What good offshore AI engineer vetting actually looks like
Hey PH, Sunil here. Quick context: AI Velocity Pods is not a recruiting platform. It is how we structure AI engineering engagements, pre-vetted offshore engineers paired with senior architects, fixed price, 2-week ramp. The most useful thing I can share: the quality difference between good and bad offshore AI engineering comes entirely from how vetting is done. Ask whether the engineer has...
Pre-vetted AI engineers. Productive in 2 weeks. 70% less.
US ML engineer hiring is difficult for most startups, $250K–$350K packages, 4–6 month timelines. AI Velocity Pods pairs pre-vetted offshore AI engineers with senior architects. Productive in 2 weeks. 70% less than US equivalents. → Vetting on actual production work, not interviews → Senior architect on every engagement → 2-week structured onboarding → 100% IP ownership → Fixed price, no hourly...
You can ship an MVP in 4 weeks. Most teams just aren't structured for it.
Hey PH 👋, Sunil here. Something I've seen repeatedly: founders spending 3–6 months on an MVP that could've shipped in 4 weeks. The issue usually isn't the engineering. It's the structure around it, when QA happens, how scope is controlled, how fast decisions get made. With AI Velocity Pods, we've built the delivery model around fixing exactly that: → AI agents handle the scaffolding from Day 1...
How AI Velocity Pods ships a production-ready MVP in 4 weeks
We wanted to share how AI Velocity Pods actually work for anyone building an MVP right now. The short version: one senior architect, AI dev agents handling the heavy lifting, and a structure that's designed around a 28-day handoff. Here's what that looks like week by week: Week 1 — AI scaffolding covers 80%+ of core DB schema. The foundation is set fast. Week 2 — Feature development. AI agents...
AI Velocity Pods is live on Product Hunt today
Hey PH, we're live today! Would love your support on AI Velocity Pods. Here's what it is in plain terms: It's our engineering delivery model. Not a SaaS tool, an actual team structure where AI agents and senior engineers work together to build software, at a fixed price, tied to an outcome. The short version of how it works: → AI handles code generation, testing, and documentation → Senior...
AI Velocity Pods is live on Product Hunt, we'd love your support
We're live on Product Hunt today with AI Velocity Pods. 🎉 Your support means everything: upvotes, comments, questions. All of it helps. Here's what we're sharing: AI Velocity Pods is the way we build software, not a platform you log into. Each pod pairs AI agents with senior engineers inside a fixed-price engagement. No hourly billing. No open-ended timelines. You agree on what gets built. We...
How we ship software in weeks instead of months, without hourly billing
Hey PH, Sunil here. Quick context: AI Velocity Pods isn't a tool or platform. It's how we structure engineering engagements, AI agents paired with senior engineers, fixed price, tied to a defined outcome instead of hourly billing. We built it because billing by the hour meant slower work was more profitable. We wanted the opposite incentive. Happy to answer questions about how it works, what a...
Production-grade RAG engineering. Demo to 94% accuracy.
Most RAG systems work in demos. They fail in production. We know because we've been on the call when a VP forwards a wrong AI answer to three of their reports. That's the moment you realize your 62% baseline accuracy is a business problem, not just a technical one. Ailoitte builds the retrieval infrastructure that closes that gap. Not a different LLM. Not prompt engineering. The actual...
Ailoitte | AI-native engineering pods for early-stage startups
Outcome-based AI product engineering for pre-seed to Series A founders Most AI development engagements start with a sprint plan. We start with an audit. Before we write a line of code, we look at the use case technically, what the AI actually needs to do, where inference is the right tool versus where a deterministic approach works better, and what "good" looks like in production versus in a...
Ailoitte: MVP in 4 Weeks, fixed price product engineering for startups
Fixed-scope MVP delivery for pre-seed founders who can't afford scope creep Most early-stage founders don't have a build problem. They have a timeline and budget problem. We've worked with enough pre-seed teams to see the pattern: the first month gets eaten by scoping conversations. The second month gets eaten by revisions on decisions that should have been made in week one. By month three, the...
We're launching Ailoitte: MVP in 4 weeks Delivery on Product Hunt this Friday
Hey everyone - wanted to share directly with our community first. Ailoitte: MVP in 4 weeks. Delivery goes live on Product Hunt at 12:01 AM EST Friday, April 17. Most MVPs stall for the same three reasons: scope creep mid-sprint, QA treated as a Week 4 problem, and founder decisions taking 3+ days. If you follow this page, you'll get notified automatically when we go live. Would genuinely love...
How we think about data governance in regulated industry deployments
One thing we get asked about constantly, especially in healthcare and fintech, is how we handle the audit trail problem. Every AI query needs to be attributable to a specific user, timestamp, and context. Not as an afterthought. Baked into the architecture from day one. Here's our current approach: Per-user query logging with full attribution Dedicated VPC per client, one company's data never...
Makers who've shipped AI agent systems in production, what broke that you didn't expect?
Building production agent systems is genuinely hard in ways that demo videos don't show. The failure modes I keep running into: Cascading quality degradation when agent confidence doesn't propagate between transitions Race conditions in the shared state under concurrent load Silent errors where the orchestration reports success, but the final output is quietly wrong That last one is the most...
The agency told us it would take 3 months. It took 9.
I've heard this story so many times I could finish it for you. The founder signs a contract. Gets a kickoff call. Feels good about it. Then slowly, the updates get vague, the timelines shift, the invoices grow. Six months in, they're still "almost done." And the worst part? The agency isn't even doing anything wrong. That's just how hourly billing works. Slow delivery is literally more...
Building with AI in 2026: Are fixed-price dev models actually viable?
Hey everyone! The way software gets built is shifting fast, vibe coding, AI agents, MCP tooling, and we're seeing clients ask a big question: "Can I get a production-ready product without open-ended billing?" Curious how you're thinking about this: — Have you worked with dev agencies? What broke down? — Would a fixed-price, outcome-based model change how you scope projects? — What's the #1...
Ailoitte is LIVE on Product Hunt today!
Hey Product Hunt! We just went live, and we're on a mission to end "unpredictable dev costs" for startups and enterprises. For the last 12+ years, we've watched founders get burned by agencies with scope creep, missed deadlines, and surprise invoices. Today we're changing that. Ailoitte delivers AI-native app development at a fixed price with guaranteed outcomes. Discovery → Architecture → MVP...