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Production AI for systems that can't afford to fail.

Built by the team that's done it 150+ times since 2019.

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Partner

2019

AI-only since

150+

Projects Shipped in Production

$72MM

Business Value Created

50+

Companies Supported

How it works

Three steps. No surprises.

In a market full of vendors who sound the same, choosing wrong costs you six months you don't have. That's why we keep it simple:

Talk

30 minutes. No pitch deck. We'll tell you if we're the right fit — and if we're not, we'll say so.

Prove it in 5 days

We build a working prototype on your data, in your environment. You see results before you commit.

Ship it, own it

We build in your codebase, on your infrastructure. Everything we build, you own. No lock-in, no dependencies.

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WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE

Sound familiar?

Every AI idea on LinkedIn sounds inspiring — until you need to put them in production.

Building a product

→ Board wants "everything AI" — your product can't afford to break
→ AI-native startups shipping features weekly — eroding your market share rapidly
→ Can't hire ML engineers — 6 months open, zero closes
→ Your last vendor claimed AI expertise but couldn't survive contact with production
→ Need a feature factory — but agencies own your IP

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Running operations

→ Repetitive back-office tasks burning labor and blocking capacity for new clients
→ Copy-paste workflows — an invitation to errors and inconsistent standards
→ Overwhelmed by "AI products" — none fit your specific use case or team
→ Tried no-code AI tools — none handle your real-world complexity
→ Want to adopt AI but genuinely not sure where to begin

How we solve this →

WHAT "TANGIBLE" LOOKS LIKE

5,000-page mortgage packages. 8 seconds. 95% precision.

LauraMac processes mortgage document packages — thousands of pages per package, hundreds of document types, noisy scans, inconsistent formats across states and years.

They tried other vendors. They tried building it themselves on AWS. Nothing survived contact with mortgage-grade compliance and precision requirements.

Softmax built a document intelligence pipeline that processes 5,000-page packages in 8 seconds. Split, classify, extract, verify, stack — all at 95% precision.

The engagement started four years ago. It kept expanding because it kept delivering. 80% cost reduction. And LauraMac's team owns everything we built.

"Within just three months, Softmax delivered a solution that accurately processes 5,000-page PDFs in only 8 seconds." — Amit Aggarwal, CTO @ LauraMac

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Before us → After us

Document AI · Custom AI Models

40 min per mortgage package. Other vendors failed. 8 sec per 5,000-page package. 80% cost reduction. → AI Agent

60 hrs/week assembling reports by hand. 5 min per report. 12% more clients taken on. → Workflow Automation · Custom AI Models

Duplicate leads polluting CRM, wasting sales time. $6M new ARR from cleaned pipeline. → Document AI

Manual bank statement tracing for income verification. <2 min per decision. 90% less manual effort. → Agentic Analytics · Data Foundations Premium Retailer Confidential Accountant review missed a $3.5M discrepancy. $3.5MM loss caught before close. →

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WHY SOFTMAX

What you're actually hiring

AI-only since 2019

We were fine-tuning transformers before GPT-3 existed. Every engineer on our team builds production AI systems, full-time. We don't do web apps, mobile, or "digital transformation."

Production, not prototypes

We ship systems for clients with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and MISMO requirements — across multiple cloud platforms, with real latency and reliability targets. If your compliance team needs to sign off, we've done that dozens of times.

We build the infrastructure, not just the applications

Engram, our open-source context database for AI agents, is used by teams building persistent agent memory. You're hiring the team that makes the bricks — not just assembles them.

You own everything

Every line of code, every model weight, every architecture decision. Full documentation, runbooks, and training for your team. We build for handoff, not dependency.

What our clients say

Don't take our word for it. Here's what they say when we're not in the room.

Amit Aggarwal

CTO @ LauraMac

"We needed a Document AI feature capable of analyzing large, complex mortgage documents to assess loan risks. Within just three months, Softmax delivered a solution that accurately processes 5,000-page PDFs in only 8 seconds, verifies signatures, stacks documents, and reliably extracts data—even from complex, noisy scanned documents."

95%Document Processing Precision

80%Operation Cost Reduction

Michael Steel

CEO @ Flywheel Digital

"Softmax's AI Agent project was transformative for us. They moved fast, understood our business, and helped us save tons of time while elevating our brand promise."

95.8%Time Saved on Repetitive Work

12%More Businesses

Collin Stewart

CEO @ Predictable Revenue

"Softmax delivered a bespoke AI solution that transformed our workflow, driving significant gains in both productivity and our NPS. Most impressively, they took us from initial design to full deployment in just four weeks."

4 WeeksFrom Conception to Deployment

15%Productivity Gain

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Open source

Engram — Context DB for AI Agents

Our open-source library for agentic context storage. Brain-inspired memory that works across any LLM, any framework.

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arXiv deep dives, agentic design patterns, fine-tuning tutorials, and production AI lessons — explained so any engineer can follow. New posts every two days.

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