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Quality assistant over your SOPs
Hypothetical. Not a client, not a result.
// The problem
Quality and production staff search hundreds of standard operating procedures and past deviation records to find the right step, and new staff ask the quality assurance person for everything.
// What we would build
An assistant that answers from the producer's own SOPs and deviation records and cites the document and section, on an open-source model hosted in the producer's own cloud account so the documents stay private.
// What is in it
- SOPs, work instructions and deviation records indexed and kept current
- Answers that cite the SOP and section they come from
- Only the approved, current version of each SOP is used
- An open-source model served on GPUs in your own cloud account
- An evaluation set of real staff questions, run before every change
// Stack
- Llama or Mistral (open-source)
- vLLM
- PostgreSQL with pgvector
- Next.js
- DigitalOcean GPU
// estimate
- Build
- ≈ US$103,000 to US$158,000, delivered within 21 weeksCAD 147,300 to 224,900
- Hosting
- ≈ US$4,360 a monthCAD 6,210 a month
- Support
- ≈ US$1,000 a monthCAD 1,425 a month
Prices in your currency are estimates from today's Bank of Canada rate. All invoicing is in CAD or USD.
- AI route
- Open-source model
- Model running cost
- ≈ US$4,190 a monthCAD 5,960 a month
Timeline by milestone
- Discovery
- 2.9 to 3.4 weeks
- Specification and evaluation plan
- 0.4 weeks
- Design approved
- 2.4 to 3.9 weeks
- Core features
- 1.4 to 1.9 weeks
- Full build
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- Working pilot
- 3.4 to 5.9 weeks
- Testing and fixes
- 0.9 to 1.9 weeks
- Launch
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- Production
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
How it is paid
- Deposit 20%
- CAD 29,400 to 44,920
- Discovery 2%
- CAD 2,940 to 4,492
- Specification and evaluation plan 10.3%
- CAD 15,141.00 to 23,133.80
- Design approved 2%
- CAD 2,940 to 4,492
- Core features 6%
- CAD 8,820 to 13,476
- Full build 4%
- CAD 5,880 to 8,984
- Working pilot 31.1%
- CAD 45,717.00 to 69,850.60
- Testing and fixes 2%
- CAD 2,940 to 4,492
- Launch 2%
- CAD 2,940 to 4,492
- Production 10.6%
- CAD 15,582.00 to 23,807.60
- Holdback, 30 days after launch (10%)
- CAD 14,700 to 22,460
- GPU time for training and testing, at cost
- CAD 300. Billed up front, at cost, outside the milestones