AI systems that work in production

We build RAG pipelines, AI agents, and LLM integrations for companies that need more than a demo. Reliable, maintainable, and actually deployed — not just prototyped.

What We Build

Focused on the AI work that actually delivers value in production

RAG Systems & Knowledge Retrieval

Production-grade retrieval-augmented generation systems. Chunking strategy, embedding pipelines, reranking, evaluation — built to stay accurate as your data grows.

AI Agent Workflows

Autonomous agents that use tools, make decisions, and complete multi-step tasks — with the reliability patterns and evals to trust them in real workflows.

LLM Integration & AI Features

Add AI capabilities to your existing product without the chaos. We scope, architect, and ship LLM-powered features that integrate cleanly with your stack.

About Pixelstride Labs

We're a small, senior AI engineering team. No juniors running your project. No bloated process. Just experienced engineers who have shipped production AI systems and know what breaks after the demo.

Most of our work falls into a pattern: a company has a real problem, they've seen the AI demos, and they need someone who can bridge the gap between "this looks impressive" and "this is running in prod and working six months from now." That's what we do.

Production-first

We build for the system that runs in six months, not the demo that impresses on day one.

Honest scoping

We'll tell you when you don't need AI, when a simpler approach works better, and what the real risks are.

Small team, senior work

You work directly with the engineers building your system — not an account manager relaying messages.

Evals, not vibes

We measure whether AI systems actually work. Evaluation frameworks are part of every engagement, not an afterthought.

How we work

A process built around one constraint: AI quality you can't measure is just vibes.

01

Understand the real problem

"We need AI to do X" usually turns into something different once we sit with it for a week. We start with discovery — not code. What does success actually look like, and is AI the right tool to get there?

02

Define success before writing code

For AI work, that means building a small golden dataset early. You can't iterate on quality you can't measure. We agree on what "good" looks like before a line of code is written.

03

Prototype against real data

A working spike against your actual data beats a deck of architecture diagrams. We prototype in days, not weeks — and we prototype against the messy real data, not a clean sample.

04

Build evals alongside the system

Same discipline as tests in normal software — skip it and you pay for it later. Regression harnesses, CI integration, and quality metrics are built in parallel with the system, not bolted on at the end.

05

Ship vertical slices

One real use case end-to-end before broadening scope. This keeps feedback loops tight and prevents the classic failure mode: a system that technically works but solves the wrong thing.

06

Treat production as part of the build

Observability, real user behavior, continuous evals. This is where most AI features quietly die. We build for production from day one — and we hand off with docs and a runnable eval suite so your team can keep iterating without us.

Selected work

Real systems, shipped to production. Client details anonymized.

Legal Services

RAG system for deposition and case document retrieval

The problem

A legal services firm manages thousands of PDFs per matter — deposition transcripts, exhibits, filings. Their teams needed to find specific testimony and evidence across all of it. Traditional keyword search failed in both directions: missing relevant testimony when witnesses phrased things differently, drowning in irrelevant hits when terms were common. The work was being done manually by paralegals and junior associates.

What we built

A production RAG system on OpenSearch with hybrid lexical + vector retrieval, LLM-driven query rewriting on the way in, and re-ranking on the way out. Every answer cites back to the exact source page — non-negotiable in legal, where attorneys must verify every assertion. Built on the Vercel AI SDK with streaming responses and structured citation blocks parsed in real time.

The eval infrastructure was built alongside the system from day one: golden datasets, regression testing on every prompt change, Promptfoo running in CI. Retrieval quality became something we could measure and iterate on with confidence — not something we eyeballed.

RAG OpenSearch Hybrid retrieval Re-ranking Promptfoo Vercel AI SDK

Let's talk about your project

Tell us what you're building and where you're stuck. We'll give you an honest assessment of what's feasible, what's not, and what it would take to ship it.

Location

Fort Worth, Texas, USA

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