# AI consulting and development in Chicago, IL > Derivatives and futures trading on LaSalle Street and Wacker Drive, heavy manufacturing across the south suburbs and northwest Indiana, and the rail and intermodal yards around Joliet that connect both to everywhere else. If your company sits where regulated finance meets physical logistics, and in Chicago many do, every automated action has a clock and a counterparty. Canonical: https://www.techfabric.com/ai-development-chicago Serving: Chicago, Naperville, Evanston, Schaumburg, Milwaukee, Rockford Headquarters: 1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201, Gilbert, AZ 85295. No office in Chicago. --- ## Why Chicago work is our work Your engineers built an agent that demos well, but nobody trusts it with a live order, because a restart loses its place and a retry can send the trade twice. Our senior engineers get it into production with durable state, approval gates and evals that score every change. In Chicago that's a futures desk on LaSalle Street or a freight broker in the West Loop, and a law firm or property manager too. ## AI consulting in Chicago Chicago AI consulting tends to land where trading and freight meet a clock, from a futures desk in the Loop to a dispatch office beside the Joliet rail yards. We find the processes where a late or duplicated action costs money, such as settlement, dispatch and exceptions, and design the agent, its retries and its approval gates before recommending which to automate first. [AI consulting in Phoenix](https://www.techfabric.com/ai-consulting-phoenix) ## Work a buyer here would recognise If your orders, customers and invoices live in separate systems that have to agree, this is the study to read. AmTab's orders reach Business Central from the store without anyone re-keying them, and Power Automate keeps the store, the CRM and the ERP holding the same records. ## Every trade has to reconcile In Chicago, CME Group runs its futures exchanges from Wacker Drive, Cboe sits a few blocks away on Van Buren, and the trading firms around the old Board of Trade building on LaSalle reconcile every day. CFTC Rule 1.31 keeps their records for five years, and SEC Rule 17a-4 holds broker-dealers to the same discipline, so a position that can't be rebuilt from its history is a finding. ## Questions ### Can the event log serve as our reconciliation source? That is what it is for. The event log is authoritative and read models derive from it, so a projection can be rebuilt by replay rather than reconciled by hand. In a business where reconciliation is a daily function that is the difference between an hour and a week. ### Do you have an office in Chicago? 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.