AI-Augmented Engineering Teams

AI tools + skilled devs.
That's how you ship 3x faster.

Engineering teams — part-time or full-time, monthly — who combine AI tools with senior dev expertise to build, ship, and operate systems that would normally take a team twice the size and three times the budget.

Claude / Anthropic Cursor IDE GitHub Copilot Microsoft Azure AI Arize AI Observability LangChain / LangSmith OpenAI API AWS Bedrock Hugging Face MLflow Weights & Biases Vercel AI SDK Claude / Anthropic Cursor IDE GitHub Copilot Microsoft Azure AI Arize AI Observability LangChain / LangSmith OpenAI API AWS Bedrock Hugging Face MLflow Weights & Biases Vercel AI SDK
The Hiring Problem

You can't hire fast enough to keep up

The best engineers cost $200K+, take months to find, and your competitors are bidding on the same people. Meanwhile, projects stall, backlogs grow, and the business waits.

Senior roles open for 4–6 months with no qualified candidates
AI pilots stall because no one has time to take them to production
Teams stretched thin — building new features AND maintaining systems
Budget for 5 engineers, but you need the output of 15
Competitors shipping faster because they figured this out already
The Multiplier Effect

AI tools + skilled devs = 3–5x your current output

AI handles the volume. Engineers handle the judgment. Together, a 4-person team delivers what used to take 12 — at a fraction of the cost, on a 24-hour cycle that never stops.

Ship features, automations, and AI systems in weeks — not quarters
Engineers who build with AI tools from day one — not learning on your dime
12-hour timezone advantage — your pipeline runs while you sleep
Scale up or down monthly — no recruiting, no severance, no downtime
From FDA submissions to demand forecasting — domain expertise included

Same project. Two approaches.

What happens when you pair AI tools with engineers who know how to use them — versus either one alone.

Traditional Team (Devs Only)Slower
// Demand forecasting project Timeline: 6 months Team size: 8 engineers + 2 data scientists Cost: $1.2M fully loaded // Manual data pipeline construction // Custom model built from scratch // 3 months just cleaning data // Forecast accuracy: 68% // Maintenance: 2 FTEs ongoing // The business waited 6 months // to get a forecast that was // barely better than a spreadsheet.
⚠ Slow to deliver · Expensive to build · Expensive to maintain · Modest accuracy improvement
AI + Black Gibbon Engineers✓ 3–5x Faster
// Same demand forecasting project Timeline: 14 weeks Team size: 3 engineers (AI-augmented) Cost: $280K all-in // AI agents handle data pipelines // Engineers architect the system // Pre-trained models fine-tuned // on client's actual data // Forecast accuracy: 90% // Maintenance: overnight monitoring // Business had answers in weeks. // $40M saved in year one.
✓ 3x faster · 77% lower cost · Higher accuracy · 24-hour monitoring included

You get a team that
never stops shipping.

AI tools let a small team do the work of a large one. Our engineers know how to wield those tools. Your business gets faster timelines, lower costs, and systems that actually work in production.

01

Tell us the business problem

Slow FDA submissions? Manual claims processing? Forecast errors costing millions? We start with what the business needs — not which AI framework is trending on Hacker News.

02

AI + engineers build it together

AI tools handle the grunt work — data pipelines, boilerplate code, document processing, pattern recognition. Our engineers handle the architecture, domain logic, integrations, and everything that requires judgment and context.

03

It ships — and keeps getting better

Your system goes to production in weeks, not quarters. Our Hanoi team monitors, improves, and extends it overnight. You wake up to performance reports, updated models, and new features ready for review.

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AI Systems & Automation

Build · Deploy · Monitor

We design and build AI systems that solve real business problems — demand forecasting, document processing, defect detection, alert triage, fraud detection. Not demos. Production systems with human oversight at every critical decision point.

Computer VisionNLP / RAGPredictive ModelsWorkflow Automation
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Supplemental Engineering Teams

Monthly · Part-Time or Full-Time

Embedded dev pods that extend your team — not replace it. Senior engineers fluent in the AI/ML stack who write code, review AI output, build integrations, and ship features. 12-hour timezone advantage means your pipeline never stops.

Full-Stack DevCode ReviewSystem IntegrationCI/CD
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ML Ops & Model Management

Ongoing · 24-Hour Cycle

AI doesn't ship and forget. We monitor model performance, catch drift, retrain on new data, and redeploy — overnight. Fine-tuning, inference pipelines, and production observability across Azure, AWS, and on-prem environments.

Model MonitoringRetraining PipelinesArize / W&BAzure ML / Bedrock
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Security, QA & Compliance

Monthly · Flexible Hours

AI outputs need validation — whether it's code, regulatory documents, or patient data. We run security audits, compliance checks (FDA, HIPAA, SOC 2), data quality validation, and domain-specific QA across every AI-generated output.

OWASP / SASTRegulatory ComplianceDomain ValidationData Quality

Fluent in every tool your team uses — and the ones they should

Our engineers don't just use AI tools. They understand the architecture, failure modes, and best practices behind each one.

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Claude / Anthropic

Code gen · Review · Agents

Cursor IDE

AI-native development

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GitHub Copilot

Inline AI completion

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Microsoft Azure AI

Inference · Training · Deploy

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Arize AI

Observability · Drift · Evals

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LangChain / LangSmith

Agent orchestration

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Weights & Biases

Experiment tracking

🏗️

AWS Bedrock

Managed model hosting

🤗

Hugging Face

Open models · Fine-tuning

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MLflow

Model lifecycle mgmt

Vercel AI SDK

Streaming · Edge deploy

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Docker / K8s

Container orchestration

3–5x

More output per engineer when AI tools are used effectively

60%

Average cost reduction vs. building the same team in-house

14 wk

Average time from kickoff to production system

24hr

Continuous dev cycle — Irvine days, Hanoi nights

They had real problems. We shipped real solutions.

Hiring freezes, budget cuts, broken AI pilots. Here's what happened when these companies brought us in.

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14→5 wk
Submission timeline
Medical Devices · Irvine

Two senior RA specialists quit the same month. AI document assembly kept the FDA pipeline moving — and cut submission time by 64%.

Irvine heart valve manufacturer with 3 devices stuck in 510(k) limbo. Regulatory team cut in half. Couldn't backfill — experienced RA specialists wanted $200K+ with 3-month notice periods. We built a RAG pipeline trained on 12 years of their approved submissions. Our overnight team reviews every AI-generated section so the US team wakes up to pre-validated drafts. Zero Refuse to Accept letters since deployment.

$380KAnnual savings
0RTA letters
60%Workload reduction
RAGClaudePythonAWS
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$20M
Respins avoided
Semiconductors · Irvine

Two consecutive $11M respins. The board said fix verification or kill the product line. AI found 23 bugs that 18 months of manual testing missed.

Irvine wireless chipmaker bleeding cash on silicon respins. 14,000 test cases and still shipping bugs. Couldn't hire more verification engineers — the 4 they needed would cost $1.2M/yr and take 6 months to onboard. We deployed RL agents that explore the design state space overnight. Found a race condition that would have bricked 100K units in the field. Zero respins since.

0Respins (was 2/yr)
40%Faster tapeout
3xCoverage per engineer
RLPythonSystemVerilogAWS
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34→12 d
Claims processing
Insurance · Newport Beach

Three senior adjusters retired. Backlog growing by 200 claims/week. AI pre-screening cut processing time 65% — without replacing a single person.

Newport Beach life insurer drowning in a 34-day claims backlog. Customer satisfaction at a 5-year low. Experienced adjusters demanding $95K+ and getting multiple offers. Tried outsourcing to a BPO — quality tanked so badly they pulled back in 6 months. We built AI claims pre-screening that handles document extraction, policy cross-referencing, and routing. Adjusters now handle 2.3x more cases each.

65%Faster processing
1.4%Error rate (was 8.2%)
+28CSAT points
OCRNLPPythonReact
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11 min
Mean time to detect
Cybersecurity · Irvine

A zero-day hit three Fortune 500 clients at once. Their SOC took 4 hours to connect the dots. AI correlation now does it in 11 minutes.

Irvine endpoint security firm monitoring 50M endpoints. Rule-based detection caught known threats but missed novel attacks. Adding new detection rules took 2-3 weeks — attackers innovated daily. After a customer called their response time "unacceptable," they needed a fundamentally different approach. Our AI correlation engine analyzes behavioral patterns across the entire fleet in real time.

4hr→11mDetection time
340%Novel threat catch rate
-45%Customer churn
MLPythonKafkaElasticsearch
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-41%
ER wait times
Healthcare · Newport Beach

ER on ambulance diversion 22% of the time. AI admission prediction cut wait times 41% — without adding a single bed.

3-hospital network losing $12K per diversion. Patients boarding 8+ hours in the ER. Two experienced charge nurses left for outpatient clinics. Budget for new beds: zero. We built admission prediction models that forecast volume 24-48 hours out using ER census, flu surveillance, and community event data. Bed management algorithms optimize discharge timing. Staff overtime dropped 25%.

22%→6%Diversion rate
$8.4MRevenue recovered
+18%Bed utilization
MLPythonReactHL7/FHIR
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AI agents that automate
your enterprise workflows

We build, deploy, and monitor AI agents that plug into your existing ERP, CRM, and back-office systems — with human oversight at every critical junction.

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Ingest

Connect to SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or any API

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AI Agent

Claude / GPT agent interprets, classifies, and routes tasks

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Human Gate

Senior dev reviews agent decisions on high-value actions

Execute

Approved actions pushed back to ERP / CRM / database

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Monitor

Arize tracks accuracy, drift, and anomalies in real-time

🏗️ SAP Integration

Automated purchase order processing for a $2B manufacturer

Built a Claude-powered agent that reads incoming PO emails, extracts line items, validates against SAP MM master data, and creates purchase orders automatically — with human approval required for orders over $50K. Reduced manual data entry by 85% and cut PO cycle time from 3 days to 4 hours.

85%
Less manual entry
4 hrs
PO cycle (was 3 days)
ClaudeSAP MMLangChainAzure
📊 Oracle ERP

Intelligent invoice reconciliation across 14 subsidiaries

Deployed an AI agent that matches incoming invoices against Oracle ERP purchase orders, flags discrepancies, and auto-approves matches within tolerance thresholds. For a multi-subsidiary energy company processing 12,000+ invoices/month. Human reviewers only handle the 8% flagged as exceptions — down from 100% manual review.

12K+
Invoices/month
92%
Auto-approved
GPT-4Oracle ERPArizePython
💼 Salesforce CRM

AI-driven lead scoring and auto-routing for enterprise sales

Built an agent that ingests Salesforce leads, enriches them with firmographic data via API, scores using a fine-tuned model, and routes to the right sales rep — all within 90 seconds of lead creation. Human sales managers review AI scoring weekly via a dashboard, with W&B tracking model accuracy against closed-won outcomes.

90 sec
Lead-to-route time
34%
Higher conversion
ClaudeSalesforceW&BBedrock
🎫 ServiceNow

IT ticket triage agent that auto-classifies and escalates

Replaced a manual L1 triage process with a Claude-powered agent that reads ServiceNow tickets, classifies by category and urgency, suggests resolution from the knowledge base, and escalates to the right team. Handles 3,500+ tickets/week for a Fortune 500 telco. Human-in-the-loop reviews all P1/P2 escalations before routing.

3.5K
Tickets/week
73%
Auto-resolved
ClaudeServiceNowLangSmithAzure AI
🔄 SAP S/4HANA

Demand planning agent for a global supply chain

Built an AI agent that pulls SAP S/4HANA sales history, combines with external market signals, and generates weekly demand forecasts per SKU per region. The agent auto-adjusts safety stock levels and flags anomalies. ML engineers set up Arize drift monitoring so when forecast accuracy drops below thresholds, human planners are alerted immediately.

2,400
SKUs forecasted
22%
Less overstock
PythonSAP S/4HANAArizeMLflow
👥 Workday HCM

Employee onboarding agent across HR, IT, and facilities

Created a multi-system orchestration agent that triggers from Workday new-hire events and automatically provisions Active Directory accounts, assigns Okta SSO apps, creates Jira onboarding tickets, schedules orientation in Google Calendar, and orders equipment via ServiceNow — all with human HR approval gates for access-level decisions.

6 hrs
Onboard time (was 5 days)
100%
Provision accuracy
ClaudeWorkdayLangChainOkta

Every automation agent we build includes human approval gates, observability dashboards, and rollback capability. AI handles the volume — humans handle the judgment calls.

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Common questions

Everything you need to know about working with our AI-augmented dev teams.

Our engineers are fluent in Claude (Anthropic), Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI APIs for code generation. For MLOps, we use Arize for observability, Weights & Biases for experiment tracking, MLflow for model lifecycle, and deploy on Azure AI, AWS Bedrock, or GCP Vertex depending on your stack. We also work extensively with LangChain/LangSmith for agent orchestration.

You get a dedicated senior engineer (~20 hours/week) who integrates with your GitHub/GitLab workflow. They review every AI-generated PR for security, architecture, and correctness. Billed monthly, cancel anytime. Most clients start here and scale up as they see results.

Absolutely. We help teams configure Cursor workspaces, write custom Claude system prompts for their codebase, set up Copilot enterprise policies, and build internal AI coding guidelines. We also train your existing devs on prompt engineering best practices for code generation.

Yes. Our ML engineers handle fine-tuning workflows on Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, or custom GPU infrastructure. We set up training pipelines, manage datasets, run evals, and deploy models to production with proper monitoring via Arize and W&B.

Two things: AI fluency and the human-in-the-loop model. Traditional shops write code from scratch. We leverage AI tools to move 3–5x faster, then apply senior human judgment for security, compliance, domain validation, and production readiness. Whether it's AI-generated code, ML model outputs, or automated document processing — our team validates everything before it ships. Our 12-hour timezone advantage means reviews, retraining, and monitoring happen overnight — you wake up to hardened, validated results.

Every PR goes through our security checklist: SAST scanning, secrets detection, OWASP Top 10 review, dependency auditing, and prompt injection testing for AI-facing code. We also set up automated security gates in your CI/CD pipeline so nothing ships without passing these checks.

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