# AI consulting and development in Seattle, WA > Cloud software on the Eastside, commerce at global scale and the aircraft Boeing assembles in Everett and Renton, the very abstract and the very physical in one metro. Whichever side you work on, governance, evaluation and what a system costs to keep running tend to come up in the first meeting rather than the last. Canonical: https://www.techfabric.com/ai-development-seattle Serving: Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Tacoma, Everett, Kirkland, Portland Headquarters: 1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201, Gilbert, AZ 85295. No office in Seattle. --- ## Why Seattle work is our work An agent that demos well won't reach production until someone can show how it's governed, how it's scored and what it costs to run all day. Our senior engineers build agents that hold state across a multi-day order, retrieval that respects each user's grants, and evals that run before and after every change. In Seattle that's an online retailer in South Lake Union, an aerospace supplier near Paine Field, or a Bellevue software company. ## AI consulting in Seattle For a Seattle commerce team in South Lake Union or a logistics operator in the Kent Valley with its own platform engineers, AI consulting is mostly about what happens after the first agent works. We cover governance, evaluation and the cost of running agents continuously, and finish with an architecture and a budget that team can own. [AI consulting in Phoenix](https://www.techfabric.com/ai-consulting-phoenix) ## Work a buyer here would recognise Online orders end in a warehouse, where software has to keep pace with physical work. At Funko, the warehouse management system was built to cut operating expense, reduce reliance on manual work and double throughput efficiency, and operational efficiency doubled. ## In Washington, a shopping basket can be health data Seattle sits under Washington's My Health My Data Act, which reaches well past hospitals to the online retailers of South Lake Union and the warehouses of the Kent Valley. Infer a health condition from a shopping basket and you hold consumer health data, which needs consent to collect or share and must be deleted on request, backups included. Consumers can sue under the state's Consumer Protection Act. ## Questions ### How do you handle deletion and retention across a commerce estate? As a platform capability rather than a policy page. Retention rules and deletion requests act on the event log and the projections derived from it, so a deletion is a real operation with a record rather than a job somebody runs and hopes about. ### Do you have an office in Seattle? 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 from March to November we are on the same clock as you and from November to March we are an hour ahead. Either way the working day overlaps almost completely. Most delivery is remote or hybrid. We travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.