery and architecture

    We start with the business problem, not the technology. What output does your user need? What data does the AI need access to? What does accuracy look like for your specific use case? This shapes model selection, retrieval architecture, evaluation criteria, and integration design. Output: a scoped architecture document and a fixed-cost proposal with milestone delivery dates. No cost commitment from you until you've seen the plan and agreed the price.

  2. Step 02
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    Build and evaluate

    We build a working prototype in the first 2 to 3 weeks so you can test the AI against real inputs before committing to the full build. From there, we complete the data pipeline, integrate your systems, build the user-facing product, and run accuracy evaluation against a held-out test set. Guardrails, logging, authentication, and error handling are built in, not added after launch.

  3. Step 03
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    Production deployment

    We deploy to your infrastructure, run load testing, configure monitoring, document the system, and hand over the codebase with a walk-through for your team. You own everything: the application code, model weights, vector indices, infrastructure, and deployment configuration. Optional support retainer available if you want us on-call after launch.

Frequently asked questions

A real generative AI development company ships products that work in production, not demos. The markers: named client references with quantifiable outcomes, production deployments (not pilots), architecture decisions that go beyond chaining OpenAI API calls, RAG pipelines with accuracy evaluation, fine-tuning experience on domain-specific data, and engineers who have debugged latency, hallucination, and reliability at scale. An API wrapper shop connects your prompt to an LLM, wraps it in a UI, and calls it done. The difference shows up the first time something breaks in production. We've shipped 25+ GenAI products end to end. We can name the clients. We can show you what they measure.

We work with GPT-4o (OpenAI), Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus (Anthropic), Gemini 1.5 Pro (Google), Llama 3 (Meta), and Mistral. Model selection depends on your task, cost, latency, context window requirements, and data privacy constraints. For data that cannot leave your infrastructure, we deploy Llama 3 or Mistral on your own servers. For regulated data with compliance requirements, we use Azure OpenAI or AWS Bedrock, both of which offer HIPAA BAAs and data residency controls. We're model-agnostic. We pick what fits your problem, not what's easiest for us.

RAG is the right choice when your knowledge base changes frequently, when accuracy and citations matter, when you need the model to answer from specific documents rather than general training data, or when your knowledge base is too large to include in context. Fine-tuning is the right choice when you need to change the model's tone or domain vocabulary, when a narrow task needs higher accuracy than prompting alone achieves, or when you need a smaller, faster, cheaper model that matches a larger model's performance on a specific task. Most enterprise GenAI products we build use RAG for knowledge-grounded answers and optionally fine-tune a smaller model for speed and cost at production volume. We assess which approach fits your use case during discovery and explain the trade-offs before you commit.

A focused single-capability build (a domain-specific chatbot, a document Q&A tool, a single-agent automation) typically runs $30,000 to $80,000 in 8 to 12 weeks. A multi-capability AI product (RAG plus agents plus a user-facing interface) typically runs $80,000 to $150,000 in 12 to 16 weeks. Projects requiring custom fine-tuning and enterprise deployment infrastructure run $150,000 to $200,000 and beyond. We give fixed-cost quotes for well-scoped projects. You know the number before we start.

A working prototype takes 2 to 3 weeks. A production-ready single-capability product takes 8 to 12 weeks. A multi-capability product typically takes 12 to 16 weeks. Timeline is driven by data complexity, number of integrations, whether fine-tuning is in scope, and compliance requirements. We scope the project before quoting so the timeline you see in the proposal is the timeline you hold us to, not an estimate that grows.

Production-grade means the system performs reliably for real users at real volume, not just in a controlled demo. Specifically: retrieval accuracy measured against a held-out evaluation set before launch, not eyeballed in development. Latency tested at your expected request volume, not just single-query response time. Hallucination guardrails with fallback responses when retrieval confidence is below threshold. Authentication, audit logging, and error handling built in. Monitoring so you know when quality degrades. A codebase your team can maintain, or that we can maintain for you. Infrastructure you own and can operate without us. Demo-grade skips most of this. We don't.

You do. All application code, fine-tuned model weights, training data pipelines, vector indices, and deployment infrastructure transfer to you at project end. We don't retain IP, use proprietary frameworks that create lock-in, or require you to use our infrastructure. The handover includes documentation, a walk-through session for your team, and optional ongoing support if you want it. The project ends with you fully in control.

Work with us

Tell us what you need. We'll tell you what it would take.

We scope Generative AI Development Company in 30 minutes. You walk away with a clear cost, timeline, and approach. No commitment required.

  • Scope and cost agreed before work starts. No surprises. No obligation.
  • Working prototype within 3 weeks of kickoff.
  • Pay by milestone. You see progress before each invoice.
  • 60-day post-launch warranty. Bug fixes, UI tweaks, and deployment support. No retainer.
  • All conversations are NDA-protected.