AI implementation

We ship the system. Not a deck about the system.

Bartine's AI practice is a small senior team that designs, builds, and ships Claude-native systems inside your business — workflow agents, codebase modernization, MCP infrastructure, and full-stack applications. Three-to-twelve week engagements. Senior engineers only. You own everything we build.

A senior engineer's editor mid-build — working code, not a roadmap slideWorking software by week one
0
Slide decks delivered
~5 days
From scope to first working prototype
100%
Of code, prompts, and infra — yours
Senior only
No juniors learning on your dime
3–12 wks
Typical engagement length
1
Senior engineer on every conversation, every commit
0
Platform lock-in — runs in your cloud, your accounts
Practice areas

Five things. We do them well. We say no to the rest.

Each row below is a real practice — work we've shipped, not a service we'd be happy to figure out on your dime.
01
Claude-Native Workflow AutomationAgents · Skills · Deploy

We design, build, and deploy Claude-powered workflows inside your business — managed agent architectures, cloud deployment, and prompts tuned to your domain. We also build the Skills and plugins that make Claude a part of your operating system rather than a tab open next to it.

02
Supervised Agentic EngineeringClaude Code

We run Claude Code as a supervised collaborator — for codebase architecture work, large refactors, and modernization of legacy systems. A senior engineer drives. The agent does rote work at scale. You get the throughput of a team and the judgment of one experienced person reviewing every commit.

03
Enterprise Full-Stack DevelopmentNew build

When the right answer is a new application rather than an automation, we build it. Modern stack, production-ready, handed off with documentation a future internal engineer can actually use.

04
MCP Infrastructure & Custom ConnectorsMCP server

A centralized Model Context Protocol server is increasingly the right architecture for an enterprise that wants agents talking to actual systems — CRM, ERP, ticketing, finance, internal databases. We build the server, write custom connectors to your existing IT, and govern the access layer the agents depend on.

05
AdvisoryWritten plan

Where you don't need code yet — you need clarity. Where to start. What's worth automating. What process to fix before pointing AI at it. The advisory work is short, opinionated, and ends with a written plan and a specific first step. Not a slide deck.

The engagement model

Small. Embedded. Then gone.

We don't staff an account. We embed a senior engineer, ship working software, and hand it back clean.
01
Small and senior.

The team is small. Every person on it has shipped production AI work before. No analyst pyramid. No rotating staff. The people you meet on the first call are the people writing the code on the last day.

02
Embedded, not advisory-only.

We sit inside your team for the duration — your Slack, your repo, your standups. The output is working software, not a final report. If we're not in your repo by week one, we're not doing it right.

03
Yours when we leave.

Code, prompts, agent definitions, infrastructure config, documentation — all yours. We don't build dependency. The mark of a good engagement is that you don't need us six months later. Several clients haven't.

How to tell if we're a fit

The honest version.

Saying no is part of the job. Here's what we turn down — usually on the first call.
No transformation decks.
We don’t sell “AI strategy” engagements that end in a thirty-slide future state. Every engagement starts with a real prototype in a real part of your business by the end of week one.
No platform lock-in.
Whatever we build runs in your cloud, on your accounts, with your keys. You can fire us at any time and nothing stops working.
No process-disguised-as-tech engagements.
If the bottleneck is that your operations are unclear, AI won't fix it. We'll tell you that on the first call and recommend the right kind of help.
No bait-and-switch staffing.
The senior who pitched the work does the work. We don't have a bench of juniors waiting to be sold in once the contract is signed.
A representative project

What three weeks with us actually looks like.

Most engagements are longer. The shape is the same.
Days 1–3
Watch and scope.

We sit with the team and watch the work get done. Wherever the manual repetition is, we mark it. By end of day three, we have a one-page scope: what we'll build, what we won't, what success looks like.

Days 4–14
Ship the prototype.

First working prototype lands in week one. Real Claude agent, real connection to a real system, real data. The team uses it daily and tells us what's wrong. We ship a better version each Friday.

Days 15–21
Harden and hand off.

Auth, error handling, audit logging, documentation, runbook. Handoff session with whoever owns it going forward. Last meeting: the engagement is over and the system is in production.

Engagements scale from three weeks to twelve. The cadence above is the rhythm — prototype early, ship weekly, hand it off clean.

A conversation costs nothing. A bad implementation costs years.

Tell us what's broken or what you're trying to ship. If we're the right team, you'll know in thirty minutes. If we're not, we'll tell you who is.

Questions

The questions operators ask first.

Senior engineers who have shipped production AI systems. The same people you meet on the first call write the code on the last day. No bait-and-switch.
Three to twelve weeks. We don't do month-long discovery phases. We don't do open-ended retainers. If the work is bigger than twelve weeks, we break it into shippable pieces.
It's the model we've shipped the most production systems on, and its tooling — Claude Code, Skills, plugins, MCP — has matured fastest for actual engineering work. If a different model is the right fit for a specific engagement, we'll say so.
Yes. Documented, handed off, with a README your next engineer can read on day one. We've left enough engagements clean that we have a pattern for it.
Yes to all three. Standard.
We do advisory work, but we don't do strategy decks. The output of an advisory engagement is a written plan with a specific first step — usually short, usually opinionated, never a deliverable a vendor would be proud of and an operator couldn't act on.
That's where the conversation starts. Most engagements begin with one specific painful process. We don't need a full AI strategy to begin — we need a real problem and a person who owns it.
Engagements are scoped flat-rate, sized to the deliverable. We price on the work, not on the headcount. You'll have the number before the kickoff meeting.