AI Development and Integration for Businesses
AI is most useful when it is tied to a specific job in your business. VLO Labs builds AI features and automation into real workflows, connected to the data and tools you already use.
Get a free consultationFor companies that cannot send sensitive data to outside services, we also deploy private, self-hosted models that keep your information on infrastructure you control.
What we build
AI features in your software
Assistants, drafting, classification and summaries added to new or existing applications.
AI agents and workflow automation
Automations that handle multi-step work, with people reviewing the steps that need judgment.
Retrieval over your own data (RAG)
Answers grounded in your documents and records, using vector databases and retrieval pipelines.
Self-hosted AI
Private deployments of open models on-premises or in your own cloud.
Custom machine learning
Models trained for prediction and analysis on your business data.
AI readiness assessment
A practical look at where AI will help your operation and where it will not.
Is this the right fit?
- Staff spend hours on repetitive reading, sorting or drafting.
- Useful knowledge is buried in documents nobody can search well.
- You want AI but cannot send your data to a third party.
- You tried an AI tool and it did not fit how your team works.
Related work
LarLine
LarLine gives one-person service businesses a separate business number that lives in an app on their phone and texts back the callers they could not answer. VLO Labs designed, built and runs the product, including the iOS and Android apps, the web portal and the calling and billing backend.
RouteMasters
RouteMasters is a delivery service for restaurants and retailers, and VLO Labs built the multi-tenant software that runs it. Merchants connect once and the platform handles quoting, courier selection, tracking, refunds and financial reporting across several courier networks.
Heemah
Heemah is a VLO Labs product that gives a homeowners association's board one private place for its meetings, minutes, decisions, vendor bids and documents. We designed, built and operate the web application, the marketing site and the cloud infrastructure behind it.
ESWS
ESWS provides medical social work services for home health care, with its office, partner agencies and field social workers working from one system. VLO Labs built and maintains the web platform, the iOS and Android app, and the cloud setup behind them.
Nuveta
Nuveta sells fresh, fitness-focused meals by weekly subscription and à la carte, cooked in Los Angeles. VLO Labs built the customer storefront and the backend that runs billing, weekly meal selection, kitchen reports, delivery rules and email marketing.
Flightdeck
Flightdeck is an open source IDE, started by VLO Labs, for directing AI coding agents instead of typing code. It draws each project as diagrams generated from its code and holds the agent's actions for approval.
How we work
- 01
Discovery
Understanding your requirements, goals and technical constraints.
- 02
Planning
Architecting the solution with detailed technical specifications.
- 03
Development
Agile development with regular updates and feedback loops.
- 04
Deployment
Deployment followed by ongoing support and maintenance.
Technologies we use
Frequently asked questions
Where should a business start with AI?
With one repetitive, well-understood task that has a clear measure of success. A small working system teaches you more than a broad strategy document.
Can AI run without our data leaving our control?
Yes. We can deploy open models on your own infrastructure so prompts and documents stay inside your environment.
Will AI replace our staff?
The projects that work best take repetitive steps off people so they can spend time on the parts that need judgment. We design for human review where mistakes would be costly.
Can you add AI to software we already have?
Yes. Most AI work connects to existing applications and data through APIs rather than replacing them.