From vision to liftoff.
Your AI launchpad.
LaunchAI is your AI staffing and AI hiring partner. Hire vetted AI consultants — Prompt Engineers, AI PMs, ML and MLOps — as a managed crew or staff augmentation. We take the complexity and risk out of launching AI.
Not a new startup. LaunchAI is backed by MCI — a 20+ year-old company that has delivered CX, analytics, and integration solutions to hundreds of the world's most recognizable brands.
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- 20+
- AI specialist roles
- Days
- To staff a crew
- 4
- Talent regions
Where do I start?
See exactly who you need and what it costs.
Three ways to start — pick a project, customize a crew, or book a consult. Either way, we'll help you figure out what's needed and how much it will cost.
Pick from our library of 100 ready-to-launch AI project blueprints — or build a project from scratch and assemble the crew role by role. Either way, you'll see scope, timeline, and cost in one place — no sales call required.
- Real roles, real hours — not a vague proposal
- Cost ranges across four talent regions
- Swap roles, change scope, see the price move
People
9
9 roles
Timeline
8–10 wks
from kickoff
Budget
$33K
→ $103K
Who's on the crew
- AI Product Owner / Program Lead×1 · 60h
- AI Solution Architect×1 · 50h
- UX / Conversation Designer×1 · 60h
- LLM / Agent Engineer×1 · 180h
- Integration Engineer×1 · 140h
The right specialists
Prompt Engineers, AI PMs, ML Engineers, Data & Eval specialists, AI Testers — vetted for AI work, not generic dev.
Know the cost upfront
Every crew comes with a transparent cost range across four talent regions, so you can budget before you commit.
Right-sized crews
We size the team to your project blueprint — augment your staff or take the whole crew. Scale up or down as the work evolves.
You stay in control
Your AI, your IP, your roadmap. We bring the people; you keep ownership of the project blueprint.
Plan & estimate
Three calculators to build the business case.
Estimate the savings, scope the crew, and prove the ROI — in minutes, no sales call required.
Savings Calculator
Estimate annual operating savings for any of 100+ AI projects in under a minute.
Estimate savingsProject Cost Calculator
Pick a project, configure the crew, and see real hours and cost across four talent regions.
Build a crewROI Calculator
Combine build cost, run cost, and savings to see payback, 3-year net, and ROI.
Calculate ROIProject Blueprint catalog
Pick an AI project blueprint. See the people.
Each project blueprint comes with the exact crew we'd recommend — roles, hours, and a transparent cost range across four talent regions.
AI Customer Service Chat Agent
A customer service chat agent answers common questions, retrieves approved knowledgebase content, captures intent, and hands off cleanly to live agents. For medium-to-large businesses, the first release should focus on high-volume, low-risk work such as status checks, policy FAQs, intake routing, and case creation.
Budget range
$33K–$103K
Timeline
8–10 wks
Website FAQ Chatbot
A lightweight website FAQ chatbot gives visitors quick answers from an approved FAQ set and routes unresolved questions to a form, chat queue, or email inbox. This is a smaller starter project because it uses limited integrations, a narrow knowledgebase, and a clearly bounded customer experience.
Budget range
$7.0K–$22K
Timeline
2–4 wks
Agent Assist Copilot
Agent assist gives frontline reps suggested answers, policy snippets, next-best actions, and summary drafts while they work. The goal is not to replace the agent; it is to reduce search time, improve answer consistency, and help newer employees perform with faster access to institutional knowledge.
Budget range
$25K–$79K
Timeline
6–8 wks
Call Summarization & Auto-Disposition
This project summarizes calls, extracts action items, recommends disposition codes, and writes structured notes into CRM or ticketing tools. It is a practical staff augmentation project because the scope is clear, the ROI is visible, and the work does not require a full contact center transformation.
Budget range
$14K–$43K
Timeline
4–6 wks
AI Quality Assurance Scoring
AI QA scoring reviews conversations against a defined scorecard, flags risk, and gives quality teams a better sampling engine. The system supports QA analysts with evidence and trend detection, while humans keep ownership of calibration, coaching, disputes, and final quality decisions.
Budget range
$25K–$77K
Timeline
6–8 wks
Sentiment & Escalation Detection
Sentiment and escalation detection analyzes calls, chats, emails, or tickets to identify dissatisfaction, urgency, and risk. It gives leaders an early-warning view of customer friction and helps supervisors prioritize where human intervention matters most.
Budget range
$17K–$53K
Timeline
4–6 wks
Our AI Experts
Meet a few of our AI experts
Twelve top-ranked specialists — one per role — drawn from our vetted bench of 3,500+ candidates. Filter the full crew by region, role, seniority and score band.
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Parker Evans
Generative AI Engineer
Mid · 6+ yrs
Elite (90+)6+ yrs · Prompt Engineering, Machine Learning, Deep Learning demonstrated at client engagements.
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Cameron Bauer
RAG Engineer
Mid · 6+ yrs
Elite (90+)6+ yrs · LLMs, RAG, Vector Databases demonstrated at Al Engineer, Plaid.
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Kai Cruz
AI / Machine Learning Engineer
Mid · 6+ yrs
Elite (90+)6+ yrs · Generative AI, LLMs, Machine Learning demonstrated at Content Analyst at Vaco.
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Skylar Martin
AI Agent Developer
Mid · 6+ yrs
Elite (90+)6+ yrs · Generative AI, LLMs, OpenAI API demonstrated at AI/ML Engineer at UnitedHealth Group.
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Jamie Edwards
Senior Generative AI Engineer
Expert · 40+ yrs
Elite (90+)40+ yrs · LLMs, OpenAI API, Claude/Gemini demonstrated at Self-taught developer.
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Sage Quinn
Senior AI Product Manager
Expert · 30+ yrs
Elite (90+)30+ yrs · Generative AI, LLMs, OpenAI API demonstrated at Database Administrator at Informa Economics IEG.
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Adrian Iqbal
Senior AI Agent Developer
Expert · 40+ yrs
Elite (90+)40+ yrs · Generative AI, LLMs, RAG demonstrated at AI Engineer at MadBomber Software.
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Bailey Holt
Senior RAG Engineer
Senior · 27+ yrs
Elite (90+)27+ yrs · Generative AI, LLMs, OpenAI API demonstrated at Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Lowe's Inc.
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Dakota Ferraro
AI Systems Administrator
Mid · 5+ yrs
Elite (90+)5+ yrs · LLMs, Machine Learning, Deep Learning demonstrated at Data Scientist at QRL.
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Adrian Garcia
Senior AI / ML Engineer
Expert · 30+ yrs
Elite (90+)30+ yrs · Generative AI, LLMs, Machine Learning demonstrated at Data Specialist at RWS Group.
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Indigo Ibarra
AI Product Manager
Mid · 6+ yrs
Elite (90+)6+ yrs · Generative AI, LLMs, OpenAI API demonstrated at Researcher at National Research Council of Canada.
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Wren Garcia
AI Prompt Engineer
Mid · 0+ yrs
Elite (90+)0+ yrs · Generative AI, LLMs, Prompt Engineering demonstrated at MODEL WRITING QUALITY SPECIALIST at NETFLIX.
Where your crew works from — and how to choose
Every LaunchAI crew is staffed from one of four delivery regions — or mixed across them. Same vetting standard everywhere; the choice is about cost, timezone overlap, and language fit.
United States
Highest seniority and security clearances. Pick US when you need same-day stakeholder coverage, regulated-industry depth, or onsite presence.
Canada
Near-US quality at a discount. Pick Canada for bilingual EN/FR work, data-residency comfort, and US-business-hours collaboration.
South Africa
Strong CX and engineering hub. Pick South Africa when you serve EMEA, want EU-time overlap, and need a mid-cost senior bench.
Philippines
Largest English-speaking delivery market. Pick PH for round-the-clock coverage, contact-center scale, and the best cost-to-quality ratio.
Pick by cost
PH delivers the lowest fully-loaded rate for production AI work. SA is the mid-cost option. US/Canada is where senior strategy and regulated work belongs.
Pick by timezone
US business hours → US or Canada. EMEA hours → South Africa. 24×7 or follow-the-sun → Philippines, or a mixed-shore crew.
Pick by mix
Most crews are mixed-shore: a US/CA Solution Architect and Product Owner with PH or SA engineers, QA, and ops — best quality at the lowest total cost.
From the LaunchAI blog
Operator-grade writing on AI staffing, cost, and how teams actually ship.
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