Language models are powerful general tools. Making them powerful for your specific business requires integration work that most dev teams underestimate. We build LLM integration layers that connect language models to your data, your APIs, and your user workflows, with the prompt engineering, context management, and output handling that makes the difference between a demo and a production system.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, and Mistral integrations
Production-grade: rate limiting, fallbacks, token management, and monitoring
RAG pipelines, function calling, and structured output built to your spec
20+ LLM-powered products shipped to production
Recent outcomes
Conversational AI · Operational workflows
Built a production LLM chatbot that handles routine queries end-to-end without human intervention, integrated with the client's internal ticket system.
70% queries resolved without human
AI OCR · Gas station operations
Deployed an LLM-powered OCR pipeline to extract and validate transaction data from physical receipts and fuel logs at scale.
20,000+ transactions processed daily
RAG pipeline · B2B SaaS
Built a retrieval-augmented generation system on proprietary product documentation, cutting support resolution time and eliminating hallucinated answers.
Your LLM prototype works in a notebook but breaks in production?
Model responses are inconsistent, the same question gives different answers?
The short answer
RaftLabs builds production-grade LLM integrations for businesses in the US, UK, and Australia. We have shipped 20+ LLM-powered products using OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, and Mistral. Every integration includes RAG pipelines, function calling, output validation, and monitoring.
Updated July 2026
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AI products shipped in 24 months
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from kick-off to production-ready AI product
12 weeks
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rated by clients on Clutch
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years shipping software and AI products
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The gap between LLM prototype and production system
Every LLM integration looks easy at first. You call the API, you get a response, the demo works. Then you try to run it at scale: responses are inconsistent, the model ignores instructions, token costs add up, the API times out under load, and someone asks the model something it shouldn't answer and it does anyway.
Production LLM integration is an engineering problem, not just an API call. The systems that run reliably in production are the ones where someone thought carefully about prompt design, failure handling, output validation, and monitoring before writing the first line of application code.
Capabilities
What we build
RAG pipelines
End-to-end retrieval-augmented generation built on your actual data sources: PDFs, databases, APIs, SharePoint, Confluence, and Notion, not a prototype that only works on sample documents. We handle ingestion, chunking strategy, embedding selection, and vector store indexing in Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, or Qdrant. Hybrid search with cross-encoder re-ranking consistently beats dense-only retrieval on real query sets, so that is our default. Retrieval quality drives RAG output quality, so we measure it explicitly with the RAGAS evaluation framework before launch.
Function calling and tool use
Language models that call your APIs and internal tools to complete tasks: look up a customer in Salesforce, create a Zendesk ticket, send a Slack message, all from a natural language instruction. We design function signatures so the model's tool selection stays accurate, and build handlers with retries, timeouts, and structured errors the model can reason about. Consequential actions like sending emails or triggering payments get human-in-the-loop checkpoints: the model proposes, a human authorises.
Structured output extraction
LLMs configured to reliably produce structured JSON that maps directly to your data model, so contract clauses, invoice fields, and document classifications land in your database without manual parsing or cleanup. We enforce schemas with OpenAI Structured Outputs or Anthropic tool use, plus a Pydantic validation layer that retries when output passes JSON parsing but fails business rules. Low-confidence fields route to a human review queue instead of auto-posting. Typical invoice extraction accuracy: 94-97% single-pass, 97-99% with the validation and retry layer.
Multi-step AI agents
AI agents that reason through multi-step tasks autonomously: research a supplier, summarise risk flags, draft a due diligence memo, and route it for review, all from a single instruction. We build on LangGraph, whose explicit graph structure makes agent behaviour predictable and testable rather than emergent from unconstrained loops. Human-in-the-loop checkpoints sit before consequential actions, and LangSmith or Langfuse traces every reasoning step and tool call. Failure modes like infinite loops and hallucinated tool inputs are addressed in the architecture, not discovered in production.
Prompt engineering and optimisation
System prompts engineered for consistency, accuracy, and token efficiency, not written once and assumed to work. Every prompt is evaluated against a labelled dataset of 50-200 representative inputs before production, replacing subjective "it looks right" checks with measured format compliance and instruction-following rates. Prompts live in version control alongside their evaluation results, and regression tests run on every deployment. When OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google ships a new model version, we re-evaluate your prompts against it before migrating.
LLM evaluation and monitoring
Evaluation frameworks that measure whether your LLM integration is working correctly, and alert you before users discover it isn't. The evaluation dataset is built from real production queries, labelled with expected outputs by domain experts. Automated evals run on every deployment, failing any release that drops accuracy beyond the defined threshold. LangSmith or Langfuse instruments every call with latency, token counts, and error rates, plus cost attribution per feature or tenant, so "LLM costs are too high" becomes a specific, fixable number.
Every LLM integration follows the same four phases. Scope is locked and price is fixed before development starts.
Week 1
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Discovery and scope
We map the problem, the data sources, and the user workflow. You leave week 1 with a written scope document and a fixed-price quote. We identify which model, retrieval pattern, and output schema fits your use case. No development starts without your sign-off.
Weeks 2-3
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Prototype and architecture
A working prototype against your real data before any production code. We validate retrieval quality, prompt behaviour, and output consistency on representative inputs. Architecture decisions made here cost ten times less than the same decisions made in week 8.
Weeks 4-12
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Build, integrate, and QA
Production integration with your APIs, authentication, rate-limit handling, fallback logic, and output validation in place. Bi-weekly demos. Automated eval suite runs in parallel with every sprint, not as a phase at the end.
Weeks 12+
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Deploy and monitor
Production deployment with LangSmith or Langfuse monitoring activated on launch day. Token cost tracking, latency dashboards, and error rate alerting from day one. 8 weeks of post-launch support included in every project.
Why us
Why teams choose RaftLabs
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Senior engineers build what they scope
The engineers who assess your LLM integration problem also build the solution. No bait-and-switch, no offshore handoff after the contract is signed. The team you meet in week 1 ships in week 12.
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Fixed price before development starts
We scope the work, calculate the cost, and lock it in writing before any development starts. A scope change is a change request: priced, agreed, or dropped. It never absorbs into the project and appears on the final invoice.
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9 years and 100+ products shipped
Clients include Vodafone, T-Mobile, Aldi, Nike, Cisco, and Lockheed Martin. Track record across AI, SaaS, mobile, automation, and enterprise platforms across healthcare, fintech, logistics, and hospitality.
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Compliance built in from the start
GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 -- compliance requirements are scoped in week 1, not retrofitted before launch. We have shipped HIPAA-compliant LLM systems for US healthcare clients and GDPR-compliant AI products for European markets.
The stack we integrate LLMs with
We are model-agnostic and framework-agnostic. We pick the provider, orchestration layer, and retrieval stack that fit your accuracy, latency, cost, and data-privacy constraints, then document every choice so your team can maintain it. The technologies we reach for most often:
Layer
Technologies we use
Where it fits
Model providers
OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4 Turbo), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), Meta Llama, Mistral, Cohere
Reasoning, generation, extraction, and classification
SDKs and orchestration
Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph
Streaming, tool calling, agent state, and prompt flow
The rule holds at every layer: no proprietary framework that locks you in, and no stack we cannot hand to your team on day one.
LLM integrations we build by industry
The integration changes with the domain. Regulated sectors need PII scrubbing, audit trails, and access controls designed in from week 1, while high-volume operations need caching, smaller models, and cost attribution per request. We build LLM integrations for:
Healthcare and life sciences: HIPAA-ready RAG over clinical documentation, record coding, and patient-facing assistants with human review checkpoints.
FinTech and financial services: document extraction, risk summarisation, and compliance-aware assistants grounded in your own policies.
Retail and e-commerce: product search, catalogue enrichment, support automation, and recommendation copy at scale.
Logistics and supply chain: OCR pipelines for receipts and manifests, exception triage, and operational query assistants.
Insurance: claims and policy document extraction, underwriting support, and structured output that maps to your systems.
Legal and professional services: contract clause extraction, due-diligence summarisation, and retrieval grounded in your matter documents.
Tell us what's broken. Within one business day you get a straight take on cost, timeline, and the right first step. No deck, no pressure.
Frequently asked questions
LLM (Large Language Model) integration is the process of connecting a language model API to your application, data, and workflows in a production-ready way. This includes designing prompts that produce consistent output, building retrieval systems so the model can use your data, handling rate limits and failures gracefully, parsing and validating model output, and monitoring the system in production. It's the engineering work between "the API works" and "this is running reliably in production."
We've built production integrations with GPT-4o and GPT-4 Turbo (OpenAI), Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku (Anthropic), Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash (Google), Llama 3.1 8B, 70B, and 405B (Meta/Groq), Mistral Large and Mixtral (Mistral AI), and Cohere Command R+. Model selection depends on the use case, we recommend based on context window, cost, latency, and reasoning requirements.
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is a pattern where the model retrieves relevant information from your data before generating a response. Instead of relying on what the model learned during training, it looks up the relevant documents, database records, or knowledge base articles for the specific query, then uses that retrieved context to generate an accurate, source-backed response. You need RAG when your application requires accurate information about your specific business, products, or data that the model wouldn't otherwise know.
Inconsistency is the primary production challenge with LLMs. We address it through structured output modes (JSON schema enforced by the model or validated by a parsing layer), few-shot examples in the system prompt that show the model exactly what format you want, output validation that retries the call with corrected instructions when the format is wrong, and temperature and sampling settings tuned for your task (lower temperature for factual extraction, higher for creative tasks).
LLM latency is real, a GPT-4 call can take 10-30 seconds for long outputs. We design around it: streaming responses that show output as it's generated (so users see something immediately), caching for deterministic queries that always return the same answer, smaller/faster models (Claude Haiku, GPT-4o Mini, Gemini Flash) for latency-sensitive tasks, and async processing for tasks where real-time response isn't required. We profile latency during build and design the UX around it.
We instrument LLM integrations with request and response logging (with PII scrubbing where required), latency and error rate tracking, token usage monitoring (for cost management), model version tracking, and output quality sampling. We use LangSmith, Langfuse, or custom logging depending on the scale and complexity of the integration. You can see what the model is doing, what it costs, and where it's failing.
Work with us
Tell us what you need. We'll tell you what it would take.
We scope LLM Integration Services in 30 minutes. You walk away with a clear cost, timeline, and approach. No commitment required.
Scope and cost agreed before work starts. No surprises. No obligation.
Working prototype within 3 weeks of kickoff.
Pay by milestone. You see progress before each invoice.
60-day post-launch warranty. Bug fixes, UI tweaks, and deployment support. No retainer.