San Francisco AI buyers operate at frontier-model pace and expect engineering depth equal to local hires. NKKTech ships AI for SF / Bay Area startups, scaleups, and enterprises with senior engineers who have shipped on the same providers and patterns — OpenAI Enterprise, Anthropic, Bedrock, self-hosted Llama at scale. 15+ active SF/Bay engagements across YC-backed startups, Series B/C scaleups, and a handful of enterprises.
Six engagement patterns we run most often for SF / Bay Area clients. Calibrated to SV pace, frontier-model literacy, and technical-buyer expectations.
Multi-agent systems on LangGraph / CrewAI / AutoGen, RAG with hybrid retrieval + reranking, fine-tuning on Llama 3.3 / Mistral / Qwen, RLHF + DPO for alignment. Production patterns, not POCs.
Pre-seed to Series B clients can ship MVPs in 6-10 weeks with NKKTech. Fixed-fee, weekly demos, founder/CTO direct line to our senior engineers. No sales overhead, no account managers between you and the build team.
Series C+ and large enterprises get senior teams (5-15 engineers) with the process discipline of ISO 9001/27001 + the velocity of a startup. We've shipped for two FAANG-adjacent enterprises and several public unicorns.
Daily 10am-1pm PT overlap window (= midnight-3am Vietnam, our senior engineers stagger shifts for this). Sync time on the calendar; async-first PM for the rest of the day.
Singapore-law MSA via NKKTech Global Pte. Ltd. is the default — recognized by SV procurement, cleaner than Vietnam-law for IP. For enterprise: Delaware C-Corp partner entity available with full US-law contracts.
Every AI deployment ships with a frozen eval set, scoring functions per task type, CI-gated regressions. Same methodology Anthropic + OpenAI internal teams use. Audit-ready.
Senior engineer (not a sales rep) on the call. Tony joins for strategic discussions. We listen, scope, give honest go/no-go.
Whiteboard, architecture review, fixed-fee quote. Credited toward the build if you proceed. No vendor lock-in.
Senior team, daily Bay-hours sync, weekly demo. SF on-site visit at week 4 if engagement justifies (~$3K travel cost, often absorbed).
Launch, monitoring, runbook. Monthly retainer for iteration ($4-12K/mo depending on scope). Some clients keep us as long-term AI bench.
Founding-team augmentation, MVP build in 8-12 weeks, eval framework setup from day one. Fixed-fee. Some founders use us as their first 'engineering team' before hiring.
In-product AI feature shipping, internal-tool agents, RAG over company knowledge bases. Augments existing eng team (we don't replace your seniors).
Specialized AI builds where in-house team is at capacity. Compliance-aware (SOC 2, ISO 27001 — we hold the latter). Senior teams of 5-15.
Industry-specific AI: legal, healthcare, fintech, real estate. We bring vertical-aware engineering patterns; client brings domain expertise.
Building AI-on-AI: eval platforms, model registries, observability tools, fine-tuning platforms. We've shipped for 4 of these as of 2026.
Smart contract development (Solidity / Move / Rust), DeFi protocols, on-chain analytics. NKKTech is Top Web3 Vietnam — Clutch 2026.
Vietnam is GMT+7. SF is GMT-8 (-7 in DST). The natural overlap is small — 8am-10am PT = 11pm-1am Vietnam. We staff a senior engineer + PM in a staggered shift to cover that window for daily sync. Most async work continues outside it. About 80% of SF clients find this cadence works once they've adjusted to the async-first style; the 20% who don't usually realize they want a co-located team and we recommend a US vendor.
Honest answer: if your project budget allows $400-500K/year per senior engineer and you have local talent pipeline, hire local. NKKTech wins on cost-vs-quality at $35-65/hr senior rate for clients where (a) project is fixed-scope rather than ongoing, or (b) the engineer count needed exceeds available local talent. About 30% of our SF clients also have in-house teams; we augment, don't replace.
No. We're a services business — not investors. We do offer flexible payment terms (50/50 milestone, or 25/50/25 for longer engagements) and we'll structure around cash-conservative startup phases. For super-early clients (pre-seed, runway < 6 months), we sometimes defer 30% of the engagement fee for 90 days.
Yes, several. References available under NDA. The YC-style velocity matches our process well — fixed scope, weekly demos, honest go/no-go in week 1.
AI MVP (8-12 weeks): USD 50-100K fixed-fee. Series B/C scaled engagements: USD 200-500K over 6-12 months. Enterprise: USD 400K-1.5M. Monthly retainer for ongoing tuning: $4-12K. All quotes fixed-fee after a 1-week scoping engagement.
NKKTech delivered our LLM document processing pipeline on time and exactly on budget. The tech lead was available on Slack daily. First offshore team that actually worked the way we expected.
Tony's team understood our legacy PHP system faster than our internal team. Zero downtime migration, exactly as promised. The bilingual PM made communication seamless.
We went from 15 hours/week of manual prospecting to fully automated lead gen in 8 weeks. ROI in 60 days as Tony promised.
NKKTech delivered our LLM document processing pipeline on time and exactly on budget. The tech lead was available on Slack daily. First offshore team that actually worked the way we expected.
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