San Francisco is the center of gravity for AI product development, and the bar for a technical partner is high. Smerdoff builds custom AI features, chatbots and automation for SF-based companies remotely, working at the pace and depth an in-house AI hire would.
support and product chatbots built on your own data
LLM-driven automation replacing manual internal processes
AI capabilities added into an existing SF product
retrieval-augmented systems over internal or product data
SF AI teams often need extra engineering hands faster than they can hire; we plug in on Pacific-hours overlap and start shipping within days, not months.
We work with the LLM stacks SF teams already use, focused on shipping something reliable rather than chasing the newest model release.
Whether you are an AI-native startup shipping your core product or an established SF company adding AI to an existing one, we scope the engagement to match.
Useful for SF-based companies that need custom AI development without waiting on a slow local hiring process.
Common projects include AI chatbots, internal workflow automation, RAG-based search over company data, and AI features added into an existing product.
A focused AI proof of concept typically starts around $2,000. The exact price depends on data sources, integrations and reliability requirements.
Yes. We regularly plug into funded AI startups as extra engineering capacity alongside an existing in-house team.
We work with OpenAI, Anthropic and open-source models, choosing the stack based on your cost, latency and data-privacy requirements.
Tell us the AI use case, your data sources and current stack. We will reply with a scoped approach for your San Francisco AI project.