# AI consulting and development in Austin, TX > Semiconductors and software in roughly equal measure, a decade of corporate relocations, and a startup base that has grown into companies with real compliance obligations. If yours is one of them, you've probably shipped an AI feature already and now need it to be durable, measured and affordable. Canonical: https://www.techfabric.com/ai-development-austin Serving: Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, San Marcos, Georgetown, San Antonio Headquarters: 1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201, Gilbert, AZ 85295. No office in Austin. --- ## Why Austin work is our work You shipped an AI feature to win the first enterprise deal, and now it has to hold up in production without engineers babysitting it. We build the durable half, an agent that keeps state across a long task, retrieval that cites its sources, an eval on every change and a model bill finance can forecast. In Austin that's a SaaS company, a semiconductor supplier in Round Rock or a health-tech startup near Dell Medical School. ## AI consulting in Austin In Austin the call usually comes after the first AI feature has shipped, from a Capital Factory startup or a company at the Domain. We review what's running, measure its accuracy and cost, and plan how to make it durable and affordable, with the evaluation and governance a first enterprise customer asks about. [AI consulting in Phoenix](https://www.techfabric.com/ai-consulting-phoenix) ## Work a buyer here would recognise Like many software companies, TotalLoop began as a cloud-native platform on Azure with its own CRM and a sales dashboard. It later moved off Cosmos DB and SQL Server onto Databricks Lakebase, converted with TechFabric Airlift and cut over in reversible waves, the careful way to change a database under a live product. ## Compliance arrives before the security hire Austin's software companies tend to meet their compliance obligations before they've hired anyone to own them. The first enterprise deal brings a security questionnaire and a SOC 2 request together, and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act has covered the personal data of Texas residents since 1 July 2024. The state attorney general enforces it, and gives a company 30 days to cure a violation before suing. ## Questions ### We need SOC 2 and our first enterprise security review at once. A platform that already records who did what, under whose authority and when, turns both from a project into a document exercise. The work is deciding where evidence comes from before the first handler is written, which costs almost nothing then and a quarter afterwards. ### Do you have an office in Austin? The office is in Gilbert, Arizona, with teams in Amsterdam, Dnipro and Hyderabad. Delivery is remote or hybrid, and we travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build. ## What ai consulting and development covers ### Agents that hold state A task that runs for three days, calls six systems and waits twice on a person cannot live in a request handler. We build agents on a durable runtime, so a deploy in the middle of a run does not lose the run, and a retry does not send the same email twice. ### Retrieval that cites what it used An answer nobody can trace is an answer nobody can defend. Retrieval is built so every response carries the documents behind it. ### Evaluation, before and after Without a score, every prompt change is a matter of opinion. We put deterministic scorers and model-based judges in front of the thing so a change ships with a number attached rather than with a feeling. ### Human approval where it belongs Some actions should stop and wait for a person. That gate is part of the system rather than a policy document, so an agent that wants to issue a refund pauses, the approval is recorded, and the run picks up where it left off. ### Cost you can see Model spend, retrieval infrastructure and the review time a system still needs are the numbers that decide whether it stays live after the first quarter. They get instrumented at build time, not discovered on an invoice. ### Governed data access An agent reads through the same grants a person would. On Databricks that is Unity Catalog, so a model that tries to reach a table it has no grant for fails the way any principal fails, rather than because the prompt asked it nicely. ## Working with us from Arizona Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are one hour behind you from November to March and two hours behind from March to November. A morning standup on your clock is still early afternoon on ours. Most delivery is remote or hybrid. We travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.