AI consulting and development · Tampa, FL
AI consulting and development for Tampa companies
Your back-office AI pilot stalls the first time a run waits two days on a person and nobody knows where it stopped. We build agents on a durable runtime, so that run picks up where it left off, with retrieval that cites its source and evals that score every change. Around Tampa that's Westshore's back offices, the hospitals by Tampa General and the defence contractors, and a title company too.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ engineers, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Brandon
Financial services back offices larger than the city's profile suggests, healthcare systems, and a defence contracting base around MacDill. If you run one of those, the work you want automated is the multi-day, multi-system kind, and it has to finish.
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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.
AI consulting in Tampa
AI consulting in Tampa is mostly back-office work, the claims, onboarding and reconciliations of financial firms and the contract paperwork for the commands at MacDill. We trace each process end to end, mark the steps a model can do and the ones a person must, and estimate the hours returned before recommending a build.
A back-office process has to finish, and prove it did
Tampa Bay carries more financial back office than its skyline suggests. Raymond James is headquartered in St. Petersburg, JPMorgan Chase runs large operations around Tampa, and the health systems and contractors serving MacDill sit beside them. Their work is servicing, claims and reconciliation, where one case crosses several systems over several days and every step can be the subject of an examiner's question.
Most automation there starts with a bot clicking through old screens, which is quick and records nothing an auditor can follow. We'd model the process as a durable workflow instead, so each step is written down as it happens, a two-day wait for a signature is a state rather than a lost thread, and a restart resumes the case where it stopped. The audit trail comes for free.
One process goes first, chosen because it costs the most when it half-completes. We trace it through every system and hand-off, write the workflow definition with the people who run it, and agree what evidence an examiner would ask for. Automation starts once those three exist.
Clients we have done this for
Lending and servicing back offices spend their days on multi-step approvals, and Auto Approve's vehicle refinancing ran on that kind of work. The study shows an automated approval engine that doubled monthly loans processed and replaced more than four manual workflows without adding a single agent.
Automotive / Fintech
Auto Approve
Auto Approve's loan agents were copying every refinance request by hand between the CRM, lender sites and Excel, a process that took two to three days. Our senior engineers worked hand in glove with Auto Approve's own IT staff to build the approval engine that automates it, and the company doubled the loans it processes each month without hiring more agents.
Also for
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.
Two weeks, fixed fee, and a written plan whether or not you build it with us.
Tell an engineer what you want to build
A senior engineer reads it and replies within one business day, usually with the questions that decide the first two weeks.
Around Tampa
AI evenings on East Palm Avenue
A lot of Tampa's applied AI talk happens in one building. The Hillsborough County Entrepreneur Collaborative Center in Ybor hosts the Tampa AI Applications Meetup, where members demo agents and RAG chatbots each month, and it's a regular room for the Tampa Bay AI Meetup too, which also meets at SOFWERX, the space that works with Special Operations Command. Tampa Bay Tech Week covers both sides of the bay from 12 to 16 April 2027.
A demo night shows what works on a laptop. The agents Tampa companies want sit inside claims, onboarding and contract paperwork that has to finish, so the hard part comes after the demo: who approves the output, what it costs a month, and how anyone knows a model change helped. USF's AI in Business master's teaches the RAG half. The approval and evaluation half is the one we build.
The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro area. Florida: Hernando, Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties.
Lighter shape: the city itself. Dot: downtown. County boundaries from the US Census Bureau, 2023.
Meetup · Monthly, a weekday evening, with some online sessions
Tampa AI Applications Meetup Group
Monthly demos of agents and RAG chatbots at the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center are the quickest way to see a working agent before writing your own brief.
Volunteer organisers. Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 2101 E Palm Ave, Ybor.
Meetup · Roughly monthly, weekday evenings
Tampa Bay AI Meetup
About 2,400 members and talks on AI-assisted software development make this the meetup for an engineering manager deciding how coding agents join the team.
Volunteer organisers. Rotates around Tampa, including SOFWERX, 1925 E 2nd Ave, Ybor.
University · Ongoing degree programme
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Business, University of South Florida
USF's in-person Enterprise Integration track teaches RAG pipelines, so its graduates can join an agent project already knowing where retrieval goes wrong.
USF Muma College of Business. USF Muma College of Business, Tampa, and online.
Meetup · Monthly, a weekday evening
Data Analytics & AI - Tampa Bay
Some evenings are co-hosted with USF, which puts working analysts and graduate students in one room and lets you meet a future hire early.
Volunteer organisers. Usually the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 2101 E Palm Ave, Ybor.
Conference · 12 to 16 April 2027
Tampa Bay Tech Week (TBTW)
Plan around April, when Tampa Bay Tech Week spreads AI and technology sessions across both sides of the bay in only its second year.
Tampa Bay Tech Week. Venues across Tampa Bay.
More in Tampa (2)
- Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing, University of South Florida
USF's college for AI, cybersecurity and computing. It offers bachelor's and master's degrees in artificial intelligence and in computer science, and a PhD in Data Science and AI.
Ongoing degree programmes. University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa.
- Tampa Java User Group
A Java user group of about 2,000 members with evening technical talks. 2026 sessions covered Spring AI, REST API code generation and testing AI-generated code.
Every one to two months, weekday evenings. Rotates, including Kforce, 1150 Assembly Dr, Westshore.
Each listing was checked on its organiser's own page on 12 October 2026. Dates and venues move, so the link is the source.
FAQ
AI consulting and development in Tampa: common questions
Do you work with Tampa companies?
Yes, and 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 Tampa?
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.
Our back office is mostly manual. Where do you start?
With the process that costs the most when it half-completes. A durable workflow that records every step turns a multi-day, multi-system process into something that survives a restart and produces its own audit trail. Auto Approve is the published version of exactly that.
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.
Also in Tampa
What else we build for Tampa companies.
Software development in Tampa
Loan servicing, claims and reconciliation in your back office take days, cross six systems and wait on a person twice, and when a case stops halfway nobody can say where.
Databricks consulting in Tampa
Your back-office reporting still runs on mainframe extracts, SQL Server and spreadsheets, and each audit turns into a project to rebuild the evidence.
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