Catalyst
Build an application
An interactive production journey

Let’s build a
GenAI application.

Choose what it needs to do. We’ll build it, launch it, and discover what production actually requires.

Funding approved

Build the application.

Production launch6 weeks
Executive delivery memo
Week two

The demo works.

Demo approved
Production · Monday morning
09:03

The first message arrives.

Live incidentsEscalating
Your applicationProduction
AI app
Stakeholders waitingNow
You are no longer building a demo

Every failure demands a production capability.

Resolve the pressure points. Watch the real system assemble around the original idea.

Your AI
application
Three months later

Other teams discover the same invisible work.

The invisible work

The application stays small.
Production grows around it.

Watch the centre of gravity move—one responsibility at a time.

Application · 100%Production foundation · 0%
The visible feature is now 10% of the system
Your AI applicationthe visible feature
Four different applications

The same invisible foundation.
Built four times.

The business logic is different. The production obligations are not.

Every GenAI applicationGeneral AI components

Versioning, evaluation, guardrails, telemetry and observability.

When knowledge is addedRAG components

Ingestion, retrieval, permissions, reranking and citations.

When action is addedAgentic components

Tools, approvals, state, traces, retries and recovery.

OptionalInfrastructure

OpenSearch, MLflow, Ollama, storage, IAM and deployment patterns.

Start with your application. Reuse the production foundation. Build only what makes your project unique.