LIONS AISolutions
AI engineering partner

AI systems that earn their place in production

Most AI projects stall between the demo and the deployment. We specialise in the half nobody posts about — grounding, evaluation, latency and cost — so your system is still trustworthy on its thousandth conversation.

6 yrs
Building AI systems
60+
Products shipped
94%
Client retention

Trusted by teams shipping real systems

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Challenges we solve

The problems that stall AI projects

Every one of these is something we have been called in to fix after someone else shipped it.

Your AI demo won't survive production

A notebook that impresses in a meeting falls over at 500 concurrent users. We build for the second day, not the demo.

The model confidently makes things up

Hallucination is a retrieval problem before it is a model problem. We fix the grounding layer first.

Nobody can explain what the system did

Every answer we ship can be traced to the passage it came from, with scores you can inspect.

Costs scale faster than usage

Careful caching, right-sized models and tight context budgets keep inference spend predictable.

Your data is scattered and unstructured

PDFs, wikis, ticket histories, spreadsheets. We turn messy sources into a queryable knowledge layer.

Internal teams are stretched thin

We embed alongside your engineers, ship with them, and hand over something they can own.

How we work

Four phases, and you can stop after any of them

Every phase produces something useful on its own. No phase depends on you committing to the next.

01

Discovery

1–2 weeks

We map the problem, the data, and the constraints. You get a written technical assessment with a recommended architecture and a cost model — useful even if you stop there.

  • Technical assessment
  • Architecture proposal
  • Cost + latency model
  • Risk register
02

Prototype

2–4 weeks

A working slice of the real system against your real data. Not a mockup. We measure retrieval quality and answer accuracy before committing to a full build.

  • Working prototype
  • Evaluation harness
  • Quality baseline
  • Go / no-go recommendation
03

Build

6–16 weeks

Two-week increments, demoed live. Your team has repository access from day one. Every increment is deployable, tested and documented.

  • Production system
  • Test suite
  • CI/CD pipeline
  • Runbooks
04

Operate & hand over

Ongoing

Monitoring, evaluation dashboards and on-call during stabilisation. We train your engineers to own it, then step back to whatever support level you want.

  • Observability stack
  • Eval dashboards
  • Team enablement
  • Support agreement
The team

Thirty people, organised around ownership

60+
Products shipped
From first commit to live traffic
7
Industries served
Telecom to healthcare to fintech
6 yrs
Building AI systems
Since well before the hype cycle
94%
Client retention
Most engagements become long-term
18 engineers

Engineering

Backend, data and ML engineers who ship to production.

5 specialists

AI Research

Retrieval quality, evaluation and model selection.

4 designers

Design

Product and interface design for complex tooling.

3 leads

Delivery

Engagement management and client communication.

In their words

What clients say when the project is over

“They rebuilt our retrieval layer and our support deflection rate went from 19% to 54% in six weeks. The difference was grounding, not a bigger model.”
Head of Customer Operations
Regional telecom operator
“The only vendor that showed us their evaluation numbers before asking for a build budget. That bought a lot of trust.”
VP Engineering
Payments platform
“We kept the team on after launch. They write the kind of code our own engineers wanted to inherit.”
CTO
Healthcare SaaS

Let's talk about what you're building

Tell us the problem. We'll tell you honestly whether AI is the right tool, and what it would take.