AI development · Boston, MA
AI development for Boston companies
Boston is life sciences and asset management sharing a subway line. Biotech and pharma along the Cambridge and Seaport corridors, a dense research university layer feeding both, and one of the largest concentrations of institutional money in the country.
Both halves of that economy have the same requirement: a model that informs a decision has to cite what it read. Retrieval that produces an answer nobody can trace is not usable in a regulated trial or in an investment committee.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ people, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Waltham
What ai 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, which is what makes the difference between a demo and something a regulated team is allowed to ship.
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.
Work a Boston buyer would recognise
Stitching 400M+ athlete records across disparate sources with automated retries and real-time visibility, which is the shape of most life-sciences data work we are asked about.
Health & Wellness
Athlinks
Athlinks needed a pipeline to stitch together more than 400 million athlete records across disparate sources. TechFabric built a multi-tiered serverless architecture on Temporal, giving the team granular control, automated retries, and real-time visibility across a complex pipeline.
Validation is part of the build
21 CFR Part 11 and GxP treat an audit trail as a system requirement rather than a reporting feature, and an unvalidated pipeline is not a pipeline you can submit behind. Designing for replay from the start is what makes validation a review instead of a rewrite.
None of that is unusual for Boston, and none of it is a reason to build slowly. It is a reason to decide where the evidence comes from before the first handler is written, because the alternative is reconstructing it later from logs that were not designed to answer the question.
How an engagement runs
01
Two weeks, fixed fee
An AI Readiness Assessment reads what you already run, names the use cases that will survive your data and your permissions, and puts a number on what each will cost to operate. It ends in a written document that is yours either way.
02
One system, named
We pick the first thing to build with you and say what done looks like before starting. A first system that reaches production beats three that reach a demo.
03
Build it with your team
Your engineers are in the repository with ours from the first week. The pattern has to be one they can extend after we leave, which does not happen if they meet it at handover.
04
Run it, then hand it over
We stay on the pager while it settles, because the design decisions look different when the person making them is the one being woken. Handover happens when it is boring, not when the invoice is due.
Where we work from
TechFabric is headquartered in Gilbert, Arizona, in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and works with companies across the United States. We do not keep an office in Boston and are not going to pretend otherwise on a page you found by searching for one.
Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are two hours behind you from November to March and three hours behind from March to November. That leaves most of your afternoon overlapping our morning, which is usually enough.
Most delivery is remote or hybrid because that suits the work. We travel for the parts that go better in a room, which is usually discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.
Headquarters
1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201Gilbert, AZ 85295
Phone
+1 (480) 681-6806Also
Amsterdam, Dnipro, Hyderabad
FAQ
AI development in Boston: common questions
Do you work with Boston companies?
Yes. TechFabric is headquartered at 1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201, Gilbert, AZ 85295, and works with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so we are two hours behind you from November to March and three hours behind from March to November. That leaves most of your afternoon overlapping our morning, which is usually enough.
Do you have an office in Boston?
No. We have one office and it is in Gilbert, Arizona. Most of this work is remote or hybrid because that is what suits it, and we travel for the parts that go better in a room, usually discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.
Do you work under GxP or 21 CFR Part 11?
We build to the requirements those impose, which is a replayable pipeline, an immutable record of what changed, and access resolved at read time. Formal validation is your quality team's process and we support it with systems designed to be validated rather than systems that have to be explained afterwards.
What kind of AI development do you do?
Agents that carry state across a long task, retrieval that cites what it used, workflow automation that survives a restart, and the evaluation that tells you whether any of it got better. The common thread is that it has to run unattended and be explainable afterwards, which is a different problem from getting a good answer once.
How does an AI engagement start?
Usually with something short and fixed so the cost is known before you commit. The AI Readiness Assessment runs two weeks for a fixed fee and ends with a written deliverable that is yours whether or not you continue.
AI development elsewhere
Nine of the metros we publish for. The full list is here.
New York, NY
New York, Brooklyn, Queens
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, Alpharetta, Marietta
Miami, FL
Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Coral Gables
Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, King of Prussia, Wilmington
Detroit, MI
Detroit, Ann Arbor, Dearborn
Tampa, FL
Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater
Chicago, IL
Chicago, Naperville, Evanston
Dallas, TX
Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano