AI Engineering
Production-grade LLM systems, retrieval pipelines, and agents. The kind customers touch, not the kind that lives in a notebook.
- LLM apps
- RAG
- Agents
- Fine-tuning
insight19 is a small, senior team building AI systems, products, and platforms — the kind that ship to production and stay there.
We work at the edge of what models can actually do for a business today — agents that complete real tasks, retrieval systems that surface the right answer, products that wear intelligence as a feature, not a feature flag.
Most AI engagements stall at the prototype. Ours start there. We treat proofs-of-concept as decisions in waiting — architected for the production system you'll need on month six, not the demo you need on Tuesday.
Production-grade LLM systems, retrieval pipelines, and agents. The kind customers touch, not the kind that lives in a notebook.
Full-stack product work with intelligence built in — not bolted on. We design the model, the interface, and the architecture as one system.
The plumbing that makes AI reliable: pipelines, evaluation, observability. Less glamorous than the model. More important than the model.
Strategy and architecture for teams who need to know what's real, what's hype, and where to invest. Often the cheapest engagement we offer.
Have a problem that needs an actual system, not a slide deck?
Tell us what you're buildingThe model is the easy part — and increasingly, the commodity part. The hard work is figuring out what to model, what to measure, and what to leave alone. We start from the business question and work back to the smallest system that answers it.
A demo is a hypothesis. Production is a commitment. We've seen enough beautiful prototypes die at the integration layer to know the difference — and we architect from day one for the system that has to wake up at 03:00 and keep working.
We're AI-first because the technology genuinely changes what software can do. But the model is a means. Your business is the end. If a sharper prompt beats a fine-tune, we use the prompt. If neither beats a SQL query, we write the query.
AI is interesting.
Production is the work.
Paid one-week discovery. We map the problem, audit the data, and write you a brief that's useful even if you walk away.
Architecture, model choice, eval strategy, integration plan. Written before code so the build has a target, not a vibe.
First production slice in 4–8 weeks. Deployable, observable, owned by your team — not a notebook we keep on a private laptop.
Runbook, eval harness, paired sessions. We hand over to your engineers so they can extend the system without us. Then we leave.
insight19 is an engineering-led practice, working with founders, product teams, and operators across Europe and North America.
We are small by design. Every engagement is staffed with senior practitioners — the people who write the code, review the architecture, and answer your Slack on a Sunday. No layered pyramids. No discovery-phase theatre.
We're builders before we are consultants. The deliverable is rarely a deck — it's the working system, the documented architecture, and the team that knows how to keep it alive.
The first conversation is short, free, and usually ends with a clearer picture — whether or not we end up working together.