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AI Development Company

Silver Crest is an AI development company building custom AI, machine learning, and automation for businesses across the USA. We ship production-ready systems — not proof-of-concept theatre — tied to a metric that actually matters to your business.

Isometric illustration of engineers wiring a glowing neural network into a friendly robot
15+
Years shipping software
100%
Senior engineers — no juniors
1
Team, from scope to launch
Chicago
HQ · delivering USA-wide
Challenges

Common challenges we solve

You're not sure where AI actually fits your product.

How we fix it — We map real, high-ROI use cases before writing a line of code.

Prototypes demo well but fall over in production.

How we fix it — We engineer for reliability, latency, and cost at real scale.

LLM output is inconsistent or hallucinates.

How we fix it — Evaluations, guardrails, and retrieval grounded in your own data.

AI vendors want to lock you in.

How we fix it — Model-agnostic builds you own and can swap.

What we deliver

Capabilities

Machine learning

predictive models, scoring, and recommendations.

Natural language processing

chat, search, summarization, and extraction.

Computer vision

detection, classification, and document/image understanding.

AI automation

remove manual work across your operations.

LLM apps & RAG

assistants grounded in your own data and documents.

Custom AI that ships

Plenty of teams can demo AI. The hard part is putting it into production: reliable, monitored, and safe to depend on. That's what we do. Whether it's your first AI feature or a full AI-powered product, we build for the real world — with evaluation, guardrails, and observability from day one.

Related services

Ready to put AI to work? Explore AI Automation to remove manual workflows, or bring us the surrounding product too — that's our software development practice.

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How we work

From scope to launch, and beyond.

01

Discovery & scoping

We dig into goals, users, and constraints until the scope is painfully clear — then quote it tightly.

Goals & success metricsTechnical discoveryFixed-scope estimate
02

Design & prototype

Architecture and UX, prototyped fast so you approve the direction before we build.

System designUX / UIClickable prototype
03

Build in iterations

Senior engineers build in tight sprints — you see working software early and often.

Weekly demosProduction-grade codeHonest trade-offs
04

Launch

Ship to production with everything measured from day one.

Hardening & QAAnalytics & monitoringGo-live
05

Run & grow

We keep it running, improving, and — when you want — market it like it's our own.

Iteration & supportSLAsGrowth
Pricing

One subscription. Four sizes.

Hours-based plans that cover strategy and execution across every service we offer. Scale up or down as you grow — the bigger the plan, the lower the rate.

Starter
$4,000/mo
40 hours / month$100/hr effective

One growth channel, run properly.

  • 1–2 core services
  • Supportive & ad-hoc work included
  • Senior team, no junior bench
  • Monthly strategy & reporting
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Most popularGrowth
$7,200/mo
80 hours / month$90/hr effective

The full organic + paid engine.

  • 2–3 core services
  • Supportive & ad-hoc work included
  • Dedicated strategist on request
  • Weekly calls & priority turnaround
Get started
Scale
$12,800/mo
160 hours / month$80/hr effective

A full marketing department, on subscription.

  • 3–5 core services
  • Supportive & ad-hoc work included
  • Strategist & fractional CMO on request
  • Engineering time for technical fixes
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Enterprise
$50K+/mo
Custom hours & team

For teams that need it all, embedded.

  • 5+ core services
  • Embedded CMO & strategist
  • Custom team matched to your roadmap
  • Software & AI development included
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Every plan includes
Access to every service — SEO, PPC, content, design & dev
A dedicated senior team matched to your needs
Live 90-day roadmap
Single shared backlog
Real-time KPI dashboard
Weekly meetings & updates

3-month minimum, then month-to-month · 10% off on 6 months · 20% off on 12 months

FAQ

AI Development Company — FAQ

Let's build

Got something to build?

Tell us what you're making. We'll tell you — honestly — if we're the right team, and how we'd do it.