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AI Development Company

SilverCrest 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.

15+
Years shipping software
100%
Senior engineers - no juniors
1
Team, from scope to launch
Chicago
HQ · delivering USA-wide

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.

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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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
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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.