AI Development Company in Los Angeles, California
KeyesCode is an AI development company serving Los Angeles, designing and building custom AI agents, LLM-powered applications, media pipelines, and retrieval systems for startups, studios, creators, and brands across Southern California — production AI grounded in your data, not demos.
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AI Development for businesses in Greater Los Angeles
Los Angeles is where AI meets content, and most of the interesting work here isn't a chatbot. It's a pipeline that finds the highlights in ten hours of footage and cuts vertical clips with captions (ClipForge), a recommendation engine that learns from every swipe (Date Vibes), an AI coach that reads real training data inside an iPhone app (Liftva), and agents that take the repetitive parts of operations off a team's plate. We build AI the way we build any other software: scoped against an outcome, grounded in your data, and shipped with evals, monitoring, and a rollback plan.
We work with Anthropic Claude and OpenAI models, open-weight models when footage, scripts, or customer data have to stay inside your own environment, and vector search on PostgreSQL with pgvector for retrieval. For studios, agencies, and creator businesses that means NDA-grade data handling is designed in from the first architecture conversation, not negotiated after.
If you're not sure where AI fits yet, we start with a short readiness audit and use-case roadmap, then prove the highest-value idea in a two-to-four-week proof-of-concept sprint before you commit to a full build.
Looking for the full picture of this service, independent of location? See our AI Products service.
Why Los Angeles teams hire KeyesCode
- Shipped AI in production: media pipelines, recommendation engines, AI coaches, voice agents.
- Model-agnostic — Claude, OpenAI, or open-weight models running in your own cloud.
- Data handling designed for unreleased content, scripts, and customer data under NDA.
- Evals and monitoring built in, so quality doesn't silently regress after launch.
- Roadmap-first: we'll tell you which AI ideas won't pay back before you spend on them.
AI that does real work inside your product, pipeline, or business
Every capability below has shipped to real users. We pick the smallest model and the simplest architecture that solves the problem, then measure it.
Media & Video AI Pipelines
Transcription, highlight detection, captioning, clip generation, and asset tagging at scale — the ClipForge pattern, built for studios and creators.
Custom AI Agents
Tool-using agents that research, monitor, draft, and take action across your systems, with human approval where it matters.
LLM Product Features
AI coaches, assistants, summarization, and generation features embedded in your web or mobile product.
RAG & Knowledge Search
Retrieval over scripts, contracts, briefs, tickets, and databases so answers cite your material instead of hallucinating.
Recommendation & Personalization
Vector-based engines that learn from behavior — the engine behind Date Vibes' suggestions.
Document & Data Extraction
Turn contracts, invoices, applications, and PDFs into structured records with validation and review queues.
AI Voice & Chat
Phone and chat agents that qualify leads, answer questions, and book appointments 24/7 — like our KeyesCode Receptionist.
AI Readiness & Roadmaps
Vendor-neutral audits, use-case prioritization, and proof-of-concept sprints before you commit budget.
Where Los Angeles companies are getting value from AI
The wins aren't in chatbots for their own sake. They're in the content, data, and operations work that LA businesses do at volume.
Studios, streamers, and creator businesses
Pain
Editors and producers spend hours scrubbing footage for highlights, writing captions, and repurposing long content into short — and the backlog never shrinks.
Solution
An AI pipeline that transcribes, detects highlights, captions, and exports platform-ready clips automatically, with a human review step before anything publishes.
Product companies adding AI features
Pain
Investors and customers expect AI in the product, but the generic chatbot you bolted on made it worse, not better.
Solution
AI features designed around your data and users — coaching, recommendations, summarization — with evals that prove they work before launch.
Agencies and services firms buried in inbound
Pain
Briefs, RFPs, inquiries, and follow-ups pile up across inboxes, and the team spends mornings triaging instead of doing the work.
Solution
Inbox and intake agents that classify, draft, and route, plus an AI receptionist that answers and books, handing the rest to a human with full context.
Leadership that needs an AI plan
Pain
Everyone's asking about AI, vendors are pitching hard, and nobody can say which ideas would actually pay back.
Solution
A short readiness audit and prioritized roadmap, then a fixed-scope proof of concept on the top idea.
Built for ownership, scalability, and the long haul
AI you can put in front of customers, talent, and a board.
Grounded, not generic
Retrieval, tool use, and evals keep the model tied to your data and your definition of correct.
Your content stays yours
Model choice and hosting follow your NDA and privacy requirements — including fully self-hosted options.
Local and accountable
A team you can meet in person in Los Angeles. No offshore hand-offs, no account managers between you and the engineers.
Opinionated, but not married to a stack
We default to a tight set of tools we trust in production, and pick the right one for each layer.
Models
01Media
02Retrieval
03Orchestration
04Infra
05Software we've shipped for Greater Los Angeles and beyond
Real platforms, not mockups. Problem, stack, and outcome for a few engagements relevant to this service.
AI Development across Greater Los Angeles
We work on-site with clients across Los Angeles County and Orange County — from Silicon Beach to Downtown, Pasadena, and the Valley — and remote-first with the rest of California. Most collaboration runs over Slack and video regardless, with in-person kickoffs and working sessions when you want them.
- Los Angeles
- Santa Monica
- Culver City
- Beverly Hills
- West Hollywood
- Hollywood
- Downtown LA
- Pasadena
- Burbank
- Glendale
- Long Beach
- Venice
- Marina del Rey
- El Segundo
- Playa Vista
- Irvine
- Torrance
- Sherman Oaks
Questions about ai development in Los Angeles
What Greater Los Angeles businesses usually ask before kicking off a project with us.
Still unsure what you need?
Book a 30-minute technical discovery call. We'll help you clarify scope and the right next step.
Which AI models do you build with?
Whatever fits the job. We ship most production work on Anthropic Claude and OpenAI models, and use open-weight models when footage, scripts, or customer data have to stay inside your own cloud. We stay vendor-neutral and design so you can swap models later without a rewrite.
Can you work with unreleased content and material under NDA?
Yes. We use API tiers with zero-retention or no-training terms, or self-host models in your environment when required. Data flow is documented in the architecture before we write code, and we're used to signing NDAs with studios, agencies, and talent-facing businesses.
How do you know the AI is actually accurate?
We build an evaluation set from real examples early, measure the system against it on every change, and monitor outputs in production. If a feature can't be measured, we'll say so before you fund it.
How long does an AI project take?
A proof of concept usually takes 2–4 weeks. A production feature, pipeline, or agent typically ships in 6–12 weeks, then improves in two-week sprints as real usage data comes in.
Can you add AI to software we already have?
Yes — most AI work is integration work. We add retrieval, agents, pipelines, or features alongside your existing product or internal tools via APIs, without a rewrite.
Are you based in Los Angeles?
KeyesCode is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, with Los Angeles as one of our two focus markets. We meet LA clients in person across Los Angeles County and run day-to-day collaboration remote-first, which is how most AI engagements run anyway.
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Ready to build in Los Angeles?
Tell us what you're trying to ship. We'll meet in person in Los Angeles or over a call, scope it honestly, and give you a fixed-fee estimate you own either way.