Austial
02 / AI features inside your product

AI your customers use, built into your product.

Chat, search, recommendations and copilots that feel native to your app, with the evals, cost controls and monitoring that keep them good after launch.

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What we ship

Features that lift activation and retention.

  • 01

    In-app copilot

    An assistant that understands the user's data and can take actions on their behalf.

  • 02

    Semantic search and Q&A

    Retrieval over your docs, catalog or content, with cited answers.

  • 03

    Recommendations

    Personalised suggestions that adapt to behaviour, not just rules.

  • 04

    Smart content tools

    Summaries, drafts, tagging and extraction inside your editor or workflow.

  • 05

    Voice and multimodal

    Upload an image or speak a request, and get a structured result.

  • 06

    Private and on-device

    Models in your cloud or on the device when data cannot leave your control.

What you get

  • The feature, shipped

    Built into your product's own UI and codebase, in your conventions.

  • Evals and quality gates

    Automated checks that block a release when quality drops.

  • Cost and latency budget

    Caching, model choice and fallbacks tuned so the feature pays for itself.

  • Monitoring and feedback capture

    Dashboards and user feedback loops so you see failures before users complain.

  • Docs and handover

    Architecture notes and a walkthrough for your engineers.

How we build it

The patterns we reach for

Features inside your product need predictable behaviour, so we favour fixed designs and measure them.

CheckBefore launchIn production
Answer qualityScored on your examplesSampled and tracked
LatencyBudget agreedAlerts on p95
Cost per requestEstimated per modelDashboard and caps
SafetyRed-team promptsLogged and reviewed
What we check, and when
Quality

Evals first, demos second

An AI feature is only as good as the examples it is tested on. We build the test set with you before we write the feature.

From idea to a feature in production

A typical path for one feature. We confirm yours in the written plan.

  1. Stage 1

    Define the metric

    Agree what good looks like and build the test set with you.

  2. Stage 2

    Build the feature

    Backend on the Austial framework, client in the stack you already run.

  3. Stage 3

    Evaluate and tune

    Score quality, latency and cost, then tune models and prompts.

  4. Stage 4

    Launch and monitor

    Staged release with dashboards, alerts and handover docs.

What we measure

Adoption
How many active users reach for the feature, and how often.
Answer quality
Scored on your real data by evals, plus thumbs and edits from users.
Latency
Time to first useful output, held to a budget we agree up front.
Unit cost
Model spend per use, so margins stay visible as usage grows.

Who this is for

  • Product teams adding search, copilots or generation

    You know the feature and need it to survive real traffic.

  • Founders racing a competitor's AI launch

    A narrow, well-evaluated first version beats a broad flaky one.

  • Engineering leads short on AI experience

    We build alongside your team and leave the knowledge behind.

Build packageMost chosen
from $5,000

One AI feature in your product: design, build, evals and launch.

Retainer
from $2,500 / mo

Iterate on the feature, add new ones and keep model cost in check.

Frequently asked questions

Which stack do you build in?

Python on the Austial framework for backends, and TypeScript on the client, including React Native. We match what your team already runs where we can.

Can the feature use our own data safely?

Yes. Retrieval respects your permissions, and customer data stays in your cloud under your retention rules.

How do we control model costs?

Caching, smaller models where quality allows, and per-customer caps, with a cost dashboard from day one.

Do you work inside our codebase?

Yes, in your repository and conventions, through pull requests your team reviews, so nothing arrives as a black box.

How do you handle our customers' data?

We agree what may leave your systems before building, minimise what is sent to model providers and keep prompts and logs inside your environment where possible.

What if the model changes or gets worse?

The eval suite is the safety net. We run it on every change and when you switch models, so regressions show up in a report rather than in production.

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