Custom AI Software Development

Propel your business with custom AI solutions built for bottom-line impact.

We design and build AI-driven software products—and use AI ourselves to do it. Our U.S.-based experts move faster and ship smarter solutions that drive productivity, cut costs, and unlock new opportunities

Atomic Object developers building custom AI software

AI is a competitive mandate. We have the skills and experience to help you win with AI’s value drivers:

AI Agents

Agents go beyond conversational interfaces to reduce customer support overhead, enable self-service workflows, and boost productivity internally.

Predictive Analytics

With pattern recognition, your software can better anticipate user needs, automate tasks, detect fraud, or offer users targeted recommendations.

Computer Vision

Machine vision allows software  to mesh with the physical world, deciphering and analyzing faces, objects, medical imaging, and more—improving quality, consistency, and safety.

We keep up with the latest AI tech for you.

We have 20+ years’ experience helping clients build value with cutting-edge technology. Here’s the AI tech we’re using today.

ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
Llama
DeepSeek
Vertex AI
RAG
Agentic Architectures
LangChain/LangGraph
And more...

What Sets Us Apart

In 20+ years of helping clients like you, we’ve built a brand promise other firms don’t match: a great product and a great client experience at a great value.

Here is the set of choices we’ve made—that other firms won’t:

Full Product Team

Unlike specialized service providers that only offer design or development, we help you focus on the bigger picture. Atomic provides and coordinates the multidisciplinary skillsets you need to ship a great product.

Advanced Tools & Practices

Every team member uses AI to move faster and build smarter. We invest hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in tools, training, and knowledge management so our clients can benefit from the latest software development innovations.

100%  U.S.-based Talent

Atomic only hires in our four U.S. regions, and we don’t offshore your project team. We find the best credentialed and experienced professionals. We have industry-leading retention and tenure rates.

Co-located Collaboration

Our teams work side by side in the same regional offices. Easy collaboration accrues massive value and speed to your project compared to remote teams that suffer from low cohesion and strained communication.

That’s why our clients rank us as the highest-rated custom software consultancy on Earth— out of more than 200,000 firms on the review site Clutch.co.

Success Stories

We partner with innovative companies across industries to integrate artificial intelligence into their software products. While the details are confidential, our work is helping businesses find new capabilities and efficiencies.


An Atomic team built an AI chatbot for our client’s employees to explore their proprietary database on global energy supply chains.

Their goal is to make it easier and faster for users to make data-informed decisions to reduce carbon emissions as they execute plans.

GLOBAL ENERGY CORPORATION

By integrating ServiceNow data into a RAG system, we provided our client’s employees a chat-based IT support experience for their thousands of annual requests.

This led to more responsiveness, faster issue resolution, and decreased support staffing costs

LARGE-EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER

We built a complex image-analysis system for defect detection across a range of object variants for a client’s industrial automation work.

The supply chain insights drove future resource planning and inspection automation, which reduced staffing and dispute-resolution costs.

LOGISTICS COMPANY

Clients Growing with Custom Software

We’ve helped more than 100 clients win in their industries with product development.

Rave Reviews

Our clients ranked us as the world’s best custom software development consultancy on Clutch.co. Here’s what they had to say:


Your AI product needs stellar execution.
Here’s how we deliver.

Our process guides clients through four phases, each with their own activities and deliverables:


Pre-Project Consulting

Managing Partners help you refine your problem and develop a viable plan with a clear and rigorous project budget & engagement model.

In this phase, we can help you build an AI roadmap or plan a specific AI development project you have already identified.

Agile Design + AI-First Dev

Your Agile team collaborates with you to turn your challenge into a clear solution and backlog—within your budget.

We apply AI tools to streamline user research, identify design patterns, and sharpen feature prioritization.

Agile Design + Development

Your team works in sprints, with design leading the way and development following in tight cycles. 



AI accelerates code generation, testing, and documentation. You see progress every two weeks, and you can offer your input along the way.


Ongoing Support

We flexibly meet your needs with optional coverage of everything from additional feature development to continuous improvement engagements.

Our goal is to keep your software and AI technology running smoothly, address emergency fixes, and cover ongoing maintenance.

Throughout each phase, our commitment is to uphold your vision and expertly handle the details—offering you transparency and peace of mind.

Your Consultants Know Their Stuff

We assemble teams with multi-disciplinary expertise such as design, development, product management, and testing. Team members are involved from the beginning to ensure a holistic approach to every project.


AI-First Development

Based on Agile principles, Atomic developers work in small iterative cycles, continually revising and refining the software based on regular client feedback and user testing.

Human-Centered Design

Atomic’s designers focus on crafting a user experience that is intuitive, engaging, and tailored to the target audience.

They use modern design practices, making sure that the software not only works well but also looks good and is easy to use.

Product Development and Management

Delivery Leads carve your product into deliverable units to ensure you can see and track progress.

You’ll see their focus on risk management, issue resolution, and continuous communication. They also give you complete visibility at each step. No surprises.

Quality Assurance

In-house Quality Analysts test your product through every stage of development—including use of generative AI. 



With a new class of technology comes a new class of problems to solve and technical risks to mitigate. As with traditional software, automated testing is of critical importance.

Agile Development

Based on Agile principles, Atomic developers work in small iterative cycles, continually revising and refining the software based on regular client feedback and user testing.

Human-Centered Design

Atomic’s designers focus on crafting a user experience that is intuitive, engaging, and tailored to the target audience.

They use modern design practices, making sure that the software not only works well but also looks good and is easy to use.

Product Development and Management

Delivery Leads carve your product into deliverable units to ensure you can see and track progress.

You’ll see their focus on risk management, issue resolution, and continuous communication. They also give you complete visibility at each step. No surprises.

Quality Assurance

In-house Quality Analysts test your product through every stage of development.

Using exploratory testing, your analyst helps developers identify issues and improvements before you see the problem.

Put our broad skillset to work.

Your product team can work across web, mobile, desktop, and embedded product development—helping you match the software’s form to its function.

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Smart Questions Buyers Ask Us

What can AI do for my product or business?

AI can unlock new possibilities you might not be able to achieve with traditional software alone, such as:

  • Process automation: Freeing up time and reducing costs by simplifying repetitive knowledge work or complex analysis through AI.
  • Personalization at scale: Tailoring user experiences or product recommendations in real time.
  • Interpreting unstructured data: Summarizing, categorizing, or extracting insights from large text or image sets.

While AI introduces opportunities for innovation, it brings new challenges as well. As experts, we can help address your concerns.

Whether AI is the heart of your product or a feature within a broader system, we integrate robust, proven software engineering from degreed professionals who are based in the United States with advanced AI capabilities to maximize your ROI.

AI is moving so fast, how do we ensure the AI solutions proposed are right for my business?

Our projects start with consulting work from a business, user, and technology perspective. We anchor every AI solution in your business objectives, setting measurable success criteria and building with flexible, modular architectures. This way, when a new model or technique emerges, you can integrate it without a full rewrite. Our iterative approach and continuous testing help you adapt to rapid AI advancements while keeping your core system stable.



We ensure AI solutions are right for you by:

  • Identifying the business drivers for new value creation and/or cost savings
  • Defining risks, constraints, and technical requirements for the system architecture and details including data management, model development/training, MLOps, processing, and results
  • Driving alignment through design concepts
  • De-risking implementation through proving out and tuning AI technology components early in the project

Working with customers throughout the development process and into production monitoring to ensure AI components are working as expected or even improving over time

How do we protect our data? Can I be confident it’s kept private?

Atomic developers have Computer Science degrees and can responsibly develop and integrate AI into production systems.

Data security is foundational. We thoroughly vet hosting providers and models to ensure they meet robust data protection standards and respect your organization’s policies. If needed, we can deploy self-hosted or on-prem solutions to keep your data entirely under your organization’s control.

Throughout our process, we partner with you to ensure every architectural choice aligns with your security goals.We also stay up-to-speed with the fast-moving AI landscape to help you make informed decisions based on your privacy and security needs.

Common considerations include:

  • Data privacy
  • Models privacy / exclusivity
  • RAG
  • Cloud vs. on-prem hosting
How do you handle frequently changing model capabilities?

We set clear quality and performance criteria—like accuracy, cost, and response times—and maintain curated test sets to evaluate new or updated models. Because large-language models (LLMs) can shift behavior from one release to the next, we continuously measure improvements (and watch for regressions) in line with your objectives. This allows us to adapt quickly if a newer model offers better capabilities or cost-efficiencies—without sacrificing reliability.


I need to have control over my software; how can you help me restrict the functionality of LLMs?

Atomic Object teams design hybrid AI architectures—sometimes called “agentic” approaches—that tightly constrain how and when an LLM can operate. We rely on:

  • Classical software boundaries: Traditional code paths that handle critical logic, data validation, and policy enforcement.
  • Structured prompts & guardrails: Techniques like instruction tuning, role-based prompt templates, and vendor-supplied guardrails.
  • Continuous testing: Automated and real-world testing that flags undesired behaviors or potential exploits.

By carefully orchestrating these elements, we can retain the creative and adaptive benefits of AI while minimizing unwanted outputs.


How do we avoid regressions?

Atomic Object consulting teams combine classical automated testing (just as we do with traditional software) and real-world usage data. Tools such as LangSmith or LangFuse help capture and review actual application examples, which we then curate and include in automated test suites.

As models evolve or prompts change, we confirm functionality hasn’t regressed by comparing results to our growing library of known-good outputs.


Will my data be used to train a model others can benefit from?

No. Atomic Object teams avoid providers or configurations that ingest your data into public or shared models. If we use a managed service, we select offerings that explicitly commit—contractually and technically—to isolating and not repurposing your data. If we host the model ourselves, all your data remains strictly private.

Is my data model private?

Yes. Your project team treats your data and any customized models as confidential and proprietary. If you pursue fine-tuning or custom model training, the resultant model is your asset. We store and serve it in ways that align with your organization’s security requirements.

Should I run on premises or in the cloud?

Most AI workloads benefit from the elasticity and GPU-optimized hardware in the cloud, minimizing up-front infrastructure costs and scaling seamlessly. However, for clients with strict data residency or compliance mandates, on-premises or private-cloud options may be preferable.

We help you weigh cost, performance, and security trade-offs to make the best decision for your business.


Should inference be done on the edge or or in the cloud?

Cloud-based inference offers robust performance and easy scaling but comes with ongoing compute costs. Edge-based inference (such as on smartphones or embedded devices) can reduce latency, enable offline functionality, and save on cloud costs.

Your Atomic Object team will look at your usage patterns, performance requirements, and infrastructure constraints to decide on the ideal approach.


How can I be sure you’re providing me with the best team for my project?

We’re committed to continuous learning and early adoption of emerging technologies. Each project team is handpicked based on domain expertise, technology familiarity, and synergy with your specific goals. Whether it’s cutting-edge AI techniques or mature development practices, we match you with the people who can deliver.

Access to talent is essential, and Atomic Object’s offices are strategically located in U.S. regions with rich access to top talent. Our Career Accelerator, an accelerated professional development program for newly graduated computer science majors, helps us build our team of world-class software developers. Fair pay, strong benefits, in-person collaboration, continuous learning, ownership opportunities, and a sense of belonging help recruit top senior practitioners and help us grow an amazing team. Our retention of employees outperforms the market because of the added benefits of team cohesion and social bonds.

How will I be involved in the process, and what will be the communication mechanism during the project?

We believe in an open, transparent communication approach throughout the AI software development process.

Every AI project at Atomic has a team lead known as a Delivery Lead. This person is your consistent point of contact. Delivery Leads are tasked with three big responsibilities:

  • Equipping the team with everything they need to make forward progress
  • Making sure that your priorities are our priorities, and
  • Keeping you informed about the project’s status.

Regular updates will be provided by your Delivery Lead, keeping you informed about every step and decision throughout the project.

How do you provide me with a capable and consistent team throughout the duration of our project?

At Atomic, we invest in an in-house technical recruiter who finds us the best U.S. talent. Our interview process, honed over more than two decades, helps us bring on not only exceptionally talented technical practitioners but also team members whose values align well with ours. These practitioners are adept at navigating consulting relationships and finding win-win situations for both clients and teams.

Atomic is carefully run by leaders who make decisions that prioritize the long-term. This means not only are your projects staffed by full-time employees for success, but the employment offering is designed to retain smart, talented consultants. Our turnover rate is only 8.8%, well below industry standards, which reflects our employees' high engagement and satisfaction.

This dedicated and engaged set of team members translates to proven client value; over the last decade, 38% of our revenue has come from satisfied clients coming back to Atomic for additional projects.

Will the AI-integrated software be harder to maintain and update, as compared to my current system?

When well-architected, AI integrations can be just as maintainable as conventional applications—sometimes more so.

By separating AI “prompts” or model configurations from core business logic, updates can often be made without restructuring your entire system. We also use monitoring tools to help you track performance, manage model drift, and decide when it’s time for a model upgrade.

Can custom software take your business to the next level?

ATOMIC CAN HELP YOU GET THERE.