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AI Product Development Services

The specialist AI product development agency trusted by Stability AI, Grafana, Modzy and Lightning AI. We build, ship and operate AI features in your SaaS product, from prototype to production, by senior engineers who have actually shipped products, not just research.

Start your AI product engagement

Talk to the AI product engineers

Tell us about your AI feature, integration or end-to-end AI product build, and we'll tailor an approach. Typically two to four weeks from first call to kick-off.

2013
Building production AI products since 2013, one of the longest-running AI product agencies in industry.
TIME
Stable Audio won TIME's Best Inventions of 2023, the AI product we built for Stability AI.
500k+
generations on Stable Audio in its first two months: real users, real load, real product.
4×
cloud-agnostic delivery: AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem Kubernetes, including air-gapped environments.
What you get

What an AI product development agency actually delivers

AI product development is the work of turning an AI idea into a shipped, revenue-generating product feature: discovery, modelling, engineering, integration with your existing SaaS, deployment and ongoing operation. Winder.AI delivers end-to-end AI product development as one engagement, AI product consulting, AI product engineering and AI integration, by the same senior engineers who shipped Stable Audio for Stability AI, ML features for Grafana and the AI platform for Modzy. We build the product, we don't just write the spec.

How we compare

How AI product development companies compare

Provider typeWhat they deliverBest forMain weakness
Big-4 / strategy consultancySlide decks, target operating models, vendor selectionBoard-level AI strategy and procurementDoesn't ship product code, hands off to a separate build team
Generalist dev agencyWeb and mobile builds with AI as a bolt-on featureStandard SaaS where AI is a marketing tagShallow AI bench, treats GenAI as a single OpenAI API call
Offshore product shopHigh-volume staff augmentation, low day ratesWell-specified features with limited AI noveltyJunior team behind the senior pitch, weak on AI research and inference cost
Generative AI freelancerOne-person prototype, often a wrapper on a foundation-model APIHackathon-style proofs of conceptNo production engineering, no integrations, no MLOps, no SLA
Specialist AI product agency (Winder.AI)End-to-end AI product development: feature builds, integrations and full-stack AI products, delivered by senior engineersSaaS and AI companies that need an AI feature shipped, integrated and operated in productionBoutique scale, not designed for 100-seat staff augmentation
From prototype to production

AI product development, engineering and consulting

Winder.AI is the AI product development partner for SaaS and AI companies that need a feature shipped, not a research paper. Our AI product development services span end-to-end product builds, AI product engineering and integration, and AI product consulting and strategy. The same senior engineers run all three, so the team that scopes your AI product is the team that ships it.

AI Product Development

End-to-end AI product development for SaaS and AI companies. We have built the AI products behind Stable Audio for Stability AI, Lightning AI’s build infrastructure, Modzy’s AI platform, Grafana’s ML features and many more. Discovery, modelling, engineering and shipping, by senior AI product engineers.

AI Product Engineering & Integration

SaaS AI development and integration. We add generative AI features, RAG, predictive models and AI agents into your existing product via REST, gRPC, MCP and webhooks, with proper evaluation, monitoring and inference-cost controls. See our MLOps services for the operational layer.

AI Product Consulting & Strategy

Pragmatic AI product consulting for founders, heads of product and CTOs. We help you decide what AI features to ship, how to sequence them, how to avoid the common AI product failure modes and how to keep inference costs sane. Backed by a decade of AI consulting experience. For fully bespoke, built-to-order systems, see our custom AI development service.
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Winder.AI allowed us to rapidly work on ideas that our core engineering team didn’t have time for. This allowed us to build new features faster… Their expertise significantly improved our product.

Seth Clark
co-founder and head of product at Modzy
Why hire an AI product agency

The AI product development agency that has actually shipped

A decade of shipped AI products across SaaS, generative AI and enterprise. A senior engineering bench, no offshore handover and a portfolio of products you have heard of.

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Shipped Products, Not Just Research

We have shipped AI products that you have heard of: Stable Audio for Stability AI (TIME Best Invention 2023), ML features for Grafana, the AI platform for Modzy. Most AI product agencies cannot point to a single comparable product in production.
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Senior AI Product Engineers

You talk to the engineers who will do the work. No offshore handover, no junior squad behind a senior pitch. The team that scopes your AI product is the team that builds it, integrates it and operates it in production.
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End-to-End, From Prototype to Production

We cover the full AI product lifecycle in-house, discovery, modelling, engineering, integration, deployment and ongoing operation. No mid-project handoff to a separate build team, the most common reason AI products fail to reach production.
Trusted Worldwide

Trusted by AI and SaaS companies you know

AI products and features shipped for generative AI leaders, observability platforms, AI infrastructure companies and enterprise SaaS.

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AI Product Solutions

AI product development solutions, by feature type

Every AI product is different, but the patterns repeat. We have shipped each of the AI product solutions below in production, for clients you have heard of. Engage us for a single feature, a focused integration or a full end-to-end AI product:

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Generative AI Features

GenAI features in your SaaS product: text, audio, image and multimodal. The reference is Stable Audio, the generative-audio product we built for Stability AI that won TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023 and shipped over 500,000 generations in its first two months.
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RAG & Knowledge Products

Retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge products inside your SaaS, with proper evaluation harnesses, prompt versioning and observability. Not a foundation-model wrapper, a production knowledge feature your customers can rely on.
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AI-Powered Analytics

Predictive analytics, anomaly detection and ML-driven insight features inside SaaS products. Examples include the ML platform for Grafana and enterprise QA platforms.
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AI Agent Features

Autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agent features inside SaaS products, tool use, planning, evaluation, guardrails. See our AI agent development services for the dedicated capability.
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Inference Infrastructure & Cost Optimisation

The single biggest threat to a shipped AI product is runaway inference cost at scale. We design serving architectures, batching, caching and model-routing strategies that keep AI products economical, exemplified by Kubernetes training-cost optimisation.
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End-to-End AI Products (Full Stack)

Where AI is the core value proposition, we build the full stack: model, inference, API, UI, integrations and operations. The reference build is Bacalhau, the decentralised compute platform we developed with Protocol Labs.
AI Product Engineering Capabilities

AI product engineering, end to end

We cover the full AI product stack, from foundation models and bespoke ML through inference infrastructure to monitoring and integrations. The disciplines that turn an AI idea into a feature your customers pay for:

LLMs & Generative AI

Foundation models, fine-tuning, prompt engineering and evaluation. Production GenAI features across text, audio, image and multimodal, see our LLM consulting and development services.

RAG & Vector Search

Retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, vector databases, hybrid search and evaluation harnesses. The discipline that turns a foundation model into a knowledge product.

Bespoke ML Model Development

Custom model development for tabular, time-series, vision and audio domains. A decade of model development for clients including Google’s BERT implementations in Vertex AI and enterprise QA platforms for Shell.

Inference & Cost Optimisation

Serving architectures, batching, caching, model routing and quantisation. The discipline that keeps an AI product economical at scale, as we did for Kubernetes training-cost optimisation.

Streaming & Real-Time AI

Low-latency inference, streaming pipelines and event-driven AI features. Production experience across high-throughput SaaS and real-time generative workloads like Stable Audio.

Multimodal (Audio, Image, Video)

Generative audio, image and video features inside SaaS products. We shipped Stable Audio for Stability AI and have deep experience in audio detection, tracking and signal processing.

MLOps & Monitoring

The operational layer that keeps shipped AI products reliable: deployment pipelines, model monitoring, drift detection, evaluation harnesses and retraining. See our dedicated MLOps services.

AI Integrations

REST, gRPC, MCP, webhooks and event streams. We connect AI features into the rest of your SaaS product and your customers’ systems, with versioning, observability and proper SLAs from day one.
Your AI product stack questions, answered Stack-agnostic by design, we fit your existing SaaS or recommend the right approach for your product.
Where will the AI product run?

Deployment, your way

Production AI on your cloud, ours, or fully air-gapped on-prem. No vendor lock-in by design, picked to match your SaaS architecture.
AWSAzureGCPOn-premKubernetesDockerEdgeAir-gapped
Which models and AI frameworks should we use?

Model-agnostic by design

We pick the model and framework that fit the product, foundation-model API, open-weights, or custom-trained, optimised for accuracy, latency and inference cost.
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How does it integrate with our existing SaaS?

Integration & MLOps

REST, gRPC and MCP into your services. Versioned, observable and reproducible from day one, with the MLOps backbone to keep it reliable.
RESTgRPCMCPWebhooksKafkaStripeAuth0MLflow
Will the AI product pass security and legal review?

Security & compliance ready

Built for regulated environments. SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA-ready engagements with full audit trails and data-residency controls.
SOC 2GDPRHIPAAEU AI ActData residencyAudit logsSSO

Selected Case Studies

Some of our most recent work for our clients. You can find more in our portfolio.
Announcing Stable Audio: A Generative AI Music Service

Case study

Announcing Stable Audio: A Generative AI Music Service

We’re pleased to announce the release of Stable Audio, a new generative AI music service. Stable Audio is a collaboration between Stability AI and Winder.AI that leverages state-of-the-art audio diffusion models to generate high-quality music from a text prompt.

Explain, Enhance and Enrich Your Data with Bacalhau Amplify

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Explain, Enhance and Enrich Your Data with Bacalhau Amplify

Bacalhau is a project started under Protocol Labs, but has now spun out into Expanso, Inc. Expanso is a leading Web3 innovator specializing in developing next generation decentralized commodity services. This case study, which includes a video presentation, describes the proceeds of this collaboration. The Bacalhau team asked Winder.AI to help them develop a new AI product designed to perform data engineering at web-scale, backed by Web3 technologies.

Helping Modzy Build an ML Platform

Case study

Helping Modzy Build an ML Platform

Winder.AI collaborated with the Modzy development team and MLOps Consulting to deliver a variety of solutions that make up the Modzy product, a ModelOps and MLOps platform. A summary of this work includes:

  • Developing the Open Model Interface
  • Open-sourcing chassis, the missing link that allows data scientists to build robust ML containers
  • Model monitoring and observability product features
  • MLOps and model management product features
How We Built an MLOps Platform Into Grafana

Case study

How We Built an MLOps Platform Into Grafana

Winder.AI collaborated with Grafana Labs to help them build a Machine Learning (ML) capability into Grafana Cloud. A summary of this work includes:

  • Product consultancy and positioning - delivering the best product and experience
  • Design and architecture of MLOps backend - highly scalable - capable of running training jobs for thousands of customers
  • Tight integration with Grafana - low integration costs - easy product enablement

Grafana’s Need - Machine Learning Consultancy and Development

Grafana Cloud is a successful cloud-native monitoring solution developed by Grafana Labs.

Google Releases AI Platform with help from Winder.AI

Case study

Google Releases AI Platform with help from Winder.AI

At their Cloud’s Next 19 conference, Google has announced the launch of an expanded AI platform. For a number of years Google has been expanding it’s portfolio to compete with AI products from Azure and AWS. But this is the first time that the platform can be considered “end-to-end”.

Bulding a Cloud-Native PaaS

Case study

Bulding a Cloud-Native PaaS

Executive Summary

Winder.AI worked with its partner, Container Solutions, to deliver core components of the Weave Cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

  • Kubernetes and Terraform implementations on Google Cloud Platform
  • Delivered crucial billing components to track and bill for per-second usage
  • Helped initiate, architect and deliver Weave Flux, a Git-Ops CI/CD enabler

Client

Weaveworks makes it fast and simple for developers and DevOps teams to build and operate powerful containerized applications. They minimize the complexity of operating workloads in Kubernetes by providing automated continuous delivery pipelines, observability and monitoring. Weaveworks also contributes to several open source projects, including Weave Scope, Weave Cortex and Weave Flux. It was one of the first members of the Cloud Native Computing Forum. Founded in 2014, the Company is backed by Google Ventures and Accel Partners. For more information, visit www.weave.works.

Recent Articles

Find more articles in our blog.
AI for Legal Operations: Where to Automate First

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AI for Legal Operations: Where to Automate First

Adoption of legal services AI has gone mainstream. Litify’s 2025 State of AI in Legal Report found that 78% of legal professionals already use AI in some form, up from 23% in 2023. But what workflow should you automate first?

Getting this wrong means months of effort on a low-impact problem. Getting it right means a quick win that funds the next step. The difference between a successful AI initiative and a stalled pilot usually comes down to picking the right starting point.

What a Custom AI Contract Review Pipeline Looks Like

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What a Custom AI Contract Review Pipeline Looks Like

“AI contract review” is a popular keyword to compete for. Look, I’m doing it right now! A couple of years ago my colleagues and I half-built a contract review service prototype. We decided not to take it any further, but that was a mistake. It’s now very hot.

So hot you can easily find a wall of product pages. Sign up, upload your contracts, get results. The pitch is simple. For straightforward use cases, it works.

But what if your contracts don’t fit their templates? What if your review process has steps a product can’t model? What if your data can’t leave your infrastructure? What if your firm’s clause playbook differs from the vendor’s defaults?

This article walks through what a custom-built contract review pipeline actually involves.

When Off-the-Shelf Legal AI Tools Hit a Ceiling

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When Off-the-Shelf Legal AI Tools Hit a Ceiling

Legal AI adoption has accelerated. Litify’s 2025 State of AI in Legal Report found that 78% of legal professionals now use AI in some form, up from 23% just two years earlier. In Winder.AI’s 13 year history (and counting!) I have observed a similar trend first hand.

On the back of this trend, significant VC funding has attempted to capture a share of this market. $2.4 billion was invested in 2025. A tsunami of products promise to automate contract review, legal research, and document analysis. Many of them work for a while. Then firms hit the ceiling.

This article is about where that ceiling is and what lies beyond it.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

This page provides answers to our most common questions. If you have a query that isn't covered, please get in touch.

Working with Winder.AI

Ask for named, public AI products the agency has built, not just research papers or hackathon prototypes. Look for production load, real users and named clients. Winder.AI built Stable Audio for Stability AI, which won TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023 and served over 500,000 generations in its first two months, ML features for Grafana, the AI platform for Modzy and the build infrastructure for Lightning AI. We are an AI product development agency that ships, not a research lab.
Three things. First, we are engineers, not a sales layer: the senior engineer who scopes your AI product is the senior engineer who builds it. Second, we have been doing this since 2013, longer than almost any specialist AI product agency, so we have seen which patterns survive production. Third, our portfolio is full of AI products you have already heard of. Most AI product development firms cannot show you a single shipped product at this calibre.
Costs depend on scope, complexity and engagement type. A focused AI feature build typically lands in 6 to 12 weeks; end-to-end AI products run longer. Indicatively, time-and-materials work runs £150 to £300 per hour, a tightly-scoped build starts around £20k, and a multi-phase production AI product is typically £100k-£250k. We work on time-and-materials for flexibility, fixed-price for well-scoped work, and monthly retainers for ongoing AI product engineering. See our pricing page for worked examples.
AI consulting decides what to build, the strategy, business case, risks and roadmap. AI product development is the engineering work to build, ship and operate the product. Most engagements need both. Winder.AI delivers them together, see our AI consulting services for the strategy-led entry point.
The specialist AI product agencies with named, public products are a small group. Winder.AI is one of them. Our shipped work includes Stable Audio for Stability AI (TIME Best Invention 2023), ML features for Grafana, the AI platform for Modzy, build infrastructure for Lightning AI and the Bacalhau decentralised compute system for Protocol Labs. Most generalist agencies and offshore product shops cannot point to a comparable AI product portfolio.

Scoping & delivery

Typically two to four weeks from first call to kick-off. Discovery and scoping take one to two weeks, contracting another one to two weeks. For urgent engagements we have started inside a week. Get in touch early even if your timeline is flexible, as our calendar fills four to eight weeks ahead.
Both. About half of our work is AI feature builds and AI integrations inside an existing SaaS product. The other half is end-to-end AI product development where AI is the core value proposition, examples include Stable Audio for Stability AI and the Bacalhau decentralised compute platform for Protocol Labs. Tell us where you are on the spectrum and we will fit the engagement to it.
Yes. SaaS AI development is a core service line. We integrate generative AI, RAG, predictive models and AI agents into existing SaaS products via REST, gRPC, MCP and webhooks, with proper observability, evaluation harnesses and inference-cost controls. We do not bolt a foundation-model API onto a button and call it AI.
Time-and-materials for flexibility, fixed-price for well-scoped work, monthly retainers for ongoing AI product engineering. See our pricing page for details.
You do. By default our engagements transfer all IP in the delivered code, models and artefacts to you on payment. We retain rights to generic frameworks and our own internal tooling. Specifics are confirmed in the engagement contract.
Yes. We run engagements compatible with SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, the EU AI Act and on-prem or air-gapped deployments, with full audit trails and data-residency controls. See our finance and healthcare pages.

AI product development, explained

AI product development is the end-to-end work of turning an AI idea into a shipped, revenue-generating product. It covers discovery and feasibility, model selection or training, AI engineering (inference, evaluation, monitoring), integration with the rest of the SaaS product, deployment and ongoing operation. Done well, it ships an AI feature your customers will pay for. Done badly, it produces a demo that never reaches production.
An AI consulting firm advises on strategy, vendor selection and roadmaps and rarely ships production code. An AI product development company (sometimes called an AI product agency or AI product engineering firm) builds and ships the product itself. Winder.AI does both as one engagement, but our centre of gravity is the build.
An AI product engineer designs and ships the AI parts of a software product: model selection or fine-tuning, inference pipelines, evaluation harnesses, monitoring, integration with the rest of the product and operational concerns like cost and latency. They sit between data science and product engineering and own the AI feature end to end.
End-to-end AI product development means a single engagement covers the full lifecycle: discovery, modelling, engineering, integration, deployment and operation. The alternative, splitting strategy, modelling and engineering across multiple vendors, is the most common reason AI products fail to reach production. Winder.AI runs the full lifecycle in-house, see our MLOps services for the operational layer.
Five recurring failure modes: demo-only prototypes that never harden into production, foundation-model wrappers with no evaluation or monitoring, runaway inference costs at scale, no integration plan with the rest of the product, and a strategy team that hands off to a separate build team mid-project. Every one of these is avoidable with the right AI product engineering discipline.
The shape of the engagement is similar, but the discipline differs. Generative AI product development adds prompt versioning, evaluation harnesses for non-deterministic outputs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and inference-cost optimisation. We deliver both, with dedicated LLM consulting and development services for the language-model side.
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Whether you need a single AI feature shipped into your existing product, a deep AI integration across your platform, or a brand-new AI product built end to end, talk to the team that has been shipping production AI products since 2013.

  • You'll talk to senior AI product engineers, never a sales layer
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  • Typical AI product engagement starts in 2 to 4 weeks
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