AI development company for Pittsburgh robotics, autonomous vehicles, CMU-adjacent research, and UPMC healthcare.

We do not operate a Pittsburgh office. Aiinfox runs from our Mohali, India HQ and a Frisco, TX office. For Pittsburgh clients that need Eastern business-hours coverage, our Frisco pod runs a US-Hours rotation on a late-CT shift covering ET 11am-to-8pm with senior engineers live on Zoom, and the Mohali team picks up Pittsburgh afternoons via an early-IST start. For on-site engagements at CMU, the Strip District, East Liberty, UPMC campuses, or the Pittsburgh AV-cluster sites (kickoff, milestone reviews, security walk-throughs), we travel to Pittsburgh on a scheduled cadence rather than maintaining a sub-scale local team.

Honest answer: we are a production engineering partner, not a research lab. We do not publish at NeurIPS, we do not have CMU faculty on payroll, and we are explicit about that on the first call. What we bring to a CMU-adjacent or Robotics Institute-adjacent scaleup is the production engineering layer — typed-tool-call agents, structured-extraction pipelines, eval harnesses, observability, guardrails, and the hand-off documentation that gets the system to a real user while your researchers get back to research. If your engagement genuinely needs a research-lab partner with publication output, we will tell you on the first call and recommend a CMU faculty consulting arrangement or an Allen AI Institute-style research collaborator.

Yes. Our healthcare engagement defaults are HIPAA-aligned. BAAs are signed before any PHI is shared. Deployments default to US-East-1 (N. Virginia) or US-East-2 (Ohio) inside customer-controlled AWS, Azure, or GCP accounts so PHI never leaves a HIPAA-eligible region. Every model and tool call is audit-logged with input, output, prompt version, and operator identity. For UPMC-adjacent, Allegheny Health Network-adjacent, and Pittsburgh healthtech specifically, we map controls into the contracting party's BAA template and align audit-log retention with the customer's existing HIPAA security risk assessment.

Yes. Pennsylvania adopted its Insurance Data Security Act in 2021 (effective 2023), modelled on the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law. For Highmark, Erie Insurance, and broader Pittsburgh insurance and InsurTech operators, we map the Act's requirements onto our engagement: written information security program, risk assessments, third-party service provider oversight (which is us), and the incident-notification obligations to the PA Insurance Department within 72 hours of determination. For Pittsburgh insurance operators with NY exposure we additionally map NY DFS Part 500 — the structural requirements overlap meaningfully.

Your call. We default to AWS US-East-1 (N. Virginia) or US-East-2 (Ohio) for Pittsburgh clients — lowest-latency east-coast regions with full HIPAA-eligible service coverage. We will run inside your AWS, Azure, or GCP account in any US region you specify. For inference, Claude (Anthropic) and GPT-4o (Azure OpenAI) have US-East endpoints we route to explicitly. For Pittsburgh AV-cluster and CMU-adjacent operators whose data-sharing agreements forbid egress to managed inference APIs — typical for fleet operations data and partnered-university research data — we self-host Llama 3 on vLLM inside your VPC. Your DPA spells out the exact data path.

Yes, at the commercial-scope layer rather than the perception-stack layer. We have shipped document intelligence over safety cases and regulatory submissions, agentic copilots over internal engineering corpora and fleet-operations dashboards, and structured-extraction pipelines for AV-validation telemetry. We do not write perception code, we do not tune planners, and we do not do silicon-level optimization. If your engagement requires those, we will tell you on the first call — your in-house team is almost certainly better placed to do that work than any external vendor. What we ship is the production engineering glue around the research artefact.

Yes. We work with MSA-plus-SOW structures for ongoing engagements and single-document fixed-price agreements for pilots. Standard terms cover IP assignment (your code, your IP), limitation of liability tuned to scope, indemnification, breach notification consistent with PA Insurance Data Security Act and HIPAA obligations where applicable, and a 30-day production warranty. NDAs are mutual and signed before any technical detail is shared. BAAs are signed before any PHI is shared. We are a registered Indian entity (Aiinfox Pvt. Ltd.) invoicing US clients in USD via wire transfer as a foreign corporation — no W-9 or 1099 entanglement on your side.

Most v1 engagements at Aiinfox land between $25,000 and $120,000 fixed-price for a focused build — an AI agent, a RAG system, a voice pipeline, or a bespoke ML production layer. Larger multi-quarter engagements with fine-tuning, custom evals, HIPAA-aligned clinical workflows, or PA Insurance Data Security Act-aware insurance work typically reach $160,000 to $320,000. Pilots are $15,000 to $35,000. Pittsburgh clients typically save 50 to 70 percent on equivalent Bay Area or New York consultancy scope while getting the senior engineer in every standup.