Outcrop Labs

Your AI project shouldn't die at the demo stage.

We figure out what to build, build it with you, and hand it to your team. Short projects, shipped in weeks instead of stalling for quarters.

How we work
4-8 wks
Kickoff to shipped
Speed-up on workflows we touch
Senior
Hands on every project
Yours
Code, tests, runbook, all yours
What we do

Here's what we do.

Most projects start with the first three, in order. The fourth is for the work that comes after.

01

Figure out what to build

Before we touch any code, we figure out where AI would actually pay off in your business. We talk to your people, look at the work, and come back with the bets worth making.

  • Where AI helps and where it won't
  • Honest cost vs. payoff math
  • Architecture and vendor sanity checks
02

Build the thing

Senior experience, real production code. Agents, RAG, QA/tests, and the boring infrastructure that keeps it running on Monday morning when you're not watching.

  • Agentic workflows and tool use
  • Retrieval pipelines and quality tests
  • Logging, guardrails, and on-call hooks
03

Hand it to your team

Ownership from day one. We spend time with your team and run workshops, then stick around long enough to be sure it sticks. After that, the retainer keeps us close for process improvement.

  • Pairing and code review with your engineers
  • Workshops for the people using it
  • Quality-check rituals you'll actually keep doing
How we work

Three short stages. No multi-quarter strategy decks.

If stage one doesn't turn up anything worth building, we'll tell you and stop. We're not going to burn your money on stage two for the heck of it.

  1. 01Stage / Field

    Walk the ground

    We talk to the people doing the work, watch where the time actually goes, and come back with the realities of where AI would actually help.

  2. 02Stage / Build

    Build a real thing

    Four to eight weeks. We ship end to end inside your stack and your data. Real code, real tests, real users. Not a demo.

  3. 03Stage / Handover

    Hand it off, stay close

    We pair with your team until they can extend it without us. You get the keys. From there, a small retainer keeps us in the loop for maintenance, updates, and advice. New build-outs are hourly, only when you actually want them.

FAQ

Stuff people ask us.

Mid size to large businesses are our sweet spot. Anywhere there's a real workflow on the line and a team that can own the thing once it's built. We're not the right fit if you're pre-product and looking for someone to build your whole stack.

$2,000/month is the retainer, same across every practice. It covers everything you'd need day to day: maintenance, updates, iteration, and advice. You only pay hourly for projects, and only when you actually want them. We don't box you in; cancel anytime with 30 days' notice.

Everything day to day. We keep what we built running and up to date, fix small things as they come up, and stay in the loop on what your team's working on so you can ping us for advice. Projects (new features, integrations, anything that's real code) are the only hourly part, and only when you want them. The retainer is about keeping us close without paying us for hours you don't need.

Sometimes, when it's a really good fit and we're basically acting as part of the team. Default is just cash though.

Yes, mutual NDA before we get into the weeds. We're also pretty quiet about who we work with. Most of our clients come from referrals, so we'd rather earn the next one than splash the last one across our homepage.

We don't have a favorite. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, open source, whatever testing shows works best for the job. We design things so swapping models later is cheap, not painful.

Get in touch

Got a workflow that's begging for automation? Let's poke at it.

Tell us where the rough edges are. We'll come back within 48 hours and let you know if we think there's something worth building, and what the first stage would look like.

Get in touch

Tell us what you’re working on.

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What do you need?

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