Fractional AI Engineer for startups
A fractional AI engineer gives a startup or established business senior AI engineering part-time - building AI features and getting them running live in your product, without a full-time hire. Cognitiv works inside your team one to two days a week and takes the work from choosing the right model through to software running live.
What a fractional AI engineer builds
Real AI features running live in your product - tools that grade or score things automatically, software that sorts things automatically, search across your own documents and data, and software that does multi-step jobs on its own. The work covers choosing the model, designing the system, and writing the code that delivers it, so you get a feature running live rather than a proof of concept.
Simple rules first, the model in support
Cognitiv builds AI features so they are fast and easy to explain. Where a simple rule will do the job, the rule runs first and the model supports it. That keeps decisions quick, cheaper to run, and easy to follow when something goes wrong.
Pricing and how it works
A Ship Sprint - a two-week paid project, fixed price, at USD $4,000 - is the way in, and it ends with an AI feature running live. After that, ongoing monthly work runs from USD $8,000 a month. You can stop any month.
Common questions
What does a fractional AI engineer do?+
They design and build AI features into your product part-time - choosing the model, building the system, and writing the code that runs live. Cognitiv works one to two days a week inside your own systems and codebase.
How is this different from an AI agency?+
An agency usually hands work to a rotating team. Cognitiv is one senior engineer working inside your team, accountable for the software that goes live.
What does a fractional AI engineer cost?+
Cognitiv starts with a USD $4,000 two-week Ship Sprint, then ongoing monthly work from USD $8,000 a month. You can stop any month, and there is a review at three months.
Have something you need built?
Start with a Ship Sprint - a two-week paid project that ends with something working, not a document.