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What is Twelve Peers?
Twelve Peers is an AI development firm that designs, builds, deploys, and operates AI products end to end. One senior team is accountable for the full product cycle — discovery, architecture, engineering, deployment, and ongoing operations.
What services does Twelve Peers provide?
Four disciplines on one bench: AI engineering (LLM applications, agents, retrieval systems, evaluation harnesses), full-stack development (web, API, and data layers), DevOps and infrastructure (cloud architecture, CI/CD, observability, security hardening), and technical delivery management (program leadership, vendor and cost governance, ongoing stewardship).
How is Twelve Peers different from an agency or a strategy consultancy?
The difference is what remains after the engagement. A strategy firm leaves a deck; an agency leaves a codebase; staff augmentation leaves nothing. Twelve Peers leaves a running system with a standing team behind it — the firm builds, ships, and continues to operate what it delivers. There are no handoffs between phases.
What is the engagement model?
Forward-deployed and senior. Engineers embed with the client's operation through five phases: Discover (problem framing, data reality, feasibility), Architect (stack, model strategy, infrastructure design), Build (full-stack engineering), Deploy (environments, CI/CD, observability, security), and Operate (monitoring, model evaluation, cost management, continuous improvement). The same people carry the work through every phase.
What is Groundwork?
Groundwork is a Twelve Peers product: an automated content-to-RAG pipeline with a chat agent on top. It ingests the content you provide, builds the retrieval layer, and answers questions grounded to that data, with every response referencing its sources. It is designed for minimal AI drift.
What is Dash?
Dash is a Twelve Peers product: an open data exchange platform that helps integrate data from one platform to another. It handles the mappings, transformations, and synchronization that integration projects usually rebuild from scratch.
Does Twelve Peers use AI coding tools?
Yes, without apology — rapid prototyping with AI tools is part of the practice. The firm's position: vibe coding gets you started, engineering makes it last. Prototype output is held to production standards — tested, deployed, monitored, secured, and documented.
Where is Twelve Peers located?
Twelve Peers is based in Melrose, New York (PO Box 9, Melrose, NY 12121) and works with clients remotely across the United States. Phone: (518) 646-6907. Email: hello@twelvepeers.com.
How do I start working with Twelve Peers?
Email hello@twelvepeers.com. The first conversation is a working session: what you're trying to change, what your data looks like, and whether AI is honestly the right lever. If it isn't, we'll say so.