For Chief Technology Officers and heads of engineering

AI for CTOs, without the tech debt

You've seen enough demos. What you need is an AI stack your team can own, extend and defend in a board review — with evaluation, guardrails and cost control from day one.

The job to be done

Ship AI capabilities into product and internal tools fast, without locking the company into a stack, a vendor or a set of prompts no one can maintain.

What actually keeps a CTO up

Buy vs build vs partner

A clear framework for which layers to buy (models, vector DBs), which to build (retrieval, evals) and where to bring a partner.

Platform, not point solutions

One AI platform — auth, secrets, model routing, evals, observability — that every squad can build on.

Evaluation as CI

Automated eval suites gating every prompt, model and pipeline change, like tests gate code.

Cost and latency SLOs

Per-feature cost dashboards, latency budgets and fallbacks that keep AI features shippable at scale.

Where AI actually moves your numbers

Model routing layer

Route each request to the best-fit model (GPT, Claude, open-source) with fallbacks, retries and cost caps.

RAG done properly

Hybrid retrieval, chunking that respects document structure, citations, and freshness controls the business can trust.

Agent scaffolding

Typed tools, structured outputs, human-in-the-loop checkpoints — agents that stay in scope.

Observability

Prompt/response tracing, eval scores, cost per feature, drift alerts — one pane of glass across the whole AI surface.

Outcomes to expect

50%+
reduction in AI incident MTTR with proper tracing
30–60%
lower per-query cost after model routing and prompt compression
2–4×
faster shipping cadence with a shared AI platform

Risks we take off the table

Silent regressions

A model or prompt change breaks a workflow no one is watching. Solved with evals in CI and canary rollouts.

Runaway spend

One bad prompt loop bills five figures overnight. Solved with per-feature budgets and hard token caps.

Vendor lock-in

You can't leave a model provider without rewriting half your app. Solved with a routing layer and portable prompts.

Compliance drift

PII slipping into prompts, logs or fine-tuning data. Solved with redaction, DLP and audit trails.

Your first 90 days with T7

Phase 1

Days 1–30 — audit

Map the current AI surface: models, prompts, data, costs, incidents. Score risk and opportunity.

Phase 2

Days 31–60 — platform

Stand up the shared platform: model router, RAG core, eval harness, observability, secrets and guardrails.

Phase 3

Days 61–90 — first squad

Migrate one product squad onto the platform, ship one net-new feature, and codify the playbook.

Why CTOs pick T7

Delivery teams that ship AI into production, not just notebooks
Reference architectures across OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex and self-hosted
Evaluation harnesses reused across dozens of enterprise deployments
Comfortable handing the platform over to your team — cleanly

Frequently asked questions

Do you work alongside our in-house engineering team?

Yes. Most CTO engagements are joint — our squads pair with your engineers, transfer patterns and hand over the platform cleanly.

Can you deploy in our cloud, VPC or on-prem?

Yes. We deploy into AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, private cloud and on-prem. All patterns support strict data-residency and audit requirements.

How do you handle model choice?

We treat model choice as a hyperparameter. A routing layer picks the best-fit model per task with fallbacks, and evaluations decide when to switch.

What does the evaluation harness cover?

Golden sets, LLM-as-judge, regression tests, cost and latency budgets, and canary rollouts — all wired into your CI/CD.

Ready to Build Your AI Product?

Talk to a senior AI consultant from T7 about your industry, workflow, or product idea. Free, no commitment — reply within one business day.

  • · AI feasibility & architecture review
  • · Product / MVP roadmap
  • · Integration & automation strategy