AI at Cord4

Production-grade AI delivery

We build AI software for teams that have to answer to customers, boards and auditors. Opinionated process, defensible metrics, senior engineers on every engagement.

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Anthropic ClaudeOpenAI GPT-4oGoogle GeminiMeta LlamaMistralAWS Bedrock

Delivery assurance

SOC 2-alignedGDPRISO 27001Evals + guardrails
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Three places to go deeper

Each section is self-contained and written for a different reader — builders, buyers, and boards.

How we measure ourselves

Performance we contract to

Numbers we put in the statement of work, not in a brochure. Each has a stated scope and a way to verify it.

3–5×

Throughput uplift

Measured on greenfield feature work over 4 engagements (2024).

≥ 90%

PR review coverage

Automated static, security and policy checks on every commit.

p95 < 2.0s

RAG answer latency

Budget we design to. Measured end-to-end at the API edge.

99.9%

Uptime target

Contracted on managed platforms; observability shipped on day one.

Capabilities

AI, at every phase of delivery

Not a plugin. A six-phase delivery process built around AI, with senior engineers owning every gate.

Architecture

AI-assisted architecture

We use AI to accelerate the early phases of system design — not to replace the judgement call. A senior engineer still owns every boundary, contract and data model.

Implementation

Agent-assisted implementation

Claude Code and Cursor run alongside every engineer as a paired agent. Scaffolding, migrations and repetitive logic get generated under strict style and security guardrails.

Quality

Automated QA & evals

Unit, integration and eval suites are written alongside the feature. Regression and drift are caught before merge, not after the customer escalates.

Security

Security & policy review

Every pull request is scanned for OWASP top-10, secret leakage and licence issues. AI surfaces risks; senior engineers triage. Nothing merges without human sign-off.

Documentation

Living documentation

APIs, READMEs and architectural decision records are generated from source, reviewed by humans, and kept in lockstep with the code as it evolves.

Operations

Observability & cost guardrails

Model calls, tokens and latency are measured per-tenant from day one. Budgets, rate-limits and fallbacks are implemented before we go live — not after the first bill.

How we deliver

Engagement process

Repeatable, de-risked, and written down. Every stage has an artefact, an eval target, and a named owner.

  1. 01

    Discovery & scoping

    We map the workflow, inspect the data, and identify the highest-ROI AI opportunity before writing a line of code. You get a one-page scope with an eval target attached.

  2. 02

    Working prototype (2 weeks)

    A live prototype on real data — not slideware. Covers the riskiest assumption first so the business case is testable inside a fortnight.

  3. 03

    Production engineering

    Guardrails, rate limiting, caching, retries, fallbacks, observability and security review. Everything that separates a demo from a system customers can depend on.

  4. 04

    Evaluation & human review

    Every AI surface ships with an eval harness. Senior engineers review AI output on a sampling basis. Failure modes are tracked as first-class tickets.

  5. 05

    Operate & iterate

    Usage, cost and quality telemetry flow into weekly reviews. We improve prompts, retrieval, and models against the eval score — not against vibes.

Discovery

Scope your first AI surface in 2 weeks

Send us the workflow, the data and the question you're trying to answer. We'll come back with a one-page scope, an eval target, and a costed two-week prototype.

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