LLM App Architecture
Model selection, prompt design, context window, retrieval and the architecture on paper.
AI Development
LLM application development for products that need language models at the core — the model selection, the prompt and context engineering, the retrieval, the evaluation suite, the guardrails and the cost controls, shipped as a production app with the engineering rigour the use case needs.
LLM App Architecture
RAG & Knowledge AI
Fine-Tuning & Adapters
Agentic Workflows
Evaluation & Guardrails
Production & Operate
Overview
An LLM app is an application that uses a large language model as one component. The model is not the app. The app is the data pipeline, the retrieval, the prompt and context engineering, the evaluation, the guardrails, the UX and the operations. The model is the engine, not the vehicle.
We build LLM apps with the model selection, the prompt and context engineering, the retrieval, the evaluation suite, the guardrails and the cost controls as part of the architecture from sprint one. The output is a product that ships to production, not a prompt that works once and then breaks.
This is the wrong engagement if the use case does not need a language model. A traditional ML model, a rules engine or a SaaS product is often the right answer for that. We will say so on the call.
What we deliver
Model selection, prompt design, context window, retrieval and the architecture on paper.
Retrieval-augmented generation against the data the business owns, with the eval suite.
Fine-tuning or LoRA adapters against the data, with the eval that proves it worked.
LLM agents with tool use, memory and the orchestration the use case needs.
An evaluation suite, the safety filters, the brand controls and the moderation.
The production deploy, the observability, the cost review and the model swap path.
Our process
01
Discover
We agree the use case, the data, the model and the architecture on paper.
02
Plan & Design
We design the system, the prompts, the context and the evaluation suite.
03
Develop
We build in two-week sprints with a working slice every Friday.
04
Deploy
We ship to production with the evaluations, the guardrails and the observability live.
05
Optimize & Grow
We read the data, the cost and the evaluations, and ship the next iteration.
Technology
What you can expect
Industries we serve
It depends on the use case, the data, the latency and the cost. We pick against the requirements, not the hype. The architecture is model-agnostic, so the next model swap is a configuration change, not a rewrite. For sensitive data, the model can run on your VPC or on your hardware.
Most production systems need RAG. Fine-tuning is for the format, the style or the domain vocabulary — not for the facts. The decision is made on the eval suite, not a guess. Most projects end up with RAG and a small amount of prompt work; a minority need both; very few need fine-tuning alone.
An evaluation suite is part of the architecture from sprint one. The suite includes a held-out test set, a rubric for the qualitative checks, and a CI gate that catches regressions before deploy. Every prompt change, every model swap, every fine-tune is run against the suite, and the result is in the deploy log.
Token budgets, caching, batching, model routing, and a cost review that keeps the bill honest. The cost is a non-functional requirement, not an afterthought. We design against the cost from the first sprint, and the dashboards show the per-request cost against the budget.
Related services
Business software
Tell us the outcome you need. We’ll come back with an approach, a timeline and a written estimate.