Stop Demoing. Start Shipping.
Every week on ‘prototyping’ is a week competitors spend capturing market. I build production AI — RAG that answers in under a second, agents customers trust, and LLM integration that survives real traffic.
The AI Engineering Stack
Sound Familiar?
The problems I solve every week.
Your RAG Won’t Scale
Works with 10 docs. Falls apart at 10,000 — hallucinations, latency spikes, no evaluation pipeline.
LLM Integration Is a Maze
Which model? How to cache? What about fallbacks? $5K API bills and still not production-ready.
MLOps Is an Afterthought
Models trained on laptops, deployed by copy-paste, monitored — if at all — by prayer.
Results That Speak
Real metrics from real engagements.
How I Work
From first call to production — no bureaucracy, no hand-offs.
Free audit & scope
We start with a short call. I dig into your current setup, find the real bottleneck, and scope the work with an honest timeline — no commitment, no pitch.
Start within 48 hours
Once scope is agreed I start shipping — flat $49/hr, no retainer, no minimum. You see progress from day one, tracked transparently.
Ship & handoff
Production-grade systems with runbooks, monitoring and knowledge transfer. You own everything and you’re never left stranded.
What Clients Say
“Raphael rebuilt our entire deploy pipeline in three weeks. We went from dreading releases to shipping daily. Worth every dollar of the $49.”
“Our RAG prototype was stuck for months. He got it to production — fast, accurate, and it held up in front of our investors on demo day.”
“He cut our AWS bill by 40% without breaking a single thing. The engagement paid for itself in the first month.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Hybrid retrieval — dense vectors + sparse BM25 with re-ranking. Chunking tuned to your content, query rewriting for ambiguity, and a real evaluation pipeline before production. Caching, fallbacks and monitoring from day one.
Depends on the use case. Customer-facing → GPT-4o or Claude for quality with a fast fallback. Internal → open-source (Llama 3, Mistral) on your own infra. I build the switching layer so you’re never locked in.
Caching at every level — prompt, response, semantic. Smart model routing sends simple queries to cheaper models. Batch non-real-time work. Most teams cut 50-70% without losing quality.
Ready to fix it?
Book a free 30-minute call. No pitch — just a straight conversation about what you need.
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