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About this service
Build scalable, maintainable software with our experienced engineering teams. We deliver high-quality code and best practices that help your product succeed.
Go to serviceData engineering & AI
Turning your data into something your product and team can trust
Production-ready AI
Pipelines that don't break
Engineering, not magic
AI is an engineering problem, not a magic trick
Most companies know solid data is the foundation of everything from reporting to AI. But getting there is tough. We've seen it all: models stuck in Jupyter notebooks that never reach production, too much time spent cleaning spreadsheets, and pipelines that keep breaking.
From notebook to production
We get models into production, build pipelines that don't fall over, and clean up the data layer so your team can focus on the work that matters. We bring proper engineering practices so everyone can work with it.
Real AI, real impact
When you're ready to integrate LLMs into your product or build AI agents that actually do something useful, we take you from “we'd like to do something with AI” to “customers rely on this every day”. The right decisions early: data architecture, ML infrastructure, and tooling your team will actually maintain.
Concrete outcomes, not just code
We focus on delivering measurable improvements across four key areas that matter most to your product and team.
Data pipelines that work
Ingestion that does not lie. Pipelines that run everywhere, not just on your laptop. QA gates that catch issues before they contaminate your roadmap.
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Ready to stop fighting your data infrastructure?
Classic machine learning
When you need prediction, classification or recommendation, we help you choose the right approach, build the training pipeline and deploy models that actually work in production.
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Want to put proven ML to work for your product?
RAG & LLM systems
If your product needs real-time knowledge or smart retrieval over messy corpora, we build RAG systems, vector databases, hybrid search and evaluation loops that work outside the demo.
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Looking to build AI features that work beyond the demo?
Monitoring & drift detection
We treat retrieval quality with the same seriousness as data quality: measurable, monitored, never hand-waved just because the prototype looked clever.
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Want confidence that your models keep performing in production?
Our approach
“We bring proper engineering practices so everyone can work with it. By getting stuck in alongside your engineers, we turn messy data into something you can rely on.”
Why companies call us in
Models stuck in notebooks? Pipelines that keep breaking? Wondering how to actually get AI into your product? You're not alone.
“Our AI prototype works in a notebook but not in production.”
“We need to scale now.”
“Madewithlove has been a fantastic partner for over two years. They helped us scale our team and build a future-proof platform that grows with our business. Their expertise in scalable architecture, pr…”
Arnout Van de Meulebroucke, CTO at Phished
“We want to add AI to our product but don’t know where to start.”
“Our company is scaling fast, but the software isn’t.”
“Madewithlove helped us by providing a critical eye for our situation then got their hands dirty, got involved to fix problems, to put us on a better path.”
Dorian de Broqueville, General Manager at Izix
“We’re stuck on an old framework version and can’t upgrade.”
“We inherited a codebase and don’t know its real state.”
Happy clients
We work with companies that want to get their data and AI right. Here are examples of how our approach translated into real results.
Fixform
Keeping buildings and spaces in good, safe and clean condition
After their technical co-founder departed unexpectedly, we stepped in with two staff engineers to build a quality-first MVP using Inertia.js, Vue, and Laravel. We established robust CI/CD pipelines, implemented comprehensive testing, and mentored the team through knowledge transfer.
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We help our clients succeed
You will not see companies like Amazon among our past clients. You will, however, see the names that will soon rock the SaaS world because we helped them predict risks and avoid failure.
“Madewithlove came in when we needed to build a robust web environment with a tight budget and schedule as a start-up. They understood this, took the lead and managed to get us up and running in no time. They also made some important technical choices that allow us to scale our…” Read more
Julien Yee
Co-Founder, JUCE
“Gradually keeping things up to date is a lot easier than doing the big moves. We’re not going to be in a position again where we are so behind that it becomes a huge endeavor to catch up again.”
Jef Daniels
CEO, Impact Us Today
“If you can tell VCs, ‘we are working with madewithlove’ they already know it will be quality because they have also used madewithlove to do, for example, audits.”
Thomas Vanhumbeeck
Cofounder & CEO, FixForm
FROM 150+ SAAS AUDITS
85% ship without automated testing
Manual QA dominates at every stage, seed to M&A.
Why QA becomes the bottleneckFROM 150+ SAAS AUDITS
1 in 4 SaaS teams give all engineers production access
Deploy rights, database credentials, secrets. Everyone has the keys.
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We can help with your data & AI
Whether you need to build reliable AI features, fix your data pipeline, or help your team use AI effectively. We're ready to dig in.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about working with our data and AI engineers.
No. You need good enough data that is owned, understood and monitored. Perfection is a myth. Predictability is the goal.
Usually yes. We identify what is salvageable, what needs guardrails and what must be replaced. Most teams are not one rewrite away from salvation; they are one clear ownership model away.
The one your team can maintain. We choose tools based on your skills, constraints and long-term reality, not fashion. Python, Airflow, Spark, Snowflake or something simpler: the logo is never the point.
We help you define measurable quality thresholds, check for drift and establish pipelines that make data issues visible instead of silently passing incorrect signals into your model.
Yes. We look at your problem, the available signals, expected latency, accuracy needs and cost. Sometimes a simple model is enough. Sometimes you need RAG or vector search. Sometimes you need neither.
By setting clear rules. We help teams define what belongs to AI, what needs human review and how to keep codebases coherent when half the suggestions come from a model.
It ingests data reliably, rejects garbage, is reproducible end-to-end, has proper monitoring and makes failures loud. If it only works on one engineer's laptop, it is not healthy.
Yes. We work incrementally: stabilise the data, design a minimal pipeline, add monitoring and ship features in thin slices. You do not need a full AI overhaul to start delivering value.
The same way we measure data quality: with metrics, tests and evaluation loops. A demo that works once is not a quality signal. We make retrieval measurable and observable.
Yes. We plan our exit from day one. We document, pair-programme, build with your stack and transfer full ownership. No mysterious pipelines. No ghost systems. Your team keeps shipping long after we are gone.