Unico Connect

Hire AI Engineers Who Build Intelligent Systems That Work in Production

Our AI engineers build machine learning models, NLP pipelines, computer vision systems, and AI agents that solve real business problems. Not research prototypes, but production systems that deliver measurable results.

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AI Engineering, Accelerated with AI

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Rapid Prototyping with Foundation Models

We start with pre-trained models (GPT-4, Claude, open-source alternatives) and fine-tune for your domain, cutting development time from months to weeks.

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Automated Evaluation Pipelines

AI-powered evaluation frameworks test model outputs against domain-specific benchmarks, catching accuracy regressions and hallucination issues before deployment.

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Continuous Model Monitoring

AI monitors production model performance, drift, and user feedback in real time, triggering retraining or prompt adjustments when quality degrades.

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Cost-Optimized Architecture

AI tools analyze your usage patterns to recommend the right model size, caching strategy, and batching approach, keeping inference costs predictable as you scale.

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Every engineer at Unico Connect uses AI as a core part of their engineering workflow. This is not about replacing developers with AI. It is about making experienced developers significantly more productive.

What Our AI Developers Build

Custom AI Agents

Autonomous agents that perform multi-step tasks using LLMs, tool calling, and domain knowledge. Customer support, research, and workflow automation.

RAG & Knowledge Systems

Retrieval-augmented generation systems that ground AI responses in your proprietary data. Document Q&A, internal knowledge bases, and domain-specific assistants.

Computer Vision

Image classification, object detection, OCR, and visual inspection systems. From medical imaging to manufacturing quality control.

NLP & Text Processing

Named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, document classification, and text extraction pipelines for structured data from unstructured content.

Predictive Analytics & ML Models

Forecasting, anomaly detection, recommendation engines, and scoring models trained on your historical data for business-specific predictions.

AI Integration & Deployment

Deploy AI models into your existing applications. API wrappers, edge deployment, model serving infrastructure, and production monitoring.

How It Works

From first conversation to a developer shipping code on your project, the process is designed to be fast, transparent, and low-risk.

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Engagement Models

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Dedicated Developer

An AI Engineer works exclusively on your project, integrated with your team's tools and workflows.

Best for: Ongoing model and pipeline work, eval-driven iteration
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Managed Team

We assemble and manage an AI team with a tech lead, handling delivery end-to-end against your requirements.

Best for: Building RAG and agent systems end-to-end with a lead
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Project-Based

Fixed scope, timeline, and budget. We deliver the project and hand off the codebase with documentation.

Best for: AI proofs of concept, RAG pipelines, model integration sprints
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Start within a weekFlexible scale-up / scale-downNo long-term lock-inDedicated technical lead

Our Work

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AI Demo / Cross-Industry🇺🇸 USA

Built an AI agent that processes unstructured documents with 85% extraction accuracy

Processes invoices, contracts, and reports with intelligent field extraction and confidence scoring
Validates extracted data against configurable business rules before downstream push
Handles multiple document formats (PDF, scanned images, emails) with OCR integration
Provides audit trail and exception queue for human review of low-confidence extractions

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Extraction Accuracy

70%

Faster Document Processing

90% 

Reduction in Manual Review

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AI Demo / B2B Commerce

Deployed a WhatsApp agent that processes B2B orders 60% faster across 3 languages

Processes orders via text and voice messages in English, Hindi, and Spanish
Confirms line items, quantities, and pricing with the buyer before submission
Checks real-time inventory availability and suggests alternatives for out-of-stock items
Routes confirmed orders to fulfillment and sends delivery tracking updates

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Faster Order Processing

40%

Reduction in Order Errors

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Languages Supported

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AI Demo / Enterprise Operations

Automated 75% of support ticket classification with AI-driven triage and routing

Monitors incoming tickets across email, chat, and web form channels in real time
Classifies tickets by category, urgency, and complexity using trained language models
Assigns priority scores and routes to the correct team based on skill matching
Learns from resolution patterns to continuously improve classification accuracy

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Automated extraction and classification

50%

Faster Resolution Time

30%

Fewer Misrouted Tickets

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AI That Works in Production, Not Just in Demos

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Frequently Asked Questions

An AI engineer builds and ships AI systems into production: machine learning models, RAG and retrieval pipelines, LLM integrations, computer vision, and AI agents, along with the evaluation, guardrails, and monitoring that keep them reliable. A data scientist leans more toward analysis, experimentation, and modeling in notebooks. You often need both, but if the goal is a working AI feature inside your product, an AI engineer is the one who ships it.

It depends on seniority, the engagement model, and scope rather than a fixed rate card. A dedicated engineer is billed at a monthly rate, a managed team is priced by its composition, and a project-based engagement is a fixed quote against a defined scope. The biggest cost driver is the complexity of the AI work: a RAG integration on foundation models costs far less than training and serving custom models with strict latency or compliance needs. We give you a clear quote in a free consultation before any commitment, and you can scale up or down without lock-in.

We can match you with a vetted AI Engineer within a week. Our team includes pre-screened engineers with production experience in AI, so we skip the lengthy recruitment cycle and get straight to onboarding.

Three options: dedicated developers who work exclusively on your project, a managed team where we handle delivery end-to-end, or a project-based engagement with fixed scope and timeline. All models include a technical lead and regular progress updates.

Every AI engineer is tested on production AI work, not notebooks: a RAG or retrieval exercise (chunking, embeddings, reranking), a prompt and eval design task, a system-design round on inference cost, latency, and fallbacks, and a trial project. We also check how they reason about hallucination control, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.

Yes. We share detailed profiles including relevant project experience, then arrange a technical interview so you can assess fit before committing. If the match is not right, we provide alternatives at no cost.

We offer a replacement guarantee. If the developer does not meet expectations within the first two weeks, we reassign and provide a replacement with no additional charges or delays to your project timeline.

Both. For many use cases, fine-tuned foundation models (GPT-4, Claude, open-source LLMs) deliver excellent results at lower cost than training from scratch. When your domain requires specialized capabilities that general models cannot provide, we train custom models using your data. We advise on the right approach during discovery.

We design AI systems with data privacy built in. This includes on-premise or private cloud deployment options, data anonymization pipelines, access controls, and compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, or industry-specific regulations. For LLM integrations, we offer self-hosted model options that keep your data off third-party servers entirely.

Look past framework names to production judgment. Strong AI engineers know Python and the ML stack such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face, but the real differentiator is how they handle the hard parts: retrieval and embedding design for RAG, prompt and evaluation pipelines, hallucination control and guardrails, inference cost and latency trade-offs, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints for critical decisions. Ask for production examples rather than notebooks, which is exactly how we vet every engineer we place.

Our engineering team is based in India and works with clients across the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. Engineers align to your working hours for overlap on standups, reviews, and planning, then default to async communication and documented decisions for the rest, so progress stays visible without forcing anyone onto a permanent night shift.

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