LLM Integration
Beyond API wrappers: routing, caching, streaming UX, evaluation gates, and operational controls—so product teams can ship confidently as traffic and regulatory scrutiny grow.
LLM surfaces engineered for policy, cost, and reliability at scale.
Phases
4-phase program
Timeline
Surface-area dependent; commonly 6–12 weeks for multi-surface products
Outcomes
3 target deliverables
Problem framing
Where teams lose leverage
Latency spikes, inconsistent outputs, and unbounded spend undermine user trust. We treat LLM features as distributed systems with explicit budgets and measurable quality bars.
- 1
Prompt drift across environments causes production-only failures.
- 2
PII and secrets in prompts create audit and exfiltration risk.
- 3
Without caching and batching, unit economics collapse under growth.
Target outcomes
What this engagement delivers
SLO-backed latency and availability targets with dashboards
Versioned prompts and automated eval gates on every release
Documented redaction, retention, and regional deployment options
Scope
Deliverables we commit in writing
Exact backlog is tailored in discovery; below is representative of what enterprise buyers typically require for acceptance.
Provider abstraction with health checks, routing, and graceful degradation
Streaming UX with cancellation, partial results, and safe fallbacks
Caching, batching, and token accounting aligned to product surfaces
Synthetic and production-sampled eval suites with regression alerts
Program structure
Phased delivery model
Milestones map to artifacts you can review with engineering, security, and finance stakeholders.
Week 1
Surface inventory
User journeys, risk classes, and cost envelopes.
Weeks 1–3
Control plane
Policies, caching, routing, and observability design.
Weeks 3–9
Product integration
SDKs, UI patterns, eval harnesses, and staged rollout.
Week 9+
Hardening
Load tests, chaos drills, and handoff documentation.
Reference view
Logical architecture
Your production topology will reflect your cloud, identity, and data residency choices — this diagram communicates control points and trust boundaries we design around.
Technology
Typical stack (vendor-neutral)
We standardize on primitives your team can operate — and avoid stack-lock where it hurts maintainability after handoff.
Indicative timeline
Surface-area dependent; commonly 6–12 weeks for multi-surface products
Final scope depends on your data maturity, integration count, and compliance requirements — all defined in the written SOW.
Get a scoped estimateGovernance
Security and compliance posture
We implement technical controls and documentation suitable for enterprise procurement — not checkbox theater.
Configurable redaction and logging policies for sensitive inputs
Secrets management integrated with your existing KMS / vault patterns
Change management artifacts for enterprise security questionnaires
Procurement
Statements of work, change control, and optional penetration-test windows are scoped explicitly. Legal sign-off remains with your counsel.
FAQ
Technical and commercial questions
LLM Integration
Ready to scope this engagement?
Thirty-minute discovery call. Fixed written scope within a week. No open-ended hourly burn.