/001AI & ML development

AI that ships to production. Not another proof of concept.

Senior engineers in Montréal design, build, and productionize real AI and ML with you, in your timezone. You own the model and the code. Not a prompt wrapper, not an offshore science project.

  • —Senior North American team, your working hours
  • —A written estimate before you commit a dollar
  • —You own the model, the code, and the data pipeline
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/002Why AI projects stall

Most AI projects die between the demo and production.

The demo takes a week. Production takes engineering: data, guardrails, security, and someone accountable when the model is wrong. Here is where projects stall, and what shipping actually requires.

/01 — The POC trap

A demo that never becomes a product

The prototype wowed the room, then stalled. Nobody scoped the path from notebook to production, so it never left the notebook.

What shipping takes

Production is the scope from day one: deployment, access control, fallbacks, and a rollout plan written before the first prototype.

/02 — Data risk

Your data in someone else's hands

Customer records pasted into third-party tools, no data agreements, no audit trail. Legal finds out after the fact.

What shipping takes

SOC 2 and HIPAA-grade handling: data boundaries defined in writing, least-privilege access, and an architecture your compliance team can sign.

/03 — No guardrails

Hallucinations in front of customers

The model answers confidently and wrongly, and nothing catches it. One bad answer to the wrong customer undoes months of trust.

What shipping takes

Grounding in your data, output validation, human-in-the-loop where stakes are high, and evaluation suites that run before every release.

/04 — No MLOps

Nobody watching after launch

The model ships, then drifts. Quality degrades quietly, costs creep, and no one notices until users complain.

What shipping takes

Monitoring, logging, cost tracking, and retraining pipelines. A model in production is a system to run, not a file to forget.

/05 — Vendor lock

Welded to one model vendor

The whole product hard-codes one provider's API. When pricing, terms, or quality change, you renegotiate from your knees.

What shipping takes

A model-agnostic architecture: swap providers or move to your own fine-tuned model without rewriting the product.

/06 — Black box

An offshore team you can't see into

Status reports instead of working software, overnight round-trips on every question, and no one who can explain what the model actually does.

What shipping takes

Senior engineers in your timezone, building in your repos, demoing working software weekly. You can see every decision.

/003What we build

From an AI feature to a custom model, built for production.

Webisoft builds with in-house senior engineers in Montréal. Whatever shape the work takes, the same rules hold: your timezone, your repos, your model, your code.

/01

LLM applications & RAG

Assistants, copilots, and search grounded in your own documents and data, with retrieval, citations, and guardrails built in.

RAG · Chat · Search
/02

Custom ML models

Forecasting, scoring, classification, recommendation. Trained on your data, evaluated against your baseline, owned by you.

Training · Evaluation
/03

AI features in your product

Ship AI inside the product you already have: summarization, extraction, drafting, smart defaults. Integrated, not bolted on.

Integration · UX
/04

Data pipelines & MLOps

The unglamorous part that decides success: clean data in, versioned models out, monitoring and retraining on rails.

Pipelines · Monitoring
/05

Computer vision & NLP

Document extraction, image and video analysis, entity recognition, classification. Models that read what your team reads.

Vision · Documents
/06

AI automation & workflows

Agents and automations that take real work off your team's plate, with human checkpoints where the stakes demand them.

Agents · Automation
/004How it works

Four steps. Production is the goal from step one.

01

Scope

A short call about the job the AI has to do and the data you have. You get a written estimate and a plan, free. If AI isn't the right tool for the job, we say so.

Free · This week
02

Prototype

A working prototype on your real data, with evaluation criteria agreed up front. You judge it on evidence, before committing to the full build.

Your data · Real tests
03

Productionize

Guardrails, security review, monitoring, and integration into your product and workflow. Weekly demos of working software, never a black box.

Demos every week
04

Own & monitor

You launch owning the model, the code, and the pipelines, with monitoring in place. Keep us on to improve it, or run it with your own team. Your call.

No lock-in
/005The honest comparison

Offshore black box, DIY wrapper, or built here.

Each option is right for someone. A prompt wrapper is fine for an internal experiment. Offshore wins on hourly rate. Here is the full picture when the AI has to face customers.

Criteria
Offshore black box
DIY / prompt wrapper
Webisoft
Production-readiness
A POC and a status deck
A demo that breaks at scale
Guardrails, evals, monitoring, shipped
Data security
A PDF of promises
Keys and data in the browser
SOC 2 · HIPAA-grade handling · AWS
Model & code ownership
Varies by contract
Rented, welded to one vendor
You own the model and the code
Who does the work
Junior-heavy, rotating
Whoever has spare time
Senior, in-house, one named lead
Timezone & communication
Overnight round-trips
You, nights and weekends
Your hours, direct access, EN/FR
/006Straight answers

The questions buyers ask before the call.

/01How much does an AI project cost?
It depends on scope, and anyone who quotes you before seeing your data and workflow is guessing. The real drivers are the state of your data, how deep the integration goes, and how much rides on the output being right. That's why the estimate comes first and free: you get a number in writing, with the scope behind it, before you commit a dollar. And if a simpler tool, or no AI at all, would serve you better, we tell you that instead.
/02Will it actually make it to production?
That's the whole point of how we scope. Production is the deliverable from day one, not a phase two that never comes: deployment, security review, guardrails, and monitoring are in the written plan before the prototype starts. The prototype itself runs on your real data against evaluation criteria we agree up front, so the go/no-go decision is made on evidence, early, while changing course is still cheap.
/03Is our data safe?
Data handling is designed before any model sees a record. We define in writing where your data lives, which systems may touch it, and what, if anything, leaves your environment; many builds keep everything inside your own cloud. Webisoft operates to SOC 2 and HIPAA-grade standards and is an AWS Partner, and your data is never used to train anyone else's models. Your compliance team reviews the architecture before we build, not after.
/04Which models do you use?
The one the job needs, chosen by testing on your data, not by fashion. That can be a leading commercial LLM, an open-weights model running in your own cloud, or a classical ML model when that's the honest fit. Either way, we build model-agnostic: the provider sits behind an interface you control, so you can swap models when pricing, quality, or privacy needs change, without rewriting the product.
/05Who owns the model and the code?
You do. The code lives in your repositories from the first commit. Fine-tuned models, training pipelines, prompts, and evaluation suites are yours, with the documentation to go with them. No vendor-held weights, no murky IP clauses, no exit fees. You can hand the whole system to any competent team tomorrow, which is exactly why clients choose to stay.
/06How is this different from offshore AI shops?
Offshore is cheaper per hour; the risk is what the hourly rate hides. AI work is full of judgment calls about your data, your customers, and your risk tolerance, and those calls go wrong when every question takes an overnight round-trip through a rotating junior team. Webisoft builds with senior in-house engineers in Montréal, in your working hours, in English or French, with one named lead accountable from scoping to monitoring. You pay for it once, built right.
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