AI features and SaaS products for Bay Area startups that need to ship
Bay Area companies come to us when the roadmap is bigger than the team. We build MVPs, SaaS products and AI features in milestones you can demo, coordinated from our Mississauga office during your morning.
Codemites is headquartered in Srinagar, India, with a second office in Mississauga, Canada. We have no office in San Francisco; we work with clients here remotely. Our Mississauga office overlaps the Bay Area morning and early afternoon.
San Francisco startups rarely need convincing that software matters. What they need is more engineers than they can hire before the next round, and a way to add them without losing control of the product.
We work as an extension of your team. You keep the roadmap and the decisions; we take a defined slice, whether that is the first version of the product, an AI feature or the admin tools nobody internal has time for, and ship it in milestones you can put in front of users and investors.
What we build for Bay Area teams
Most of our work here is one of these four.
- AI DevelopmentFeatures built on language models: assistants, search over your own data, extraction and classification, with an evaluation set so you know when a change makes things worse.AI Development services
- Software DevelopmentThe rest of the product around the model: accounts, billing, admin tools and the data pipeline.Software Development services
- Website DevelopmentThe SaaS front end, with onboarding, usage-based billing screens and an admin console.Website Development services
- Cloud & DevOpsInfrastructure that scales down as well as up, so a quiet month does not cost the same as a launch.Cloud & DevOps services
California rules to plan an AI product around
California moves first on privacy and AI. Two rules come up in nearly every brief.
CCPA thresholds
A startup can fall under the CCPA before it is profitable: buying, selling or sharing the personal information of 100,000 California residents or households is enough. Usage analytics and ad pixels count. We build opt-out and data-request handling early, because adding them later means touching every data flow.
Source: California Attorney General, CCPATraining on user data
If you train or fine-tune models on what your users enter, privacy notices, consent and deletion need to cover it. We keep training data separate from production data, so honouring a deletion request is possible.
Source: California Attorney General, CCPAYour morning, from two offices
Mississauga is three hours ahead of you, so it covers your morning and early afternoon. Srinagar starts as your evening begins and hands work back by your morning.
7 hr
of your 8-hour day overlaps with at least one of our offices.
Business day in San Francisco
9 am to 5 pm
Srinagar, India
7:30 pm to 5:30 am your time, no shared hours
Mississauga, Canada
6 am to 4 pm your time, 7 hr shared
Where we see AI work from here
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
Clinical-workflow assistants and patient apps that keep health data out of model training.
- Finance & Banking
Underwriting and document-processing features for FinTech products.
- Education & eLearning
Tutoring, feedback and course-authoring tools built on language models.
Ways to work together
- Milestone project
- A fixed scope split into milestones, each with its own acceptance criteria and payment.
- Suits: A first version, a defined feature or a replacement system.
- Ongoing development
- A service contract for continuing work on your product, planned month by month.
- Suits: A product with users and a roadmap.
- Maintenance and support
- Monitoring, updates and fixes on agreed response times after launch.
- Suits: Software that is live and has to stay that way.
Questions from Bay Area founders
Which AI models do you build with?
We choose the model per feature, based on quality on your own test cases, cost and where data may be processed. We avoid tying your product to one provider where we can, so you can switch later.
How do you know an AI feature works?
Before we build, we agree a set of real examples and what a good answer looks like. Every change is checked against that set, so you can see whether the feature is getting better or worse.
Can you work inside our codebase and tools?
Yes. We work in your repository, your issue tracker and your Slack or Teams channels, following your review process.
How fast can you start?
Usually within two weeks of agreeing the scope of the first milestone. Ask us for current availability.
Scope your first milestone
Send the feature or product you want built. We reply with what we would ship first and how we would measure it.
Or email hi@codemites.com
Codemites is headquartered in Srinagar, India, with a second office in Mississauga, Canada. We have no office in San Francisco; we work with clients here remotely. Our Mississauga office overlaps the Bay Area morning and early afternoon.
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