AI Developer for Modern Teams
Fortune 500s and seed-stage founders both hire us for ai developer. We build production-grade systems on OpenAI, Anthropic, and your stack — and only ship when it actually moves a business metric.
Ai developer is one of the most-Googled, most-misunderstood services in the modern stack. Half the agencies selling it can't deploy past Streamlit. The other half want $250K retainers before any code lands.
We're built differently. Creative Genius is a remote-first US team that ships production ai developer in weeks, on commercial terms, with full source code transfer.
What AI Developer actually delivers (when done right)
The honest list — not the LinkedIn version:
- Workflow compression. Tasks that took your team hours collapse to minutes. We measure baseline first, then optimize against it.
- Decision support. Pulling signal out of CRM, support tickets, sales calls, financial reports — surfacing what matters before your weekly leadership meeting.
- Customer-facing automation. Voice agents, chat, smart triage, dynamic personalization — built to your brand voice, not generic GPT defaults.
- Internal copilots. AI assistants embedded in the tools your team already uses (Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Slack), trained on your actual processes.
How a Creative Genius engagement works
- Strategy call (free, 30 min). We pressure-test your idea, surface risks, and map out a sequence that compounds.
- Scoped sprint (week 1–2). Working prototype on your data. Real users see it. We iterate based on actual usage, not slideware.
- Production build (week 3–6). Hardened, observable, integrated with your CRM/ERP/auth. Source code is yours.
- Ongoing care or handoff (week 7+). Monthly maintenance retainer or full handoff to your team — your call.
Pricing — straight talk
We don't have a public price sheet because every ai developer engagement is scoped to outcomes. But here's the honest range:
- Discovery sprint (1–2 weeks): $4,500 – $9,500. Includes prototype on your data + production roadmap.
- Production build (4–8 weeks): $18,000 – $75,000 depending on scope, integrations, and data complexity.
- Ongoing care: $1,500 – $6,000/month. Cancellable anytime, source code stays yours.
For startups and SMBs we offer fixed-price MVP packages starting at $4,500. For enterprise, we can structure equity-aligned or outcome-based deals.
FAQs about AI Developer
How much does ai developer cost in the US?
Most production ai developer engagements with Creative Genius land between $18,000 and $75,000. Discovery sprints (a working prototype on your data + production roadmap) start at $4,500. Pricing is the same whether you're in the US or anywhere else in the US — we're remote-first and don't run a billable-by-region model.
How long does a typical ai developer build take?
Discovery sprint: 1–2 weeks. Production MVP: 3–6 weeks. Full enterprise rollout (with multi-system integration): 8–14 weeks. We share weekly demos so you see progress in real time, not a black-box reveal at the end.
Do you work on-site or remote?
We're a remote-first US studio. Most engagements are 100% async (Slack + Linear + weekly Loom demos). For enterprise builds we'll travel for a kickoff workshop if useful — that's a yes/no, not a markup.
Who owns the code and data?
You do. Period. All source code, prompts, fine-tunes, and any datasets we generate are transferred under a perpetual, royalty-free license at the end of every engagement. Many AI agencies retain ownership and rent the system back to you on a SaaS contract — we explicitly don't.
Which AI providers do you build on?
We're stack-agnostic. Most production builds use OpenAI (GPT-4o, o3) or Anthropic (Claude 3.5 Sonnet) for reasoning, with embedding/RAG via OpenAI text-embedding-3-large or Voyage. For voice we use Vapi, Retell, or ElevenLabs. For automation orchestration we typically use n8n self-hosted or Inngest. We'll recommend the cheapest stack that meets your quality bar.
What if AI doesn't actually work for our problem?
We'll tell you. The free 30-min strategy call exists specifically to surface that. About 1 in 5 prospects we talk to we tell to either use a simpler tool or to wait 6 months for the technology to catch up. We'd rather lose the deal than sell you something that won't deliver.
Ready to ship ai developer?
30-minute strategy call. Free. We tell you what we'd build, what it'd cost, and whether it's even worth doing.
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