# AI Native Applications

We build production AI applications. RAG systems, agents, LLM features. Shipped by senior engineers who have done it before.

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      <a href="/">Density Labs</a> <span>/</span> Practices <span>/</span> AI Native Applications
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    <h1>AI native <em>applications</em>.</h1>
    <p class="lede"><strong>We build production AI features inside real products.</strong> RAG systems, agents, evals, LLM workflows, and the surrounding UX that makes them usable. Shipped by engineers who have done it before, embedded in your team via The Density Method.</p>
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      <div class="section-eyebrow">What we ship</div>
      <h2 class="section-h2">Three places <em>AI actually lands</em>.</h2>
      <p class="section-sub">Most AI pilots fail at the integration layer, not the model layer. The hard work is wiring an LLM into a permissioned codebase, instrumenting evals that survive contact with real data, and shipping a UX that customers actually adopt.</p>
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        <div class="ship-tag">01 // RAG Systems</div>
        <h3>Retrieval that holds up in production.</h3>
        <p>Embedding pipelines, vector stores, hybrid search, chunking strategies, evals against your actual corpus. Wired into the auth and permissions model your customers already trust.</p>
        <div class="examples">Pinecone · pgvector · Weaviate · Hybrid BM25</div>
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        <div class="ship-tag">02 // Agent Architectures</div>
        <h3>Multi step workflows that do not loop forever.</h3>
        <p>Tool use, function calling, planner-executor patterns, eval harnesses, and the boring observability work that turns a flashy demo into a system you can roll out to real users.</p>
        <div class="examples">LangGraph · OpenAI · Anthropic · Custom orchestration</div>
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        <div class="ship-tag">03 // LLM-Integrated UX</div>
        <h3>Interfaces customers actually adopt.</h3>
        <p>Streaming UIs, prompt scaffolds, error states, fallback paths, and the design work that makes generative features feel like part of the product instead of an experiment bolted on top.</p>
        <div class="examples">Streaming · React · React Native · Real product surfaces</div>
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<!-- HOW WE WORK / METHOD RECAP -->
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        <div class="section-eyebrow">How we work</div>
        <h3>The Density Method, <em>applied to AI</em>.</h3>
        <p>Every engagement runs through the same four phase framework. Two week paid diagnostic. Seven to ten day match from a 2% acceptance pool. Structured 30/60/90 embed with weekly tech lead 1:1s. Multi year retention.</p>
        <p><strong>100% success rate</strong> over the last six years. <strong>Zero forced replacements.</strong> 120 day replacement guarantee on every placement.</p>
        <a href="/staff-augmentation/embedded-method/" class="btn-primary" style="margin-top: 12px;">Read how the Embedded Method works →</a>
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          <div class="method-mini-num">01</div>
          <div class="method-mini-name">Diagnose</div>
          <div class="method-mini-dur">2 weeks</div>
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          <div class="method-mini-num">02</div>
          <div class="method-mini-name">Match</div>
          <div class="method-mini-dur">7–10 days</div>
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          <div class="method-mini-num">03</div>
          <div class="method-mini-name">Embed</div>
          <div class="method-mini-dur">30 / 60 / 90</div>
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          <div class="method-mini-num">04</div>
          <div class="method-mini-name">Retain</div>
          <div class="method-mini-dur">Multi-year</div>
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      <h2 class="section-h2">The full <em>AI engineering</em> surface area.</h2>
      <p class="section-sub">We have shipped these systems in healthcare, fintech, real estate, and customer support. Patterns and playbooks come into your codebase, not into a slide deck.</p>
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        <div class="cap-name">Capability</div>
        <div class="cap-desc">What we actually do</div>
        <div class="cap-tag">Maturity</div>
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        <div class="cap-name">RAG Implementation</div>
        <div class="cap-desc">Embedding pipelines, retrieval strategies, hybrid search, reranking, evals against real corpora. Production ready, permission aware.</div>
        <div class="cap-tag">Production</div>
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        <div class="cap-name">Agent Development</div>
        <div class="cap-desc">Tool use, planner-executor patterns, multi step orchestration, guardrails, and the observability work that turns demos into systems.</div>
        <div class="cap-tag">Production</div>
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        <div class="cap-name">Eval Infrastructure</div>
        <div class="cap-desc">Custom eval harnesses, golden datasets, regression tracking, A/B frameworks for prompts and models. The unsexy work that makes AI ship.</div>
        <div class="cap-tag">Production</div>
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        <div class="cap-name">MLOps</div>
        <div class="cap-desc">Inference infrastructure, model versioning, prompt registries, cost monitoring, latency budgets, fallback strategies.</div>
        <div class="cap-tag">Production</div>
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        <div class="cap-name">LLM Feature Integration</div>
        <div class="cap-desc">End to end feature work inside your existing product. Streaming UX, prompt scaffolds, error handling, telemetry.</div>
        <div class="cap-tag">Production</div>
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      <div class="section-eyebrow">Proof</div>
      <h2 class="section-h2">We built <em>our own AI product</em>.</h2>
      <p class="section-sub">The same patterns ship into your stack. Same engineers. Same Density Method.</p>
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        <div class="proof-product-eyebrow">Case · Prevetted.ai</div>
        <h3>RAG, agents, and a real <em>customer facing</em> product.</h3>
        <p>Prevetted is a search and discovery product for tech buyers. We designed and shipped it with a small team running the same playbook we use on client engagements. Live, in production, paying users.</p>
        <a href="https://prevetted.ai" class="product-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit prevetted.ai →</a>
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          <div class="proof-stat-num">90</div>
          <div class="proof-stat-label">Days from kickoff to launch</div>
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          <div class="proof-stat-num">3</div>
          <div class="proof-stat-label">Engineers on the build</div>
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          <div class="proof-stat-label">Hybrid retrieval &amp; agent layer</div>
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          <div class="proof-stat-num">Live</div>
          <div class="proof-stat-label">In production today</div>
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    <h2>Have an AI initiative that <em>needs to ship</em>?</h2>
    <p>Book a 30 minute call. We will tell you honestly whether the work is real and whether we are the right fit.</p>
    <a href="" class="btn-primary">Book a 30 min call →</a>
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