Engineering teams that write the code — for companies who need AI built, not just advised on.
AI Dev Shops is an independent directory tracking 58 AI development shops and AI developers for hire, updated October 14, 2026. asaasin.ai is the featured partner, disclosed and pinned first; the remaining 57 companies are ordered alphabetically from public information, with no paid placement. Filter by region, specialty, and company size to shortlist candidates.
Updated October 14, 202658 companies reviewedMethodology
Asaasin deploys dedicated AI engineering "pods" — 2 to 5 senior engineers plus QA and a pod lead — that ship custom AI, web, and data systems on a weekly cadence instead of running a traditional hiring cycle. Engagements are outcome-based and month-to-month, with a working prototype built before a client commits, and builds can run to SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA-aligned controls, with BAAs signed on request.
How they work
Get in touch, then meet for a single session to map the outcome and scope the work.
Get a clickable prototype before committing to anything.
A pod starts within days: a technical lead and senior engineers begin shipping week one.
Ship weekly with daily standups in your channel, steer priorities as you go, then get a full handover of code, docs, and infrastructure.
Services
Custom CRM and internal toolsFull-stack web applicationsMobile appsMarketing sitesAI agents and copilotsAI workflow automationMCP servers and tool integrationsRAG and enterprise searchData engineering and reporting
Industries
Dental & healthcareHealthcare (HIPAA-aligned platforms)Campaign and political data intelligencePublic safety / commercial securityConsumer productsMedia and content operations
Selected work
Toothpillow — Dental Sleep & Airway EHR
A unified practice EHR for a dental sleep and airway medicine group that treats a new patient inquiry as a lead, not a chart: inquiry, CRM lifecycle and clinical record in one system, with dual-path airway/sleep screening, role-based access and an imaging pipeline for cone-beam 3D and sleep tests. Next.js · FastAPI · SQLModel.
OraIntel — AI Clinical Layer for a Dentistry Network
A practice-management platform with AI in the clinical loop for a developmental-dentistry network: dictated notes become structured SOAP entries, a vision model reads radiographs, and an imaging hub moves CBCT scans through analysis. 80+ REST endpoints, 30+ provider surfaces, two AI models live in production.
Redbird — Campaign Intelligence Platform
A campaign OS joining a 23.0M-record statewide voter file against $2.365B in FEC donor data, with donors matched across both sides and candidates scored in one view for a 2026 California campaign finance cycle client. 245,954 FEC-matched donors; 174 candidates scored. Access is per-user, not public.
Three production portals over one data model for a compounding pharmacy — clinician, patient, and admin — covering prescription routing, exception queues, protocol management, and revenue reporting, each in the portal of the person who owns that work.
Offices
Orange County, CA · Prishtina, Kosovo
Contact
info@asaasin.ai
Awards
Editor's Pick 2026 · AI Development
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AI development shop with offices in Orange County, CA and Prishtina, Kosovo building custom AI-powered products and offering staff augmentation and fractional CTO services for companies that need hands-on AI engineering.
&above is a London AI product agency that designs and builds AI agent systems and AI-native products for scale-ups and enterprises (including Google and Tesco), taking pilots to production through embedded-squad product development and rapid 0-1 build sprints.
38Shift is a Prishtina-based AI development agency that designs, builds, and runs production AI agents and automations (on stacks like Claude, n8n, and PolyAI) integrated into clients' own CRM, booking, and voice systems, for founders across Kosovo, the US, UK, and Europe.
Accel DNA is a New York-based data, analytics, and AI agency offering 'Agentic AI Pods' — a dedicated PM plus AI developers who scope, build, and iterate custom AI agents (workflow automation, CRM follow-ups, data parsing) alongside agent-stack consulting for startups and enterprise ops teams.
Addepto is a boutique AI and data consultancy based in Warsaw, Poland, founded in 2018. It offers generative AI and LLM development, computer vision, AI agent and chatbot creation, MLOps and data engineering. Its listed industries are aviation, manufacturing, finance and healthcare. Engagements run as project-based work or with a dedicated team.
AIDevelopers is a Dubai-based AI development agency serving UAE businesses. It builds AI agents, chatbots, voice agents, WhatsApp AI integrations, workflow automation and generative AI solutions. It highlights private LLM deployments and a UAE data-sovereignty focus. That makes it relevant for regional buyers whose data cannot leave the country.
Appinventiv is a Noida, India-headquartered digital product engineering company building AI-powered mobile apps (iOS, Android, PWA) alongside generative AI, AI agent, and computer vision solutions through its InventivAI unit, with additional offices in the US, UK, UAE, Canada, and Australia, serving enterprise clients including Adidas, KFC, and IKEA.
BairesDev is a nearshore software development and staff augmentation company, headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2009, that assembles dedicated engineering teams for front-end, back-end, mobile, and AI/machine learning projects, drawing primarily on Latin American engineering talent. It lists three engagement models: staff augmentation, dedicated team, and project-based. Its specialties here are custom AI development, AI app development, MVP development, and full-stack work. As a large firm, it suits buyers who want a bench and parallel workstreams; the question to settle in scoping is who exactly staffs your team and how continuity is handled. Time zones line up well with North American teams because of the Latin American delivery base.
Bezep Solutions is a Prishtina-based AI and software development company building LLM-powered products, LangGraph-based multi-step agents, RAG knowledge assistants, and voice assistants with evals and guardrails, offering dedicated teams, team augmentation, and fixed-price feasibility audits.
Brigada.dev is an eleven-person software studio in Prishtina, Kosovo building LLM pipelines, RAG systems, and AI agents alongside iOS, Android, and React Native mobile apps and web platforms, working as an outsourced or embedded development team for founders in the US, UK, and Europe.
Buenos Bytes is a boutique Buenos Aires firm that supplies AI-native developers from Latin America to US startups. Its work covers custom AI and ML development, LLM integration, data pipelines and AI consulting. Listed engagement models are project-based, dedicated team and consulting. Argentina's overlap with US working hours makes it a practical nearshore choice for early-stage teams.
Context Studios is a Berlin-based AI-native studio building computer vision systems (object detection, segmentation, document/OCR analysis), AI agents, and MVPs on fixed-price, fixed-timeline engagements for German and European SMB and enterprise clients.
DevSmartX is a Cairo-based AI and software systems engineering firm building autonomous AI agents, real-time computer vision systems, predictive ML pipelines, and NLP solutions for enterprise clients across Egypt, the GCC, and Europe, following a fixed six-step delivery methodology.
Duotach is a boutique software engineering and automation consultancy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its services include Claude Code agent development, N8N workflow automation, WhatsApp and AI chatbots, and custom web and mobile software. It also offers AI consulting for nearshore clients in North America and Latin America. The site lists it as a brand of Sysentify LLC.
Ekotek is a Vietnam-based, ISO 27001/9001-certified software engineering company building AI-native enterprise solutions: generative AI integration, AI automation engineering, and AI/data platforms, alongside custom software, web, and mobile development. It has offices in Hanoi, Da Nang, Tokyo, and Singapore. Its listed specialties are custom AI development, generative AI, AI software development, and data engineering. Buyers in Asia-Pacific get regional overlap; buyers elsewhere should plan for the time-zone gap and ask how handoffs are run.
EnactOn Technologies is a Surat, India-based mid-size software company building autonomous single-task and multi-agent AI systems (LangChain/CrewAI-based) alongside mobile, web, and full-stack development. According to its AI agent development page, it uses an in-house (never subcontracted) team and agrees the fixed build price upfront, separate from ongoing running costs. Its engagement model is project-based, and its listed specialties are AI agents, custom AI development, full-stack development, and MVP development. Ask for the scope boundary between the build and the running costs in writing.
Folio3 AI is the AI unit of Folio3 Software, building custom generative AI, machine learning, computer vision, and AI agent solutions across healthcare, sports analytics, transportation, and agriculture.
Grid Dynamics is a publicly traded (Nasdaq: GDYN) technology engineering firm, founded in 2006 and based in San Ramon, California. It provides AI, data and analytics, cloud, and digital engagement services to Fortune 1000 enterprises, including a proprietary agentic-commerce AI platform. Its listed specialties are data engineering, custom AI development, and AI agents. It is a large firm with offices across North America and Europe, so it fits enterprise buyers with several workstreams; smaller teams should confirm that a project of their size gets senior attention.
Infinijith is a Tamil Nadu-based AI-augmented development company building AI-powered iOS and Android apps with personalization engines, chatbot/virtual assistant integration, and computer vision features (image recognition, AR, visual analysis) for healthcare, retail, and fintech clients.
Innowise is a full-cycle software development company offering AI and machine learning solutions through a dedicated AI hub, alongside custom web, mobile, cloud, and enterprise software development and IT staff augmentation.
Intellectsoft is a New York-headquartered custom software and AI engineering company founded in 2007, offering AI software development, AI agent development, and AI staff augmentation alongside mobile app development for enterprise clients, with additional offices across the US, UK, and Eastern Europe.
inVerita is a Lviv, Ukraine-headquartered mid-size software development company, founded in 2015, offering computer vision, generative AI, AI agent, and data engineering development services, plus IT staff augmentation in Latin America, from offices spanning Ukraine, Poland, and the US. It lists regions in Europe, North America, and Latin America. Computer vision is the specialty to look at if your problem involves images or video rather than text. Confirm which office staffs the project.
Invoidea is an India-positioned company focused on AI app development. It offers AI agents, chatbots, LLM and RAG development, AI integration and MLOps. It also provides mobile, web and MVP development. That pairing suits buyers who need an AI feature built into a mobile or web product rather than a standalone model.
ISHIR is a digital product innovation studio offering AI-native custom software development, generative AI and AI agent development, data and analytics services, and staff augmentation, with offices spanning Texas, Dubai/Abu Dhabi, New Delhi, and Singapore.
Kata.ai builds AI agents and conversational chatbots for customer service, marketing, sales, and HR automation, and offers KataCX, a no-code generative-AI chatbot platform, primarily for enterprise and government clients in Indonesia.
Kizzy Consulting is a Salesforce and AI consulting partner offering 'AI Pod' engagements — dedicated fixed-scope teams (AI architect, engineers, prompt/evals specialist) that design, build, and deploy production AI agents such as document analysis, knowledge-base RAG, and voice agents for healthcare, retail, and real estate clients, billed via fixed-bid or hourly pricing.
Leanware is a Bogotá-based AI engineering company offering managed custom AI agents, AI product engineering on testable milestones, AI readiness assessments, and dedicated AI-fluent engineering teams for US-aligned startups and businesses, including an AI fitness mobile app built from concept to launch.
LeewayHertz is a large Gurugram, India-headquartered firm building generative AI platforms, LLM applications, AI agents and custom software for enterprise clients. It adds data engineering and industry-specific AI work for finance, healthcare and manufacturing. Its regions served include Asia and North America. Scale and sector breadth make it a fit for enterprise programs rather than small prototypes.
MALI Labs is a boutique software and AI development company based in Ada, Vojvodina, in northern Serbia. It builds custom web applications, LLM and NLP solutions, intelligent automation and systems integrations. Clients are mainly in Serbia, Hungary and the wider EU. The company advertises a free one-week proof of concept, which gives buyers a low-commitment way to test the team.
Markovate is a boutique generative AI development company headquartered in San Francisco. It builds custom agentic AI, conversational AI, machine learning and computer vision solutions. Its listed client sectors are manufacturing, construction, healthcare, insurance and real estate. The focus on operations-heavy industries stands out from shops that lead with consumer apps.
Master of Code Global is a mid-size firm founded in 2004 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices across North America and Europe. It develops conversational AI, generative AI and AI agent solutions on platforms such as OpenAI, Google Cloud and AWS. Custom software and mobile app development round out the offer. Engagement models include project-based work, staff augmentation and dedicated teams.
Motionexai is a Dubai Silicon Oasis-based AI company building custom language models, RAG pipelines, and AI-agent-driven automation (CRM and WhatsApp workflows) alongside SaaS platforms for startups and enterprises across the UAE and wider GCC.
N-iX is a global software engineering company offering AI consulting, AI agent development, cloud, data platform engineering, and legacy modernization services, with an AI implementation approach it calls 'pragmatic AI software engineering.'
Neoteric is a Polish software studio building AI and generative AI-powered digital products end to end, from product strategy and design through development and scaling, for fitness, edtech, and energy sector clients.
Nextsoft Corp is a Colombia-based boutique software company building enterprise systems, legacy modernization, and applied AI: chatbots, process automation, and LLM integration with ChatGPT or Claude on clients' own data. It delivers through custom development engagements (project-based) or embedded staff augmentation teams across Latin America. Its listed specialties are LLM development, full-stack development, and custom AI development. A fit for North American buyers who want Latin American time-zone overlap; as with any boutique, ask who is on your team and what happens if they leave.
ProductDock AG is a nearshore software development provider, a subsidiary of codecentric AG, headquartered in Berlin with engineering hubs in Novi Sad (Serbia) and Banja Luka and Doboj (Bosnia-Herzegovina). It offers AI, cloud, software modernization, and product development services with a 120+ person team, and was founded in 2021. Listed here as a mid-size shop in Europe and the Balkans, its specialties are custom AI development, full-stack development, and MVP development. For European buyers the appeal is overlap with Central European working hours; ask where the senior engineers sit on your project and whether the AI work is staffed from the Balkan hubs or Berlin.
Saigon Technology is a 400+ engineer Vietnamese software company offering AI development services spanning computer vision, document AI/OCR, LLM and RAG application development, and MLOps productionization, delivered via IT staff augmentation, dedicated development teams, or a fixed-price model for clients in the US, EU, Australia, and Singapore.
SCAND is a Minsk, Belarus-based software development company with 25+ years of experience and 250+ engineers, building AI-powered mobile apps (iOS, Android, cross-platform) alongside custom software, web development, and IT staff augmentation for clients including NASA, IBM, Cisco, and FedEx.
Shakuro builds custom AI-powered iOS, Android, and cross-platform mobile apps featuring conversational AI assistants, recommendation engines, and image/voice recognition, using Swift, Kotlin, and Flutter, for clients across fintech, healthcare, and e-commerce.
Sidequest is a Lima, Peru-based software factory that places pre-vetted LatAm AI/ML engineers, data scientists, prompt engineers, and MLOps engineers directly into client teams via staff augmentation, alongside its broader custom software and mobile development services.
Softermii is a mid-size, Los Angeles-based studio founded in 2014. It builds custom AI agents, generative AI and LLM-based applications, and RAG systems. Web and mobile app development sit alongside the AI work. The company also has a proprietary agentic AI platform called APEX.
SoftServe is a digital engineering company designing and building data, cloud, AI/ML, robotics, IoT, and extended-reality solutions for enterprise clients, with generative and agentic AI among its core service areas.
Software Sauna was founded by two Finnish friends and is headquartered in Zagreb, with offices in Helsinki, Skopje and Køge. It provides AI-native nearshore software development alongside data and AI engineering. Its listed experience is strongest in healthtech, fintech, eCommerce and HR systems. A mid-size option for European buyers who want a Balkans delivery base with Nordic roots.
Southworks is a software engineering firm building AI copilots and intelligent agents alongside cloud migration and modernization work for enterprise clients, operating engineering teams across Argentina, Latin America, North America, and Europe.
SPD Technology is a software engineering company with a dedicated AI and machine learning practice. Its MLOps consulting and development work names tools such as SageMaker, Kubeflow and MLflow. It also covers computer vision, generative AI, custom AI and data engineering. SPD describes itself as an AWS Select Tier Services Partner, which suits teams already building on AWS.
Symph is a Philippines-based AI software development agency with 16 years of engineering experience, building custom AI agents, AI applications, and web/mobile business systems for clients including government agencies and SMEs, delivered on a project basis.
TechAhead is a Los Angeles-headquartered technology solutions company, founded in 2009, building AI-native platforms, agentic AI systems, MLOps pipelines, and mobile/enterprise software for Fortune 500 and high-growth clients, offering staff augmentation, dedicated offshore teams, and managed product engineering.
Tecla hires and embeds LATAM and US engineering talent for client teams, and through Tecla Labs builds custom AI products, generative AI and RAG integrations, and AI agents directly for clients via nearshore staff augmentation, long-term embedded teams, or scoped AI execution engagements.
UAutomate is a Singapore-based AI development company building production RAG knowledge assistants, multi-agent systems, voice AI, MCP tool integrations, and LLM workflow orchestration for local businesses, government, and SMEs.
Unimimo is an India-based software company, with its address in Bidhan Nagar, West Bengal, delivering AI development remotely. Its services include RAG and LLM applications, AI agents, ML model development including computer vision, and MLOps. Clients are in the USA, UK, UAE, Europe and India. The mix of model building and MLOps covers both prototyping and production upkeep.
Unit 01 is a boutique Tel Aviv software studio staffed by alumni of Israeli technology units, building MVPs, SaaS platforms, mobile apps, and custom AI agents (RAG and multi-agent systems) on fixed-price, milestone-based project engagements for international clients.
Vebtual is an AI development company with an office in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, serving Saudi and wider GCC enterprises. Its work spans AI agents, automation, document intelligence, generative AI and Arabic and bilingual chatbots. It lists Azure-based in-Kingdom data residency options. Arabic-language capability and local hosting are the main reasons to shortlist it.
Virtual Arc is a Belgrade-based boutique studio building production agentic AI systems with retrieval-augmented generation and multi-provider LLM orchestration, alongside custom business software such as ERPs and B2B portals for clients across Serbia, the EU, and the US. Its listed specialties are AI agents, custom AI development, and full-stack development. Being in the Balkans, it overlaps with European working hours. As a boutique, expect senior people close to the work, and ask about key-person coverage.
VirtueNetz is a Dallas, Texas-based software company building AI products (NLP, chatbots, voice assistants, predictive analytics) and MVPs using Latin America-based engineers working in US time zones, offering dedicated AI engineers, project-based delivery, and team-extension engagement models.
Wizeline runs 'Agentic Pods' — cross-functional engineering pods pairing senior engineers with embedded AI agents to accelerate software delivery (QA, documentation, CI/CD, incident triage) under outcome-based pricing, delivered from offices across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Vietnam.
Wunderwerk AI Labs GmbH is a small, EU-based (Aachen, Germany) software studio building bespoke custom AI systems, native and cross-platform mobile apps, and web applications, with client data kept on European infrastructure.
Xedrum is a boutique AI and ML development company (21+ clients, 37+ delivered projects) building AI agents, generative AI features, RAG systems, and AI-powered mobile and MVP products for startups and SMBs in healthcare, fintech, and agtech, offering dedicated AI teams, IT staff augmentation, and project-based delivery.
Xpiderz is a boutique AI development company with a strong computer vision bench: object detection, OCR, video analytics and edge deployment. It also builds generative AI features, AI agents, and RAG and LLM applications. Listed engagement models are a dedicated AI team, staff augmentation, an agile pod, or fixed-price projects. That range lets buyers match the commercial setup to how well-defined their scope is.
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What does an AI dev shop actually do that a normal dev shop doesn't?
An AI dev shop ships production software where a model is part of the system — retrieval, evaluation, prompt and agent orchestration, inference cost and latency budgets, and the fallbacks for when the model is wrong. The specialty chips on each listing here come from what each company publishes about itself, so you can see who claims LLM work versus computer vision versus MLOps.
Boutique or large shop — how should I pick?
It is a trade between access and depth. A boutique gives you senior people on your project and more key-person risk. A large shop gives you parallel workstreams and a bench, and more risk that the team from the sales call is not the team that builds. Filter by size in the sidebar, then ask both the same question: who exactly is on my team, and what happens if they leave?
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Methodology
Updated October 14, 2026
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