AI MVP Development
Ship your AI-powered MVP in 8 weeks. Fixed price. With guardrails baked in.
A production AI product in front of real users — with evals, cost caps, and prompt-injection protection from day one. CAD $18k–$28k all-in. Built by a Canadian team serving founders across the US, UK, and EU.
Get a free AI-MVP scoping call →Our 8-week AI MVP sprint
Week 1
AI scope + model pick
We lock the one AI workflow that proves your product's value — then pick the right model (GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, or fine-tuned OSS). No multi-model over-engineering before you have users.
Week 2
Design + prompt architecture
Clickable prototype and the actual prompt/tool design. You see exactly how the AI will behave before a line of product code is written.
Weeks 3–6
Build + evaluate
Daily deploys. We run evals on the AI every single day so quality does not silently degrade. You test on your own data, in your own workflow.
Weeks 7–8
Launch + guardrails
App Store / Play Store / production domain live. Rate limits, cost caps, prompt-injection guards, logging — all wired in before your first external user touches it.
What is in the CAD $18k–$28k AI MVP package
In scope
- ✓One core AI workflow (chat, generation, summarization, extraction, or agentic task)
- ✓iOS (SwiftUI), Flutter, or Next.js — your call based on audience
- ✓LLM integration (OpenAI / Anthropic / Google) or self-hosted OSS model
- ✓User accounts, usage tracking, cost caps per user
- ✓Eval harness so you can measure AI quality as you iterate
- ✓Prompt-injection and abuse guardrails
- ✓Analytics + structured logging of every AI call
- ✓30 days of post-launch bug fixes and prompt tuning
Saved for v2
- —Custom-trained models — use a foundation model at MVP, fine-tune only if data proves it's worth it
- —Multi-tenant admin dashboards — Supabase/Retool is enough at v1
- —Payments / subscriptions — add in v2 once users love the AI
- —Voice / vision — unless the one core workflow is voice or vision
- —Self-hosted GPU infra — 99% of AI MVPs never need it
Proof we ship AI MVPs — not just talk about them
We eat our own dog food. Here are AI and MVP products we have already shipped.
BLAI
Live AI agent, built by us, for us
BLAI is Black Layers' own AI agent — it runs on WhatsApp, reads live market data, manages lead outreach, and posts content. We built it on the same 8-week cadence we sell. It's live right now on +1 (587) 429-6200 — message it.
Bible Chats (iOS)
AI + native iOS MVP
Conversational AI app on the App Store. Swift / SwiftUI front-end, LLM back-end, shipped as a solo-founder MVP.
SakeenaTime (iOS)
Scheduling + notifications MVP
Live on the App Store. Proof we can ship polished iOS MVPs that pass App Store review on the first try.
Looking for something more specific?
AI MVP is our flagship. If your need is narrower, we have focused services too.
AI MVP FAQ
What is an AI MVP and how is it different from a regular MVP?
An AI MVP puts a large-language-model or agentic workflow at the center of your product's value. The hard parts are different from a regular MVP: prompt design, evals, latency, hallucination control, cost per user, prompt-injection. We build those in from day one instead of bolting them on after launch.
Which AI models and providers do you use?
We default to whichever model is best for your one workflow — Claude 4.7 Opus or Sonnet for reasoning-heavy work, Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite for high-volume low-cost, GPT for multimodal. For privacy-sensitive clients we ship with Llama 3.1 or Qwen via Groq or self-hosted. We pick per-workflow, never force a single vendor.
Can we really ship an AI MVP in 8 weeks?
Yes — but only if we stay ruthless on scope. One core AI workflow, one platform, one model at launch. Founders who try to ship a chat + voice + vision + agentic MVP in 8 weeks never launch. Ours do.
How do you prevent the AI from hallucinating or going off-rails?
Three layers: (1) system-prompt guardrails with explicit refusal rules, (2) structured output schemas so bad responses are caught before they reach the user, (3) an eval suite run on every deploy that regresses if quality drops. We also add per-user rate limits and per-call cost caps so a single abuser cannot drain your OpenAI budget.
What is the pricing for an AI MVP?
Fixed price, CAD $18k–$28k all-in for the 8-week sprint. Higher than a standard MVP because of the AI eval work, guardrails, and model-cost engineering. You own all the code and prompts. No lock-in.
Do you work with US and European founders?
Yes. About 60% of our AI MVP work is with US startups and another 25% is EU / UK. We work across time zones on Slack or Discord and hold one synchronous 30-min review per week.
What happens to my AI prompts and training data?
They are yours. We never use your data or prompts to train anyone else's model and we put that in the contract. All prompts live in your repo. All user data lives in your database, not ours.
Start your AI MVP sprint
Tell us the one AI workflow that proves your product's value. We respond within 24 hours with a sharpened scope, timeline, and fixed price.