For operators in Abu Dhabi, we run llm development projects that leave you with production systems your team can maintain, not a vendor-only black box.
We build llm development for teams in Abu Dhabi that need working software, not a slide deck for next quarter's steering committee. The UAE capital's energy and sovereign-wealth base rewards teams who can act on data quickly, and Abu Dhabi operators tell us the same thing every quarter: less theatre, more delivery. Our approach is LLM applications built with the boring engineering that keeps them alive in production, wrapped in evaluation and monitoring so quality is a number your team owns, not a vibe check. We handle infrastructure, evaluation, and handover so your team owns the system after we leave, not a black box only we understand. Our team ships from Dubai and delivers into Abu Dhabi and the wider GCC, so timezone, language, and data-residency get handled up front. What sets our llm development delivery apart is that the engineer who scopes the build is the same engineer who ships it and shows up at the go-live call. If the project has already stalled once, the shape of the first release was usually wrong — that's fixable in a week, not a quarter.
Buyers in Abu Dhabi are done with pilots. What they want now is one production system, measured, running, and reducing a real cost line or lifting a real revenue line. That's the frame we work inside.
Prompts live in version control, get reviewed like any other change, and are tested against an eval set before they ship. No magic strings buried in the codebase.
Every LLM feature ships with a cost-per-request target and a monthly ceiling. When usage grows, you know before finance does.
The architecture doesn't marry you to one model provider. Swapping OpenAI for Claude, or bringing in an open-source model on your infra, is a config change plus an eval run — not a rebuild.
Full tracing of every LLM call — inputs, outputs, cost, latency, tokens — surfaced in a dashboard your team can query. Debugging isn't a séance.
Drafting, summarising, extracting, and classifying features built inside your existing product and instrumented for cost and quality.
A shared LLM layer for your product and engineering teams, with prompt versioning, evaluation, and cost tracking, so every team doesn't rebuild the same wrapper.
Chains and agents that decompose a task, call tools, and produce a checked output — with retries, timeouts, and observability wired in.
For entities inside ADGM and the Abu Dhabi government, we build LLM apps that respects data-residency, vendor-review, and procurement rules from the SoW onward. The cloud region and audit trail get decided before the first line of code.
It depends on the workload. For most business tasks, Claude and GPT-4-class models via API are the fastest way to ship. For high-volume, low-margin tasks or strict data-residency needs, open-source models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen) on your infra become cheaper past a certain scale. We benchmark on your eval set rather than the vendor's, so the choice is grounded in your workload.
Usually not to start. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and careful prompting cover 80% of what people want to fine-tune for, and they're cheaper and easier to iterate. Fine-tuning becomes worthwhile when you have a stable, high-volume task, a proprietary output style, or cost pressure at scale. We recommend it only when it will actually earn back the effort.
A test set that reflects real usage, with graders that check the properties you care about — factual grounding, format, tone, refusal in the right cases. Grading is done with a mix of exact-match, model-graded, and human-labelled checks depending on what you're testing. Every prompt or model change runs against the eval set before it ships.
Treat every user input as untrusted, validate outputs before they touch downstream systems, isolate tool permissions so an injected prompt can't drive a destructive action, and monitor for the patterns you know about. We also run adversarial evals to catch new failure modes before users find them.
A single well-scoped LLM feature is usually three to six weeks. Multi-feature platforms take longer because the platform layer — prompt versioning, evals, observability, cost tracking — is more work than any single feature. The order matters: ship one feature end-to-end first, then extract the reusable platform pieces from it.
Both, depending on the shape. LangChain and LangGraph accelerate multi-step agents and complex chains. For simpler single-shot features, a small custom wrapper is easier to maintain than a framework we only use a slice of. We choose per feature, not per company.
Yes. We deliver into ADGM-registered entities and Abu Dhabi government departments on a regular basis, which usually means tighter data-residency and vendor-review controls. We plan for those constraints inside the SoW rather than trying to bolt them on right before go-live, so audits and reviews rarely become the bottleneck.
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We'll scope the first release, define the eval set, and give you a build plan you can hand to any engineering team — ours or yours.