Example projectWeb appAICustom LLM
Pipeline corrosion model
Hypothetical. Not a client, not a result.
// The problem
Integrity engineers review thousands of photos from digs, drone flights and facility inspections by eye, and the backlog decides which sites are looked at first.
// What we would build
A custom vision model, fine-tuned on the operator's own labelled inspection images, that flags coating damage and corrosion for an engineer to review, served in the operator's own cloud account so the images stay theirs.
// What is in it
- Images labelled by your integrity team in a simple tool
- A model fine-tuned on your images and measured on a held-out set
- A review queue ranked by severity, where engineers confirm or overrule
- Findings linked to the pipeline segment or facility
- Overrules saved as the next round of training data
// Stack
- PyTorch
- ONNX Runtime
- Python
- Next.js
- AWS GPU instances
// estimate
- Build
- ≈ US$149,000 to US$227,000, delivered within 36 weeksCAD 212,000 to 323,600
- Hosting
- ≈ US$7,020 a monthCAD 10,000 a month
- Support
- ≈ US$2,500 a monthCAD 3,565 a month
Prices in your currency are estimates from today's Bank of Canada rate. All invoicing is in CAD or USD.
- AI route
- Custom LLM
- Model running cost
- ≈ US$6,530 a monthCAD 9,300 a month
Timeline by milestone
- Discovery
- 2.9 to 3.4 weeks
- Data and evaluation plan
- 0.4 weeks
- Design approved
- 2.4 to 4.4 weeks
- Core features
- 1.9 to 3.4 weeks
- Full build
- 1.4 to 2.4 weeks
- Training
- 8.9 to 15.4 weeks
- Testing and fixes
- 0.4 weeks
- Evaluation and red-teaming
- 3.9 to 4.4 weeks
- Launch
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- Production
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
How it is paid
- Deposit 20%
- CAD 42,160 to 64,480
- Discovery 1.3%
- CAD 2,740.40 to 4,191.20
- Data and evaluation plan 8.2%
- CAD 17,285.60 to 26,436.80
- Design approved 1.3%
- CAD 2,740.40 to 4,191.20
- Core features 4%
- CAD 8,432 to 12,896
- Full build 2.6%
- CAD 5,480.80 to 8,382.40
- Training 24.8%
- CAD 52,278.40 to 79,955.20
- Testing and fixes 1.3%
- CAD 2,740.40 to 4,191.20
- Evaluation and red-teaming 16.5%
- CAD 34,782 to 53,196
- Launch 1.3%
- CAD 2,740.40 to 4,191.20
- Production 8.7%
- CAD 18,339.60 to 28,048.80
- Holdback, 30 days after launch (10%)
- CAD 21,080 to 32,240
- GPU time for training and testing, at cost
- CAD 1,200. Billed up front, at cost, outside the milestones