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GENERATIVE

AI Product Development Services

Axon Active provides AI product development services — from AI features embedded in the software you already run to full AI products built from scratch. We ship them to production, not prototypes: LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, multimodal document intelligence, and enterprise AI automations — for clients in banking, insurance, healthcare, and logistics. We ship it all under the Axon AI Operating Model, which keeps a human accountable at every high-stakes step — so AI features are held to the same governance as the rest of your codebase.

17+
Years in business
100%
Swiss owned
40+
Long-term clients
650+
Employees
80+
Dedicated teams
What we ship

AI development services

Our generative AI development services span four capabilities — from common LLM integrations to advanced multi-agent workflows. Every build ships behind evals, grounding, and observability, with RAG pipeline development underpinning grounded answers throughout.

LLM Integration

Our LLM integration services connect large language models into your product: assistants, semantic search (RAG), and tool calling — across Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, and open-source models (Llama, Mistral). Eval-driven prompt engineering keeps quality measurable; most LLM application development starts here.

LLM Integration

Agentic AI & AI agent development

Agentic AI development covers multi-step autonomous workflows, tool orchestration, and agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen). Unlike most AI agent development companies, we keep a person in the loop wherever the stakes are high.

Agentic AI & AI agent development

Enterprise AI Workflows

Process automation, AI-assisted decision support, and intelligent data extraction: our AI workflow automation services embed AI into the enterprise systems you already run (CRM, ERP, ticketing).

Enterprise AI Workflows

Multimodal AI

Vision-plus-language, document understanding, OCR-augmented workflows, and image and video analysis — including broadcast-grade real-time video intelligence for sports and media.

Multimodal AI
Use cases

Where AI product development pays off, by industry

Whether you’re embedding AI capabilities into a customer-facing product or automating an internal business process, these are the use cases where we see production AI paying off — across regulated verticals and product-led platforms.

Banking

KYC chatbots, fraud detection, conversational AI for customer service.

FinTech

Risk scoring, payments intelligence, regulatory automation.

Insurance

Claims processing, underwriting AI, document intelligence.

Healthcare

Clinical documentation, AI chatbot development for patient triage, diagnostic support.

Logistics

Route optimization, demand forecasting, anomaly detection.

And beyond

Beyond regulated verticals: machine learning development services for forecasting and personalization, and AI MVP development for startups validating an AI product fast

Your board asks, “Where can we apply AI?” Your regulator asks, “How does it decide?” Yet most AI pilots die before production — not because the models fail, but because evals, grounding, and observability were never built. Closing that gap is exactly the work we do.

Embed, don’t replace

AI integration services — embed AI into what you already run

Not every project is a greenfield build. Our AI application development services bring AI to the CRM, ERP, ticketing, and internal tools you already operate — so AI strengthens existing workflows instead of replacing them.

These engagements are how most enterprises start: a contained, measurable win, shipped as AI implementation services and measured against the baseline they replace. Custom AI development here means the model, the guardrails, and the integration are all built for your process, not bolted on — the applied half of broader AI product development at Axon Active. This automation work covers document processing, approvals, and intelligent data extraction; we scope each AI workflow automation engagement against the manual baseline it replaces. Most engagements begin with focused LLM integration services, then expand.

AI integration services — embed AI into what you already run
How it ships

How we engineer AI features that ship

Building AI INTO your software product is a different engineering discipline from using AI to ship faster. Evals before prompts, retrieval before generation, observability before launch. Every use case below runs under the Axon AI Operating Model with per-task autonomy levels (L1 Assisted – L4 Autonomous) — because production AI features need the same release discipline as any other code. Product owners write the intent; evals + acceptance criteria translate that intent into measurable targets the squad builds against. Every prompt change ships behind the same governance gates as a code change.

Eval design + acceptance criteria

AI helps draft eval suites from product requirements — golden datasets, success criteria, and acceptance thresholds defined before a single prompt is written.

Product owner + lead engineer confirm coverage before kickoff

RAG pipeline implementation

Retrieval, chunking, and embedding pipelines built against documented data contracts. AI assists scaffolding and edge-case handling; engineer owns the architecture.

Senior engineer reviews chunking + embedding; data owner approves sources

Prompt engineering + versioning

Structured prompt templates, version-controlled prompt changes, A/B test rollouts. Prompts ship behind the same release gates as code.

Prompt CODEOWNER + product owner approve every change

RAG retrieval quality testing

Recall@k, MRR, citation accuracy, and hallucination rates measured against the eval suite. Regressions blocked at PR time.

Data quality lead + product owner sign off on thresholds

LLM observability + drift detection

Token usage, latency, and per-feature cost tracked alongside output-quality metrics. Distribution shifts surface before users notice.

<span>On-call engineer triages drift; product owner called for regressions</span>

Hallucination + safety monitoring

Real-time content moderation, jailbreak detection, and PII redaction in the response path. Patterns flagged before they reach customer surfaces.

Trust & safety reviewer confirms severity; rollback stays human

DELIVERY METHOD

The Axon AI Operating Model behind every AI product

The AI products above ship under the Axon AI Operating Model — the same delivery method that runs every Axon engagement. 3-layer governance (People + Tools + Governance), 4 levels of autonomy from L1 Assisted to L4 Autonomous, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints. Building AI products is one thing; operationalising the delivery is another.

Our AI-augmented delivery approach
Where we deliver

Where production AI gets built

Four Vietnam offices — Ho Chi Minh City, Thu Duc, Da Nang, Can Tho — where LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows ship to production. Behind them, an AI product development company of 650+ engineers and 80+ production squads, delivering for 40+ long-term clients since 2009.

AI Software Development at Axon Active — Where production AI gets built
Team Sprint planning with an AI squad at the Ho Chi Minh City office
AI Software Development at Axon Active — Where production AI gets built
Engineers developing AI-powered software solutions at Axon Active
Mobile payment platform development with full-stack engineering using Angular and Spring Boot
Inside Axon Active's Ho Chi Minh City development center
Build vs Advisory

AI product development vs AI consulting

Two paths when you have an AI use case. Here’s how to pick the right one.

AI Product Development

Axon Active

  • You have a specific AI use case
  • You need it shipping to production
  • You don’t have an in-house AI engineering team
  • You want an ongoing engineering team

AI Consulting

Advisory

  • You’re exploring whether AI fits
  • You need strategic direction first
  • You have a strong in-house engineering team to execute
  • You want bounded engagement (project fee or day-rate)
AI GOVERNANCE

AI with governance built in

AI engagements aligned with the EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) — the strictest AI regulation to date — with Article 4 AI-literacy training across all teams. ISO/IEC 42001 formalisation underway (certification target 2027) — the first international standard for AI management systems.

Review our AI compliance
FAQs

Frequently asked questionsss

What are AI product development services, and what does Axon Active deliver?

AI product development services cover building AI products from scratch and embedding AI into software you already run — LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and multimodal document intelligence. Every build runs under the Axon AI Operating Model where evals, grounding, and EU AI Act governance are part of delivery

What generative AI development services do you offer?

Our generative AI development services include LLM integration, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic AI, and multimodal AI — across major providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral) plus self-hosted open-source models.

What do LLM integration services actually involve?

LLM integration services connect a language model into your product: assistants, semantic search via RAG, and tool calling — with eval-driven prompt engineering and observability from day one. It’s often the fastest path to a measurable AI win.

How do you handle data privacy and IP when building AI features?

AI work amplifies data concerns — customer data flows through models that aren’t always yours. We handle this in three layers. First, IP: everything we build with you — model weights, fine-tuning datasets, prompts, evaluation sets, RAG indexes — belongs to you under the same standard assignment terms covering source code. Second, data residency: you choose where data sits. EU-only workloads stay in EU regions; sensitive data can run on private cloud or on-premise. Third, model selection: we work across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, plus self-hosted open-source models), so vendor data policies are a deliberate choice, not a default.

Cloud-hosted AI or on-premise — which fits our context?

Both have a place, and most engagements end up hybrid. Cloud-hosted models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Azure AI) give you the latest frontier capabilities with minimal ops overhead — pay-per-use, scale up instantly, no model-serving infrastructure to maintain. On-premise or private-cloud models (self-hosted Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and similar) give you full data control, predictable costs, and air-gapped deployment when regulations require it — but you take on the serving, scaling, and updating work. We typically map the decision against four factors: data sensitivity, latency requirements, scale, and your team’s MLOps capacity. For regulated industries, a common pattern is a cloud frontier model for general tasks plus self-hosted smaller models for sensitive data flows.

How do you handle hallucinations, accuracy, and reliability for AI features in production?

Hallucinations and accuracy drift are real — anyone shipping AI to production needs engineering discipline, not faith. Our approach has four layers. Evaluation: every AI feature ships with a golden dataset and automated eval suite that runs on every change, so accuracy regression is caught before deploy. Grounding: for factual queries we use RAG patterns that constrain answers to verified sources, with citations exposed to users. Guardrails: structured output schemas, input validation, and refusal patterns for out-of-scope queries. Human-in-the-loop where stakes are high: medical, legal, and financial decisions stay reviewable by people. Production monitoring tracks accuracy, latency, and cost continuously — not as a one-time launch metric. We’re also honest about scope: some use cases shouldn’t be AI-autonomous at all, and we’ll tell you that.

Where are your teams, and how does communication work?

Our delivery teams are in Vietnam (Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Thu Duc, Can Tho), with onsite specialists embedded at client sites. For EU clients, there’s a 4-hour daily overlap between CET afternoon and Vietnamese morning-to-midday — that’s when standups, planning, and live discussions happen. For clients in other regions (US, APAC, Middle East), we adjust the team’s working hours to maintain at least 1-2 hours of live overlap with your business day. Outside the overlap window, work is async. Working language is English, over your Slack or Teams.

How does an engagement with Axon Active start?

It starts with an initial call. We listen to what you’re building, your needs, and your expectations. We walk you through what we offer and propose a team shape, timeline, and pricing model. No deck, no sales script. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you. If we are, we move to contract discussion and kick off hiring and onboarding.