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Thinkscoop Engineering

Senior engineers, AI augmented. Not AI washed.

Engagements

  • AI MVP Sprint
  • AI Integration Pod
  • Agentic Workflow Build
  • Embedded AI Pod
  • All four, with prices

Capabilities

  • Retrieval and context
  • Evaluation and quality gates
  • Agent orchestration
  • Guardrails and escalation
  • Observability, cost and drift
  • Product and platform engineering

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  • Questions we get asked
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Thinkscoop Technologies LLPTeam based in India. Clients across the US, Australia and the UAE.

Thinkscoop Engineering

Production AI, built by senior engineers. Not AI washed.

We build AI systems that survive contact with real data: retrieval you can measure, evaluation in your pipeline, guardrails on the output path, and a cost per task somebody can point at. In your cloud account, in your repository, with the IP assigned to you from the first commit.

6 to 16 week engagements$25k to $300k, publishedFirst commit in 5 business daysYour cloud, your repo, your IP
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$engineering / engagements

Four shapes of work, and what they cost.

The price is on the page because an engineering leader with a real project should not have to sit through a call to find out whether the number starts with a two or a two hundred.

01AI MVP SprintOne AI product idea taken from a blank repository to something real users can use, in six weeks, on your cloud account.$25k to $40k · 6 weeks02AI Integration PodAI features built into a product that already has customers, without destabilising the thing they are already paying for.$60k to $120k · 8 to 12 weeks03Agentic Workflow BuildA multi step workflow that currently runs on people, rebuilt as a system that acts, checks itself, and hands off cleanly when it should not act.$150k to $300k · 12 to 16 weeks04Embedded AI PodA standing engineering capability inside your team, for the year after the build when the interesting problems start.$18k to $32k per month · Three month minimum, then rolling

$engineering / architecture

The shape these systems keep taking.

Different problems, similar architecture. The interesting part is not the model call in the middle, it is the permission that travels with a document into the index, the state you can replay, the escalation that arrives with its evidence assembled, and the layer along the bottom that tells you when any of it starts to drift.

01Your systemsRecords, documents,APIs, warehouses02IngestExtract, chunk,carry permissions03IndexVector, keyword,metadata, versions04OrchestratorExplicit state graph,budgets, replayable05Output pathSchema, grounding,confidence routingToolsTyped contracts,idempotent writesHuman reviewEvidence, trace andthe reason, attachedTo theuserUnderneath all of itTracing, evaluation, cost per task, drift
The shape most of these systems take. The parts that decide whether it survives contact with production are the ones on the right and the one along the bottom, and they are the parts that get cut when a build is priced on the demo.

$engineering / capabilities

Six disciplines, and where each one stops.

Every capability page names what we instrument and where the approach breaks down. A buyer who finds the limits here is not surprised by them in month three.

C1

Retrieval and context

Getting the right passages in front of the model. Most quality problems that look like reasoning problems are retrieval problems.

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C2

Evaluation and quality gates

A labelled set, a threshold agreed in writing, and a gate in CI. Built before the feature, not after the first complaint.

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C3

Agent orchestration

Explicit state, typed tools, bounded loops and a replayable trace. An agent is a distributed system, so we build it like one.

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C4

Guardrails and escalation

What the system may do alone, what it must hand to a person, and what the person receives when it does.

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C5

Observability, cost and drift

Quality, latency and cost per task on a dashboard your team owns, with an alert when any of the three moves.

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C6

Product and platform engineering

The application around the model: interface, data model, auth, pipelines, infrastructure as code and a deployment your team can run.

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$engineering / delivered

Six engagements, with the numbers on them.

These are Thinkscoop engagements that shipped. The figures are the ones the clients agreed to publish, and nothing here is rounded up for a website.

EY (Ernst & Young)

72%reduction in report preparation time

A multi-agent AI system operating entirely within EY's Azure environment that ingests audit data, cross-references regulatory frameworks, and generates source-cited draft reports for human partner review.

12 weeks

Booking.com

68%queries resolved without human intervention

A LangGraph reasoning agent with live access to booking APIs, a RAG knowledge base over 500,000+ policy documents, and direct payment system integration - with confidence-based escalation that assembles full context for human agents before routing.

10 weeks

Global FinTech (Confidential)

78%reduction in processing time

A multi-step LangGraph reconciliation agent that reasons over discrepancy reports, queries source systems via API, and drafts resolution actions for human review - with a full evaluation harness measuring accuracy and escalation rate weekly.

10 weeks

Hindustan Unilever Limited

4.2minavg query resolution (was 2 days)

A unified AI knowledge assistant with RAG over 200,000+ internal documents, role-based access control tied to SSO, full audit logging, and citation-grounded answers - operating entirely within HUL's Azure environment.

14 weeks

SAMCo

3×faster portfolio risk analysis

A real-time portfolio intelligence platform with live market data feeds, AI risk modelling, and a natural language query interface - so managers get cited answers to risk exposure questions in seconds, not a day later.

8 weeks

Pixis

35%reduction in ad spend wastage

A multi-touch attribution engine with AI-assisted causal inference, processing 5M+ events daily across Google, Meta, and TikTok - giving marketing teams a defensible, explainable model for budget decisions.

6 weeks

$engineering / standards

Six things that are true of every build.

These are not aspirations. They are the conditions under which we take the work, and they are the reason some of it we do not take.

E1

The evaluation set comes first

No implementation begins against an unmeasured target. If your domain experts cannot spare the time to label a set, that is a real constraint and we plan around it, but we will not substitute a vibe check and call it quality assurance.

E2

Everything runs in your account

Your cloud tenancy, your repository, your credentials, issued by you and revocable by you. Nothing we build depends on infrastructure we control, so the end of an engagement is a handover rather than a migration.

E3

Model agnostic by construction

One interface for every model call, prompts versioned as artefacts rather than scattered string literals, provider selection as configuration, and an evaluation suite that can run against more than one provider. Changing provider should cost a configuration change and an evaluation run.

E4

Deterministic where deterministic works

A lookup table, a query or a rule is not a worse answer for being unfashionable. We use a model for the part of the problem that genuinely needs judgement and ordinary code for the rest, which is usually most of it.

E5

Reviewed by your engineers

We work in your repository, on branches, through your review process. If your team cannot review what we wrote, we have handed you a dependency rather than a system, whatever the demo looked like.

E6

Written limits, published

Every engagement scope names what it excludes. Every capability page names where the approach stops working. A buyer who finds the limits on the website is not surprised by them in month three.

The full method, the stage by stage plan and the list of work we turn down are on how we work.

Tell us what you are building and what it runs on.

An engineer reads it, not a sales desk. You get a written view of the problem within one working day, including the version where the answer is that you should not build this.

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