AI Engineering
as a Service

Most companies launch an AI pilot. We run what comes after — the monitoring, the optimisation, the new builds, and the reporting that turn a first deployment into an operational AI layer.

For operations leaders scaling AI For technical teams needing engineering depth

From first deployment to full AI operations

WEEK 1-6 → ONWARDS
Week 1–6
Activation project → working AI system
First optimisation cycle + outcome report
Governance review + second build
Expanded automation portfolio + QBR
Operational AI layer across departments
Who this is for

Two paths into the same operation

Operations & business leaders

You completed a first AI project and need a team to keep it running and growing
You want AI expanding across departments, with monthly outcome reports in euros and hours
You need compliance and governance covered — without building an internal AI function

CTOs & technical teams

You are building production AI systems and need dedicated engineering capacity
Your team needs RAG architecture, multi-agent orchestration, MLOps, or EU AI Act documentation
You want an experienced AI engineering partner without a 6–9 month hiring cycle

Both paths begin with the same first step: a 30-minute discovery session.

Book a free discovery session
What it means in practice

What Liorant does, month by month

Not a support contract. An ongoing technical delivery engagement in which Liorant acts as your embedded AI operations team — building, monitoring, optimising, and expanding your AI systems as your business evolves. Every engagement runs across seven active workstreams.

01

Platform health monitoring

Track credit consumption, connector health, prompt drift, and model behaviour — continuously.

02

Optimisation & iteration

Tune prompts, retrieval, and conversation design based on real usage transcripts.

03

Governance & compliance

DLP review, access audit, EU AI Act mapping, and PII checks — on a monthly cycle.

04

Incremental new builds

One or two new agents or workflows per month, per tier, from the opportunity backlog.

05

Outcome reporting

Monthly impact in euros and hours; a full business review every quarter.

06

Training & adoption

Office hours, prompt-library updates, and platform-change briefings for power users.

07

Use-case pipeline

A live 90-day backlog of identified opportunities, each with estimated business value.

7

workstreams, always active — never a maintenance contract with an empty backlog.

01 · Platform health monitoring

Platforms change, connectors break, models shift behaviour between versions, and credit budgets drift without visibility. Liorant monitors every active system continuously — credit consumption, failed topics, token expiry, broken integrations, hallucination rates on key workflows. If something stops performing, we catch it before your team does.

02 · Optimisation & iteration

A deployed agent is a starting point, not a finished product. We review real usage transcripts, identify where responses fall short, and iterate — adjusting prompts, refining retrieval logic, redesigning conversation flows. Reactive in months one to three; proactive and usage-driven from month four onward.

03 · Governance & compliance

Every AI system that handles business data carries compliance obligations. We run a monthly governance cycle: DLP checks, access-rights audits, data-residency verification, PII-leakage review. For clients in Spain and the EU, we map each deployment against EU AI Act risk classifications and maintain documentation as obligations phase in through 2026–2027.

04 · Incremental new builds

The most effective way to retain the value of an operations engagement is to keep expanding what it covers. Each month we build and deploy one or two new agents, flows, or Claude Projects — depending on your tier — drawing from the opportunity backlog. Major builds are scoped as change orders at defined rates.

05 · Outcome reporting

We report in euros and hours, not uptime percentages. Every month your AI team receives a written outcome report: time saved, errors avoided, leads qualified, documents processed — connected to what it was worth. Every quarter, a full business review covers value delivered, open risks, and the next priorities. Co-authored with your internal champion.

06 · Training & adoption

Unused AI systems are cancelled AI systems. We run monthly open office hours for power users, maintain a refreshed prompt library, and deliver a quarterly training session when significant platform updates ship. Adoption is a leading indicator of long-term value.

07 · Use-case pipeline

We maintain a live 90-day AI opportunity backlog — jointly owned with your team — that identifies the next automation targets, estimates their business value, and sequences them by effort and impact. This backlog answers the question every decision-maker eventually asks: why do we still need you? A retainer with an empty backlog is a maintenance contract. Ours never is.

How we engage

Two phases. One continuous motion.

It begins with a bounded activation project — then continues as the operational layer your business runs on.

Phase 1 — 4 to 6 weeks
Activation project

A time-limited, fixed-price engagement. Discovery, platform selection, build, test, documentation, and handoff with governance guardrails in place. Scope is fixed; delivery is concrete and verifiable. You know exactly what you're getting before you commit.

Identify the highest-value use case
Build on tools you already licence
Deliver with documentation & governance
Proven
value
Phase 2 — Month by month
Managed AI operations

Begins after Phase 1 completes. Liorant takes ownership of your AI systems on an ongoing basis, running all seven workstreams at the tier that fits your current scale. Not sold to cold prospects — sold to clients who have already seen what we build.

Monitor and optimise
Build and expand
Report in euros and hours

Phase 2 terms are included in the Phase 1 SOW. You sign once — and never face a second sales conversation when Phase 1 ends.

Scale with your needs

Three tiers. One model. Your pace.

Choose the tier that fits where you are now — and move up when the business case supports it.

Capability
Essentials
Keep it healthy
Most popular
Care & Grow
Operate & expand
Build & Optimise
Scale across functions
Platform health monitoring
Monthly outcome report
Slack / email support
Governance & compliance review
New builds per month
1 agent or flow
2 agents or flows
Quarterly business review
Rolling opportunity backlog
EU AI Act compliance documentation
Active optimisation cycles
Change orders available
At defined rates
Best for
Stable deployments with limited scope
Growing teams expanding their AI portfolio
Operations running multiple AI systems at scale

✔ included  ·  — not included. Specific tier pricing is disclosed in consultation.

Essentials

For teams that have completed activation and need their AI systems kept healthy and reported. Suitable when the portfolio is stable and the primary need is monitoring, compliance, and outcome reporting.

Recommended after activation

Care & Grow

The full operations engagement. Essentials plus one new build per month, a governance check, a quarterly business review, and a rolling opportunity backlog. The tier where a partnership becomes a growth mechanism, not a maintenance arrangement.

Build & Optimise

For organisations with multiple active systems, cross-departmental deployments, or a fast-moving backlog. Two builds per month, active optimisation cycles, full EU AI Act documentation, and change orders at defined rates.

The value Liorant gives companies

Why AI progress becomes uneven across teams

Technical capability often grows faster than adoption. Liorant bridges that gap by translating needs, structuring workflows, and helping business teams scale with technical teams.

0 20 40 60 80 100 Progress / business impact Time / AI adoption journey Phase 1Explore Phase 2Experiment Phase 3Build & Pilot Phase 4Scale Phase 5Realize impact Implementation gap Tech capability Activation with Liorant Business adoption Tech teams exploretools faster. Experiments outpaceusable workflows. Liorant aligns needs,workflows, and adoption. Tech capability Business adoption With Liorant
How Liorant compares

What you get with ongoing AI operations — and what you don't without it

In-house, freelancer, or a one-off project are all valid paths to a first deployment. They are not valid paths to a sustained AI operation. Here's where the gaps appear six months after launch.

Capability
Manage
in-house
One-off
agency
Freelance
consultant
✦ Most complete
Liorant
AI Engineering aaS
Initial deployment
Slow to staff
Ongoing system monitoring
Internal resource
Post-project
Limited
Always active
Prompt versioning & management
Manual
Structured
Model performance evaluation
If skilled
Ad hoc
Monthly cycle
Cost & credit tracking
Manual
Continuous
Compliance & governance
Legal + tech
Monthly review
EU AI Act / US / El Salvador documentation
In theory
Build & Optimise
Monthly new builds
In theory
Limited
Per tier
Business outcome reporting
Rarely
Rarely
Monthly + QBR
Non-technical adoption support
Varies
Every engagement
Rolling 90-day backlog
Rarely
Jointly owned
Scales with business need
In theory
Capacity-limited
Tier-based
Included as standard LabelDepends on internal resource / case-by-case Not included

The gaps in the first three columns are not failures of those approaches. They reflect a structural reality: monitoring, prompt management, cost tracking, governance, and adoption support are ongoing operational tasks. Every organisation eventually discovers this. The question is whether they discover it before or after a system degrades.

Engineering capabilities for technical buyers

What Liorant builds at the engineering layer

For CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical founders, AI Engineering as a Service means something more specific than dashboards and monthly reports. It means dedicated engineering capacity — AI architects and MLOps engineers working on your systems every sprint, on the tools you already use.

Engineering capabilities by layer OPEN SOURCE + COMMERCIAL STACK · NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST
Model layer
Orchestration, data & retrieval
MLOps & evaluation

RAG architectures & knowledge pipelines

Retrieval-augmented systems from the retrieval layer up: chunking strategy, embedding selection, vector store config (Qdrant, pgvector, Pinecone), reranking, and evaluation against accuracy thresholds. We tune for retrieval quality and latency, not just cosine scores.

Multi-agent orchestration & MCP

Multi-agent systems built with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and native APIs. MCP integrations connect agents to live business systems — CRMs, ERPs, document stores, proprietary databases. Handoff logic, guard rails, and failure modes are specified and documented before we build.

MLOps & model lifecycle

CI/CD for AI with MLflow, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes. Evaluation runs on every deployment. Prompts are versioned, tested in staging, and rolled back when they regress. Drift detection runs on production output, not just at deployment.

Custom API & system integrations

Integrations beyond what no-code platforms support: direct API connections to CRMs, ERPs, proprietary databases, and third-party services, including legacy systems that need custom adapters. If it has an API, we can connect an AI system to it.

EU AI Act technical documentation

For Spain and the EU: risk assessments, data governance records, human oversight mechanisms, and audit logs structured for regulatory review. High-risk obligations apply from August 2026. Available on the Build & Optimise tier and as a standalone engagement.

Model evaluation & automated testing

Evaluation frameworks with LangSmith, Ragas, and custom harnesses — testing retrieval accuracy, hallucination rates, task completion, and edge-case failure modes. Production systems pass defined thresholds before deployment. We enforce that discipline from Phase 1.

ROI monitoring & observability

You know exactly what your AI systems are worth

The most common reason AI operations fail is not technical. It is the absence of a reporting layer that connects what the system does to what the business gains. We build observability in from day one — tracking what matters to a decision-maker, not what is easy to export from a dashboard.

Monthly AI Outcome Report ILLUSTRATIVE
Hours saved this month
47 hrs
Time-to-complete trending down
Estimated labour cost avoided
€1,880
Up vs. prior month
Documents processed automatically
312
By week, this month
New automation opportunities
4
Queued in the backlog
Reported in plain language. Delivered monthly. Reviewed quarterly.

What we track

Operational: credit consumption, connector health, token usage, prompt performance, model behaviour changes. Business: tasks completed, time saved per workflow, error rates before and after automation, volume processed. Operational observability keeps the systems running; business observability keeps the engagement commercially justified.

What we report

Monthly outcome reports state impact in language your finance team understands — hours saved, errors avoided, documents processed, leads qualified, connected to estimated value in euros. They are written documents your champion can take into a budget review, not dashboard exports. Quarterly reviews cover value delivered, open risks, and what's next.

What it enables

Two things become possible. You can defend the investment internally with specific numbers rather than general impressions. And you can identify the next automation target with confidence, because you have visibility into which processes remain manual and what they cost.

The engineering layer your AI systems need

Your AI systems are production software. We run them like it.

Every AI system sits on a stack of moving parts: a model that receives updates, prompts that determine how it behaves, connectors that feed it data, and a cost structure that changes with usage. Without active management, any one of these layers can degrade your results — silently, and faster than most teams expect. Liorant manages all four continuously.

Business outcome layer
Operational data translated into euros and hours
Prompt management & versioning
Version, store, test, iterate — with a full audit trail
Model performance evaluation
Accuracy, drift detection, quality benchmarks — monthly
Cost & credit monitoring
Spend per workflow, per user, per model call — within budget

Prompt management & versioning

The prompts that govern your AI systems are operational assets, not set-and-forget configurations. We maintain a versioned prompt library for every active system — every change documented, tested before deployment, and linked to its observed performance outcome. Your team never inherits an unexplained black box.

Model performance evaluation

Models do not perform identically across updates. We run a structured monthly evaluation: reviewing output samples against quality criteria, testing core scenarios, checking for accuracy drift. Where performance falls below the agreed threshold, the optimisation cycle triggers automatically — as a standing commitment, not on request.

Cost & credit monitoring

AI usage has a cost structure that shifts with volume and platform version. We track credit consumption and API cost per workflow, per user, and per model, and report it alongside outcome figures — so the investment can be evaluated on a return basis, not just a spend basis. You do not need ML engineers on staff; we operate the technical layer, your team receives the output.

What Liorant reviews every month

Prompt audit

Review and version any changed prompts

Performance evaluation

Output quality, accuracy, drift detection

Cost review

Credit consumption vs. budget, cost per workflow

Outcome report

Business impact in euros and hours, delivered

Then the cycle repeats.

Why scaling your AI layer matters

The business case for an AI operations layer that grows with you

An AI system that handles one process has operational value. An AI operations layer that covers multiple departments has strategic value. The difference is not the number of tools — it is the infrastructure that connects them, monitors them, and expands them in a disciplined sequence.

Cumulative value delivered over 12 months

Initial deploymentMonthly builds & optimisation
M1 M6 M12

Illustrative. Actual results depend on scope and client process complexity.

01

You protect the value of what you've already built

Without monitoring and optimisation, deployed AI systems degrade. Platform updates change behaviour, connectors break, prompt drift reduces accuracy. The maintenance workstream exists to prevent a working system from silently becoming a broken one.

02

You expand without starting over

Each new build is delivered by a team that already knows your systems, data, governance requirements, and stakeholders. The onboarding cost of the first engagement is not repeated for the second, third, or fourth use case.

03

You create accountability for AI outcomes

When a specific team is responsible for reporting AI results in business terms, the organisation maintains pressure on the deployment to deliver. The outcome reporting layer makes that accountability concrete and visible to the people who approved the investment.

Built for teams that aren't AI engineers

Your team doesn't need to be technical to scale with AI fast

The barrier to AI adoption is not the technology. It is the gap between a working system and the moment a non-technical user trusts it enough to change how they work. Marketing managers, legal assistants, operations coordinators, and finance analysts think about whether the system helps them work faster and more accurately. Liorant closes that gap — as a standing part of every engagement, not an optional add-on.

System deployed

It's live

Most implementations stop here.

Liorant
continues

Adoption activated

The team knows how to use it

Office hours, prompt library, onboarding handoff.

Month
by month

Operational AI

They depend on it

Integrated into daily workflow — ROI becomes real.

Liorant operates across all three stages. Most providers only cover Stage 1.

We design for the person who will use the system

Every system is built with the end user in mind: clear workflow design, documented behaviour, and a prompt library in language a non-technical user can immediately apply. Before Phase 1 closes, we run a structured handoff with the users — not just the sponsor. Adoption begins at handoff, not after it.

Monthly office hours keep adoption from stalling

Adoption drops after the first few weeks without reinforcement. We run a standing monthly office-hours session for power users — thirty minutes to ask questions, request prompt improvements, and flag anything the system gets wrong. These sessions feed the following month's optimisation cycle.

We train for platform change, not just for launch

When Copilot Studio ships a capability, Gemini changes how it handles a document type, or Claude updates a model version, your team needs to know what changed and whether it affects them. We deliver a targeted training brief whenever a material platform change occurs.

Non-technical teams scale fast because they don't manage infrastructure

A monitored system, an active adoption programme, and a monthly build cadence mean a marketing, legal, or operations team can expand month by month without hiring engineers. They don't configure connectors, manage prompts, or review model changelogs. They use the results. Liorant handles the rest.

Your team focuses on
Using the AI output in their daily workflow
Providing feedback on what is and isn't working
Identifying the next process they want to automate
Reviewing monthly outcome reports
Liorant handles
Monitoring system performance and platform health
Managing prompts, versioning, and model evaluation
Tracking costs and credit consumption
Building new agents and flows each month
Maintaining governance and compliance documentation
Delivering outcome reports and quarterly reviews

AI ENGINEERING AS A SERVICE

Is this the right engagement for you?

What makes a strong AI Engineering as a Service client

This is not the right engagement for every organisation. The following conditions make for a productive, high-value partnership.

Strong fit

You've completed an AI activation project and want to maintain and expand it
Your team uses Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or similar, with at least one live AI deployment
You have an internal champion who owns the AI adoption agenda
You operate in a regulated industry (legal, finance, healthcare) where compliance documentation matters
You want to expand AI across more than one department or workflow
You are a CTO or technical lead who needs AI engineering capacity without a 6–9 month hire

Better entry point

You haven't yet run an AI project and want to start with a bounded activation
You're not sure which process to automate first
You need a one-off custom implementation before committing to ongoing operations

Not sure where you fit? A 30-minute discovery session will tell you.

Book a free discovery session
FAQ

Common questions about AI Engineering as a Service

What is the difference between AI Engineering as a Service and a managed service contract?

A managed service contract typically covers infrastructure or software maintenance at agreed SLA levels. AI Engineering as a Service covers the full operational lifecycle of your AI systems: monitoring, iteration, new builds, governance, reporting, and adoption. The output is expanding business value, not maintained uptime.

How do we know whether the investment is working?

Every engagement includes monthly outcome reporting in business terms — hours saved, errors avoided, tasks completed, and estimated value in euros. Quarterly business reviews cover what was delivered, what it was worth, and what comes next. If the numbers do not justify the engagement, that becomes visible in the reports, and we address it directly.

Can we start small and scale up the tier later?

Yes. Many clients begin at the Essentials tier after a Phase 1 activation and move to Care & Grow once the first deployment is stable and the backlog of additional use cases becomes clear. Tier changes take effect at the start of the next monthly cycle.

What platforms do you work with?

Our default delivery stack is Microsoft Copilot Studio, Google Gemini, and Claude — tools most SMB and mid-market clients already licence. For requirements that exceed what no-code platforms can deliver, we also build custom-coded systems with deep integrations, proprietary data pipelines, and RAG architectures. Platform selection happens during Phase 1 based on your existing infrastructure.

What happens if we want to stop?

Phase 2 engagements carry a 30-day cancellation notice and a minimum initial period of three months. If you decide to bring AI operations in-house after Phase 2, Liorant delivers a documented handoff — the same governance, monitoring, and opportunity-backlog framework your internal team inherits. Many clients use the retainer period to build internal capability in parallel and then transition ownership when ready.

Do you work alongside internal engineering teams?

Yes. For technical buyers, AIEaaS works as an embedded engineering partnership rather than an outsourced replacement. We operate within your existing development workflow — your repositories, your sprint cycles, your communication channels — while contributing specialised AI engineering capability your team may not have in-house. Many engagements for technical buyers begin with a single architecture design sprint before moving to ongoing delivery.

Can you handle custom RAG systems, multi-agent architectures, or fine-tuned model deployments?

Yes. Our default delivery stack uses no-code platforms for organisations that want results fast on tools they already licence. For requirements beyond that — custom RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration with MCP, proprietary data integrations, or production-grade model deployment — we build at the engineering layer using LangChain, LlamaIndex, MLflow, and cloud AI infrastructure on GCP, Azure, or AWS. Platform selection and scope are defined during Phase 1.

Start with a 30-minute conversation

No slides. No pitch. Just whether Phase 1 makes sense.

We spend thirty minutes understanding your team's workflows, existing tools, and priorities. At the end, you know whether Phase 1 makes sense and what it would cover.