Talk AI with an Engineering Consultant, not a salesperson.

We’re senior engineers who consult, not consultants who sell decks. We look at your actual workflows, tell you where AI pays off, what’s not worth building yet. Even if that next step doesn’t involve us.

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Why choose DECODE for AI consulting?

We don’t just advise on AI. We build it.
Here’s a glimpse of what we can deliver.
  • Saved $100M+ for a class I railroad with a real-time reservation system
  • 5 months to launch a complete AI business platform for Decidr, a $50M-funded AI startup
  • <800 ms response time of the AI voice assistant we engineered for real-time conversation

The honest part: if AI isn’t the right answer for your problem, we’ll say so in the session. Plenty of ideas we review get a “don’t build this yet.” That answer is free too.

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You’ll speak directly with Marin, a senior engineering consultant with 25+ years of international experience. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

What happens during the free consultation, and after it?

On the call, our engineering consultant figures out where your business actually stands. If you’d like to continue with DECODE, he’ll advise you on the best way forward. From there, there are two possible paths:

Path 1

AI Strategy and roadmap definition

We run a strategy session to identify the AI opportunities worth pursuing and estimate what each would cost to build. We make sure each solution fits your business strategy and can be adopted, governed, and scaled across your organization. Depending on the complexity of your business and your needs, this phase can take anywhere from 1–8 weeks.

Team involved — Solutions Architect, Business Analyst, Senior Software Engineer


Path 2

Skip straight to building AI solutions

If the opportunity’s already clear, we can go straight into AI development. You can have your first AI product or feature in production within a couple of weeks.

— Integrate AI into existing systems

— Build AI-powered solutions from scratch

Stories our competitors can’t tell…

Capacity-planning platform that processes 400,000+ daily reservations

Modernized processes and saved $100M+ for a class I railroad

A system this complex normally takes 9 to 12 months. They had 3. We assembled a 14-person senior team in a week and shipped on deadline.

The real-time reservation system now automates slot allocation across their network, processes 400,000+ reservations a day. Read case study →

I would strongly recommend DECODE to anyone looking for software development. From the outset, the engagement felt like a true partnership rather than a traditional vendor relationship.

Chris Ingraham
AVP of Operations Infrastructure & Efficiency at Norfolk Southern
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Built an all-in-one business platform for a $50M-funded AI startup

We partnered with an Australian AI startup to build a unified business platform, where we expanded their engineering capacity and delivered key AI features using Ruby on Rails, React, and major AI integrations. Read case study →

DECODE doubled my development team in 24 hours.

Tom Allen
Product Manager at Decidr
Fitness platform connected to smart bikes

We helped our UK-based client Apex evolve their smart bike and its accompanying app

Apex’s fitness platform combined a smart bike with an app for real-time tracking, live classes, and leaderboards. Read case study →

It’s a 360 service in terms of software development

Charlie Lucas, Co-Founder of Apex Rides

Fine, but why DECODE?

Fair question. Here’s why companies choose to work with DECODE.

Dedicated team focus

We follow a strict 1 team, 1 project policy, meaning the team assigned to your project focuses exclusively on your product. This ensures faster delivery, higher quality, and deeper product understanding.

Experienced teams at every stage

From discovery and product strategy to design and development, every step of the process is led by senior experts. This ensures the product is well thought out, carefully designed, and built to a high standard from day one.

AI-accelerated development

We don’t ask you to commit a big budget to an idea on a slide. We validate it first with working prototypes and proofs of concept, so you know it’s worth building before the real investment starts.

Our senior engineers use AI across planning, development, and testing to cut the repetitive work. You get the speed; they make every decision that matters. It’s how we launched a complete AI business platform for Decidr in less than 5 months.

Product-minded engineering

Our engineers think beyond code. They look at your operations, your people, and the problem you’re solving, then make technical decisions that support real outcomes.

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Still unsure about something?

Don’t worry, whatever it is, we’ve got you covered in our FAQ.

Honestly, it’s hard to give a real number without knowing your specific situation, scope changes the price more than almost anything else. As a rough ballpark: a focused AI feature or agentic workflow engagement usually starts around €80k to €150k. Larger, full production builds or legacy modernization projects tied to AI tend to run €250k and up. Smaller discovery or readiness work, figuring out what’s worth building before you commit to anything, is typically €15k to €50k. The best way to get a number that actually means something is the call itself, that’s where we scope your specific idea and give you a ballpark you can actually plan around.

Quite a lot, depending on where you’re starting from:

  • AI opportunity assessment, figuring out where AI is actually worth your time before you spend anything on development
  • AI integration, connecting AI to systems you already run: ERPs, CRMs, internal tools
  • Custom AI development, from LLM-powered features like copilots and intelligent search to recommendation engines and document processing
  • AI agent development, agents that handle full workflows end to end, not just answer questions
  • Real-time AI features like voice assistants and chatbots
  • Legacy modernization, when the right first move is a solid custom system rather than AI
  • Private AI on Spark, our in-house infrastructure, for clients in regulated industries who can’t send data to a public API

Not very. Bring the actual problem, not a technical spec. Our experts will ask the right questions to get to what matters, whether you’re a founder, a CTO, or somewhere in between.

First, we get a clear picture of where you actually stand in your AI journey, not where you think you should be. From there, we walk through whatever’s been on your mind: what’s realistic, what isn’t, and what’s actually worth building right now versus later. We’ll show you examples of how we’ve helped other companies clear similar hurdles with AI or custom software, so you’re not just taking our word for it. We’ll go through the options on the table for your situation, and you’ll leave with a ballpark cost for your idea, not a formal proposal, just enough to know if it’s worth pursuing further.

Get a tailored proposal

Whether you have a detailed specification or just an idea, we’ll recommend the best way forward and prepare a proposal. We’ll get back to you within 24 hours and connect you with the right technology experts.

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