Case studies

Real placements. Real production systems.

Selected stories from teams who hired AI engineers through this index and shipped. Outcomes, metrics, and what each engagement delivered.

Financial services

Series B fintech

  • RAG
  • Compliance
  • Hybrid search
Challenge

In-house RAG prototype was returning 40% irrelevant results on regulatory documents. Compliance review was blocked.

Solution

Matched a senior retrieval engineer with regulated-industry evidence. Rebuilt retrieval with hybrid search and reranking, and shipped an eval harness against a 2,000-question golden set.

Outcome

Retrieval precision @5 jumped from 58% to 94%. Cleared compliance review on first pass.

36hrTime to match
+62%Retrieval precision
12 weeksEngagement

“We’d interviewed 14 engineers ourselves over a month. The first profile they sent was the hire.”

— VP Engineering, Series B fintech

B2B SaaS

Workflow SaaS platform

  • Agents
  • LangGraph
  • Knowledge transfer
Challenge

Needed to ship a multi-agent automation feature to compete with a well-funded entrant. Founding team had no agent-systems experience.

Solution

Placed a principal AI architect on a six-month contract. They designed the orchestration, set up evaluation, and trained the in-house team alongside delivery.

Outcome

Feature shipped in 11 weeks. Increased ARR by $1.4M in the following quarter.

48hrTime to match
11 weeksTime to ship
+$1.4MARR impact

“The knowledge transfer was as valuable as the code. Our team can now own this themselves.”

— CTO, Workflow SaaS platform

Healthcare

Healthtech scale-up

  • Guardrails
  • Hardening
  • Healthcare
Challenge

Customer-facing LLM was hallucinating dosage information. PR risk was real, and existing guardrails kept getting bypassed.

Solution

Matched a prompt engineer specialized in hardening. They built a multi-layer guardrail (input classification, structured output, post-hoc validation) and a red-team eval suite.

Outcome

Hallucination rate on safety-critical queries dropped to under 0.1%. Passed an external security audit.

24hrTime to match
<0.1%Hallucination rate
PassedAudit

“They thought adversarially in a way our internal team hadn’t. Worth every dollar.”

— Head of AI Safety, healthtech scale-up

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