Custom AI solutions start with what your business needs to do. We build software and agents around your requirements, host them for your team, and give you an agent in Slack or Microsoft Teams to request improvements.
Businesses whose existing software no longer fits the way they need to work
Teams that need a new application built around their requirements, with hosting and ongoing improvements handled for them
Operators who want an agent that reads, decides and acts, not a chatbot that answers questions
Anyone who has been quoted enterprise custom AI development prices for a small-business problem
Custom AI solutions, from your idea to working software
You have an idea for a better way to work, but your existing software is slow to change. AI-assisted development helps us turn that idea into a working application quickly, so you can try it against the work it needs to do. You can start with one person who knows the problem and what a useful solution would look like.
Bring us your requirements. We can start with a suitable software template and adapt its screens, fields and business rules to your needs. That gives you a first version to test, react to and improve. Your feedback shapes the product before it goes live, and you don't need an in-house development team to make it happen.
We host the approved software and give your team access. When you need a new field, report or workflow, request it through your agent in Slack or Microsoft Teams. We agree the change, prepare a preview and test it. You review the update before we publish, so the software can keep changing as your business does.
Illustrative workflow
Your software. A conversation away from its next improvement.
Hosted application
Your team’s workspace
Your team’s workspace
Request
Owner
Status
Request 001
Team A
In review
Request 002
Team B
In progress
Request 003
Team A
New
In the next preview
Priority
Slack or Microsoft Teams
Request a change
Your team
Can we add a priority field to each request?
Your change agent
I’ll prepare that field for your review.
Preview → approve → publish
Example only: fictional requests and messages, illustrating a custom build and a change request.
What custom AI development looks like at Splice Work
The build can be a new application, an agent inside your existing systems, or both. An agent can use a language model to read what arrives (a call, an email, a PDF, a Salesforce record), decide what to do, and act through the systems' APIs.
We build the screens, business rules, connectors, approval flow, logging and tests the job needs. AI can help us develop and maintain the software; the application itself uses AI where it serves the workflow. Your application can follow ordinary business rules while an agent handles your requests for changes.
Connectors to Salesforce, QuickBooks Online, BILL, Stripe, Airtable, Gmail, Slack and Twilio
An approval step in Slack or email before anything customer-facing or financial happens
Logs and an audit trail for every action the agent takes
A test suite, so changes don't break the thing that pays your bills
Examples of custom AI solutions for business
Alongside custom applications, these are examples of the work our agents handle.
Voice: an agent that answers the phone as your receptionist, holds a real conversation, and writes up what happened. This is Nico.
Finance: an agent that watches for a closed deal, creates the purchase order and invoice, sends the payment link, and follows up until it's paid. It runs every day in production.
Documents and data: an agent that reads PDFs, emails and forms and enters the data into the system that should have it, with a person checking the exceptions.
Why a custom AI development company should run its own agents
Running our own agents gives us practical experience with the things a demo can miss: the customer who calls back three times, the invoice that syncs late, the PDF that is a photo of a PDF.
For your custom build, we use that experience alongside your requirements. You review how the software behaves with representative tasks and data before approving it for use.
What you own at the end
This is worth pinning down before you commission anything, because it is where custom development and buying a seat on a platform genuinely differ. With a platform, you rent access; if you leave, the workflow leaves with it. Here you own the thing that was built.
That means the source code for your application or agent and its connectors, documentation of how it works and which permissions it needs, and control of the credentials for your connected accounts. If you stop working with us, you keep the code and documentation and can run the software yourself or hand it to another developer.
The source for your application or agent, its connectors, its tests and its approval flow
Written documentation of what it does, what it never does, and every permission it asks for
Credentials that live in your accounts and that you can revoke without involving us
The logs, which are yours to read and export
Build, then run
We host the software and give your team access. Running it includes monitoring, reading the logs, maintaining its integrations and updating AI components when needed, with a person on our side responsible for the service. Your agent in Slack or Microsoft Teams is the place to request an improvement and review the next change.
It's a monthly fee, and you can cancel.
Questions we get asked
Do you train models on our data?+
No. Where AI is useful, we use hosted models from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic through their APIs. The custom work is your application, business rules, agent instructions, connectors and tests. We agree what data the software needs and which services process it as part of the scope.
How long does a custom AI solution take to build?+
Each custom AI solution is scoped around your requirements. The work depends on the screens, business rules, data and system connections involved. We agree a focused first version, give you a working preview to review, and test it before you approve it for use.
Can you build and host a new application for us?+
Yes. We take your requirements, agree the scope of a useful first version, build and test it, and give you a preview to review. Once approved, we host the application and give your team access. You can request improvements through your agent in Slack or Microsoft Teams.
Who owns the code?+
You do. If you stop working with us, you keep your application or agent and its documentation.
What if the model provider changes or a system's API breaks?+
That's what the run fee covers. We monitor, we get paged, and we fix it. That's the difference between an agent and a demo.
Can you work with a system that isn't on your list?+
Usually. If it has an API or a reliable export, we can connect it. If it doesn't, we'll say so in the first call.
Tell us what your software needs to do.
Bring your requirements, the process you want to improve, or the spreadsheet you have outgrown. We’ll help define a useful first build.