That's the standard starting point. The brief process includes identifying the highest-ROI use case — usually the repetitive text-heavy task your team hates most — then a one-week proof of concept before bigger commitment.
Hand-verified specialists
Hire vetted freelance AI developers
Every business wants "AI in the product" — few know what that concretely means. Our AI developers are hand-verified builders who turn the buzzword into shipped features: assistants, document processing, automation, search.
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What they do
What our vetted AI Developers take off your plate
- Customer-facing AI assistants trained on your data
- Document processing: extract, classify, summarize at scale
- RAG systems: reliable answers over your knowledge base
- Workflow automation with LLMs replacing manual steps
- Integrating OpenAI/Claude APIs into existing products
- Model choice and cost engineering (quality per dollar)
Rates
Typical freelance rates in 2026
| Level | Typical hourly rate | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | $40–75/hr | Integrations, chatbots |
| Senior | $65–120/hr | RAG, product AI features |
| Specialist/lead | $100–160/hr | Complex systems, fine-tuning |
Indicative market ranges; your matched specialist quotes an exact rate in the brief. Billing is weekly and processed only after you confirm satisfaction — so the rate is never a leap of faith.
How it works
From brief to shipped work in three steps
1. Describe the work
Share the goal, constraints and timeline. We turn it into a structured brief — no technical writing required from you.
2. Meet your match
We match you with a hand-verified specialist whose stack and track record fit — not a stack of proposals to screen.
3. Confirm weekly, pay weekly
Progress is tracked in a shared workspace. Each week you review — and payment is processed only after you approve.
FAQ
Common questions
Guardrails are the craft: retrieval grounding, output validation, fallbacks to humans, evaluation sets. Verified specialists build those in from day one — that discipline is exactly what we vet for.
Proofs of concept: $2–6k. Production features: $5–20k depending on integration depth. Weekly approve-first billing means you can stop at the PoC if the value isn't obvious.
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Tell us what you're building
Describe the project once. We structure the brief, match you with a hand-verified specialist, and you pay weekly — only after you confirm you're satisfied.
