AI, at founder speed.
We build and ship production AI features for startup teams. Scoped in days. Shipped in weeks. Without the ML team you don't have runway to hire.
Scoped in 48 hours
Bring us a feature idea Monday. By Wednesday you have a scope, a tech spec, and a timeline. No consulting decks. No discovery quarters.
Shipped in weeks
Most Norstride engagements push production code in four to eight weeks. Your users get the feature. Your investors get the story.
Built to inherit
We write the code your team will maintain. Evals, docs, and a clean handoff included. No black boxes. No vendor lock-in.
What we build
Three shapes of engagement. All shipped to production on your stack.
RAG & retrieval systems
Semantic search, document Q&A, support automation. We build retrieval that actually retrieves — hybrid strategies, tuned rerankers, evals from day one.
Read more →AI product features
Generation, summarization, personalization built into your app. Model selection backed by evals, not vibes. Cost and latency budgeted up front.
Read more →Agentic workflows
Multi-step AI that takes real action inside your product or operations. We build guardrails first, then the agent — the order that keeps you out of incidents.
Read more →Latest writing
Notes from real engagements — model selection, evals, and what we got wrong before we got it right.
Stop benchmarking models on benchmarks.
Public benchmarks tell you almost nothing about how a model will behave on your problem.
Read →Your RAG isn't broken. Your chunking is.
Most teams pick a chunk size, ship it, and then spend three months tuning the wrong layer.
Read →Ship the agent with a human in the loop.
Every agentic project we've shipped has gone live with a human in the loop. Always.
Read →Working with Norstride
Every engagement starts the same way: a 20-minute call, a written scope by end of week one, and a fixed timeline before we touch a line of code. Most projects ship to your production in four to eight weeks. We work in your repo, on your stack, with your team in the same Slack channel — there's no handoff because there's no agency layer.
Where we are: Cheyenne, WY 82001 · Operating across US time zones.
Who we work with: Seed to Series B startups, B2B SaaS and consumer, with one or more product engineers already in-house. We do not white-label, do not subcontract, and do not bid on RFPs.
The Norstride Playbook
How we scope, ship, and hand off production AI features for startup teams in four to eight weeks. The same approach we use on every engagement — model selection, evals, retrieval, agents, and what to monitor after launch.
- How to pick a model on cost & latency, not benchmarks
- The eval suite shape we ship before any feature
- RAG patterns that hold up past the demo
- When to use an agent — and when not to
- The eight-week engagement schedule, week by week
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Ship the feature. Skip the hiring cycle.
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